Column plumb stabilizer
View Patent ↗A column-base, ground-moveable stand for stabilizing an elongate upright building-frame column, or the like, in a manner which creates and enables adjustable verticality for such a column's long axis. The stand includes (a) spaced, upper and lower, selectively openable/closeable clamping collar structures which are operable to grip the base of such a column at vertically spaced locations along the base of the column, with the collar structures, with respect to a gripped column, defining the disposition in space of the column's long axis, and (b) tilt-adjustable, load-spreading, ground-engaging, outrigger leg structures supportably joined to the collar structures.
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.
2. The stabilizing structure of claim 1 which further includes ground-traveling support structure joined to said leg structure.
3. The stabilizing structure of claim 2 which further comprises screw-adjustable leveler feet operatively joined to said leg structure generally adjacent said ground-traveling support structure.