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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7237362 | Safe room A protective shelter and methods for manufacturing are disclosed. The shelter is capable of protecting individuals from significant wind velocities and other catastrophic damages that occur from dangerous conditions such as hurricanes, tornadoes and the like. Prior ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7051988 | Brace for concrete forms A brace for securing concrete form members to a casting surface. First and second leg members are spaced to form an angle. A bridging member extends between opposing ends of the leg members and a strut extends between the joined ends of the leg members and the bridg... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7048250 | Method for producing purpose-made blocks, a device therefor and a purpose-made block A method for producing purpose-made blocks (10). According to said method, several purpose-made blocks (10) are produced in a mold (37) in such a way that the blocks (10) are arranged in at least one row (28) of purpose-made blocks... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7036786 | Mounting system A mounting system for a shelter, which includes an angle assembly and a supporting understructure. The angle assembly is mountable on longitudinal sides of the shelter. The shelter is mountable on the understructure, the angle assembly is attached to the understruct... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6910672 | Corner assembly A construction form 10 for forming a concrete wall having an acute female corner 26 includes an outer wall 14, an inner wall 16, an intermediate wall 18 defining an inside corner 20 and an outside corner 22. The form ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6907709 | Concrete construction material and method of use A method for constructing concrete building units comprises forming and pouring a concrete floor on a floor platform, providing interior wall forms on said concrete floor, providing door frames, conduit and piping on said interior wall forms, providing a ceiling for... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6643981 | Form assembly for forming an eave, a roof slab, and a perimeter beam in a monolithic structure A form assembly for forming a roof slab, an eave, and a peripheral beam in a monolithic structure is provided. The form assembly is detachably attached to upright columns of a housing frame structure and includes an eave formwork and a peripheral formwork... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6530553 | Method and apparatus for making concrete buildings A method for making a poured-in-place concrete building having a plurality of rooms includes assembling an outer form around a periphery of a floor and positioning a plurality of unitary room forms within the periphery of the floor. Each unitary room form... | 03/11/2003 |
| 5660020 | Method of construction using pre-cast floor units Here is a method of construction of a multi-storey building comprising the following steps: positioning precast side slab walls on the site; each slab wall defining outer and inner wall surfaces with the inner wall surface being inclusive of a plurality o... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5524861 | Reusable mold for constructing housing units and method of use thereof A system of mounting a plurality of wall panels to a soffit layout which defines the building module's layout, utilizes exterior and interior wall panels which are hingedly mounted at the bottom and are actively displaced to permit the casting to be remov... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5445864 | Method of manufacturing glass reinforced concrete building products Reinforced concrete building products are manufactured using a two-part mould (2, 3), the two parts being hinged together about an axis (4) which is adjacent an edge of each part-mould (2, 3). Glass-reinforced concrete is applied to each part-mould (2, 3)... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5400999 | Inflatable construction apparatus Inflatable formwork mould for supporting one or more applications of hardening building materials, applied while still in a plastic state. The formwork mould is characterized in that at least two of its sides (20) consist of elongate, cross-shaped, modula... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5338498 | Method for formwork, and dismantling of formwork, of walls of poured material raised above a reference surface, and means for employment of this method A method for assembly and disassembly of formwork for walls (1) of poured material raised above a reference surface (2) using boards (3) each including a shuttering face (4) and equipped with wheels (31, 32) at their base. Assembly includes from an unshut... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5205943 | Apparatus for manufacture of precast concrete building units A U-shaped, half-room precast concrete building unit is molded in an open box-like framework having four L-shaped corner assemblies, facing pairs of horizontal legs of which are respectively joined by laterally-extending telescoping spacers, and facing pa... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5169652 | Molding machine A molding machine for casting a product is disclosed in a preferred embodiment of the invention. The molding machine includes a stationary support system and a rotatable apparatus, an opening and a horizontal axis of rotation parallel to the opening. Rota... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5167842 | Installation for the fabrication of cells to be subsequently assembled side by side in order to constitute a construction unit An installation for the fabrication of a series of cells constituting a single construction unit such as a dwelling house or a building story includes a fabrication bed which carries members for subdividing a single placement of concrete into serveral dis... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5090884 | Apparatus for manufacturing hollow concrete structures An apparatus and method for forming hollow concrete structures or shells in which the top, bottom and sides are formed into an integral unitary structure by rotating an assembly of reinforcing members to enable the concrete forming the top, bottom and sid... | 02/25/1992 |
| 4890999 | Molding machine A molding machine for casting a concrete product includes a stationary support system, a rotatable apparatus and a pair of bearings supporting the rotatable apparatus on the stationary support system. The rotatable apparatus rotates 180 degrees between an... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4846438 | Molding device with hand operable mold A molding device includes at least two comonent form boards 12,13 and a wedge-shaped spacer board 14 between them. An operating mechanism is associated with the form boards and the spacer, and moves them relative to one another. The operating mechanism in... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4828217 | Molding apparatus for production of concrete box-units The invention relates to an open type box-unit with multi-purpose application for the complex industrial construction of prefabricated houses, of buildings with different numbers of stories, and to molding apparatus for its production. The box-unit has a ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4799982 | Method of molding monolithic building structure Methods of manufacturing a modular, monolithic, integrated, multi-layered, mold building structure including the steps of constructing a dismantleable mold having an outer rigid matrix and an inner inflatable plug, wherein the inside dimensions of the mat... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4790508 | Concrete casting form including retractable core A core form is disclosed for casting a structurally reinforced concrete structure for use on a slab with an outer container form having rigid walls extending vertically comprising a casting core positioned internal the outer form and having vertically ext... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4742986 | Apparatus for constructing concrete buildings Apparatus for constructing modular buildings in which a reuseable framing structure is expanded to a shape desired of a building, building material is removably attached to the framing structure, fluent concrete is introduced to the building material, the... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4717517 | Concurrent method of building construction and formwork structure therefore A multi-story concrete building is constructed concurrently, that is, the steps for constructing the same are carried out simultaneously on different respective stories. To achieve this end, vertical formwork members for forming the columns and bearing wa... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4705258 | Sheathing for pouring a container fabricated from concrete An improved sheathing for use as a covering on a polygonal container having a plurality of adjustable support members for supporting the sheathing thereon. The sheathing comprises at least two adjacent pivotally connected panels having a vertical joint th... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4693445 | Concrete and construction system and modular plank element for the concrete formwork thereof A falsework for concrete structures is formed by providing tubular elements at longitudinal edges of metal planks and corner units and providing slots in these tubular elements such that hooks engaged in these slots can brace metal plates against two adjo... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4679762 | Form set-up An apparatus for forming a multisided upright concrete wall with inner and outer form set-ups including an arrangement for stripping said inner form set-up which has a multisided form wall from the cast concrete entirely which comprises at least one wedge... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4673159 | Molding forms for making precast portal assembly sections for culverts Molding forms for precast concrete portal assemblies are described. The molding forms include adjustable form surfaces for precasting different shaped portal assemblies from the same basic mold. The molding forms herein are particularly designed for moldi... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4667923 | Molding device for modular concrete unit A molding device includes a multi-sided contractible inner form and outer forms that can be connected detachably to the inner form. The inner form has, at each side, a wedge-shaped spacer formwork board, on which are mounted a power means and a linkage me... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4650150 | Mold apparatus for vertical elements of concrete A molding apparatus for molding in place walls of a structure on a poured concrete floor or other base is provided with a central support member to which are movably attached four flat wall molds and four corner molds which cooperate with adjacent like ap... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4614326 | Concrete mold core assembly A concrete mold core assembly for casting catch basins and the like has outwardly facing form panels disposed to form a box with at least two corner members being located at diametrically opposite corners of the box between spaced adjoining edges of the p... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4585204 | Concrete forming system A concrete forming system includes telescoping jacks, bottom chords and top chords. The bottom and top chords separate the telescoping jacks into spaced, parallel rows. Diagonal struts extend between the bottom chords and the top chords within each row. C... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4572475 | Form for pouring of concrete or the like A box-shaped hollow form section which is used as a component of a concrete pouring form has two mutually inclined abutting upright panels and two end panels at the upper and lower ends of the upright panels to define therewith an elongated chamber afford... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4570896 | Slide action inside corner form A concrete form unit for casting an inside corner structure has a pair of form panels disposed generally perpendicular to each other and an elongated corner member disposed between spaced adjoining edges of such panels with an actuator having relatively m... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4520988 | Concrete core-wall form and stripping assembly therefor What is proposed is an inwardly articulated form assembly for forming concrete core-wall structures having a rectangular shape in which a primary form structure having fixed seamless corners is presented to the wet concrete; after the concrete has set, a ... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4520989 | Concrete core-wall form and stripping assembly therefor What is proposed is an inwardly articulated form assembly for forming concrete core-wall structures having a rectangular shape in which a primary form structure having fixed seamless corners is presented to the wet concrete; after the concrete has set, a ... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4519570 | Inside corner concrete form unit A form unit to cast the inside surfaces of a corner of a concrete structure has a pair of form panels disposed generally perpendicular to each other and an elongated corner member disposed between the adjoining edges of such panels with an actuator having... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4508308 | Reinforcement structure for reinforced-concrete buildings A reinforcement structure for reinforced-concrete buildings, comprises a servicing portion which can be dismantled and a fixed structural portion which shall remain embedded in the concrete casting and consists of an iron latticework which is also intende... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4465257 | Concrete forming structure having a double hinge filler A concrete forming structure including a collapsible form having at least one form panel section and a rigid corner adjacent thereto and with the panel section having a forming face. A two-way hinge filler structure between the section and the rigid corne... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4463925 | Concrete form structure including one-way escape hinge A concrete forming structure including a collapsible form having at least one form panel section. The section having a marginal flange structure mounted thereon at one side and vertically spaced slots on the marginal flange structure for receiving wedge b... | 08/07/1984 |
