Patent ID: 7234280
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: E04C,E04H

Abstract:
1. An anchoring device, at least two reinforcements, and a civil engineering works structure, in combination comprising: a block of said anchoring device having at least two pairs of anchoring orifices arranged symmetrically on each side of a mid-plane of the block, wherein the two orifices of each pair of anchoring orifices have axes substantially included in different planes substantially parallel to said mid-plane and are directed toward two opposite sides of the block; and each of said reinforcements having first and second ends and a central portion and surrounding said civil engineering works structure over two turns; wherein the block has a bearing zone pressed against the civil engineering works structure in response to tension in the reinforcements, said bearing zone for each of said pairs of anchoring orifices comprising a groove substantially parallel to the mid-plane of the block providing a passage for said central portion of one of said reinforcements and said first and second ends of each of said reinforcements being received in the orifices of said respective one of each of said pairs of anchoring orifices to allow each of said reinforcements to stress the civil engineering works structure over said two turns between the first and second ends thereof.