SEAL FOR A LEAD-THROUGH FOR A TIE ROD THROUGH A PANEL FORMWORK ELEMENT

Abstract

A seal for a lead-through for a tie rod through a panel formwork element. The seal includes a sleeve, a sealing element and a sliding tube, which are disposed on the tie rod and, together with the tie rod, are placed through the panel formwork element from a rear side, so that the sealing element exits the panel formwork element on a front side and, after brief pulling back of the tie rod, provides sealing between the sleeve and the panel formwork element, for one-sided anchoring.

Claims

1. A method for setting up a concrete formwork, comprising a formwork element including a formwork shell, the formwork shell including a tie hole for leading through a tie rod which is used for a tension-resistant connection of the formwork element to a further formwork element set up at a distance opposite thereof, wherein a tie rod is placed through the tie hole in the formwork shell from a rear side so as to protrude on the front side and the rear side of the formwork shell, a tubular or annular, elastic and/or plastic sealing element is disposed on the tie rod in a longitudinally displaceable manner, the largest diameter thereof being greater than a diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell, the sealing element, together with the tie rod, passes through the tie hole in the formwork shell so as to reach the front side of the formwork shell, the sealing element is elastically compressed when passing through the tie hole in the formwork shell, and the largest diameter thereof, after passing through the tie hole in the formwork shell, elastically expands to a diameter that is greater than the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sealing element is placed further through the formwork shell than is necessary for the expansion, and the sealing element thereafter is moved back into sealing contact with the formwork shell.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, on the rear side of the sealing element, a sliding tube, a ring, or a disk is disposed on the tie rod, which has an outside diameter that is not greater than a diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell, and by way of which the sealing element is pushed through the tie hole in the formwork shell.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, on a front side of the sealing element, a sleeve is disposed on the tie rod which is placed together with the tie rod through the tie hole in the formwork shell, from the rear side of the formwork shell and, after the anchoring has been completed, the sealing element provides sealing between the sleeve and the formwork shell of the formwork element.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the tie rod comprises an abutment on the rear side of the formwork shell for support on a counter surface of the panel formwork element and, as the tie rod is placed through the tie hole in the formwork shell, the sliding tube has a distance with respect to the abutment until the sealing element exits the tie hole in the formwork shell on the front side of the formwork shell and elastically expands.

6. A tubular or annular sealing element for sealing a lead-through for a tie rod through a tie hole in a formwork shell of a formwork element for concrete formwork, the sealing element expanding on the outside, toward an end face, from a diameter that is not greater than a diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell to a diameter that is greater than the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell, wherein the sealing element is radially resilient so as to be elastically constrictable to a diameter that is not greater than the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell, and a wall thickness of the sealing element is not greater than one half the difference in diameter between the tie hole in the formwork shell and the tie rod.

7. The sealing element according to claim 6, wherein the sealing element comprises a cylindrical tube-shaped section, which can be pushed onto the tie rod, the outside diameter of which is not greater than the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell, and a hollow truncated cone-shaped section, which expands on the outside, toward the one end face of the sealing element, from a diameter that is not greater than the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell to a diameter that is greater than the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell.

8. A sealing system comprising a sealing element according to claim 6, wherein the sealing system comprises a sliding tube, a ring or a disk for pushing the sealing element on the tie rod through the tie hole in the formwork shell, having an inside diameter that is not smaller than a diameter of the tie rod and having an outside diameter that, in at least one area, is not greater than the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell.

9. The sealing system according to claim 8, wherein the sliding tube, the ring or the disk can be axially fixed on the tie rod.

10. A formwork system comprising a sealing element according to claim 6, and comprising a formwork element including a formwork shell, wherein the formwork shell includes a tie hole through which a tie rod is guided, the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell being greater than a diameter of the tie rod, wherein the sealing element surrounds the tie hole in the formwork shell and sealingly rests against a front side of the formwork shell, and further comprising a sleeve, which is disposed on the tie rod on the front side of the formwork shell, the sealing element providing sealing on the sleeve.

11. The formwork system according to claim 10, wherein an outside diameter of the sleeve is not greater than the diameter of the tie hole in the formwork shell.

12. The formwork system according to claim 10, wherein the tie rod is a threaded rod having a continuous thread.

13. The formwork system according to claim 10, wherein, adjoining the sealing element, a sliding tube, extending through the tie hole in the formwork shell, is disposed on the tie rod for pushing the sealing element through the tie hole in the formwork shell.

Description

[0015] The invention will be described hereafter in greater detail based on one exemplary embodiment shown in the drawings. Embodiments of the invention that do not comprise all the features of the exemplary embodiment or of a claim are possible. In the drawings:

[0016] FIG. 1 shows a sectional view of a seal for a lead-through for a tie rod through a panel formwork element with a sealing element according to the invention; and

[0017] FIG. 2 shows an enlarged view in the region of the sealing element.

[0018] FIG. 1 shows a panel formwork element 1 of a formwork for casting a wall from concrete in the region of a lead-through for a tie rod 2. The panel formwork element 1 comprises a board made of wood or plastic material, serving as a formwork shell 3, having a frame 4 attached to the side thereof, referred to as the rear side here, for reinforcement. The frame 4 is composed of mutually parallel and perpendicular struts 5 made of rectangular pipes made of aluminum or steel. Tie holes 6 for the passing through tie rods 2 are provided, extending through the frame 4 and the formwork shell 3. The tie holes 6 are distributed in a grid across the surface area of the formwork shell 2.

[0019] In the illustrated exemplary embodiment of the invention, the tie rod 2 is a threaded rod having a continuous thread, and more particularly a so-called Dywidag bar. It is not excluded that other threaded bars, conical tie rods or other rods can serve as the tie rod 2. A nut 7 is disposed on the tie rod 2 in an axially fixed manner by way of a plate-shaped abutment 8. The nut 7 can be screwed onto the tie rod 2; in the exemplary embodiment, this is screwed onto the tie rod 2 and pressed transversely to the tie rod 2, thereby being connected non-rotatably and thus rigidly, which is to say in an axially fixed and non-rotatable manner, to the tie rod 2. The Dywidag bar comprises two mutually parallel flat sides, which improve the non-rotatable connection of the nut 7 screwed onto the thread of the tie rod 2.

[0020] The panel formwork element 1 is part of a double-sided formwork, which is to say a further panel formwork element 1, which is not shown, is positioned at a distance opposite the panel formwork element 1, having tie holes that are aligned with the tie holes 6 of the one panel formwork element 1. The formwork shells 3 of the opposing panel formwork elements 1 face one another. Mutually facing surfaces of the formwork shells 3 that come in contact with the concrete when concrete is poured into an intermediate space between the opposing panel formwork elements 1 for casting the wall are referred to as front sides here. The opposing panel formwork elements 1 are held at a distance with respect to one another against pressure from unset concrete by tie rods 2, which are placed through the aligned tie holes 6 in the panel formwork elements 1. Unset concrete refers to the concrete poured, in the flowable state, between the panel formwork elements 1. The tie rods 2 are supported with the abutments 8 thereof on the rear sides of the formwork shells 3 or, as shown, on the rear sides of the frames 4 facing away from the formwork shells 3. The areas at which the abutments 8 of the tie rods 2 are supported on the panel formwork elements 1 are referred to here as counter surfaces of the panel formwork elements 1 for the abutments 8 of the tie rods 2.

[0021] The invention enables one-sided anchoring, which is to say the attachment of the tie rods 2 from the accessible rear side of a panel formwork element 1. The opposing panel formwork element 1 does not need to be accessible. According to the invention, the tie rods 2 are placed from the rear side of the one panel formwork element 1 through the tie holes 6 in the frame 4 and in the formwork shell 3 of the one panel formwork element 1 and placed into the aligned tie holes 6 in the opposing panel formwork element 1, which is not shown. In the exemplary embodiment, the opposing panel formwork element 1, which is not shown, includes internal threads into which the tie rods 2 are screwed by turning the nut 7 provided non-rotatably thereon.

[0022] Prior to placing the tie rod 2 through the tie holes 6 in the panel formwork element 1, a sliding tube 9 is screwed onto the tie rod 2, and thereafter a sealing element 10 and a sleeve 11 are pushed onto the tie rod 2. The sliding tube 9 comprises an internal thread, which engages with the thread of the tie rod 2 so as to be axially fixed on the tie rod 2. On a rear end facing the abutment 8, the sliding tube 9 comprises a collar 12, by way of which this is supported on the abutment 8.

[0023] In the illustrated exemplary embodiment, the sliding tube 9 is slightly longer than the panel formwork element 1, which is to say that the formwork shell 3 and the frame 4 together are of a thickness such that the sealing element 10, together with the sliding tube 9, can be pushed to such an extent through the panel formwork element 1 that the hollow truncated cone-shaped section 14 thereof exits the tie hole 6 on the front side of the formwork shell 3 and is able to spring back. It is also possible to use a shorter sliding tube 9, which, for example, is no longer than the diameter thereof (not shown), so that the tie rod 2 can be obliquely positioned when the tie holes 6 in opposing panel formwork elements 1 are not aligned. Behind a sliding tube 9 of such a length, a gap surrounding the tie rod 2 in the tie hole 6 allows the oblique positioning of the tie rod 2. So as to be able to push the sealing element 10, together with the tie rod 2, through the tie hole 6, such a short sliding tube 9 is preferably axially secured or securable on the tie rod 2 at least in a push-through direction. It is also possible for a ring or a disk, which, for example, is only one millimeter, or several millimeters, or a few millimeters thick or which, for example, is not thicker than the gap between the tie rod 2 and the tie hole 6, to be disposed on the tie rod 2 for pushing the sealing element 10 through the tie hole 6 (not shown). A ring or a disk is also preferably axially secured or securable on the tie rod 2 in the push-through direction.

[0024] The sealing element 10 is composed of a compliant, elastically and/or plastically deformable component, for example an elastomer, and comprises a cylindrical tube-shaped section 13 and a hollow truncated cone-shaped section 14, which at the end thereof having the smaller diameter transitions in one piece into the hollow cylindrical tube-shaped section 13 by way of an annular step 15 (FIG. 2). Leading away from the hollow cylindrical tube-shaped section 13, the hollow truncated cone-shaped section 14 expands to the largest diameter of the sealing element 10, which is greater than the diameter of the tie hole 6 in the formwork shell 3 of the panel formwork element 1. At an end having the smaller diameter, a diameter of the hollow cone-shaped section 14 of the sealing element 10 is not greater than the diameter of the tie hole 6 in the formwork shell 3. A diameter of the cylindrical tube-shaped section 13 of the sealing element 10 is smaller. The sealing element 10 is pushed onto the tie rod 2, with the hollow truncated cone-shaped section 14 facing the abutment 8. A wall thickness of the sealing element 10 is not greater than the difference in radius between the tie hole 6 in the formwork shell 3 and in the frame 5 of the panel formwork element 1 and the tied rod 2. In the exemplary embodiment, the wall thickness of the sealing element 10 is not greater than the difference in radius between the tie hole 6 and the sliding tube 9, so that the sealing element 10 pushed onto the tie rod 2 can be pushed, together with the sliding tube 9 that is axially fixed on the tie rod 2, through the tie hole 6 in the frame 4 and in the formwork shell 3 of the panel formwork element 1. During pushing through, the tie hole 6 in the frame 4 and in the formwork shell 3 elastically or plastically compresses the hollow truncated cone-shaped section 14 of the sealing element 10, which is made of an elastomer or compliant in another manner, so that the sealing element 10 can be pushed through the tie hole 6 in the frame 4 and in the formwork shell 3 of the panel formwork element 1. Prior to placing the tie rod 2 through the tie hole 6, the sliding tube 9 is moved away from the abutment 8 of the tie rod 2, by turning/screwing on the tie rod 2, to such an extent that this pushes the sealing element 10 completely through the formwork shell 3, and the hollow truncated cone-shaped section 14 exits the tie hole 6 on the front side of the formwork shell 3. Due to the elasticity thereof, the truncated cone-shaped section 14 of the sealing element 10 expands to a greater diameter than the diameter of the tie hole 6 in the formwork shell 3.

[0025] Thereafter, the opposing panel formwork elements 1 are jointly tensioned, which is to say brought to the intended distance thereof, by turning of the nut 7. The sleeve 11, the end of which is seated on the hollow cylindrical tube-shaped section 13 of the sealing element 10 and which pushes against the annular step 15 of the sealing element 10, moves the end face of the hollow truncated cone-shaped section 14 of the sealing element 10 having the greater diameter in sealing contact with the front side of the formwork shell 3 of the panel formwork element 1. The sealing element 10 provides sealing between the sleeve 11 and the formwork shell 3 of the panel formwork element 1, and thus of the lead-through for the tie rod 10 through the tie hole 6 in the panel formwork element 1.

[0026] A sealing element is likewise disposed on the tie rod 2 on the non-illustrated opposing panel formwork element 1 of the double-sided formwork, providing sealing between the sleeve 11 and the opposing panel formwork element. This sealing element can be designed identically to or differently from the shown sealing element 10. The sleeve 11 holds the opposing panel formwork elements 1 at the intended distance with respect to one another. Moreover, this allows the tie rod 2 to be recovered, by pulling this out of the sleeve 11, after the concrete has set and the panel formwork elements 1 have been removed, which is referred to as striking. Thus, the invention allows for a threaded bar having a continuous thread, serving as a recoverable tie rod 2 in the case of one-sided anchoring.

[0027] During the rotation of the tie rod 2, together with the nut 7 that us non-rotatable thereon, for tensioning of the opposing panel formwork elements 1, the sliding tube 9 does not rotate together therewith when the collar 12 thereof rests against the rear side of the frame 4 of the panel formwork element 1. As a result, the sliding tube 9 does not push the sealing element 10 away from the front side of the formwork shell 3 of the panel formwork element 1.