Patent ID: 7331560

Claim:
A system for holding poured material in a desired shape until the concrete sets, the system comprising: a plurality of forms, each said form having a panel with a first end, a second end, and a first surface and a second surface extending between said first end and said second end, and two end brackets, a first end bracket attached to said first end and a second end bracket attached to said second end, each of said first end bracket and said second end bracket comprising a flange mounted to said panel and a tubular portion extending from said flange, said tubular portion of said first end bracket extending from said first surface toward said second surface and terminating distal to said second surface and said tubular portion of said second end bracket extending from said second surface toward said first surface; a plurality of stakes slidably cooperating with said plurality of forms, one stake of said plurality of stakes slidably cooperating with two adjacently positioned forms of said plurality of forms when said hole of said first end bracket of one form of said plurality of forms aligns with said hole of said second end bracket of another form of said plurality of forms; at least one skin panel mounted between two spaced apart forms of said plurality of forms, wherein said skin panel comprises a first portion separated from a second portion by an intermediate portion, said first portion and said second portion extending form said intermediate portion in the same direction and forming a channel that receives a portion of said at least two forms; and at least one bracket secured to a top of one or more of said forms to maintain a spacing between spaced apart and parallel forms of said plurality of forms.