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US 6,202,375 B1Granted
Method for concrete building system using composite panels with highly insulative plastic connector
OwnerRolf Otto Kleinschmidtinventor
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The present invention comprises a concrete building system with a method for fabricating composite panels using an improved design plastic connector and assembling them at the construction site to a structure which will be shotcreted on both sides to a concrete building which is highly insulated, is fire and termite proof, hurricane, earthquake and flood resistant and fulfills the requirement for flexible design. The Composite Panels are composed of two concrete layers, enclosing an insulative foam core. The skins are reinforced with wire mesh as structurally required and are connected through the foam core by structural highly insulative plastic connectors using the snap connection on both ends of the connectors so they form a tri-dimentional system and hold the wire mesh in place for the onsite shotcrete application, which includes an application of fiber for shrinkage and cracking. This replaces the welded wire fabric use for secondly reinforcing and let the wire mesh reinforcing only related to the structural strength of the composite panel. The plastic connector guarantees that no thermal bridging occurs like in other systems also the inside layer of the shotcrete panel.
A composite building system comprising composite panels having two outer structural layers of formless applied shotcrete concrete and a high thermo-resisting insulating core, highly insulative plastic connectors extend diagonally through the insulative core to wire mesh that is located on both sides of the core at a distance away from the core, the wire mesh is substantially embedded in the concrete with a portion that is not embedded extending out of the concrete on at least one side for further connection to other panels, the plastic connectors having a shaft and two ends with snap connections on both ends of the shaft that connect the wire mesh on both sides of the core, holding the outside layers of the composite panels so it forms a tri-dimensional structural system, both sides of the panels are formless shotcrete concrete, and multiple additives are part of the concrete mixture for protection.
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