US 3,993,282 AGranted

Construction form support member

AssigneeComposite Construction Systems, Inc.

InventorsHerbert M. Berman, Ira Hooper

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Abstract

A reusable, longitudinally adjustable, readily removable form support member for supporting a concrete construction form in an array of structural members in a building construction. In one embodiment the form support member comprises a spanning member having laterally translatably support pin members secured in recesses in opposed ends of the spanning member for engaging openings in adjacent structural members. The support pins may be movable in a horizontal plane so as to permit their alignment with the structural openings where necessary. The support pin members include block means attached to the rear portions of the support pins, the block means cooperating with respective activating means to move the spanning member in a vertical plane so that an inside surface of the respective end parts of the spanning member contacts a surface of the block means and effect a friction bond which prevents longitudinal movement of the respective parts. Other embodiments for extending and retracting the support pins are also shown and described.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A form support member for supporting a concrete molding form relative to beams and joists in a building construction comprising,

a spanning member having two distal end portions, each of said end portions being at least recessed to define an opening therein,
a support pin member secured in each of said openings and being longitudinally translatable therein between a withdrawn position and an outwardly extending position wherein a pin portion of said support pin member is received in an opening of an adjacent joist and,
activating means cooperating with said spanning member and each of said support pin members to provide vertical movement of the spanning member, relative to said support pin members, substantially along the entire length of said spanning member, between a contacting, supporting relationship with a molding form, and a retracted relationship with said molding form,
said vertical movement to a contacting relationship effecting a frictional bond between said spanning member and said support pin members so as to secure the pin members against longitudinal movement,
said vertical movement to a retracted relationship permitting easy withdrawal of the pin members from said openings and removal of the form support member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 05/543,785Filed 24 Jan 1975 · division
Priority: 8 Dec 1972
Granted: 23 Nov 1976
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

E04G 11/56
Of extensible type, with or without adjustable supporting shoes, fishplates, or the like: of telescopic type
E04G 11/42
For coffered or ribbed ceilings: with beams of metal or prefabricated concrete which are not, or of which only the upper part is embedded
E04G 17/18
Connecting or other auxiliary members for forms, falsework structures, or shutterings: devices for suspending or anchoring form elements to…
E04G
Scaffolding