Machinery foundation and method of assembling

Claim 1

A SUPPORT FOR MACHINERY OF THE LIKE FOR DAMPING AND ISOLATING VIBRATIONS FROM THE MACHINERY AND FOR PROTECTING THE MACHINERY FROM SHOCK FORCES EMANATING FROM A FOUNDATION ON WHICH THE MACHINERY IS MOUNTED, SAID SUPPORT COMPRISING: AN OUTER COLUMN COMPONENT MOUNTED ON SAID FOUNDATION AND HAVING A VERTICALLY EXTENDING AND UPWARDLY OPENING CAVITY THEREIN; SAID OUTER COLUMN COMPONENT HAVING AN AIR VENT IN THE WALL THEREOF COMMUNICATING WITH SAID VERTICALLY EXTENDING AND UPWARDLY OPENING CAVITY THEREIN; A HOLLOW INNER COLUMN COMPONENT RECEIVED WITHIN SAID CAVITY IN SAID OUTER COLUMN COMPONENT AND SPACED WITHIN SAID CAVITY A PRE-SELECTED DISTANCE FROM THE PERIPHERAL WALL OF SAID CAVITY; ONE END OF SAID INNER COLUMN COMPONENT BEING POSITIONED WITHIN SAID CAVITY AND THE OPPOSITE END THEREOF TERMINATING OUTSIDE OF SAID CAVITY; SEALING MENAS CARRIED ON THE END OF SAID INNER COLUMN COMPONENT POSITIONED WITHIN SAID CAVITY FOR SEALING ONE END OF SIAD INNER COLUMN COMPONENT; THE OUTER PERIPHERAL SURFACE OF SAID INNER COLUMN COMPONENT AND SAID PERIPHERAL WALL OF SAID CAVITY DEFINING A SPACE WITHIN SAID CAVITY; MEANS CARRIED ON THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID INNER COLUMN COMPONENT FOR SUPPORTING SAID MACHINERY; AND A CURED, VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL OCCUPYING THE SPACE DEFINED BY THE OUTER PERIPHERAL SURFACE OF SAID INNER COLUMN COMPONENT AND THE PERIPHERAL WALL OF SAID CAVITY IN SAID OUTER COLUMN COMPONENT FOR HOLDING SAID INNER AND OUTER COLUMN COMPONENTS IN ASSEMBLY AND AT A PRE-SELECTED DISTANCE APART; SAID VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL BEING BONDED TO THE PREIPHERAL SURFCES OF SAID INNER COLUMN COMPONENT AND SAID CAVITY AND BEING OPERABLE TO BOTH DAMP AND ISOLATE THE VIBRATIONS PRODUCED BY THE SUPPORTED MACHINERY AND ALSO FUNCTIONING TO ISOLATE THE MACHINERY FROM IMPACT SHOCK LOADS EMANATING FROM SAID FOUNDATION; SAID VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL BEING COMPRISING OF A TWOPART, SELF-SETTING, ROOM-TEMPERATURE CURING, FLEXIBLE EPOXY-LEAD RESIN HAVING A DUROMETER HARDNESS OF BETWEEN 60 AND 80 AT 75* F.; SAID VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL BEFORE CURING BEING INTRODUCED IN LIQUID FORM INTO SAID SPACE DEFINED BY THE OUTER PERIPHERAL SURFCE OF SAID INNER COLUMN COMPONENT AND THE PERIPHERAL WALL OF SAID CAVITY IN SAID OUTER COLUMN COMPONENT; SAID AIR VENT IN THE WALL OF SAID OUTER COLUMN COMPONENT PROVIDING A PASSAGEWAY FOR THE ESCAPE OF AIR TRAPPED IN POCKETS IN SAID LIQUID VISCO-ELASTIC MATETION OF SUBSTATIAL AIR POCKETS IN SAID VISCO-ELASTIC RAIL AND THEREBY FUNCTIONING TO PREVENT THE FORMAMATERIAL AS IT IS BEING INTRODUCED IN LIQUID FORM INTO SAID DEFINED SPACE.