Superior Concrete Accessories, Inc.

Homer E Berry

Robert E Truitt

A pickup unit for releasable connection to an anchor insert embedded in a body, such insert having an exposed head portion and a reduced shank portion extending from the head portion and into the body, includes a connecting member rotatable adjacent to the insert head portion, such connecting member having a recess of the bayonet slot type receiving the insert head portion captive within the connecting member while the insert shank portion extends outwardly therefrom upon relative rotation between the connecting member and the insert in one direction, and such connecting member releasing the insert head portion upon such relative rotation in the opposite direction, a latch mounted for in and out movement relative to the recess for respectively preventing and permitting relative movement of the insert head portion out of the recess, a lever movably connected to the connecting member, structure for coupling the lever and the latch, and structure for engaging the lever with such body, whereby a force may be applied to the lever for moving the same relative to the connecting member, thereby to cooperatively move the latch outwardly relative to the recess and rotate the connecting member for releasing the pickup unit from the insert.

Pickup unit for releasable connection to a partially embedded member

A divider strip with an upstanding screed for use in connection with the pouring of a pair of adjoining concrete slabs, such strip being designed to be supported by a horizontal series of laterally and substantially equidistantly spaced stakes which are set below a predetermined grade level, and, in addition, being adapted when in its operative position to have wet concrete poured on opposite sides thereof in order to form a pair of adjoining slabs with at least one key joint therebetween. A particular bend arrangement at the upper edge or marginal region of the divider strip establishes an upstanding, inverted U-shaped, screed section having inner and outer vertical walls which have the upper edge regions thereof cross-connected by an integral flat top wall and are spaced apart a distance of less magnitude than the thickness of the stakes to which the divider strip is applied, the outer vertical wall being provided with a laterally out-turned horizontal flange which establishes a downwardly facing seating and impact shelf or shoulder for the upper ends of the associated stakes. A spring apron depends from the distal or outer edge of the seating shelf and is inclined inwardly for frictional engagement with the adjacent portions of the upper ends of the stakes so as to maintain the main body of the strip in firm gripping relation with the upper ends of the stakes. The lower marginal portion of the spring apron is turned outwardly so that it extends downwards and outwards and establishes a cam surface whereby the divider strip may be manually and telescopically slipped over and 'hung' so to speak upon the stakes in supporting relationship prior to concrete-pouring operations for slab-forming purposes.

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Parsons, KS, United States of America

Homer E Berry