Patent ID: 6854232
Filing Date: 2005-02-15
Classification: E01C,E04B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A weldment connector in use with a plurality of castable concrete slabs, each of the slabs including a length, a width and a depth and each further having at least one opposing and extending edge, a wire mesh screen being placed within each of a plurality of forms associated with each of the concrete slabs and in proximity to one of the opposing and extending edges of a selected slab, said weldment connector comprising: a substantially elongated and planar shaped front face; first and second legs integrally formed with opposite end locations of said front face, said legs extending in a simultaneous axial and rotationally offset fashion relative to said front face and so that each defines a substantially horizontally extending portion which is vertically spaced apart relative to the other horizontally extending portion; and said legs of a first weldment connector being embedded within a first selected slab of concrete poured within the forms so that said front face extends in exposed fashion along its extending edge, a second weldment connector being embedded within a second selected slab of the concrete in like fashion and so that its front face extends along a corresponding and opposing extending edge in proximate fashion relative to said front face of said first weldment connector, said front faces of said first and second weldment connectors being inter-engaged to likewise engage the concrete slabs.