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Concrete tanks with interlocking bottom

US4117071A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 11, 1976
Grant dateSep 26, 1978
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 11, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB28B7/168
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The method of forming hollow concrete articles such as tanks which are cast in a mould around reinforcing metal, the mould being shaped to form a bottom and including an upstanding integral ridge which forms a mould for the inner lower portions of a wall subsequently formed on such bottom after the bottom is cast, characterized by an interlocking ridge at the join and by the absence of reinforcing metal at such join.

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