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Assembly of the Quick Beton®
cube-maker
| To assemble the cube-maker, two
modular, identical half-shells are brought into contact. The shells are
moulded in sturdy, non-deformable resin.
Each
of these shells consists of two adjacent vertical walls at 90°, which
lower down delimit a horizontal wall with a triangular bottom.
The desired cubic form is obtained by joining the two half-shells.
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The next step is to ensure that
these two half-shells are mutually fastened, in order to prevent them
accidentally separating when the cement mix is poured in.
The form is fastened at the two vertical edges which are produced when the
corresponding free-edges of the two half-shells are brought together.
To
fasten as above, two special slide-coupling joints are used. Each
externally secures one of the form's open edges.
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In
practice, each of these joints consists of a kind of straight jaw which
simultaneously grips the vertical edge of the wall of the first half-shell,
and the adjacent vertical edge of the wall of the second half-shell, so
that they can no longer separate in any way.
This straight jaw is able to move in its operating state simply by sliding.
It moves upward with respect to the structure of the entire form. |
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