Concrete reinforcing bar clip

• US 7,469,515 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2005
• Issued: 12/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: J.M. Minor Enterprises, Inc.
• Original Assignee: J.M. Minor Enterprises, Inc.
• Inventors: Minor, Jack M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Safavi; Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/192,568
• Publication Number:
  US 20060059850A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,250 Days
• Field of Search: 245/63, 245/70, 245/45, 241/29.R, 241/29.B, 241/30, 527/19, 526/86, 526/87, 403/385, 403/400, 403/394, 403/395, 403/396, 403/397, 403/399
• US Class Current: 52/719
• CPC Class Codes: E04C 5/167 Connection by means of clips or other resilient elements
• CPC Class Codes: E04C 5/168 Spacers connecting parts for reinforcements and spacing the reinforcements from the form
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/7176 Resilient clip
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/7194 Crossed rods

Abstract

A concrete reinforcing bar clip has a pair of arms oriented at an angle of approximately 90°. Each arm has a clamp mounted at each of its ends, thus allowing a worker to push in one direction to attach all four clamps onto two crossed concrete reinforcing bars. The length of the arms adds some stability to the temporary intersection of the concrete reinforcing bars before the concrete is poured. The concrete reinforcing bars may have physical contact in the clamp, also adding to the stability of the joint. One embodiment uses a single tube as one arm.

Claims

1. A concrete reinforcing bar clip comprising:

a pair of crossed arms oriented at an angle of φ

₁ relative to one another;

wherein a top body surface of a central body is formed by a juncture of said pair of crossed arms;

one of said pair of crossed arms having at least one clamp mounted adjacent to an end of said arm, said at least one clamp sized to mount onto a first concrete reinforcing bar;

said at least one clamp of said one of said pair of crossed arms having an opening, said clamp opening facing away from a top surface of the central body;

the other of said pair of crossed arms having at least one clamp mounted adjacent to an end of said arm, said at least one clamp sized to mount onto a second concrete reinforcing bar;

wherein said other of said pair of crossed arms supports said at least one clamp at a distance, allowing for at least one concrete reinforcing bar to pass adjacent therethrough;

said at least one clamp of said other of said pair of crossed arms having an opening, said clamp opening facing away from the top surface of the central body;

wherein a pair of crossing concrete reinforcing bars can be about simultaneously or consecutively joined by fixing said at least one clamp of said one of said pair of crossed arms and said at least one clamp of said other of said pair of crossed arms to crossing concrete reinforcing bars using a force against said top body surface of said central body; and

wherein said top body surface of said central body has a convex shape with each arm of said pair of crossed arms curved to continue the convex surface to an outbound end of each arm, said clamps all ending at each outbound end of its respective arms.

2. The concrete reinforcing bar clip of claim 1, wherein said angle of φ

₁ is about 90°

.

3. The concrete reinforcing bar clip of claim 1, wherein each clamp further comprises a construction of flexible polymer.

4. The concrete reinforcing bar clip of claim 1, wherein each clamp further comprises a pair of engagement flanges at each of its ends.

5. The concrete reinforcing bar clip of claim 1, wherein each clamp further comprises a pair of engagement flanges at each of its ends.

6. The concrete reinforcing bar clip of claim 1, wherein said central body has a concrete reinforcing bar support surface for said at least one clamp of said one of said pair of crossed arms.

7. The concrete reinforcing bar clip of claim 1, wherein said crossing concrete reinforcing bars make contact or almost make contact with each other.