Patent ID: 8322106
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
1. Structure for vertically stabilizing an elongate column having a long axis which, with the column in a vertically stabilized condition, is upright, such vertical stabilizing occurring during installation of the column in a building frame through the gripping of vertically spaced column regions that are disposed adjacent the base of such a column, said stabilizing structure comprising a central, upright, stabilizing-structure stabilizing axis, spaced, upper and lower, substantially vertically aligned, selectively openable and closeable, releasable clamping collar structures adapted to receive a column for stabilizing, and collectively defining in the structure, for a received column, a laterally offset column-stabilizing axis which is parallel to and spaced from said stabilizing-structure stabilizing axis, said collar structures being operable, when closed, releasably to grip the base of a received column at the mentioned spaced column regions, and in a manner whereby the long axis of a so received and gripped column is upright and coincident with said column-stabilizing axis, and thus laterally offset from said stabilizing-structure stabilizing axis, and ground-engaging, load-spreading, supporting leg structure operatively joined to said collar structures.