Claims
- 1. An apparatus having improved immunity from damage during seismological or seismological-like activities, said apparatus comprising:
- a frame, having a bottom side with four corners, for fixedly containing electrical equipment; and,
- triangular plates affixed to the bottom of said frame and disposed so as to lie at each one of four corners of said frame bottom, said triangular plates having longest edges and being oriented so that said longest edges point toward the center of said frame bottom;
- each plate having;
- a first eyebolt, having an eye, said first eyebolt being affixed its respective plate so as to extend downward from its respective plate;
- a first threaded yoke, having a threaded portion and a forked yoke portion, said first yoke having said eyebolt eyes disposed therein, in the yoke portion thereof, said eyebolts being retained in said yoke portion by a pin extending through said eye and said forked yoke portion;
- a turnbuckle having threaded openings therein at first and second ends thereof, said threaded opening at said first end of said turnbuckle having disposed therein the threaded portion of said first threaded yoke; and
- threaded floor anchoring means disposed at said second end of said turnbuckle within the second threaded opening in said turnbuckle.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
The present application is a divisional of prior application Ser. No. 09/120,070 filed Jul. 21, 1998.
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