Patent ID: 6692184
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: E01C,E04B,E04C,E04G,F16L

Abstract:
An apparatus for supporting a dowel within a groove formed in and extending across adjacent sections of a preexisting concrete structure, said apparatus comprising:a. a cap for engagement over an end of the dowel, said cap having an interior chamber with one thereof open for receipt of an end portion of the dowel and an opposite end thereof closed; b. retaining means on the cap for engagement with an end portion of a dowel received within the cap to secure the dowel against inadvertent displacement from the cap; c. positioning means on the interior of the cap to establish spaced relationship between the end of a dowel received within the cap and the closed end of the interior, said positioning means being displaceable to enable said spaced relationship to be reduced in response to excessive relative forces being applied to the cap and a dowel; and d. at least one foot on the cap to support the cap in spaced relationship to a bottom surface of the groove of a concrete structure within which the cap is received.