Culvert And Header Wall Patents (Class 249/12)
  • Patent number: 6769662
    Abstract: A precast safety end for use with culverts on highway, driveway, and road drainage crossings has a base having a depending flange at its outer end and an upright wall at its inner end, and opening in the wall to register with the opening in an abutting pipe culvert. Upright wings on each side of the base connect with the upright end wall. The side walls taper downwardly from the upright end wall to the end of the base. The side walls have outwardly protruding wings on either side to prevent erosion and overgrowth of grass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: L & R Pre-Cast Concrete Works
    Inventor: Rufino Garza
  • Patent number: 4969626
    Abstract: An adjustable culvert form facilitates fabrication of rectilinear culverts and skewed culverts that is, culverts having an angular relationship between sidewalls and span. It is particularly useful for the production of three-sided culverts. The form generally defines a parallelogram having low, vertically standing sidewalls which are interconnected at adjacent ends by hinges. The hinges may be either a conventional pair of interleaved pivots coupled by a removable pin or a unique expandable, multiple pin hinge configuration. The form is placed on a smooth horizontal surface such as a previously poured concrete slab, the surface forming the largest continuous surface of the product. The culvert is cast in an inverted orientation. The width and length of the formed product may be adjusted by the incorporation or removal of sidewall panels. Triangular sidewall panels are secured to end adjacent regions of the sidewall panels to form haunches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: Hyway Contrete Pipe Company
    Inventor: C. Randolph Strauch
  • Patent number: 4673159
    Abstract: Molding forms for precast concrete portal assemblies are described. The molding forms include adjustable form surfaces for precasting different shaped portal assemblies from the same basic mold. The molding forms herein are particularly designed for molding portal assemblies for use at either or both end of box culverts which provide passages extending under a longitudinal embankment at skew angles rather than transversely perpendicular to the embankment access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Hancock Concrete Products Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene D. Schmidgall
  • Patent number: 4516923
    Abstract: Food products are processed prior to consumption in a press form, comprising two hinged together trays, rows of multiple separate food product molding apertures arranged staggered relative to one another in the trays, feet members mounted for support of and underneath the trays, respectively arranged in alignment with and adjacent to a molding aperture, said feet members being utilized to intercept and eject food products from the molding apertures, when the trays are swung inwardly from an aligned into a superposed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Inventors: Igor Lifshitz, Ifim Lifshitz