Protective enclosure for concrete anchor bolts
OwnerMarrk Scogginsinventor
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Abstract
A protective cover for concrete anchor bolts includes a hollow, box-shaped housing having a bottom wall with a plurality of elongated, narrow slots thereon that are positioned and spaced to receive various patterns of cast-in anchor bolts. A top wall includes a plurality of wide openings to provide to access to the anchor bolts. Accordingly, a worker superimposes the housing onto a set of concrete anchor bolts with each received within one of the narrow slots on the bottom wall. Using the wider openings on the top wall, the worker tightens nuts onto the anchor bolts to secure the housing to the underlying concrete prior to pouring a surrounding floor. Once the surrounding concrete floor has dried, the nuts are removed and the enclosure is lifted from the formed indention.
Claims5
In combination with a poured concrete foundation having precast anchor bolts therein, an enclosure for protecting said anchor bolts while a concrete floor is being poured onto said foundation, said enclosure comprising:
- a hollow housing having a bottom wall, a plurality of sidewalls and a top wall;
- a plurality of elongated, narrow slots on said bottom wall, said slots receiving said anchor bolts;
- a plurality of openings on said top wall that are each aligned with a designated slot on said bottom wall, said openings dimensioned to receive a hand to allow a worker to fasten a nut to each of said anchor bolts to secure said housing to said foundation, and to subsequently remove said nut to remove said housing from the foundation, whereby a concrete floor is poured around said housing to form a column indention while said enclosure encapsulates said bolts until said floor has dried and a column can be installed within said indention;
- a hook on the top wall;
- a lifting tool secured to said hook to remove said housing from said indention.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.