FACILITY TO CORRECT POSITION OF BUILDING, STRUCTURE Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: construction industry, lifting and leveling of multistory buildings and various structures lop-sided abnormally due to soil settlement in particular. SUBSTANCE: facility to correct position of building includes flat jack module with pipe unions, pump and pipe-lines to pump-feed liquid medium into hollow jack module and to discharge it, jack pads. Novelty lies in construction of jack module built in the form of two flat shells tightly interconnected with protrusion around edges toroidal in section. It is fitted with jack wedges and safety ring made fast to hollow side of jack module around its edges. Ratio of thickness d of toroidal part of jack module to height h of safety ring amounts to 2.5-3.2 with relation of diameter D of hollow module to thickness l of its flat part equal to 48.6-50.3. Sand box is placed under jack module. EFFECT: prevented destruction of shell of jack module, prevented slide-down of individual jack modules one relative another. 12 cl, 8 dwg