Spacer for spacing reinforcing mesh wire from the form in the manufacture of concrete pipe and the like

摘要

A spacer for attachment to the wires of a reinforcement cage that must be held away from the surfaces of a concrete form or wall used in producing concrete products, such as concrete pipe. The cage spacer is formed of a continuous piece of round spring-steel wire and has a closed loop formed at one end that hooks on a wire of the reinforcement cage. The closed loop connects two parallel spaced-apart legs that provide a spacing nose, the legs terminating at the other end of the spacer in an S-shaped hook that snaps over another of the wires of the cage. In the preferred embodiment, one lower leg is wrapped over and around the other leg to provide additional stability to the spacer.