Method for repairing a damaged hollow pole
AssigneeEXO Group LLC
InventorsWesley J Oliphant, Zachary James Oliphant, Garett William Oliphant
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Abstract
A method for making a field repair on a hollow pole includes installing a sleeve spaced outwardly from the hollow pole and extending from an elevation above the top elevation of the damaged portion down to the concrete foundation, filling the interior of the pole and the space between the pole and the sleeve with concrete from the foundation to an elevation above the top elevation of the damaged portion, which effectively extends the anchorline of the structure upwardly to encompass the damaged area of the structure.
Claims6
A method for repairing a hollow pole embedded in a concrete foundation, said hollow pole having a pole wall defining an interior and an exterior and having a damaged area extending downwardly from a top elevation to a bottom elevation, comprising the steps of:
- installing laterally-extending reinforcing rods through the pole wall at a plurality of elevations and at a plurality of radial positions from above the top elevation to below the bottom elevation of the damaged area;
- installing a sleeve spaced outwardly from said laterally-extending reinforcing rods and extending from above said top elevation to said concrete foundation;
- pouring concrete into the interior of the hollow pole to fill the interior of the hollow pole to an elevation above the top elevation of the damaged area;
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- pouring concrete to fill the space between said sleeve and said pole wall from said concrete foundation to above said top elevation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.