U.S. patent number 3,797,793 [Application Number 05/264,274] was granted by the patent office on 1974-03-19 for shoring scaffold and formwork support.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Waco Scaffold & Shoring Co., Division of Bliss & Laughlin Industries. Invention is credited to Donald B. Moritz, Francis B. Mueller, David O. Wilson.
United States Patent |
3,797,793 |
Moritz , et al. |
March 19, 1974 |
SHORING SCAFFOLD AND FORMWORK SUPPORT
Abstract
Relative adjustable roller and rigid support for formwork and
scaffolding in which vertically oriented jack screw assemblies
disposed either at the top or bottom of a shore member are
adjustable to vary the supported height and position of the shore
member with either a rolling or rigid contact, or both, with
respect to a work area or a weight bearing horizontal or inclined
surface. Engagement is also by roller means located at the working
ends of jack screws which operate automatically with their level
adjustment to hold the rollers against rotation in weight carrying
relationship while the formwork is in its elevated position.
Inventors: |
Moritz; Donald B. (Arlington
Heights, IL), Wilson; David O. (Arlington Heights, IL),
Mueller; Francis B. (Downers Grove, IL) |
Assignee: |
Waco Scaffold & Shoring Co.,
Division of Bliss & Laughlin Industries, (Schiller Park,
IL)
|
Family
ID: |
23005317 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/264,274 |
Filed: |
June 19, 1972 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
248/295.11;
249/219.1; 248/354.1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
E04G
17/16 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
E04G
17/16 (20060101); A47f 005/10 (); A47h 033/00 ();
E04g 017/16 () |
Field of
Search: |
;248/295
;249/219R,20,21,22 ;16/32,33,35D,42T |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Foss; J. Franklin
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Harbaugh & Thomas
Claims
What is claimed:
1. A roll out support for formwork used intact to form and cure
successively a plurality of concrete floor slabs at spaced
locations, said support comprising,
a frame having a base portion to engage a structural column and a
vertically disposed tubular element spaced from said base above a
work area and having an end bearing at its upper end,
releasable means separately securing the frame base portion to said
column at horizontally spaced locations for relative movement of
the frame about one location with respect to the other to movably
dispose said tubular means horizontally,
jack means including a screw telescopically received rotatably in
said tubular element with heavy external threads thereon in rigid
radial supported relationship over a lower end portion thereof,
a first manually controlled nut means threadably carried by the
screw intermediate its ends to releasably bear against said end
bearing in screw supporting height adjusting relation,
a second manually controlled means threadably carried by the screw
adjacent its upper end through which the screw member extends an
adjustable distance,
a first member carried upon the upper end of said screw in weight
supporting relationship,
a second member carried upon the upper end of said screw in
telescoping relationship therewith in weight supported contact with
said second manually controlled means for relative movement with
respect to said first member,
roller means carried by one of said members, and
rigid weight supporting means carried by the other of said
members.
2. The combination called for in claim 1 in which said rigid weight
support means interengages said second member and the roller means
to arrest rotation thereof.
3. The combination called for in claim 1 in which said rigid weight
supporting means and roller means are disposed approximately the
same height at a relative point intermediate the limits of said
relative movement between said members.
4. The combination called for in claim 1 in which said screw
extends below said tubular element when said first nut means is
retracted, and
said rigid means including means for securement to formwork
supported thereby.
5. The combination called for in claim 1 in which an upper end
portion of said screw is of reduced diameter and said first member
includes a collar element carried by said upper end portion.
6. The combination called for in claim 5 including a lost motion
device between said screw and said first member.
7. The combination called for in claim 6 in which said roller means
is carried by said second member.
8. The combination called for in claim 1 in which said roller means
is carried by said first member.
9. In a device of the class described, the combination of a
plurality of vertically oriented horizontally spaced work support
tubes,
jack screw means telescopically received in at least two of the
support tubes,
winged nut means threaded on the upper ends of the threaded
elements and engaging said tubes in adjustable weight bearing
relationship, and
roller means supported with their axes of rotation parallel and
disposed normal to the axis of each of said threaded elements,
brake means disposed to one side of each roller means,
position controlling means supporting one of said last two means
for relative vertical movement with respect to each other for
alternately engaging a weight bearing surface and including
a winged nut on each threaded member supporting one of said means
and the other one of said means being carried by said threaded
elements.
10. In a device of the class described for detachable mounting on a
vertical member employed in supporting floor slab formwork, the
combination of a support frame having a base member with laterally
spaced holes and vertically oriented tube means having an end
bearing spaced a predetermined distance above a work area,
means for supporting said base member to said vertical member at
each of said holes, and
a jack means freely received telescopically in said tube means in
weight supported relationship, said jack means including,
a. a screw member telescopically received in said tube means having
radially extending thread elements spaced axially along its
surface, said thread elements at their major radial dimension
engaging said tube means in rigid erecting relationship,
b. cam nut means threadably received on the screw member
intermediate its ends to weight bear against said end bearing in
screw supporting height adjusting relation to move the sleeve
elements upwardly and downwardly predetermined distances in
supporting relation,
c. bracket means supported upon the upper end of said screw member
having a collar means resting against said cam nut means in a lower
position,
d. roller means carried by said bracket means to engage form-work
to be supported,
e. lost motion means interengaging said bracket means and said
screw member in supported relation for relative movements between
limits,
f. brake means between said screw member and roller means actuated
by said screw member intermediate the limits of said lost motion
means to engage and support said roller means and the load carried
thereby,
said cam nut means drawing said bracket means in square supported
relation against said cam nut means at the other limit of said lost
motion.
11. The device defined in claim 10, said screw member having an
upper end reduced to a diameter not exceeding the inner diameter of
said thread elements and telescopically supporting said bracket
means in axial alignment, and
stop means on said thread elements at a distance from the lower end
of said screw member that is substantially the length of said tube
means.
12. In a device of the class described, the combination of a
plurality of vertically oriented horizontally spaced tubular work
support means having upwardly directed end bearings located above a
work space on a floor,
jack means telescopically received in the support means having
radially extending undulations spaced axially along its surface,
the major radial dimension of which internally engage said support
means in telescopic rigidly erected relationship,
manually controlled retainer means carried by said jack means
resting on said end bearing and movable progressively to engage
successive undulations to move the jack means upwardly and
downwardly predetermined distances in weight supported relationship
on said end bearing,
roller means to engage an object to be supported in rolling
relationship,
lost motion means interengaging said roller means and said retainer
means in supported relation,
means actuated by said retainer means to arrest rotation of said
roller means and support the load carried thereby.
13. The device defined in claim 12 in which said jack means is a
screw having a coarse thread and an upper end of a diameter reduced
to approximately the inner diameter of said thread and
telescopically supporting said bracket means in axial
alignment,
said lost motion means including an elongated slot element and a
pin element with one element on said jack means and the other
element on said roller means to prevent relative rotation
therebetween, and in one position of adjustment squaring said
roller means against said retainer means.
14. The device defined in claim 12 in which said brake means
includes a saddle member interengaging said jack means and said
roller means when said lost motion means is extended by said
retainer means.
15. The device defined in claim 12 in which said retainer means
comprises a plurality of winged cam members, one engaging said end
bearing and the other the roller means.
16. In a device of the class described for fixedly supporting and
rolling two objects with respect to each other in weight supported
relation at different levels, one object of which has a tubular
vertically oriented member, the improvement comprising,
jack screw means including a rotatively adjustable shaft means
telescopically received in said tubular member for close axial
alignment at one of its ends and having a heavy weight bearing
thread intermediate its ends,
nut means carried by the shaft means in threaded relationship
intermediate its ends for engaging the tubular member in screw
supporting adjustable relation with respect thereto,
bracket means engaging said jack screw at the other one of its ends
and including lost motion means interconnecting them against
relative rotation and limiting their relative extension,
roller means supported by said bracket means to engage the other
one of said objects,
brake means intermediate the said other end of said jack screw and
roller means for restraining said roller means against rotating
under weight bearing conditions between the limits of said lost
motion means,
said limit of relative extension of said lost motion means
disposing said bracket means in squared weight transmitting
relationship with the roller means through said nut to said tubular
means.
17. The improvement defined in claim 16 in which said roller means
includes a roller and an axle releasably journalling said roller on
said bracket means,
said brake means comprising a saddle member having a face engaging
said roller means and a radial dimension greater than the major
distance of the roller means from said jack screw at said extension
limit.
18. The imvprovement defined in claim 16 in which said other end of
said jack screw is of a diameter reduced at least to the minor
diameter of said thread for reception of said nut thereover in
concentrically supported relationship, and
stop means for said nut means on said thread at a distance from
said one end of said jack screw that is substantially the length of
said tubular member.
19. The improvement defined in claim 16 in which
said brake means defining a substantially hemi-cylindrical surface
matching the surface of said roller.
20. A roll out support for formwork used intact to form and cure
successively a plurality of concrete floor slabs at spaced
locations, said support comprising,
jack means including a screw having heavy external threads and
supporting at one end a vertically movable roller on one end,
manually adjustable nut means carried by the screw intermediate its
ends, and
frame means including a narrow base plate to engage on one side the
wall of a structural building column and having spaced apertures to
receive a removable support means engaging said column,
two vertically disposed horizontally spaced side plates secured to
the other side of the base plate, and
tubular means secured between said side plates to be disposed
vertically to receive the other end of said screw telescopically
and rotatively therein and having a cap element rotatably engaging
said nut means in supported relationship.
21. In a device of the class described for detachable mounting on a
vertical member employed in supporting floor slab formwork, having
a support frame having a base member and means for securing said
base member to said vertical member in supported relation, the
combination:
a vertically oriented tube means on said frame having an upper end
spaced a predetermined distance above a work area; and
jack means supported on said tube means including
a. cam nut means supported on said tube means,
b. a screw member telescopically received in said tube means having
radially extending thread elements spaced axially along its surface
engaging said cam nut means in adjustable supported relation for
relative movement upwardly and downwardly in erect position,
c. roller means carried by the upper end of said screw member in
weight bearing relation with the roller disposed in a horizontal
position,
d. rigid weight supporting means received on said screw member
below said roller means and telescoping therewith in an axial
direction to extend above said roller means in its uppermost
position,
e. winged nut means carried by the screw below said rigid
supporting means to move said rigid supporting means into weight
bearing relationship above said roller means, and
f. means for manually rotating said screw member and cam nut means
with respect to each other to bodily raise and lower said rigid
supporting means, roller means and winged nut means.
22. The combination called for in claim 21 in which said rigid
weight supporting means and roller means are disposed approximately
the same height at a relative point intermediate the limits of said
relative movement between said members.
23. The combination called for in claim 21 in which said screw
member extends below said tube means when said cam nut means is
retracted, and
said rigid means including means for securement to formwork
supported thereby.
24. The combination called for in claim 21 including a lost motion
device between said screw member and said rigid means.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:
Wherever a shore member is to be supported to carry a load with
adjustments at its top or bottom for vertical or horizontal
positioning with or without relative movement in one or the other
directions, more than one shore member is generally required and
either the footing or grade for each member has to be accommodated
with respect to the other, or the position of a supported
construction such as formwork must be adjusted both vertically and
horizontally. It is of great convenience to make lateral as well as
vertical adjustments with both rolling and rigid contacts and also
provide for the application of forces in opposite directions
vertically to hold or move a unitary supported load at each support
station in proper orientataion.
Furthermore, work scaffolds and formwork are generally moved intact
from place to place to perform their functions and it is desired to
roll one or the other of them intact between work positions and
there rigidly support them at adjusted heights or inclinations for
repeated uses.
Although form roll out supports mounted on structural columns of a
building under construction have been used and re-used heretofore
in a manner involving lowering formwork a short distance onto
rollers by which the formwork can be removed intact and re-used for
other sections of flooring either co-level with or above the level
of their previous use, the working space for handling and adjusting
the supports is limited as to height if a bracket itself is to hold
the formwork rigidly in place during slab pouring operations.
Difficulties in mounting, adjusting, servicing and removing the
formwork cause delay and inhibit the use of unitary multi-level
forms.
Moreover, in view of the desire for versatility in formwork shapes
and depths defining different ceiling levels including various
sizes and thicknesses of reinforcements around building columns and
equipment receiving wells, column shore brackets heretofore
employed have many limitations and shortcomings either in requiring
excessive lowering for roll out or not enough for clearance and
versatility.
Due to the height of supports and the adjustments for rigidity of
the support, special tools are required, female threads become
fouled and male threads are difficult to clear of damaging
corrosive, fast setting cements. Also, a fixed roll-out level
restriction encounters interference and other difficulties that may
arise which involve alteration or damage to the formwork in
clearing and moving it.
Heretofore, due to their high location and limited clearance
relationship, adjustable jack screw mechanisms are mechanically
integrated as a part of the whole support assembly whose total
weight must be manually lifted when securing and removing it from
its support position.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION:
In the present invention a jack screw is provided which can be used
at the top or bottom of a tubular support member such as a shore or
bracket, to engage and coact with a surface either by rigid or
rolling contact selectively at widely adjustable heights, each jack
screw assembly with respect to the others and with respect to a
load supported thereby.
In the present invention the supports comprise a simple,
comparatively inexpensive, and indestructible frame having a
vertically oriented tubular element which closely receives in axial
telescoping relationship for rigid erectness the outside diameter
of a heavy screw member having a heavy or square thread. Weight
bearing winged nuts threadedly interengage the screw member and
tubular element at the top or bottom, or both, of the tubular
member with free running tolerances between the mating threads. No
tools are required to make rigid height adjustments when setting up
scaffolding or a formwork support level, or when rolling out the
formwork intact for reuse.
The frame is fabricated of comparatively light steel forms or plate
for installation or removal without the adjustment mechanism being
assembled therewith. The adjustment mechanism comprises a jack
screw assembly that can be mounted or removed by axial telescopic
movement with respect to the tubular element. This movement can be
made vertically, or horizontally, into and out of its working
position after the frame has been lifted and is being secured in
place or being removed. The jack screw in turn carries a winged nut
that engages the end of the tubular member in adjustable height and
weight bearing relation. The exposed end of the jack screw receives
a second winged nut thereon in weight bearing relationship and on
its end is mounted a bracket for rigidly engaging a weight bearing
surface. A bracket supporting a roller engages the second winged
nut and the roller and rigid bracket are moved with respect to each
other to place the roller in rolling contact with a weight bearing
surface. The wing nuts can be grossly adjusted before the jack
screw assembly is separately lifted and disposed in the bracket.
Thereafter a workman merely finalizes the adjustment with
substantial savings of time in handling both preliminary and final
adjustments.
The invention also contemplates means by which floor slab form-work
may be pulled downwardly by the jack screws to straighten or lower
the formwork involving winged nuts on an exposed lower end of the
jack screw.
A further object of the invention contemplates the immediate
carrying of the formwork load by a roller that is adjustable as to
height for ease of handling the formwork at any predetermined
adjustable level even with the roller located at widely variable
heights with respect to each other, if desired or required.
Another object and advantage of the invention is the ready
interchangeability and adjustment of self contained jack screw
assemblies of different lengths for special applications.
Additionally, the invention can be used with other vertically
disposed tubular supports secured to structural columns and shore
members. Also, installation and removal of the jack screw
assemblies can be easily accomplished with the aid of a pulley
hoist shored by a pole no higher than the bottom of a poured slab
located above it.
Other and further objects and advantages will become apparent from
the description and drawings which follow including the ease of
fabrication of the embodiments shown, simplicity of operation, and
servicing and minimized effort to adjust relative positions of
parts with minimum friction and effort.
IN THE DRAWINGS:
FIG. 1 is an upwardly directed perspective view showing one of the
embodiments of the invention operating to support formwork for a
poured concrete floor slab;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the support shown in FIG. 1 in an
intermediate stage of assembly;
FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the assembled support shown
in FIG. 1;
FIGS. 4 and 5 are fragmentary, partly sectional views showing parts
of the embodiment in FIG. 1 in alternate operational positions;
FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 3 showing a modified assembly
thereof;
FIGS. 7 and 8 are views similar to FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrating a
modification of the invention in alternate operational
positions;
FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of the column taken on line 9--9
of FIG. 6;
FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken on line 10--10 in FIG. 8;
FIG. 11 is a view similar to FIG. 1 illustrating another embodiment
of the invention;
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the support shown in FIG. 11 being
assembled;
FIG. 13 is a vertical sectional view of the top portion of the jack
screw assembly shown in FIG. 11;
FIG. 13A is partial view of a modification of the screw jack shown
in FIG. 13;
FIG. 14 is a vertical sectional view of the assembly shown in FIG.
11 in which the jack screw is employed to strip the formwork;
FIG. 14A is a view similar to FIG. 14 illustrating a modification
of the frame shown in FIGS. 6 and 14;
FIGS. 15 and 16 are views illustrating the alternate operational
positions of the jack screw assembly shown in FIG. 11 supporting a
work or shore scaffold.
THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS:
Referring in further detail to the drawings, a concrete structural
column 10, of a building that is being built of poured concrete and
having vertical reinforcement rods 11 (FIG. 10), is shown in FIG. 1
supporting form-work 12 upon which concrete is poured to form the
slab 14 of the next upper floor. After hardening, another series of
structural columns will be formed on the slab 14 and the formwork
illustrated will be lowered and rolled out intact in a horizontal
direction and rigidly relocated on the new columns for reuse in
forming the next slab above slab 14, etc.
Although the frame of the formwork may include "I" beams as shown
in FIG. 11, timbers 16 are shown in FIG. 1 by way of simple
illustration with formwork plywood panels 18. The column 10 is one
of many that are spaced and aligned in parallel rows in a
repetitive pattern with each having spaced tubular elements 20, or
ty-lags, embedded in them and receiving removable bolts or studs 22
therethrough to accept nuts 26 thereon that clamp the frame portion
23 of the support 24 to receive and support the jack screw assembly
25, upon which the formwork is removably supported at an adjustable
height.
The frame 24, sometimes referred to as a bracket in the trade,
comprises a section of a T-beam 27 or fabricated parts (FIG. 14)
with a tubular member 32 welded thereto along the edge of the leg
portion 34 and with right triangular braces 36 welded in the
corners between the arms 38 and leg portion 34 at either or both
ends of the T-beam section with stamped out slots 37 for ease in
handling. The arms 38 provide a base portion 30 to engage the
column 10 in supported relation.
The base 30 has a pair of horizontally spaced holes 28 adjacent
either or both ends of the T-beam section or vertically spaced
holes 28A (FIG. 14A) located between reinforcement rods to receive
through the uppermost pair thereof the threaded ends of the studs
22. Although the frame 24 may be secured by two or four studs with
either end up, it preferably is disposed with the braces 36
downwardly where they may serve as handles during installation,
adjustment and removal. Generally only two studs are employed. The
nuts 26 on the studs 22 when tightened clamp the base against the
column at a height, and, as later discussed, the jack screw can be
mounted in place between the times of application of the two
nuts.
The tube 32 has cylindrical opening 40 therethrough and
telescopically receives therein a jack screw 42 having external
longitudinal undulations thereon such as a rack, or as shown, a
square coarse helical thread 41 for relative vertical adjustment.
Preferably the jack screw is more than twice the length of the tube
32 with the thread either ending or obstructed at a point 46 spaced
from the lower end of the jack screw a distance substantially equal
to the length of the tube 32. The lower end of the jack screw 42 if
cylindrically smooth fits with the tube and also substantially
reduces thread contamination from the bottom of the tube.
In FIG. 14A the tube 32 is supported by two parallel side plates
34A and an apertured cap plate 74A that are welded to a vertically
elongated base 30A having vertically spaced holes 28A.
At its upper end the jack screw is of reduced size as later
described and, as shown in FIGS. 1-3, carries a saddle member 48
that preferably is loosely but squarely engaged by the upper end of
the screw 42 and has a cradle defining a frictional surface 50.
Coacting to hold the saddle in operative position is a roller 52
journalled on an axle 54 supported at its ends by the upright arms
56 of a U-shaped member 58 whose bight 60 is apertured at 63 and
secured to a depending collar 62. The axle 54 is a headed pin
secured in place by a cotter key 55 and the collar has
diametrically opposed axially elongated slots 64 slidably receiving
the ends of a pin 66 carried by the bolt as also secured in place
by a cotter key 68. Thus, the collar 62 and roller are axially
movable with respect to each other to move the saddle 48 in and out
of frictional engagement with the roller 52.
For this purpose a camming device engaging the thread undulations
41 such as a winged nut 70 having its hub 76 threadably received on
the screw 42 has on its opposite sides weight-bearing,
friction-reducing washers 72 and 74 which engage the lower end of
the collar 62 and the upper end of the tube 32, respectively, in a
weight bearing assembly whereby the load of the formwork carried by
the roller 52 is transmitted at all times through the hub of the
winged nut 70 to the upper end of the tube 32.
Although a longitudinal keyway can be cut through the thread turns
to engage a key in the tube to prevent relative turning of the
screw assembly, it has been found that the pins 66 further coact
with the high arms of the U-shaped member 58 to prevent rotation of
the jack screw when the nuts 70 and 70A are being adjusted. The
arms engage the sides of the beam timbers 16 or I-beam 16A (FIG.
11) and provide the anti-rotation control.
With the winged nut 70 resting on the end of the tube 32 in FIG. 3
it is to be noted that the load of the beam 16 or 16A carried by
the rollers 52 at all times is assumed by the saddle when the nut
70 is turned to raise the screw to adjust the height of the roller.
The saddle in turn transfers the roller load directly to the screw
42 for a friction establishment that prevents rotation of the
roller and thereby prevents movement of the formwork while the
concrete is being poured. The load is therewith carried by the
threads 41 to the nut to the tubular member 32. Thereafter when the
reverse rotation of the nut 70 bottoms the collar 62 on the nut the
U-member 58 carries the load directly to the nut 70 and the roller
is free to roll out the timbers. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3
having a single dual-wing nut, the roller is only free to roll when
the screw 42 is in its lowest position.
A modification demonstrating versatility is shown in FIG. 6 in
which the same parts described are used with a second wing nut 70A
added on the screw 42 to frictionally brake and release the roller
at any determined adjustable level. In this embodiment, when
adjusting to support the formwork, the nut 70A, and nut 70 also, if
necessary, is turned until the roller 52 frictionally rests in the
cradle 50. Thereafter advancement of the nut 70 locates the braked
roller 52 at its working level with the timbers 16 resting thereon.
After the poured slab 14 hardens, the nut 70A is reversely turned a
few turns until the roller 52 is free and then the nut 70 is
reversely turned until the desired roller roll-out level for the
formwork is attained.
Referring now more specifically to the embodiment shown in further
detail in FIGS. 11-16, the tubular element 20 is welded to the edge
of the leg portion 34 of a formed section 27 while the tubular
element 20A in FIGS. 15 and 16 constitutes the lower end of one of
the shore legs 27 of a shoring scaffold upon which work or workmen
are supported at a level above a surface or floor 31. In both
embodiments the tubes 10 and 10A have like cylindrical openings 30
therethrough and telescopically receive the jack screw 42 with the
winged nut 70 in loosely threaded relationship engaging the tube
end in weight bearing relationship.
The embodiment shown in FIG. 14 is similar to the embodiment shown
in FIG. 3 except that the collar 62A may be pinned without lost
motion to the reduced end 43 of the jack screw and the saddle 48 of
FIG. 3 is reshaped to provide a rigid support 50.
Although the winged nut 70A may actuate the roller 52 and the rigid
support 80 be engaged by the shaft 42 for relative movement between
the two for selectively engaging either the formwork beam 16A (FIG.
14) or the floor 31 (FIG. 15), the embodiment shown is one in which
the rigid support 80 comprises a yoke-like member having the upper
portions 82 of the vertical sides 83 of a U-shaped member flattened
outwardly to a common plane to provide a flat frictional engagement
of the beam 16A or floor 31 with the bight portion 78 thereof
preferably supported by the winged nut 70A in its extended
position.
The roller 52 is preferably received reciprocably between the sides
83 as journalled on the axle 54 that is carried by upstanding arms
56 of the U-shaped member 58 whose bight portion may be welded as
at 25A (FIG. 13A) to the shaft 42 directly or is apertured at 57
and welded as at 59 to the collar 62 concentric therewith (FIG. 13)
to telescope over the end 65 of the shaft 42 for the bight portion
60 to be carried by the end 65 of the shaft as secured thereto by
the pin 66 without any lost motion in weight bearing relationship.
The sides 83 are close enough to the roller 52 to hold it against
lateral displacement in its reciprocable movement.
The optional use of a third winged nut 70B is illustrated in broken
lines 70B in FIG. 14 on the lower end of the jack screw 42 to
engage the lower end of the tube 32 if desired in conjunction with
a C-clamp 84 that secures the lower flange 17 of the I-beam 16A to
the upper portions 82 of the yoke. With this arrangement formwork
can be stripped from the concrete slab 14 if it does not drop free
as the winged nut 70A is retracted.
In the operation of the embodiments in FIGS. 1-10 as formwork
supports, once forms are removed from the poured structural columns
10 exposing the tubes 20 embedded therein the support frames 24 are
easily lifted and mounted on one bolt 22 preferably without the
jack screw assembly 25 in place as yet. Thereafter with the tube 32
turned horizontally the jack screw is adjusted for gross extension,
lifted and horizontally slipped into the opening 40 whereupon the
frame and its tube is returned to its upright position to erect it
and the winged nut 70 moves into weight bearing relation with the
tube 32. The other one of the bolts 22 is then inserted through the
other hole and both nuts 26 are then tightened to clamp the base 30
solid against the wall of the column 10. The jack screw assemblies
are then given their final adjustment for the formwork support
level. After the floor slab 14 is poured and sets, the reverse of
the installation steps is followed to remove the jack screws, the
frame and the bolts for reuse installation on floors above.
In operation and referring to FIGS. 11-16 the jack screw assembly
is adjusted with the winged nut 78 advanced to extend the upper
portions 82 beyond the roller 52 as shown in FIG. 13 whereupon the
winged nut 70 is adjusted to gross height and the screw 32 dropped
into place as shown by the arrow A in FIG. 12, the winged nut 70
comes to rest on the tubular member, as shown in FIG. 11.
Thereafter the winged nut 70 is fine adjusted to locate the
elements 82 at a predetermined height for supporting the formwork
beam 16A thereon.
In all embodiments when the formwork is to be rolled out the winged
nut 70 is rotated to lower the member that contacts the beams 16 or
16A to a predetermined level and the winged nut 70A, where present,
is rotated to place or free the roller 52 for rolling contact with
the beam or floor as shown in FIGS. 3, 8, 9 and 15. After the
formwork is rolled out the jack screw assembly can be lifted free
if desired and the frame 23 removed for use in another
location.
The ability of quickly separating the weight loads of the frame 33
and screw assembly 25 of the support 24 into two parts for handling
and the slipping of the jack screw either horizontally or
vertically into its working position, saves work, time and effort
for labor and servicemen under what would otherwise be adverse
conditions. Also, the simplicity of construction is
self-instructing in its operation and contributes to safety in
installation and use.
It is to be also noted that more often than expected, jack screws
become damaged in use and may require attention that cannot be
given while mounted in place, and the whole assembly heretofore has
had to be removed. With the present invention, both bolts may be
loosened and one removed. The frame is then tilted to drop out the
damaged jack screw assembly and replace it with another one with
the frame again quickly tilted back, tightened in place and the
roller adjusted as to height.
Moreover, it will be observed that the support 24 lends itself to
knockdown shipping and servicing. Removal of cotter keys and
turning the winged nuts enables finger disassembly and assembly of
all parts for repair or replacement at the building site with
little if any delay in a building program if a spare jack screw
assembly is not available. Moreover, all threads can be cleaned of
concrete debris. The saddle 48 is a loose element in the assembly,
as geometrically supported operatively in the bight of the U-shaped
member by the roller 52 for coaction with the upper end 43 of the
jack screw 42 slidably received in the collar 62.
The dimension of interest for this purpose is the distance
indicated by the dotted arrows 63 in FIGS. 3 and 6. This distance
between the corner 53 and the curve of the frictional surface 50 is
greater than the maximum adjusted distance between the roller 52
and bight 60.
For the installations of one or more wing nuts, the upper end 43 of
the jack screw can either have the thread 41 extended to the saddle
or it can be of a diameter reduced to the minor diameter of the
thread as at 65 (FIGS. 7, 8, 13 and 14) so that the nuts 70 and 70A
can pass thereover.
Referring to FIGS. 4, 5, 7 and 8, it is optional whether the slots
64 accommodating lost motion of the pin 66 are in the collar 62 or
the upper end 43 of the shaft. In both alternatives the tensional
downward pull on the pin 66 squares and holds the collar against
the wing nut 70 as at 61 while an upward end thrust by the jack
screw 42 against the saddle 48 provides the deepest of the two
alternate telescopic guided engagements between the parts for
lateral support. Both, however, eliminate any weight strain of the
formwork on the pin 66. In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 13
the tensional downward pull of the collar 62 is utilized as already
mentioned to strip the formwork, if necessary, by the use of the
winged nut 70B when winged nut 70 relinquishes contact with the
tubular member 32 when loosened.
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