Civil engineering structure for guiding a line
AssigneeAlois Pichler
InventorsAlois Pichler, Jan Michael Pichler, Lorenz Pichler
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Abstract
A civil engineering structure for guiding a line in a slot in a surface area outdoors, said slot being formed by a milling or grinding process. A protective cover which consists of sub-pieces connected together in an articulated manner, extends above the line in the slot. The volume region of the slot in which the line is located is unfilled and is protected against expected compressive loads from the top by the sub-pieces.
Claims16
A civil engineering structure for conducting a line in a slit trench, made by milling or cutting, in an outdoor ground area, comprising a protective cover, which consists of portions each downwardly supported against lateral boundary surfaces of a volume of the slit trench, extends in the slit trench above the line, wherein the portions are arranged in line with one another along a longitudinal direction of the slit trench and articulatedly connected to one another whereby the portions are pivotal relative to one another about vertical axes,
- wherein a volume region of the slit trench where the line is located is unfilled, and in that the portions are designed fixedly with respect to flexural strength about bending axes parallel to the longitudinal direction of the slit trench such that the portions upwardly protect the spanned, unfilled volume region against a compressive force loading that is to be expected;
- wherein the cover has contours of a groove profile, which is put over the line in the slit trench with a downwardly open cross-sectional area side in front;
- wherein the portions of the cover have a form of a U profile piece, and in that the portions are arranged one behind another in line in a profile direction of the portions, and between adjacent portions there is a respective slit-like aperture, of which the longitudinal direction is aligned normal to the profile direction and a length extends over an entire width of a basic face and over an entire height of respectively just one of two flank faces of the U profile piece;
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- wherein the protective cover further comprises a combination of two protective covers with a first protective cover with an external groove profile on top of a second protective cover with an internal groove profile.
A civil engineering structure for conducting a line in a slit trench, made by milling or cutting, in an outdoor ground area, comprising a protective cover, which consists of portions each downwardly supported against lateral boundary surfaces of a volume of the slit trench, extends in the slit trench above the line, wherein the portions are arranged in line with one another along a longitudinal direction of the slit trench and articulatedly connected to one another whereby the portions are pivotal relative to one another about vertical axes,
- wherein a volume region of the slit trench where the line is located is unfilled, and in that the portions are designed fixedly with respect to flexural strength about bending axes parallel to the longitudinal direction of the slit trench such that the portions upwardly protect the spanned, unfilled volume region against a compressive force loading that is to be expected;
- wherein the cover has contours of a groove profile, which is put over the line in the slit trench with a downwardly open cross-sectional area side in front;
- wherein the portions of the cover have a form of a U profile piece, and in that the portions are arranged one behind another in line in a profile direction of the portions, and between adjacent portions there is a respective slit-like aperture, of which the longitudinal direction is aligned normal to the profile direction and a length extends over an entire width of a basic face and over an entire height of respectively just one of two flank faces of the U profile piece;
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- wherein the cover is sized to be flush with a ground surface when installed in the slit trench.
A civil engineering structure for conducting a line in a slit trench, made by milling or cutting, in an outdoor ground area, comprising a protective cover, which consists of portions each downwardly supported against lateral boundary surfaces of a volume of the slit trench, extends in the slit trench above the line, wherein the portions are arranged in line with one another along a longitudinal direction of the slit trench and articulatedly connected to one another whereby the portions are pivotal relative to one another about vertical axes,
- wherein a volume region of the slit trench where the line is located is unfilled, and in that the portions are designed fixedly with respect to flexural strength about bending axes parallel to the longitudinal direction of the slit trench such that the portions upwardly protect the spanned, unfilled volume region against a compressive force loading that is to be expected;
- wherein the cover has contours of a groove profile, which is put over the line in the slit trench with a downwardly open cross-sectional area side in front;
- wherein the portions of the cover have a form of a U profile piece, and in that the portions are arranged one behind another in line in a profile direction of the portions, and between adjacent portions there is a respective slit-like aperture, of which the longitudinal direction is aligned normal to the profile direction and a length extends over an entire width of a basic face and over an entire height of respectively just one of two flank faces of the U profile piece;
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- further comprising a covering layer to be disposed over the cover during installation in the slit trench.
A civil engineering structure for conducting a line in a slit trench, made by milling or cutting, in an outdoor ground area, comprising a protective cover, which consists of portions each downwardly supported against lateral boundary surfaces of a volume of the slit trench, extends in the slit trench above the line, wherein the portions are arranged in line with one another along a longitudinal direction of the slit trench and articulatedly connected to one another whereby the portions are pivotal relative to one another about vertical axes,
- wherein a volume region of the slit trench where the line is located is unfilled, and in that the portions are designed fixedly with respect to flexural strength about bending axes parallel to the longitudinal direction of the slit trench such that the portions upwardly protect the spanned, unfilled volume region against a compressive force loading that is to be expected;
- wherein the cover has contours of a groove profile, which is put over the line in the slit trench with a downwardly open cross-sectional area side in front;
- wherein the portions of the cover have a form of a U profile piece, and in that the portions are arranged one behind another in line in a profile direction of the portions, and between adjacent portions there is a respective slit-like aperture, of which the longitudinal direction is aligned normal to the profile direction and a length extends over an entire width of a basic face and over an entire height of respectively just one of two flank faces of the U profile piece;
- wherein the cover is sized to be flush with a ground surface when installed in the slit trench;
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- further comprising:
- a sealing strip to be disposed over the cover during installation in the slit trench, and
- a hardened sealing compound to be disposed over the sealing strip during installation in the slit trench.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.