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Floating column support pedestal

US4763864A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 13, 1987
Grant dateAug 16, 1988
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Expiry dateOct 13, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF16M2200/04
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An instrument support pedestal having a post pneumatically urged upwardly to counterbalance an instrument on the post, with the post slidably mounted in an elongated extrusion having vessels connected to the post pneumatics to form a large accumulator and another vessel serving as a high pressure reservoir so that the pneumatic force on the post can be varied.

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