Method and apparatus for casting prefabricated concrete products
AssigneeElematic Oyj
InventorLassi Järvinen
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for casting prefabricated concrete products with a substantially horizontal slipform casting process, where the concrete mass is fed in at least one feeding stage to a slipform casting mold compacting and defining the product to be cast, wherein at least one part is embedded in the concrete mass after the at least one concrete mass feeding stage and before the final compaction of the upper surface of the product to be cast.
Claims16
A method for casting prefabricated concrete products with a substantially horizontal slipform casting process in a casting machine, the method comprising:
- feeding a concrete mass in at least one feeding stage to a slipform casting mold compacting and defining a concrete product to be cast;
- adjusting, during the substantially horizontal slipform casting process, an angular orientation of an embedding device with parts relative to the casting machine for adjusting directions of the parts to be embedded in the concrete product by tilting the embedding device;
- embedding the parts having the adjusted directions in different positions of the concrete mass through an upper surface of the concrete product to be cast, where at least two of the embedded parts are oriented differently from each other;
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- finally compacting the upper surface of the concrete product to be cast.
An apparatus for casting prefabricated concrete products with a substantially horizontal slipform casting process, the apparatus comprising:
- at least one feeding hopper configured to feed a concrete mass to a slipform casting mold compacting and defining a concrete product to be cast;
- an embedding device with parts configured to be angularly adjusted, during the substantially horizontal slipform casting process, relative to the apparatus for adjusting directions of the parts to be embedded in the concrete product by tilting the embedding device, and further configured to embed the parts with the adjusted directions in different positions of the concrete mass through an upper surface of the concrete product to be cast, where at least two of the embedded parts are oriented differently from each other;
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- at least one compaction beam, configured to finally compact the upper surface of the concrete product to be cast.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.