Building construction system

a construction system and building technology, applied in the direction of building repairs, auxiliary members of forms/shuttering/falseworks, and falsework, etc., can solve the problems of limiting the '043 process to maintaining the vertical orientation of the assembled form system, and the '043 process is therefore extremely slow in producing a building wall, so as to achieve accurate pattern guide

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-05-15
MOLINA ENRIQUE
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This method significantly reduces construction time and costs, allows for the use of indigenous labor, and produces structures that can withstand seismic and high-velocity wind forces, providing affordable housing solutions while minimizing equipment and labor requirements.

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Until the current invention such poured-in-place concrete methods have been limited to methods that are quite costly of time, labor, and materials.
Such bracing is limited to maintaining the vertical orientation of the assembled form system.
The '043 process is thus extremely slow in producing a building wall.
Each of the foregoing prior art systems are generally time-consuming with respect to preparation of the forming assemblies either at or remote from the building site; expensive moving and transporting equipment is needed to handle the forming equipment and / or completed modular constructions being moved to the building site; and skilled craftsmen are required to use sophisticated molding equipment to prepare for and effect the placement of hardenable material into the particular mold cavity.

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[0069] The structural forming assembly, generally designated 10, of FIGS. 1 and 2 includes an upper building structure 11 disposed on a concrete slab 20 having upstanding wall portions 21 that define the internal and external wall segments in accord with the preselected building floor plan as shown. Slab 20 with wall portions 21 is made using well known concrete mold fabrication techniques at the building site. Yet in recent years the prior art has developed sophisticated off-site methods of fabricating building modules that are transported to and erected on the building site to avoid formerly cumbersome poured-in-place techniques that are labor intensive thus cost ineffective until now.

[0070] Molding assembly 10 with its unique layout of upstanding slab wall portions 21, however, provides a means to quickly form laterally spaced, opposed molding surfaces that define an upper building mold cavity having an exterior wall profile 13 and an interior wall profile 17 of a wall and ceili...

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A grid device for horizontally disposing reinforcement rods in a poured-in-place wall mold cavity formed on a building site and defined by opposed molding surfaces of opposed vertically disposed wall molding panels. The grid device comprises a plurality of elongate elements and a plurality of tie members fixedly connected substantially perpendicular to and laterally spaced with respect to each other along the elongate elements for freely positioning the reinforcement rods within the mold cavity at a preselected horizontal location between the opposed molding surfaces and at preselected vertical locations spaced along the molding surfaces. The grid device is sufficiently rigid to project outwardly from a vertically disposed molding surface and to horizontally suspend the reinforcement rods when the grid device is attached to the vertically disposed molding surface. The grid device is removably attached to the wall forming panels for extending vertically along and substantially parallel to the vertically disposed molding surfaces to retain the reinforcement rods in place between the wall forming panels at preselected horizontal and vertical locations while hardenable material is being poured into the wall mold cavity and allowed to harden.

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RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 090 / 995,486 filed Nov. 28, 2001, now allowed.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention relates to a method and apparatus for forming reinforced poured-in-place buildings for home and office. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a monolithic building on site using a unique poured-in-place fabrication technique using hardenable material such as concrete to form the desired novel constructions of the invention. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] The two major categories of concrete fabrication are poured-in-place concrete and pre-cast concrete. Poured-in-place concrete has the advantage of permitting a great deal of flexibility as to the form or shape of the structure being made. Until the current invention such poured-in-place concrete methods have been limited to methods that are quite costly of time, labor, and materials. [0004] U.S. Pat. No. 3,089,217 discloses t...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): E04B1/04E04G11/10E04G11/38E04G17/075
CPCE04G11/10E04G17/075E04G11/38
InventorMOLINA, ENRIQUE
OwnerMOLINA ENRIQUE