Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include hot-rolled threaded rebar bolts that have a substantially circular core with semi-continuous threads on opposing sides of the rebar bolts. In some embodiments of the invention the shaft is substantially void of longitudinal ribs along at least a portion of the longitudinal area between the first set of threads and the second set of threads of the shaft. The threaded rebar bolt is manufactured in a continuous hot-rolling process to create a threaded rebar shaft with semi-continuous threads and substantially no longitudinal ribs in the longitudinal areas and no additional machining is required to create the threads after the threaded shaft is created from the hot-rolling process.
Abstract: Disclosed a reinforcement structure for reinforced concrete and methods for manufacturing thereof. In one aspect, the reinforcement structure includes a rod comprising a spiral strip having a pitch between 1.0 and 10.0 times a width of the strip and a ratio of thickness of the strip to the width of the strip in a range of 1:4 to 1:10. The surface of the spiral strip may be entirely or partially corrugated with ribs of arbitrary shape and having height in a range of 0.05% to 0.30% of the thickness of the strip. In another aspect, method for manufacturing a reinforcement structure comprises flattening a wire rod into a flat strip, corrugating it with ribs, and twisting the ribbed strip into a spiral of the specified pitch.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 24, 2013
Date of Patent:
December 23, 2014
Inventors:
Chester Wright, III, Nicolai Boguslavschi, Arkady Zalan
Abstract: Disclosed a reinforcement structure for reinforced concrete and methods for manufacturing thereof. In one aspect, the reinforcement structure includes a rod comprising a spiral strip having a pitch between 1.0 and 10.0 times a width of the strip and a ratio of thickness of the strip to the width of the strip in a range of 1:4 to 1:10. The surface of the spiral strip may be entirely or partially corrugated with ribs of arbitrary shape and having height in a range of 0.05% to 0.30% of the thickness of the strip. In another aspect, method for manufacturing a reinforcement structure comprises flattening a wire rod into a flat strip, corrugating it with ribs, and twisting the ribbed strip into a spiral of the specified pitch.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 24, 2013
Publication date:
March 6, 2014
Inventors:
Chester Wright, III, Nicolai Boguslavschi, Arkady Zalan
Abstract: Elongate, composite-material, hollow rebar structure, along with associated components, related fabrication apparatus, and apparatus-implemented, rebar-structure-making methodology. The rebar structure has a long axis, and includes (a) an elongate, hollow core centered on that long axis, (b) an elongate, hollow sleeve having inner and outer surfaces, circumsurrounding the core along the core's length, with the sleeve's inner surface bonded to the core's outer surface along the length thereof, and (c) longitudinally distributed, radial-dimensionality, external-purchase-enhancing structure formed unitarily with the sleeve's outer surface along the length thereof. The bond existing between the core and the sleeve takes the form of a single-cure, reverse-temperature-gradient-cure, plastic-material, molecular bond.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 22, 2011
Publication date:
March 22, 2012
Applicant:
Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert C. Gibson, Thomas S. Ohnstad, Matthew H. Noble, Trent J. Garber, Thomas A. Hershberger, John R. Hillman
Abstract: A central support section 1 having a rectangular cross-section was arranged at a central position, and a plurality of winding support sections 2-5, 6-9 . . . of a substantially elongate platelike shape were combined and arranged around the central support section, while being sequentially swirlingly and spirally wound, and each support section was fixed in a laminated condition between inside and outside. Furthermore, the support unit bodies 15 were engaged into a fitted condition from vertical directions and connected together by adhesive, thereby forming a square pillar 16. With this, there is provided a support structure that is capable of freely setting the size of the outer diameter while securing axis of the support and obtaining a sufficient strength.
Abstract: A reinforcing rod made from fiber-reinforced plastic is provided on its peripheral surface with profiling projecting outwardly in the radial direction in the form of ribs extending at least across one part of the periphery. The reinforcing rod has ribs with different geometric and/or material properties.