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Field-assembly concrete dowel basket

  • US 10,443,194 B2
  • Filed: 02/09/2018
  • Issued: 10/15/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An unassembled field-assembly dowel basket for concrete construction configured for assembly into a dowel basket on an as-needed, where-needed basis, comprising:

  • a plurality of dowels elongated in a lateral direction;

    a plurality of dowel sleeves elongated in the lateral direction configured to loosely house the dowels;

    a plurality of wire segments;

    a plurality of connectors attachable to the wire segments;

    wherein the dowels, dowel sleeves, wire segments and connectors are configured to be assembled into a plurality of dowel basket sections without welding of the wire segments to each other;

    wherein the dowel basket sections are configured to be assembled into a dowel basket;

    wherein the wire segments of each dowel basket section comprise a pair of opposing frame wires;

    wherein each dowel sleeve comprises a pair of recesses, each configured to receive a portion of one of the opposing frame wires through a snap-in interference fit, to position the pair of opposing frame wires to extend in a transverse direction perpendicular to the lateral direction spaced apart from each other in the lateral direction;

    wherein each dowel basket section comprises two frame wires, two dowels sleeves supported by the frame wires, two dowels loosely held within respective dowel sleeves, and two connectors;

    wherein each connector is configured to connect a shipping wire between the opposing frame wires of a dowel basket section, and to connect aligned frame wires of adjacent dowel basket sections to each other, to assemble the dowel basket sections into a multi-section dowel basket comprising a plurality of dowel basket sections aligned in the transverse direction without welding the dowel basket sections to each other.

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