Insert panel for concrete fillable formwork wall
View Patent ↗A formwork assembly is adapted to receive concrete to produce structures such as wall structures. The formwork includes PVC tubular form elements having recessed female engagement portions. The female engagement portions are adapted to receive respective male engagement portions. An octagonal form element has a female engagement portion positioned at each vertex between adjacent sides. A recessed female engagement portion is closed to the interior of the form element but open to the exterior of the form element. Thus, the form element includes a plurality of vertices open to the exterior. The form elements also include male engagement portions at an open side. Wall panels, corner panels, and joint connectors can also include the male engagement portions. The male engagement portions and female engagement portions are adapted to mate to form a formwork arrangement having a substantially flat exterior wall. A formwork assembly can additionally include concrete flow apertures and insulation.
1. An apparatus adapted for engagement with a concrete fillable formwork wall having elongated, octagonal tubular form elements consisting of:
a wall panel, wherein the wall panel consists of one substantially flat wall and two wall panel ends and a male engagement portion at each end, wherein each male engagement portion consists of a fin, wherein both fins extend from one side of the wall panel, and wherein each fin is adapted to engage a matching female engagement portion on one elongated, octagonal tubular form element;
whereby the engagement of the male engagement portions on the wall panel to matching female engagement portions of two elongated, octagonal tubular form elements forms a triangular closed area between the two elongated, octagonal tubular form elements and the wall panel, and
whereby the engagement of the wall panel forms a substantially flat exterior wall surface along the elongated, octagonal tubular form elements to which the wall panel is engaged.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the wall panel has perforations.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus forms substantially flat walls of a building.
4. A method of finishing a plurality of elongated, octagonal tubular form elements to form a substantially flat wall, comprising the step of mating a male engagement portion of an end of an insert panel of claim 1 with a female engagement portion of at least one of an elongated, octagonal tubular form element.