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Waler bracket for concrete forming structure

US5039059A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 24, 1990
Grant dateAug 13, 1991
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Expiry dateSep 24, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC E)Fixed Constructions
  • CPC primaryE04G17/04
  • WIPO fieldCivil engineering
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

In a concrete forming structure for forming residential concrete including a series of upright side-by-side positioned forming panels of the type having a face sheet and I-beams secured thereto at margins of the face with adjacent I-beams on adjacent panels co-acting to act as siderails, the I-beams carrying vertically spaced bushings, and with the panels having wedge bolts extending through aligned bushings securing the panels in assembly together, one piece waler brackets mounted on the siderails in horizontally spaced relation for carrying horizontal lengths of lumber which comprise alignment walers, each of the waler brackets including a horizontal waler bracket leg and an upright bracket leg secured in fixed assembly to the horizontal waler bracket leg at a point spaced from an inner end of the horizontal waler bracket leg, an L-shaped bracket angle fixedly attached to the horizontal waler bracket leg and cooperable therewith to define a U-shaped rearwardly facing channel, and a wedge bolt fixedly secured to the horizontal waler leg inwardly of the channel with the wedge bolt being positioned rearwardly of the U-shaped rearwardly facing channel, the wedge bolt being extendable…

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