Patents by Inventor Joseph C. Sanders

Joseph C. Sanders 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).

  • Method and apparatus for use in positioning high-strength cables within a precast moment resisting frame
    Patent number: 6327825
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning steel reinforcing rods within a precast, moment-resisting frame of a building. The apparatus includes a uniquely configured hand-receiving component that can be embedded within the concrete beams that make up the building frame to permit access to the steel reinforcing rods that are slidably carried within rod receiving passageways formed within concrete beams. The apparatus also includes a uniquely configured-bladder receiving component that can be embedded within the concrete beams that make up the building frame and is so constructed and arranged as to permit as expanable bladder to readily be positioned within the cable receiving passageways formed in the beam during the grouting of the interfaces between the beams and the columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Charles Pankow Builders Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph C. Sanders, Albert W. Fink, Brian J. Liske