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Abstract

A chock for supporting a frame of a piece of equipment on a foundation. The chock comprises a base, an intermediate element, and an upper element. The base has a planar bottom face to rest on the foundation and a planar upper surface supporting a planar lower surface of the intermediate element. Through holes extend through the base and continue as corresponding blind holes extending into the intermediate element for receiving screw fasteners to clamp the intermediate element to the base and adjust the height of a gap for shims. The intermediate element further comprises a concave upper surface cooperating with a complementary convex lower surface of the upper element allowing the top face of the upper element of the chock to rotate to correspond to an orientation of the frame of the piece of equipment to accommodate angular misalignment thereby evenly distributing frame load across the top face.

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