Concrete slab forming method
OwnerPeter Molitor, Richard Raphael Mfukoinventors
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Abstract
A method for fabricating a concrete slab upon a surface, the concrete slab having a final thickness and having, upon drying, a maximum dry density, the method including steps of providing a body of no-slump concrete, the no-slump concrete including a combination of aggregate and paste; dispensing the no-slump concrete upon the surface in an even depth layer which has an upper surface and includes an air volume, a portion of the paste residing at an upper surface of the even depth layer; removing a portion of the air volume from the no-slump concrete layer by compaction; trowel mulching the paste which resides at the upper surface; and trowel transporting the mulched paste horizontally over the upper surface to form a smooth concrete paste upper slab surface.
Claims16
A method for fabricating a concrete slab upon a surface, the concrete slab having a final thickness and having, upon drying, a maximum dry density, the method comprising steps of:
- (a) providing a body of no-slump concrete, the no-slump concrete comprising a combination of aggregate and paste;
- (b) dispensing the no-slump concrete upon the surface in an even depth layer which has an upper surface and includes a volume of air, such dispensation upwardly exposing portions of the paste;
- (c) removing a portion of the air volume from the even depth layer;
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- (d) mulching the paste exposed at the upper surface and simultaneously horizontally transporting the mulched paste over the upper surface;
- wherein the paste mulching and transporting steps comprise steps of providing a trowel having a lower surface, and applying the trowel to and horizontally drawing the trowel over the upwardly exposed paste so that portions of said paste roll along the trowel's lower surface.
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