Concrete Floor System Incorporating Foundation Footing
OwnerCraig Wallace Lonsdale, Peter Raymond Harrisinventors
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Abstract
This invention relates to apparatus for use in a concrete floor system, incorporating a foundation footing, for a building, a foundation footing or a concrete floor system including the apparatus and a method of construction of such a concrete floor system, wherein the apparatus includes a moulding for a foundation footing, including: a first wall section, a second wall section and a bottom section; said sections being connected together to present a substantially u-shaped cross-section, and wherein the first wall section is taller than the second wall section.
Claims37
A moulding for a foundation footing, including:
- (i) a first wall section;
- (ii) a second wall section;
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- (iii) a bottom section;
- said sections being connected together to present a substantially u-shaped cross-section, and wherein the first wall section is taller than the second wall section.
A foundation footing, including:
- (i) a moulding including a first wall section, a second wall section and a bottom section, said sections being connected together to present a substantially u-shaped cross-section and wherein the first wall section is taller than the second wall section;
- (ii) reinforcing;
- (iii) concrete filling the moulding and surrounding the reinforcing.
A concrete floor system for a building, including:
- (i) a moulding including a first wall section, a second wall section and a bottom section, said sections being connected together to present a substantially u-shaped cross-section and wherein the first wall section is taller than the second wall section;
- (ii) sheets of thermally insulating material underlying the main floor area;
- (iii) reinforcing;
- (iv) concrete continuously filling the moulding, covering the sheets and surrounding the reinforcing.
A method of forming a concrete floor system for a building, including the steps of:
- (i) preparing a flat slab site;
- (ii) laying for each footing a moulding including a first wall section, a second wall section and a bottom section, said sections being connected together to present a substantially u-shaped cross-section wherein the first wall section is taller than the second wall section, such that the first wall sections of the mouldings define a mould for the concrete floor system;
- (iii) placing reinforcing in each moulding;
- (iv) pouring concrete into the mould.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.