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US 4,306,821 AGranted
Method and apparatus for restoring piling
OwnerCharles D. Mooreinventor
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Abstract
The system for the restoring and reconditioning structural pile provides an outer form which is attachable to a portion of a piling which has been eroded or corroded and has lost some of its thickness and thus its overall strength. A diameter building filler is placed into an intraform space between the form and the piling, the filler providing a protective and structural coating to that portion of the piling where corrosion or damage has taken place. In the preferred embodiment the filler is a setting material such as a suitable epoxy.
Claims1
A method of reconditioning a structural pile in a marine enviornment at the splash zone comprising the steps of:
- a. a water-blasting the surface of the pile in the splash zone area;
- b. attaching upper and lower circumferential spacers to the piling above and below the section of the pile to be reconditioned respectively;
- c. measuring a sheet of form material to attach to the spacers with the sheet of form material having a length substantially equal to the distance between the spacers and a circumference substantially equal to the circumference of the spacers;
- d. securing the form material to the piling at the upper and lower spacers forming an intraform space between the form and the surface of the piling to be reconditioned;
- e. placing a conduit into communication with the intraform space;
- f. pumping an epoxy fluid into the intraform space through the placed conduit;
- g. allowing the epoxy fluid to set.
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