Patents by Inventor Benito Zambelli

Benito Zambelli has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120260599
    Abstract: An anchoring device for connecting manufactured components for the construction of buildings comprising an anchoring insert, which can be jointly associated with a first manufactured component and a linking element, which can engage the anchoring insert and can be associated with a second manufactured component, for the transmission of forces from the first manufactured component to the second manufactured component or vice versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 7765764
    Abstract: A device for connecting beams and pillars or similar structural elements, particularly for prefabricated concrete structural elements, comprising a bracket, which forms, when installed, by means of its upper face, a support for the beam, and a first connection for connecting to the pillar the end of the bracket that is designed to be directed toward the pillar, the device further comprising a second connection for connecting a region of the bracket, spaced from the end directed toward the pillar, to a region of the pillar located above the bracket and arranged on the side of the pillar that lies opposite with respect to the side that bears the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 7654057
    Abstract: A concrete component embedded anchoring insert for bracing panels in buildings, and prefabricated concrete component provided therewith, the anchoring insert comprising an insert body delimiting a compartment and having a face with a main access opening. The insert body can be embedded in the concrete component so that the face is substantially flush with a face of the concrete component. A connecting element can be inserted in the main opening. The insert body has at least one secondary opening allowing concrete of the component body to enter the compartment, and a protection provided in the compartment adapted to prevent the concrete from accessing a portion of the compartment which is designed to receive the connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 7287358
    Abstract: A device for connecting a beam to pillars or similar supporting structural elements in order to erect buildings, particularly multistory buildings, by means of prefabricated concrete components, the device comprising first means for connecting two end regions of the beam to the pillars and second means for connecting the beam to the pillars, the first connection means provide a coupling at least of the hinge type between each one of the two end regions of the beam and the corresponding pillar; the second connection means comprise at least one tension element that passes through the beam and is connected to the pillars by means of the ends thereof that protrude from the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Publication number: 20070039281
    Abstract: A concrete component embedded anchoring insert for bracing panels in buildings, and prefabricated concrete component provided therewith, the anchoring insert comprising an insert body delimiting a compartment and having a face with a main access opening. The insert body can be embedded in the concrete component so that the face is substantially flush with a face of the concrete component. A connecting element can be inserted in the main opening. The insert body has at least one secondary opening allowing concrete of the component body to enter the compartment, and a protection provided in the compartment adapted to prevent the concrete from accessing a portion of the compartment which is designed to receive the connecting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Publication number: 20070039279
    Abstract: A device for connecting beams and pillars or similar structural elements, particularly for prefabricated concrete structural elements, comprising a bracket, which forms, when installed, by means of its upper face, a support for the beam, and a first connection for connecting to the pillar the end of the bracket that is designed to be directed toward the pillar, the device further comprising a second connection for connecting a region of the bracket, spaced from the end directed toward the pillar, to a region of the pillar located above the bracket and arranged on the side of the pillar that lies opposite with respect to the side that bears the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6945002
    Abstract: A reinforcement for prefabricated concrete panels with improved bonding with concrete, which comprises profiles to be embedded in a concrete body of a panel. At least some of the profiles have perforations and undulations which are suitable to increase the bonding between the profiles and the concrete body of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6792734
    Abstract: A device for protecting lifting inserts having a tubular body during embedding in a concrete component, comprising an elastically deformable element insertable in the axial end of the tubular body of the lifting insert directed toward the outside of the prefabricated component engageable for lifting the prefabricated component. The elastically deformable element occupies an axial portion of the tubular body starting from axial end. The device comprises expansion elements, which act on the elastically deformable element to cause a radial expansion thereof through the elastically deformable element engaging whereby the inside walls of the tubular body to prevent infiltration of concrete through the axial end of the tubular body of the lifting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6729080
    Abstract: A supporting device for prefabricated units, particularly for buildings having a metallic structure, comprising a main body which can be fixed to an outer face of a first unit and a supporting element which forms, with one of its portions, a resting region for a second unit to be connected to the first unit. The supporting element is detachably associated with the main body and can be moved along the main body in order to vary the position of the resting region with respect to the first unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6729093
    Abstract: A prefabricated concrete panel for industrialized building, with high thermal and/or acoustic insulation, comprising a first sheet and a second sheet which are embedded in the concrete body of the panel and face each other on planes which are parallel to the planes of arrangement of the two larger faces of the panel. At least one of the sheets is made of thermally insulating material and the sheets delimit, therebetween, an air chamber which is divided into a plurality of mutually connected recesses in order to increase thermal and/or acoustic insulation of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Publication number: 20040065030
    Abstract: A device for connecting a beam to pillars or similar supporting structural elements in order to erect buildings, particularly multistory buildings, by means of prefabricated concrete components, the device comprising first means for connecting two end regions of the beam to the pillars and second means for connecting the beam to the pillars, the first connection means provide a coupling at least of the hinge type between each one of the two end regions of the beam and the corresponding pillar; the second connection means comprise at least one tension element that passes through the beam and is connected to the pillars by means of the ends thereof that protrude from the beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6715238
    Abstract: A safety device for the building field, for individually protecting against falls workers assigned to walking at high elevations in buildings under construction. The device comprises at least one pole, a detachable connection for the pole base with the surface of a building, the pole having at its top end, an engagement for a cable element forming a safety parapet, at least one leg connected laterally to rest, with its lower end, on the surface of the building, laterally to the region engaged by the base of the pole, to form, for the pole, an auxiliary resting element for pushing against the surface of the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6694680
    Abstract: A lifting insert for prefabricated concrete components with a bracket for increasing the shearing strength thereof. The insert is embeddable in the body of the component proximate to one of the faces of the component so that one of its ends protrudes, or is otherwise accessible, from the face of the component so that it is engageable by lifting means. The bracket of the insert comprises at least one brace, which is connected to the insert and is also embeddable in the body of the component. The brace is constituted by a lamina that wraps around the insert in a scarf-like fashion with one of its portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6647678
    Abstract: A device for connecting a beam to pillars, or similar load-bearing structural elements, for constructing buildings, particularly multi-story buildings, by way of prefabricated concrete components. The device comprises a first connection for connecting the two end regions of the beam to the pillars and a second connection for connecting two intermediate regions of the longitudinal extension of the beam to the pillars. The first connection is constituted by connection elements of the interlocking type and the second connection comprises at least two rigid inclined ties, each of which connects an intermediate region of the beam to a region of the respective pillar which lies at a higher level than the region where the tie is coupled to the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6502362
    Abstract: An anchoring device for components made of concrete comprises an elongated section which is associable with a concrete component so as to protrude from the component with at least one of its longitudinal sides and with at least one portion of its lateral faces, which extend from the longitudinal side. Engagement regions are provided in this portion of the lateral faces of the section and form a plurality of possible engagement positions, mutually spaced along the longitudinal extension of the section, for a coupling element which is detachably associable with the portion of the section that protrudes from the component. The coupling element has at least one engagement region which forms a plurality of possible engagement positions, mutually spaced parallel to the longitudinal extension of the section, for an element for connecting the coupling element to another component or another element to be rigidly coupled to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Publication number: 20020148170
    Abstract: A safety device for the building field, for individually protecting against falls workers assigned to walking at high elevations in buildings under construction. The device comprises at least one pole, a detachable connection for the pole base with the surface of a building, the pole having at its top end, an engagement for a cable element forming a safety parapet, at least one leg connected laterally to rest, with its lower end, on the surface of the building, laterally to the region engaged by the base of the pole, to form, for the pole, an auxiliary resting element for pushing against the surface of the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6457288
    Abstract: A prefabricated concrete panel for building floors in civil or industrial structures, comprising a concrete body with a reinforcement provided with portions which protrude from one of the larger faces of the body of the panel which constitutes extrados of a floor and are designed to be embedded in the casting of the topping of the floor. At least one first shaped sheet is provided inside the body of the panel, is made of thermally insulating material, is interposed between the two larger faces of the panel body and forms, between the two larger faces of the panel body, a ventilation chamber which is composed of a plurality of mutually connected cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6412230
    Abstract: 3An accident-prevention device for buildings, particularly for assembling prefabricated components made of concrete, which comprises at least one pole and elements for detachably connecting the base of the pole to the surface of a building. The pole has, proximate to its tip, guiding pulleys for a cable element which forms a safety parapet. The guiding means are adapted to divert, in a direction which is substantially parallel to the axis of the pole, at least part of the stresses transmitted from the cable element to the pole, and the pole is provided with shock-absorbing elements for cushioning the stresses transmitted from the cable element to the pole in a direction which is substantially parallel to the axis of the pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Publication number: 20020078657
    Abstract: An anchoring device for prefabricated concrete components comprises an anchoring insert, for embedding in the concrete body of a prefabricated component and has a slot in one of its portions, a connecting element provided with a head insertable through the slot and movable to engage or disengage the face of the anchoring insert lying opposite with respect to the insertion face by rotation, of the head and elements for locking rotation of the head in the engagement condition. The locking elements allow sliding of the connecting element, with the head engaged, along the slot with respect to the anchoring insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Publication number: 20020078637
    Abstract: A device for protecting lifting inserts having a tubular body during embedding in a concrete component, comprising an elastically deformable element insertable in the axial end of the tubular body of the lifting insert directed toward the outside of the prefabricated component engageable for lifting the prefabricated component. The elastically deformable element occupies an axial portion of the tubular body starting from axial end. The device comprises expansion elements, which act on the elastically deformable element to cause a radial expansion thereof through the elastically deformable element engaging whereby the inside walls of the tubular body to prevent infiltration of concrete through the axial end of the tubular body of the lifting insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli