Abstract:
A weldment connector for use with castable concrete slabs, each of the slabs including a length, width and depth and having at least one opposing and extending edge. The weldment connector has a substantially elongated and planar shaped front face and first and second legs which are both integrally formed with and extend from opposite end locations of the front face. The legs further extend in a combined axial and rotationally offset fashion relative the front face and each includes a horizontally extending and vertically spaced apart component with passes either above or below a mesh screen associated with the concrete slab. Additional features of the weldment connector include the width of the extending legs increasing, from a first end associated with the interconnecting and planar shaped front face, to outermost extending ends thereof. Also, pluralities of undulating portions may be formed in substantially width-wise extending fashion and at spaced apart locations along each of the legs and, in combination with the outwardly flaring of the legs, provides for increased gripping and holding forces of the associated concrete slab.
Abstract:
A tile and backing assembly for creating a walkway, pathway and a driveway atop ground. Each assembly used in constructing the walkway preferably includes a backing member formed from a single sheet having elongated tile support members positioned side-by-side one to another. Each tile support member is defined by spaced apart transverse slits or cuts through the backing member, each having complete and incomplete segments and extending in zigzag fashion thereacross. Each of the incomplete segments is defined by overlapping unconnected spaced slit segments to define a slender elongated expansion link connecting adjacent tile support members together. Each of the tile support members have evenly spaced tile attachment areas, each of which supportively receive one of a plurality of tiles. Each tile is attached to one tile attachment area in a desired design array with adjacent tiles abutting one another when the assembly is in the contracted orientation. The assembly is deployable atop the ground by pulling end margins thereof apart to expand the backing member in length whereby the tiles form a desired spaced apart expanded array atop the ground.
Abstract:
A weldment connector for use with castable concrete slabs, each of the slabs including a length, width and depth and having at least one opposing and extending edge. The weldment connector has a substantially elongated and planar shaped front face and first and second legs which are both integrally formed with and extend from opposite end locations of the front face. The legs further extend in a combined axial and rotationally offset fashion relative the front face and so that, upon being embedded within a first selected slab of concrete with front face extending in exposed fashion along its extending edge, the construction of the legs exhibits greater resistance to cracking. In use, a second weldment connector is likewise embedded within a second selected slab of concrete in similar fashion and so that its corresponding front face extends along an opposing extending edge, in proximate fashion relative to the front face of the first weldment connector. A conventional weldment, such as is provided by an electric weld gun, secures together the front faces of the first and second connectors. In use, the weldment connectors act to redistribute, within the interior body of each concrete slab, load forces applied along its common seamed edge.
Abstract:
La formación de suelos principalmente en jardines sean planos o no incluso con desniveles se realiza mayoritariamente de forma totalmente manual, dejando entre las piezas que lo componen espacios o juntas para el paso de la hierba y/o vegetación, no siendo posible su industrialización con lo cual este tipo de suelos son extremadamente costosos y no se adaptan bien a los desniveles, la presente invención, soluciona los inconvenientes permitiendo la fabricación industrial a base de moldear las piezas entre las varillas de mallazos, o bien en orificios dejados a propósito cuando en vez de un mallazo, es un soporte laminar pudiendo estar formado este último por una o más capas, con micro perforaciones entre dichos orificios para el paso de la hierba o vegetación.
Abstract:
A paver may include a paver body and at least two slots running through the paver body from one side to another side. The slots may be parallel to an upper surface of the paver body. The slots further may be aligned according to the paver's orientation in a larger paver pattern such that, when multiple pavers are assembled according to the pattern, the slots of individual pavers cooperate to generate extended channels throughout the pattern. Thus, the principles of the present invention permit manufacturers to assemble paver mats made of a plurality of the pavers weaved together by a plurality of fastening cables that fit within one or more extended channels. In one embodiment, a core puller may be used to create slots in the paver body.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for a porous pavement system are described. The porous pavement system includes paver blocks designed to facilitate water seepage between the paver blocks and to permit water storage within the blocks. The paver blocks may be cabled together to create paving units that facilitate installation and maintenance of the pavement system. The porous pavement system provides improved management of stormwater, reducing runoff and facilitating infiltration of stormwater into the subgrade below the paving system.
Abstract:
La lámina flexible de ladrillos comprende una pluralidad de varillas (1, 2, 3) flexibles entretejidas formando una retícula, y una pluralidad de ladrillos (4) provistos de unas configuraciones de sujeción (5) engarzadas con al menos algunas de dichas varillas (1, 2, 3) para retener dichos ladrillos (4) en dicha retícula. Opcionalmente, Ia mencionada lámina es apta para ser colocada con uno de sus lados contra una cimbra (S) y recibir un ligante (M) desde y sobre el otro de sus lados. El procedimiento para fabricación comprende cruzar y entretejer unas varillas de urdimbre (1, 3) y unas varillas (2) de trama formando una retícula, disponiendo al mismo tiempo hileras de ladrillos (4) en dicha retícula entre dichas varillas de trama (2), engarzando unas configuraciones de sujeción (5) formadas en dichos ladrillos (4) con al menos algunas de las varillas de urdimbre o de trama (1, 2, 3).
Abstract:
A pre-fabricated concrete slab system and method have matching rectangular slabs with cooperatively fitting male and female type connectors (26, 32, 106, 118) which fit adjacent to each other in a checkerboard fashion. The slabs (10, 12, 100) include spaced reinforcing rods (18, 36, 102, 104) extending longitudinally and transversely therethrough. In at least some of the slabs, the rods' distal ends protrude outwardly away from one or more side edges of the slabs to form a plurality of male connectors (26, 106). Correspondingly, at least some of the slabs include a plurality of corresponding female sockets (32, 118) on one or more sides thereof, each female socket receiving a corresponding male connector when dropped therein. Through interconnection of corresponding female sockets and male connectors by steel reinforcing bars extending in both the longitudinal and transverse directions, a continuous tension reinforcement is established between adjacent slabs in both the longitudinal and transverse directions.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a plate arrangement, which is meant particularly for covering of ground with several stiff-structured plate units (1a) that are placed in connection with each other. The plate arrangement comprises an essentially uniform plate element (1) formed of the plate units (1a), which includes a binding assembly (2) with reinforced structure, such as a reinforced fabric, net or like, to which the plate units (1a) have been joined stationarily.