Post-trimable pre/tensioned stressed architectural member
AssigneeTerry L. Saucke
InventorTerry L. Saucke
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AssigneeTerry L. Saucke
InventorTerry L. Saucke
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This invention provides an improvement related to the well known prestressed-concrete structural member, such as is commonly employed by the construction industry to achieve greater load-supporting ability for beams, columns and the like. Presently, laminated wooden-beams for example, are being mass-produced which exhibit a substantially increased load-bearing ability over an equivalent non-laminated beam. However, the physical dimensions and weight encountered in some applications can not only impose severe architectural design comprises, owing to beam-thickness to walk-under clearance; but often, requirement for special heavy-duty handling equipment at the site as well, owning to their inherent weight/mass. This invention serves not only to reduce the preceding problems, but to reduce problematical installation guess-work by enabling the builder to conveniently trim the beams ends to fit exact site installation spans, spans -without effecting the pretensioned integral truss-element.
A prestressed post-tensioned type architectural structural member, serving as a beam, column, and the like, and generally of elongated formation having a rectangular cross-sectional shape comprising opposing upper and lower surfaces and longitudinally opposed ends featuring improved positioning of truss-element terminuses so as to facilitate pre-installation trimming convenience;
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