Patent ID: 7984541

Claim:
A method for supporting a plurality of anchor bolts in at least a first pattern in wet concrete to form a concrete footing, wherein each of the anchor bolts comprises a first nut and a second nut for engaging the template therebetween, the method comprising: providing at least one concrete mold, each concrete mold comprising a side wall terminating at an open top having a diameter and defined by an upper edge; providing an anchor bolt template comprising: an integrally formed body sized for placement over the open top of the mold, the body having an upper surface and a lower surface; at least a first set of bolt locator indicia on the upper surface of the body, the first set of indicia representative of bolt locations arranged in a first bolt pattern, whereby, when the anchor bolts are inserted through the template at the bolt locations, the first nut will engage the upper surface of the template and the second nut will engage the lower surface of the template; a spacer on the lower surface of the body sized and positioned to support the lower surface of the body a distance from the upper edge of the mold, the distance being at least about the width of the second nut; and attaching the anchor bolts to the template using the first and second nuts; and positioning the template on the upper edge of the mold.