Pipe chock stick

Claim 1

A pipe chock stick used in bracing pipes or the like comprising an elongate board having a pair of opposed end regions and a pair of spaced-apart, substantially parallel faces, brace means securable to one of said end regions for bracing pipes stacked against said faces, means defining, intermediate said end regions, a longitudinally extending slot communicating with said faces, a block having a pair of opposed arms, portions of which define opposed, longitudinally extending edges of a gullet formed centrally in said block, said block being dimensioned to be received within said slot, by insertion of one of said arms therethrough, wherein said arms extend beyond associated ones of said faces, and said gullet being dimensioned to receive slidably therein, portions of said board adjacent and extending longitudinally of said slot, wherein the longitudinal position of said block within said slot may be selectively varied, and means for securing said block in said slot at a selected longitudinal position, wherein said block and said brace means, when the latter is secured to said board, are spaced apart a selected distance for bracing therebetween pipes stacked against said faces.