US 11,926,977 B2
Bridge truss system
Patrick Southworth, Lewistown, MT (US)
Assigned to Allied Steel, Lewistown, MT (US)
Filed by Allied Steel, Lewistown, MT (US)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/195,602.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/599,423, filed on Dec. 15, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/589,280, filed on Nov. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0153683 A1, May 23, 2019
Int. Cl. E01D 6/00 (2006.01); E01D 101/30 (2006.01)
CPC E01D 6/00 (2013.01) [E01D 2101/30 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bridge, comprising:
a steel truss comprising a unitary T-shaped steel top cord spaced away from an inverted unitary T-shaped steel bottom cord of equal length as the T-shaped steel top cord and multiple tensioned diagonal web members bolted directly to the T-shaped steel top cord and the inverted T-shaped steel bottom cord and multiple pairs of vertical web members interposed between the multiple tensioned diagonal web members and welded directly to the T-shaped steel top cord and the inverted T-shaped steel bottom cord to sandwich the T-shaped steel top cord and the inverted T-shaped steel bottom cord between the multiple pairs of vertical web members; and,
a concrete deck integrated with the T-shaped steel top cord of the steel truss.