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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4725168 | Retaining wall anchoring system and method A retaining wall anchoring system which includes a bracket assembly for mechanical removable positioning upon adjacent spaced retaining beams at a construction site. The bracket includes a first plate used for attachment to the beam and a body pivotally p... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4718792 | Prefabricated retaining-wall elements for protection, consolidation and/or facing of excavations, ground anchor and assembly devices, and procedure for application of these elements and devices In this slope facing process, facing elements (4) are assembled in situ, their edges having means of jointing with adjacent elements; drainage (D) is provided over the whole height of the face (1) of an excavation between this face and the facing (R) of e... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4718791 | High capacity tieback installation method The present invention is directed to a method of installing a high-capacity tieback in coarse-grained soil. The method includes connecting a unitary hollow casing to a drill and inserting a prestressing steel tendon within the casing. A lost bit is affixe... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4715745 | Ground anchor system The anchoring element has at least one anchor traction member 1 stressable against an abutment 3 and kept longitudinally movable in the ground by an envelope 5. An anchor body 6 is connected with this anchor traction member 1 at its end facing the bottom ... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4711604 | Method of and apparatus for installing an anchor member below water level through a wall into a soil formation For the installation of an anchor member at a location below a water level through a retaining wall into a soil formation for supporting the wall, a drill mount is pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis on a retaining member secured to the wall. The dr... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4710062 | Metal strip for use in stabilized earth structures A rolled metal strip for use in stabilized earth structures has at periodic intervals along its length thickened reinforcement regions formed during the rolling operation. The strip is cut into required lengths such that each strip length has an end reinf... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4690588 | Seawall The seawall extends along and retainingly engages the ground and at its top extends above the ground level and at its bottom is projected and anchored down into the ground, below the water level. The seawall includes a series of laterally aligned elongate... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4674921 | Seawall The seawall extends along and retainingly engages the ground and at its top extends above the ground level and at its bottom is projected and anchored down into the ground, below the water level. The seawall includes a series of laterally aligned elongate... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4666334 | Erosion control system for bluffs located adjacent a body of water An erosion control system is disclosed which includes a seawall for protecting dunes or bluffs located adjacent a body of water. The seaward side of the seawall is notched or concave to direct incoming waves upwardly and outwardly, away from the base of t... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4661023 | Riveted plate connector for retaining wall face panels A retaining system for an earthen formation is disclosed. The earthen formation is reinforced against slippage by embedding an array of anchor members within the formation. The face of the formation is defined by a plurality of the elongated panels stacke... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4655646 | Multitiered, rigid tieback, essentially vertical retaining wall system A retaining wall system which provides an essentially a vertical wall without vertically aligned protrusions. The multitiered retaining wall system uses a plurality of tieback elements which act independently of each other to prevent the transference of f... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4653962 | Retaining wall construction and method of manufacture An improved anchor wall includes a series of vertical caissons cast in place along a line defining the boundary of the wall. Soil is executed from one side of the line and anchor rods are used to attach the caissons to the remaining soil. Discrete panels ... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4632605 | Method and apparatus for reinforcing and consolidating earth structures A reinforcing and or confining structure for an earth formation comprising a plurality of anchor members anchored at spaced intervals in an earth formation, the anchor members being connected to the adjacent anchor members by tensile members to form a sub... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4607985 | Block construction for preventing outflow of ballasts A block construction for preventing the outflow of ballast along a railway which includes a slab body, a ballast-retaining wall extending upward form the slab body at a location spaced from the front and rear edges of the slab body, for retaining ballast ... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4564316 | Face panel system A face panel system for forming an exposed face on a fill structure employs a succession of precast reinforced concrete panels which act first as a restraining form and then as a permanent exposed face for the structure. In one embodiment, successively hi... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4561804 | Earth retaining method A tied back retaining wall structure is disclosed comprising channel-shaped sheet piles, a reinforcing bar matrix and a concrete wall encasing the matrix and filling the channels of the piles. The reinforcing bar matrix comprises an array of laterally dis... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4547106 | Ground anchors A ground anchor is composed of a number of components and is firmly held in position in the ground by its components being moved apart and firmly urged onto the wall of the cavity in which the ground anchor is positioned.... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4514113 | Earth retaining wall system An earth retaining wall system (10) which includes a frontal wall (22) formed of a plurality of hexagonally contoured frontal wall panel members (24) having predetermined spatial coordinate locations. A coupling mechanism (28) includes a plurality of long... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4512685 | Mortarless retaining-wall system and components thereof A building block made of concrete or the like comprises a front face, a back face, a top face, a bottom face, and a pair of side faces. The top face has a convex angular first surface with a vertex extending between the side faces, and a concave angular s... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4505621 | Wire retaining wall apparatus and method for earthen formations A retaining wall for an earthen formation (E) is provided by welded wire grid work trays (T) having floor sections (10) which are embedded in the formation and face sections (12) which are disposed at the face of the formation. The trays (T) are superimpo... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4499698 | Method and apparatus for anchoring retaining walls and the like, and installation therefor A recoverable earth-retaining wall anchoring device and method is disclosed which allows the erection of a retaining wall in a quick, inexpensive manner and permits proof-load testing of the anchor during or immediately after installation, resulting in si... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4494892 | Traffic barrier, barrier element and method of construction The invention relates to a precast concrete traffic barrier element and a method of construction for a traffic barrier using the element on a vertical face of a retaining wall. The barrier element is a profiled block of precast concrete having a bottom su... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4480945 | Method of reinforcing an existing earth supporting wall A method of reinforcing or strengthening an existing earth supporting wall located between a body of water and land is disclosed, wherein the level of the earthen floor adjacent the wall is to be deepened or a portion of the wall has deteriorated. The wal... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4448571 | Panel system for slope protection Man portable panels are utilized to provide slope protection to a watercourse, the panels being placed in vertical layers, and being secured in place by deadman elements buried in earth fill behind the panels. In one preferred embodiment the panels are ma... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4440527 | Marine structure An internally stabilized earth wall is disclosed along with facing elements suitable for construction of that wall in a wet marine environment. The wall elements include footer panels and wall panels, each of which is provided with a pivotally attached pl... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4421439 | Supporting fabric for bearing bulk material and a method of building a road, dike or dam embankment The invention relates to a supporting fabric having a width of at least 30 cm, and preferably more than 2-5 m, and containing warp and weft yarns of a synthetic material, for bearing one or more layers of sand, gravel, stones, clay, loam or similar bulk o... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4411557 | Method of making a high-capacity earthbound structural reference The invention contemplates an earth-anchor or the like structural reference which is cast in cementatious filling at the installation site and which relies upon a particularly characterized bored cavity in the underground medium to permit primary reliance... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4397589 | Ground anchorage means utilizing a reinforcement or tie insulated from the ground The ground anchorage means comprises a reinforcement combined with an adjacent injection tube furnished with sleeves acting as retention valves and a distensible sack intended to obturate the drilled hole. The fixing zone of the reinforcement is protected... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4386876 | Production of anchored tie-rods The invention relates in particular to a device for producing tie-rods anchored in the ground, which comprises a tubular protective element comprising a top part and a base part and provided on its base part with at least one injection aperture, and at le... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4369004 | Earth retaining method and structure A tied back retaining wall structure is disclosed comprising channel-shaped sheet piles, a reinforcing bar matrix and a concrete wall encasing the matrix and filling the channels of the piles. The reinforcing bar matrix comprises an array of laterally dis... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4341491 | Earth retaining system An earth retaining system defining a tension loaded structure for positionally maintaining horizontal and vertically displaced loads. The tension loaded structure includes frontal walls having an elliptical contour which are fixedly secured to a wire mesh... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4329089 | Method and apparatus for retaining earthen formations through means of wire structures A retaining structure for an earthen formation wherein spaced anchor members in the form of rock anchors or gridwork mats are embedded in the formation and wire retainers are secured between the anchor members. The retainers comprise primary retention rod... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4324508 | Retaining and reinforcement system method and apparatus for earthen formations An earthen formation is reinforced against slippage by embedding welded wire grid work mats within the formation and securing the mats to precast elongate panels disposed at the face of the formation. The mats serve as anchors for the panels, as well as r... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4303355 | Adjustable anchored bulkhead system The invention relates to a system for providing limited stresses for anchored bulkhead's elements. An automatic stress controlling device is positioned between front and rear steel bearing plates and comprises a brittle component such as concrete, adjacen... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4285993 | Anti-corrosive structure anchor assembly An expanding earth anchor assembly is disclosed for attaching cable means or the like conveniently employed in supporting utility, communication, or other above ground structures. Jaws attached to an anchor rod are expandable outwardly by rotation of the ... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4266890 | Retaining wall and connector therefor A retaining wall comprised of stacked precast stretchers having stacking pads with oppositely disposed slots formed therein for the receipt of connectors. The connectors comprise plates interposed between the pads and pins secured to the plates for engage... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4193718 | Earth retaining wall of vertically stacked chevron shaped concrete blocks An earth retaining wall formed by stacked, alternately staggered rows of spaced, nesting, chevron-shaped concrete blocks. Adjacent blocks in some rows are coupled together by connecting tubes extending into holes through the blocks, and elongated anchorin... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4189891 | Method for anchoring and straightening walls A method for anchoring and straightening a wall which extends below the ground including the steps of forming a hole in the ground at a distance from the wall, forming an opening in the wall from one side of the wall at a level below the ground, driving a... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4124983 | Corrosion protected earth tieback An earth tieback comprising a steel tendon rod anchoring a structure to the earth, the tendon rod having double corrosion protection provided first by a thin hard coating of corrosion resistant plastic throughout its length and second by concrete grout ov... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4116010 | Stabilized earth structures A structure for stablizing an earth mass, particularly an embankment. The structure includes elongated reinforcement members having transverse ribs for enhancing frictional engagement with the adjacent earth. The structure also includes skin or facing ele... | 09/26/1978 |
