Abstract: A fixture for guiding drills for forming holes to receive fasteners for affixing a machinery mount anchor in position. Such fasteners are usually obliquely related to the vertical and the drill guide fixture is firmly supported upon the machinery mount anchor base and includes drill guides angularly related to the vertical to permit fastener holes to be accurately drilled in the support surface in alignment with the anchor base fastener openings. Threaded retainers and angle producing elements permit the drill fixture to be temporarily firmly positioned on the machinery mounting base during drilling.

Abstract: An anchor base for mounting machinery supports wherein fasteners extend through holes defined in the base. The base holes are provided with a concave countersunk surface which receives a complementary shaped convex fastener guide permitting the fastener to be obliquely oriented to the plane of the base, and the supporting surface and yet providing an effective holding force. This construction of the anchor base also permits an adapter to be used in conjunction with the base wherein if the supported machinery overlies the machinery support as not to provide access to the regular base mounting holes, a mechanical hold-down force on the base is still possible.

Abstract: A machinery mounting pad for heavy machinery formed of an elastic deformable material having load supporting elements homogeneously defined thereon of various vertical height whereby the extent of compression of the pad elements under a vertical load may be visually observed, and measured, and as the deformation and compression of the pad is known with respect to predetermined magnitudes of load, the weight imposed upon the pad may be approximately determined.

Abstract: A vertically adjustable mount for heavy duty machinery utilizing three wedges wherein a screw operated actuating wedge is located between upper and lower wedges. All the wedges include engaging cam surfaces obliquely related to the longitudinal direction of relative wedge movement during adjustment, and the range of vertical adjustment is extended, and quickly initially approximated, by providing the upper and lower wedges with longitudinally spaced openings, constituting sets, wherein a nut mounted upon the actuating wedge screw may be selectively positioned within a set of openings to adjust the range of actuating wedge movement while maintaining a relative short length of the actuating wedge screw.

Abstract: A heavy duty vibration absorbing and leveling machinery foundation mount and a method for tuning the same, the mount consisting of a rigid horizontal platform having a plurality of vibration absorbing legs. A leveler is mounted in the central region of the platform having a vertically adjustable riser, and the legs are formed by pockets housing a composite vibration absorbing material extending below the platform and engaging the surface upon which the machinery mount is supported which may be tuned to most effectively absorb the vibration to which the mount is subjected.