Pedestal assembly

Claim 1

A PEDESTAL ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF PEDESTAL SEGMENTS EACH HAVING A COLUMN PORTION; A PAIR OF ANCHOR CLIPS MOUNTED ON THE COLUMN PORTION OF EACH SEGMENT, ONE CLIP CARRIED AT THE TOP AND ONE AT THE BOTTOM OF SAID COLUMN PORTION AND EACH CLIP HAVING AN OFFSET FLANGE DIVERGING SLIGHTLY FROM SAID COLUMN PORTION TO DEFINE A SEAT BETWEEN SAID FLANGE AND SAID COLUMN PORTION WHICH OPENS AWAY FROM THE OTHER CLIP OF SAID PAIR; A FIRST ANCHOR CAP INSERTABLE INTO THE SEVERAL SEATS DEFINED BY THE ANCHOR CLIPS AT THE TOP OF SAID SEGMENTS; A SECOND ANCHOR CAP INSERTABLE INTO THE SEVERAL SEATS DEFINED BY THE ANCHOR CLIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF SAID SEGMENTS; EACH OF SAID ANCHOR CAPS INCLUDING A POLYGONAL WEB HAVING PERIPHERAL FACES AT LEAST EQUAL IN MUMBER TO SAID PLURALITY OF SEGMENTS, A SEPARATE TAB CONTIGUOUS WITH EACH FACE OF SAID WEB UPSET TO ONE SIDE OF THE PLANE OF SAID WEB, AND AN ALIGNMENT AND LOCKING NOTCH FORMED ON THE OUTER MARGIN OF EACH TAB HAVING SIDES CONVERGENT TOWARD THE BOTTOM OF SAID NOTCH, THE THICKNESS OF EACH TAB BEING SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN THE MINIMUM OFFSET SPACING BETWEEN SAID FLANGE AND SAID SEGMENT AND THE BOTTOM OF EACH NOTCH BEING APPROXIMATELY AS WIDE AS SAID FLANGE; AND MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID ANCHOR CAPS FOR DRAWING SAID CAPS TOGETHER TO INSERT EACH TAB OF SAID ANCHOR CAPS INTO A CORRESPONDING ONE OF SAID SEATS DEFINED BY SAID ANCHOR CLIPS THEREBY DRAWING ONE COLUMN PORTIONS OF SAID PEDESTRAL SEGMENTS AGAINST AND CENTERING THEM ON THE PERIPHERAL FACES OF SAID ANCHOR CAPS.