Concrete finishing tool
AssigneeGreg Schut
InventorGreg Schut
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Abstract
A concrete finishing tool that more effectively fills and smooths voids on the surface of a slab of wet concrete includes a float; one or more wet concrete holding trays positioned on top of the float; electrically operated cylinders or other actuators for raising the trays to dump the wet concrete onto a concrete slab; and a mechanical vibrator for vibrating the trays to urge concrete from the trays onto the slab.
Claims20
A concrete forming tool for finishing a concrete slab, the concrete forming tool comprising:
- a float;
- a concrete holder positioned on the float for holding wet concrete, the concrete holder being pivotally connected to the float and moveable relative to the float to a raised position in which at least some of the wet concrete is discharged from the concrete holder;
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- an actuator for moving the concrete holder relative to the float to the raised position for discharging wet concrete from the concrete holder onto the concrete slab as it is being finished with the forming tool.
A concrete forming tool for finishing a concrete slab, the concrete forming tool comprising:
- a float for smoothing the concrete slab;
- a handle attached to the float so that a user may manually move the float over the concrete slab;
- a tray positioned on top of the float for holding wet concrete, the tray being pivotally connected to the float and moveable relative to the float between a lowered position in which it retains the wet concrete and a raised position in which it discharges at least some of the wet concrete;
- an electrically operated cylinder for raising the tray to the raised position to dump the wet concrete onto the concrete slab as it is being finished with the forming tool;
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- a mechanical vibrator for vibrating the tray to urge the wet concrete off the tray.
A concrete forming tool for finishing a concrete slab, the concrete forming tool comprising:
- a float for smoothing the concrete slab;
- a handle attached to the float so that a user may manually move the float over the concrete slab;
- two trays positioned on top of the float for holding wet concrete;
- an electrically operated cylinder for raising the trays relative to the float to dump the wet concrete onto the concrete slab as it is being finished with the forming tool, the cylinder operable to raise the two trays in unison or independently of one another;
- a mechanical vibrator for vibrating the trays to urge the wet concrete off the tray;
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- switches for activating the cylinder and the vibrator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.