Apparatus and system for concrete surface repair and method
OwnerWilliam M. Drakeinventor
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Abstract
System and apparatus for repair of concrete surfaces, and a method of using the same, having slab removal plates, slab replacement plates, slab transport/replacement frame carrier vehicles, slab injection/guide collars for application of fluid binding material as support for the replacement slabs, and microprocessor controlled global satellite coordinates, wireless transmission, and bar code identification for slab replacement.
Claims57
A system for concrete surface repair comprising, in combination:
- means to cut at least one broken concrete slab having a uniformly planar top surface into quarter sections without affecting existing concrete surfaces surrounding the broken slab;
- means for removing at least one broken concrete slab in four lifts or less from a space bounded by unaffected surrounding concrete surfaces having a substantially uniform planar surface without impact to the underlying roadbed;
- means for transporting at least one replacement concrete slab having a uniformly planar top surface and a longitudinal axis;
- means for placing at least one replacement concrete slab having a uniformly planar top surface into position above the space bounded by unaffected surrounding concrete surfaces;
- means for guiding at least one replacement concrete slab having a uniformly planar top surface into the space bounded by unaffected surrounding concrete surfaces;
- means to inject fluid binding material between the roadbed and at least one replacement slab;
- means to control replacement slab uplift during fluid binding material injection;
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- means to ensure planar uniformity between at least one replacement slab having a uniformly planar top surface and the planar surfaces of unaffected surrounding concrete surfaces.
Apparatus for cutting at least one broken concrete slab having a uniformly planar top surface into a plurality of sections without affecting existing planar concrete surfaces surrounding the broken concrete slab comprising:
- cutting means selected from the group consisting of at least one:
- circular saw means, jig saw means, laser saw means, and water jet saw means;
- global positioning control means for controllably directing cutting action of each saw;
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- microprocessor means for recording the global positioning coordinates of at least one cut slab before it is removed from a space bounded by unaffected surrounding concrete surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.