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US 6,581,898 B2Granted
Bearing block for alignment and handling of concrete forms
AssigneeWilian Holding Company
InventorRobert McCracken
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Abstract
Modular concrete form components which, when assembled into large wall form assemblies are sufficiently strong to resist the bending forces applied during picking and placing of the wall form assemblies without the need for the attachment of additional or external stiffening members. A bearing block is secured to a stiffener that runs along the back side of the form component adjacent a perimeter flange of the form component.
Claims5
A modular concrete form component, comprising:
- (a) a face sheet having a side portion;
- (b) a flange extended rearwardly of the face sheet along the side portion with a longitudinal and transverse axis;
- (c) at least two stiffeners arranged on the back side of the face sheet and transverse to the flange with a longitudinal and transverse axis;
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- (d) a bearing block corresponding to each of the stiffeners, the bearing block having a longitudinal axis the same as the transverse axes of both the stiffener and the flange, wherein the bearing block bears against substantially the entire transverse axes of both the stiffener and the flange and is secured to the flange and fitted against the stiffener.
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A modular concrete form component, comprising:
- (a) a rectangular face sheet:
- (b) a flange extended rearwardly of the face sheet around the perimeter of the face sheet with a longitudinal and transverse axis:
- (c) at least two space apart stiffeners arranged on the back side of the face sheet and transverse to opposing sections of the flange with a longitudinal and transverse axis;
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- (d) a bearing block corresponding to each of the stiffeners, the bearing block having a longitudinal axis the same as the transverse axes of both the stiffener and the flange, wherein the bearing block bears against substantially the entire transverse axes of both the stiffener and the flange and is secured to the flange and fitted against the stiffener.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.