US 3,959,940 A · Reinforcing assembly and reinforced concrete building walls

Abstract

An improved system for forming concrete walls and roofs, such as for one and two story dwellings. A prefabricated frame assembly is formed of a plurality of pheripheral frame sections. Each frame section includes peripheral frame members. The vertical members are J-shaped. The short legs of the J-shaped members support reinforcing rods and the long legs are adapted to support tie rods in the same horizontal plane as the reinforcing rods. Vertical reinforcing rods are secured to and across the first reinforcing rods, thereby to form an open reinforcing network. The frame members provide surfaces to which panel board may be secured. A plurality of the frame sections positioned, as on a slab, are connected to a frame assembly by short tie rods. An array of frame sections and frame assemblies, after paneling has been applied internally, provides a skeleton reinforcing network to which concrete may then be applied to form a reinforced concrete structure. The long legs of the J-shaped members of adjacent sections butt to serve as a single screed point for the concrete. An adjustable extension member facilitates forming the walls either six or eight inches thick, if desired in addition to the standard four inch thickness.

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Dependent claims

A skeleton frame assembly for forming a reinforced concrete structural member, said frame assembly comprising:

1. a pair of adjacent frame sections, each frame section comprising a plurality of elongate frame members secured together to define a periphery for said frame section, an opposed pair of vertical frame members being generally J-shaped in end view and each of the legs of the J-shaped members defining a plurality of spaced openings along its length, at least one first elongate reinforcing rod, each of said rods being disposed in an opening in the shorter of the legs, at least one end of each of said first reinforcing rods lying within the periphery of its frame section, and at least one second elongate reinforcing rod secured to and crossing said first reinforcing rods to define therewith and with said frame section an open reinforcing network, the ends of each of said second rods lying within the periphery of its frame section, said pair of frame sections having a long leg of a J-shaped member of each in butting engagement;
2. a plurality of short reinforcing rods in openings in adjacent ones of the long legs of said butting frame members, whereby when concrete is applied to said adjacent pair of frame sections, the frame sections are tied together by said short reinforcing rods.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Reinforcing assembly and reinforced concrete building walls

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Reinforcing assembly and reinforced concrete building walls

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Abstract

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