Adjustable mold for making precast concrete traffic barrier panels with different geometries for use in modular earth retaining walls
AssigneeEarthwall Products, LLC
InventorThomas Leonard Rainey
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AssigneeEarthwall Products, LLC
InventorThomas Leonard Rainey
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Various embodiments of an adjustable mold and method for making precast concrete traffic barrier panels with different geometries are disclosed. The panels are used for creating a continuous traffic barrier by placing the panels in a contiguous side-by-side arrangement adjacent a roadway atop a modular earth retaining wall. Each traffic barrier panel has a body with at least front, back, top, bottom, left, and right sides. The mold body has a plurality of walls that define an interior chamber, a door opening to the interior chamber, and a concrete inlet to the interior chamber. The door is designed to be installed on and to be uninstalled from the mold body to respectively close and open the door opening. The door has left side and right side forming panels that are designed to define respectively a left side two-dimensional geometry and a right side two-dimensional geometry of the left and right sides respectively of a traffic barrier panel to be made. The left side and right side two-dimensional geometries are changeable by interchanging the door with differently oriented forming panels or by adjusting two-dimensional orientations of each of the left side and right side forming panels on the existing door. The interior chamber of the mold body in combination with an interior side of the door define an outer surface geometry of the front, back, top, bottom, left, and right sides of the traffic barrier panel to be made.
An adjustable mold for making precast concrete traffic barrier panels with different geometries for creating a continuous traffic barrier by placing the traffic barrier panels in a contiguous side-by-side arrangement adjacent a roadway atop a modular earth retaining wall, each traffic barrier panel having a body with at least front, back, top, bottom, left, and right sides, the adjustable mold comprising:
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