Apparatus and procedure for forming pre-shaped interlocking cement slabs
OwnerEdmond N. Gaudelli, Edward E. Sheplerinventors
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The invention pertains to a cementitious slab and to apparatus and procedure for making it in such a manner that it may be used in an interconnected relation for providing a longitudinally extending side edging along a street or roadway. The slab product is made in a frame assembly that is positioned for turnover movement on a pair of stands. The frame assembly in its upper or mold space defining positioning has an integral enclosing side wall frame and a bottom wall, with one pair of side walls of the frame spaced from ends of the bottom wall and adapted to removably receive a pair of opposed end wall forming members for completing the mold cavity and providing the cementitious slab with tongue and groove portions. After the concrete or cement has been poured into the mold cavity, the opposed end wall members are removed and a pair of cross-ending support members are secured across a pair of the side walls to support the slab when it is turned-over or rotated 180.degree. to a position in which its former top side faces the ground. The pair of cross-extending support members are than removed and the assembly tapped to drop the slab a short distance onto a suitable receiving means, such as forks of a fork lift truck. The bottom plate forms a smooth-finished upper face of the slab and is employed to position a pair of lift lugs that are internally threaded and extend into the mold cavity for embedment in the slab, with the threaded end exposed to provide means for facilitating lifting and transporting of the slab.
An improved pour and mold cast-formed concrete slab of simplified construction that is contoured for use as one of a plurality of endwise interfitting-latching and aligned longitudinal progression of substantially planar slabs to provide a substantially sealed-off joined longitudinally extending side edging for a street or roadway to finish the side paving thereof along its berm which comprises, a non-laminated unitary rectangular-shaped slab body of cast-molded solidified cementitious material having a rough pour-finished roadway mounting under surface face and a smoothly mold-finished and contoured upper surface face, said upper surface face being defined by a pair of longitudinally extending substantially planar front and back upper face portions that slope laterally towards each other to define a substantially centrally-positioned longitudinally-extending drainage concavity along the slab, said planar back face portion defining a raised curb portion along and with said back side wall, said body having a pair of longitudinally extending depthwise-defined vertical front an back substantially parallel opposed side walls and a pair of laterally extending depthwise-defined smoothly finished vertical and substantially parallel opposed end walls, said one end wall of said pair having an outwardly projecting, smoothly finished ledge-like tongue portion horizontally therealong and spaced laterally inwardly from said upper and upper surface faces as well as longitudinally inwardly from said pair of front and back opposed side walls of said slab body, the other end wall of said pair having a smoothly finished shelf-like groove portion extending horizontally therealong that is complementary with said tongue portion and spaced laterally inwardly from said under and upper surface faces as well as longitudinally inwardly from said pair of front and back opposed side walls;
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