Patent ID: 6914578

Claim:
A pedestal system for supporting any of a plurality of objects at any of a plurality of angular orientations comprising, in combination: a base having a lower vertical cylinder and an upper vertical cylinder with each cylinder having an interior surface and an exterior surface, the lower vertical cylinder being fixedly supported with respect to a recipient surface and the upper vertical cylinder being coupled to the base and rotatably supported with respect to the lower vertical cylinder, the upper and lower vertical cylinders sharing a common vertical axis; the lower vertical cylinder housing a first bearing/motor/main-shaft subassembly coupling the upper and lower vertical cylinders of the base, the subassembly comprising a first hollow tubular main-shaft having an upper portion with an upper end and a lower portion with a lower end, the upper portion of the first main-shaft having a bearing seat with a lip with the upper portion of the first main-shaft being fixedly coupled to the upper vertical cylinder, the first main-shaft having a circumferential ring gear coupled thereto with the first main-shaft having an upper end bearing, the first main-shaft being coupled to the lower vertical cylinder by the bearing, the ring gear being below the bearing, the upper end bearing being a 4 point contact bearing, also known as an X bearing, the subassembly having at least one motor being coupled to the interior surface of the lower vertical cylinder, each motor having a drive shaft with a drive gear that engages the ring gear of the main-shaft thereby allowing rotation of the upper vertical cylinder with respect to the lower vertical cylinder; a horizontal cylinder having an interior surface and an exterior surface, the horizontal cylinder having a second bearing/motor/main-shaft subassembly with the subassembly having a second hollow tubular main-shaft having an aperture there into, the second main-shaft having a right portion with a right end and a left portion with a left end, the right and left second main-shaft ends each having an end cap coupled thereto, with the left portion of the second main-shaft having a bearing seat with a lip, the subassembly having a left bearing and a right bearing, the left bearing being a 4 point contact bearing and the right bearing being a Conrad bearing, the second main-shaft having a circumferential ring gear coupled thereto, the subassembly having at least one motor being fixedly coupled to the interior surface of the upper vertical cylinder, each motor having a drive shaft with a drive gear that is engaged with the ring gear that allows the rotation of the horizontal cylinder shaft, with a position locator being from the class of position locators which includes resolvers and encoders being coupled to the shaft; and a plurality of wires coupling each of the motors to a remote location for selectively energizing the horizontal motor and the base motor to selectively vary the angular orientation of the top-most horizontal shaft vertically and horizontally and an object supported within.