Pier system
OwnerJay Listleinventor
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Abstract
A pier system has a plurality of footers each formed with a base fabricated of concrete with a top face having a downwardly extending bore. A plurality of pilings are each formed with a hollow tubular shaft with a top region and a bottom region coupled to a footer. Each piling has a reinforcing bar with an upper region and a lower region coupled within the bore of a footer. Each piling further has a plurality of apertures formed within the upper region of each shaft. A deck has a plurality of stringers with spaced free ends located within the shafts. A supplemental quantity of concrete within each shaft couples the shafts, footers, reinforcing bars, and stringers. A plurality of planks have mechanisms that couple the planks to the stringers.
Claims6
A pier system comprising:
- a plurality of footers each formed with a base fabricated of concrete with a top face having a downwardly extending bore;
- a plurality of pilings each formed with a hollow tubular shaft with a top region and bottom region coupled to one of the footers, each piling also having a reinforcing bar with an upper region and a lower region coupled within the bore of one of the footers, each piling further having a plurality of apertures formed within the top region of each shaft;
- a deck comprising a plurality of stringers having spaced free ends located within the shafts;
- a supplemental quantity of concrete within each shaft coupling the shafts, footers, reinforcing bars, and stringers;
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- a plurality of planks with mechanisms coupling the planks to the stringers.
A piling footer fabricated of concrete having a top face formed with a downwardly extending bore, the footer including a hollow tubular shaft with a top region and a bottom region coupled to the concrete footer, the footer also including a reinforcing bar with an upper region and a lower region wherein the lower region of the reinforcing bar is coupled within the bore of the footer and wherein the footer having a base having a generally cubical configuration with a square bottom face and four square side faces there between, each top face having a rectilinear recess receiving the bottom of the shaft and with the downwardly extending cylindrical bore therein receiving the bottom of the reinforcing bar and with a two part epoxy resin filling the recess to couple the shaft and reinforcing bar and footer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.