Abstract: A concrete slab and beam forming system including first and second shoring towers that are adjustable in height and which can be adjusted to provide for concrete beams of different depths. The forming system also includes a first plank with an integral facing, and second and third planks having integral facings which are pivotally attached at opposite ends of the first plank and which rest upon adjacent shoring towers in a first position in which the facings of all the planks are substantially coplanar. The planks are provided with bolts for releasably securing the second and third planks in that first position and operable to allow the second and third planks to be pivoted to a second position in which the facings of the second and third planks are substantially perpendicular to the facing of the first plank.

Abstract: A releasable, reusable, slip-on she-bolt type gripper device designed for telescopic reception therein of one end of a cylindrical horizontally extending tie rod which is associated with a concrete wall form and serves to lateral displacement of the sides of the form when the latter is in use. The device is adapted to receive the reaction pull of the tie rod when the latter is under tension as a result of the pouring of wet concrete between the form sides. Longitudinally shiftable, chuck-forming jaw segments within the forward or inner frusto-conical end section of an elongated tubular shell are spring-biased so as frictionally to engage the adjacent end of the associated tie rod and are self-energized by the longitudinal pull of the latter. A pull rod is connected in common to all of the jaw segments, projects rearwardly through the rear or outer end of the shell and, when pulled rearwardly, releases the jaw segments from the tie rod.