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JACK TUBE [1 record]

Record 1 1986-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mobile Hoisting Apparatus
  • Construction Site Equipment
OBS

The jack pulls the slip form upward by climbing a vertical steel rod ... embedded in the concrete.

OBS

Jack rod: see figure 8-3 in MECIV.

OBS

Instead of having two shutter panels held together with ties, they are located with a framework over the top of the shutter called a yoke. Fixed to each of these yokes is a jack [which] operates by climbing a rod or tube through the middle of the wall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de levage mobiles
  • Matériel de chantier
DEF

Tube télescopique constituant l'un des éléments d'un dispositif de hissage de coffrage à béton.

Spanish

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