Adjustable pillar

Abstract

An adjustable pillar includes a foundation structure and a hollow pillar housing. The foundation structure includes vertical rods. The upper ends of the rods are threaded. The lower end of the housing is open. The open base end forms an opening into the lower end of the cavity. The open base end and the lower end of the cavity are sized to receive therein the upper ends of the rods. A base is sized to fit substantially snugly telescopically into the open lower end of the housing. A weight bearing member is mounted inside the lower end of the hollow housing. Apertures in the member mate with the upper ends of the rods.

1 . An adjustable pillar comprising:
 a foundation structure including a base having a substantially vertical plurality of rods extending therethrough,   wherein the rods in said plurality of rods each have upper and lower ends, said lower ends of said rods extending downwardly from said base so as to form at least part of an anchor when buried under said base,   and wherein said upper ends of said rods are threaded and extend upwardly from said base,   a hollow pillar housing having upper and lower ends and defining a vertically elongate cavity extending upwardly through said housing, said lower end of said housing having a lower-most open base end, said open base end forming an opening into a lower end of said cavity, wherein said open base end and said lower end of said cavity are sized to receive therein said upper ends of said rods, and wherein said base is sized to fit substantially snugly telescopically into said open base end without said lower end of said housing engaging, so as to bear directly down onto, said base,   a weight bearing member mounted to said lower end of said housing in said lower end of said cavity, said weight bearing member having apertures formed therein positioned for mating registry with said upper ends of said rods so as to journal said upper ends of said rods through said apertures in said weight bearing member when said housing is mounted over said base so as to said telescope said base into said lower end of said housing,   threaded couplers cooperating with said weight bearing member and threadably mountable onto said threaded upper ends of said rods, said couplers selectively positionable along said threaded upper ends of said rods so as to selectively position said weight bearing member along said upper ends of said rods,   whereby an angular relation between said base and said pillar housing is selectively adjustable so that said pillar housing is positionable into a vertical orientation when said rods are not vertical.   
     
     
         2 . The pillar of  claim 1  wherein said rods are rebar. 
     
     
         3 . The pillar of  claim 1  wherein said base is a form. 
     
     
         4 . The pillar of  claim 3  wherein said form is a box form. 
     
     
         5 . The pillar of  claim 4  wherein said plurality of rods is at least four rods. 
     
     
         6 . The pillar of  claim 5  wherein said weight bearing member is a flange extending substantially horizontally around an inner circumference of said cavity. 
     
     
         7 . The pillar of  claim 6  wherein said cavity is substantially rectangular in a horizontal plane, and wherein said apertures in said flange include at least four apertures, positioned into opposite corners of said flange. 
     
     
         8 . The pillar of  claim 7  wherein said at least four rods extend up along a corresponding four corners of said box form. 
     
     
         9 . The pillar of  claim 8  wherein said couplers are pairs of threaded nuts, each said pair of threaded nuts including an upper and a lower nut for sandwiching said flange therebetween.