Footing form
AssigneeSoundFootings, LLC
InventorDonald Wells
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Abstract
A form for molding a footing at an end of another form for molding a pillar. The footing form includes a rigid hollow base having a bottom, an open top and a side wall extending upwardly from the bottom to the open top, and wherein the bottom is larger than the open top. A sleeve extends upwardly from the open top of the base for being received within an end of a pillar form. The footing form also includes protrusions extending laterally outwardly from an outer surface of the sleeve for frictionally engaging an inner surface of the pillar form, yet preventing the inner surface of the pillar form from engaging the outer surface of the sleeve. Accordingly, the overall contact area between the footings is reduced for easier application of the pillar form onto the sleeve of the footing form.
Claims23
A form for molding a footing of a settable structural material at an end of a form for molding a pillar, the end of the form having an inner surface, comprising:
- a hollow base extending along a longitudinal axis and having a bottom, a shoulder defining an open top of the base, and a side wall extending from the bottom to the shoulder along the longitudinal axis, and wherein at least a portion of the side wall slopes inwardly towards the longitudinal axis between the bottom and the shoulder;
- a hollow sleeve extending along the longitudinal axis from the shoulder and providing fluid communication with the open top of the base;
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- a plurality of protrusions extending laterally outwardly from an outer surface of the sleeve and adapted to frictionally engage the inner surface of the end of the pillar form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.