Apparatus for the manufacture of a precast building element of concrete
OwnerPentti Virtaneninventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for manufacturing a hollow concrete slab by a slide casting operation. The slab is formed with one or more cavities through the use of tubes of flexible material into which a pressurized medium, particularly water, is fed. The apparatus comprises a stationary base and a casting device arranged to travel in the longitudinal direction of the base. A number of parallel shaping pipes forming part of the travelling casting device and having a cross section corresponding to the desired cross section of the cavities to be formed are opened at both ends. The flexible tubes, which are fastened at their rear ends, to a pressured liquid source pass during the casting process from reels in the casting device through the pipes so as to give the cavities their final form.
Claims6
Apparatus for manufacturing a precast hollow concrete slab element comprising an elongated stationary base, a relatively flat concrete layer cast on said elongated base and constituting the bottom face of said slab element, a frame member positioned in vertical spaced relation to said elongated base and adapted to move in spaced parallel relation to said base, a reel mounted on said frame member, a flexible resilient tube positioned on said reel, a fluid tank positioned adjacent an end of said base, means for maintaining the fluid in said tank under pressure, an end of said resilient tube connected to said tank, the portion of said tube adjacent said tank supported on a portion of the bottom face of said slab element, a storage receptacle for concrete supported on said frame member, said storage receptacle having discharge means for delivering concrete onto said bottom face of said slab element and around said flexible tube contemporaneous with the movement of said frame member from one end to the other end of said stationary base.
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