Abstract: Method of and apparatus for making reinforcement baskets for large diameter piles in which a pair of reinforcement hoops formed with spaced apart eyes are held in respective clamping fixtures on a pair of carriages displaceable on rails and the primary bars are pressed through these eyes while auxiliary bars are welded to the hoops between the primary bars. A helical wire is wound around the bars as the clamps are rotated and is welded to the bars while a support, also on a carriage displaceable along the rails, cradles the basket from below.

Abstract: A reinforced-concrete column reinforcement comprises at least two hoops centered on and spaced apart along an axis and a plurality of deformable holders fixed at angular spacings on these hoops. Respective longitudinal reinforcement bars each extend axially through one of the holders of one of the hoops and through a respective one of the holders of the other of the hoops. The holders grip these bars. A helicoidal wrapping wire generally centered on the axis is welded to axially extending spacer rods fixed to the hoops and surrounds these rods and the reinforcement bars. The holders may be constituted as malleable metal elements welded on the hoops and forming passages through which the reinforcement bars pass. Once these reinforcement bars are fitted through the passages these elements may be deformed into tight clenching contact with the bars.

Abstract: A reinforced-concrete column reinforcement comprises at least two hoops centered on and spaced apart along an axis and a plurality of deformable holders fixed at angular spacings on these hoops. Respective longitudinal reinforcement bars each extend axially through one of the holders of one of the hoops and through a respective one of the holders of the other of the hoops. The holders grip these bars. A helicoidal wrapping wire generally centered on the axis is welded to axially extending spacer rods fixed to the hoops and surrounds these rods and the reinforcement bars. The holders may be constituted as malleable metal elements welded on the hoops and forming passages through which the reinforcement bars pass. Once these reinforcement bars are fitted through the passages these elements may be deformed into tight clenching contact with the bars.