摘要 |
A portable system for making harped, reinforced concrete beams includes a series of inverted T-shaped concrete bed sections, with aligned longitudinally extending holes for receiving tensioning cables to hold the sections together, to provide two beds, one on either side of the center wall of the sections, to make the concrete beams. At points near the center of each beam to be formed, arrangements for "harping" or depressing the longitudinally extending tensioning steel strands or cables are provided. The harping arrangements include a lever pivotally mounted on the central wall of the concrete sections to pivot in either direction to alternatively harp beams on either side, with intermediate lever actuated arrangements including a harping fork for engaging the steel strands, and screw threaded arrangements at the outer end of the lever for pulling the lever down toward the outer edge of the concrete bed, thereby depressing and harping the tensioning steel strands which are to be embedded in the concrete beams.
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