Abstract: Proposed is a trench falsework which includes a base box (3) made up of lining panels (5) held apart by braces (8). The panels making up the box have a flat edge (7) along the top and a cutting edge (6) along the bottom. The falsework system also includes at least one add-on box (4, 12) designed to be used as an extra tier and made up of lining panels (5) which meet flush with those of the base box (3). The invention calls for the lining panels (5) making up the raised box (4, 12) to be of the same design as those in the base box (3).

Abstract: The invention concerns a housing (18), in a trench falsework panel, designed to hold the support shoe for a strut (17) so that the strut is secured in place at a spring joint. The housing permits the support shoe, which is directly associated with the strut, to be mounted simply in place by virtue of the fact that the longitudinal ends of the housing have a collar (21) projecting out from the surface of the panel, at a certain distance from the strut, with a bore running at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the housing, and the support shoe has a collar, matching that on the housing, with a bore, aligned with that in the housing collar, into which a bolt (25) can be inserted to hold the shoe in place.

Abstract: A lining plate intended for employment in connection with trench lining in below-grade construction becomes assembly- and removal-friendly and simultaneously resistant to flexural buckling even against forces acting during driving in by means of the excavator bucket, if a hollow profile plate structure, which forms the plate frame and is welded together with the remaining plate part, is provided, and if at least one suspension eye is cut into the plate surface a distance apart from the circumferential hollow profile frame elements, which contains a fastening means for a lifting means of the crane.

Abstract: The invention concerns a panel for use in trench falsework as part of a box construction or in sliding forms in civil-engineering. The falsework is easy to mount in place and is resistant to buckling, even along the triangular hollow section which forms the cutting edge at the bottom of the panel, by virtue of the fact that the triangular hollow section incorporates single-piece steel suspension rings which have a partly rounded and partly straight outside circumference. The outside shape of the rings fits into the surface of the metal sheet surrounding the ring, the straight part of the rings forming part of the cutting edge and the rounded part of the rings being welded to the adjacent parts of the hollow section.

Abstract: Joining arrangements (7) capable of swivelling around an axis bolt (6) are limited in their swivelling by one of the springs of a pair of springs (12, 13) welded together into a unit to make it possible to individually or alternately drive or pull opposite lining elements (1) of a canal lining system into or out of the soil without causing the braces (4) that prop the lining elements (1) against each other nor their joining arrangements (7) to be deformed.