US 12,077,972 B2
Alignment device for concrete forms
Chad Hiller, St. Jacobs (CA); and Jeff Brubacher, St. Jacobs (CA)
Assigned to Plumwall Bracing Systems Inc., St. Jacobs (CA)
Filed by Plumwall Bracing Systems Inc., St. Jacobs (CA)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/533,453.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/116,982, filed on Nov. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0162868 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. E04G 17/14 (2006.01); B66F 3/08 (2006.01); E04G 17/00 (2006.01); E04G 21/26 (2006.01); E04G 25/04 (2006.01)
CPC E04G 25/04 (2013.01) [B66F 3/08 (2013.01); E04G 17/002 (2013.01); E04G 17/14 (2013.01); E04G 21/26 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A brace for supporting a concrete form, the brace comprising:
a strongback couplable to a concrete form;
a platform coupled to the strongback;
an outrigger; and
an adjustment mechanism comprising:
a casing portion coupled to the platform;
a manipulable body housed within the casing portion, the manipulable body having a first end extending through an opening of the casing portion providing access to the first end to a single user located on the platform and a second end coupled to the outrigger, the manipulable body rotatable via its first end to reposition the outrigger; and
a retaining body for retaining the manipulable body within the casing;
wherein rotation of the manipulable body by the single user repositions the outrigger to adjust a plumb of the concrete form; and
wherein rotation of the manipulable body and adjustment of the plumb of the concrete form is accomplished by the single user.