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US 10,266,993 B2Granted
Bearing pad
AssigneeAstra Capital Incorporated
InventorKenneth Szekely
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Abstract
A bearing pad for receiving and retaining the substantially vertically oriented structural members of a module for use in constructing a pathway and supporting the pathway module on a ground surface can include a main body member having a lower ground engaging surface and a first slot defined by a first cross support member engaging portion of the main body member. The first slot can be planar and disposed transversely to the lower ground engaging surface of the main body member. The vertically oriented structural member that can be received and retained in the first slot by the first cross support member engaging portion of the main body member.
Claims18
A system for constructing a pathway comprising:
- a pathway module including:
- a top deck configured to cover a ground surface;
- and
- a rib extending away from the top deck;
- and
- a bearing pad configured to slidably receive the rib, including a main body member having a lower ground engaging surface on a first face and a first slot disposed on a second face, opposite the first face, the first slot being defined by a first cross support member engaging portion of the main body member;
- and
- wherein the rib is configured to be received and retained in the first slot by the first cross support member engaging portion of the main body member;
- a shim securable to the bearing pad in underlying relation thereto, the shim including a central portion and a base portion that surrounds the central portion, the base portion having a perimeter edge, wherein the shim includes:
- a first hook member extending upwardly from the base portion at a first perimeter edge portion of the perimeter edge;
- and
- a second hook member extending upwardly from the base portion at a second perimeter edge portion of the perimeter edge;
- wherein the first hook member and the second hook member are disposed in opposed relation on the base portion with the central portion disposed therebetween;
- and
- wherein the first hook member and the second hook member being configured to engage the base member of the bearing pad to securely retain the shim thereto.
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A system for constructing a pathway comprising:
- a pathway module including:
- a top deck configured to cover a ground surface;
- and
- a rib extending from the top deck towards the ground surface, including:
- a first rib extending across the pathway module;
- and
- a second rib extending across the pathway module, the second rib intersecting the first rib at an intersection;
- a bearing pad configured to slidably receive the rib of the pathway module positioned at the intersection, the bearing pad including:
- a main body member having a lower ground engaging surface, a first slot defined by a first cross support member engaging portion of the main body member, and a second slot defined by a second cross support member engaging portion of the main body member;
- wherein the first slot and second slot are planar and disposed on an opposite face of the main body member relative to the lower ground engaging surface;
- and
- wherein the first slot and the second slot intersect one another at a vertically oriented common space;
- and
- wherein the first rib is configured to be received and retained in the first slot by the first cross support member engaging portion of the main body member, the second rib is configured to be received and retained in the second slot by the second cross support member engaging portion of the main body member, and the intersection of the first rib and the second rib being configured to be received in the vertically oriented common space;
- a shim securable to the bearing pad in underlying relation thereto, the shim including a central portion and a base portion that surrounds the central portion, the base portion having a perimeter edge, wherein the shim includes:
- a first hook member extending upwardly from the base portion at a first perimeter edge portion of the perimeter edge;
- and
- a second hook member extending upwardly from the base portion at a second perimeter edge portion of the perimeter edge;
- wherein the first hook member and the second hook member are disposed in opposed relation on the base portion with the central portion disposed therebetween;
- and
- wherein the first hook member and the second hook member being configured to engage the base member of the bearing pad to securely retain the shim thereto.
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A system for constructing a pathway comprising:
- a pathway module including:
- a top deck configured to cover a ground surface;
- and
- a rib extending away from the top deck;
- and
- a bearing pad configured to slidably receive the rib, including a main body member having a lower ground engaging surface on a first face and a first slot disposed on a second face, opposite the first face, the first slot being defined by a first cross support member engaging portion of the main body member;
- wherein the rib is configured to be received and retained in the first slot by the first cross support member engaging portion of the main body member;
- wherein the bearing pad includes a second slot defined by a second cross support member engaging portion of the main body member, the second slot is disposed on the second face;
- wherein the pathway module includes a second rib configured to be received and retained in the second slot by the second cross support member engaging portion of the main body member;
- wherein the first slot and the second slot are oriented perpendicular relative to one another and intersect at a vertically oriented common space;
- wherein the left cross support member engaging surface is a first left cross support member engaging surface and the right cross support member engaging surface is a first right cross support member engaging surface;
- wherein the second cross support member engaging portion includes a second left cross support member engaging surface and a second right cross support member engaging surface, and wherein the second left cross support member engaging surface and the second right cross support member engaging surface face each other to define a second gap therebetween;
- wherein the main body member further includes a second left wall and a second right wall each extending upwardly from the base member;
- wherein the second left cross support member engaging surface is disposed on the second left wall and the second right cross support member engaging surface is disposed on the second right wall;
- wherein the upwardly facing weight bearing stop surface is disposed partially between the first left wall and the first right wall and disposed partially between the second left wall and the second right wall, and is substantially cross-shaped;
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- wherein each of the first left wall, the first right wall, the second left wall, and the second right wall of the bearing pad include two longitudinally aligned wall portions includes:
- a horizontal-top-edge portion disposed adjacent the vertically oriented common space;
- a sloped-top-edge portion extending outwardly from the horizontal-top-edge portion;
- and
- a rail portion extending outwardly from the sloped-top-edge portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.