Modular building blocks and building system
OwnerJohn David Ruloninventor
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Abstract
Devices, structures, and methods for designing, constructing, and fitting modular structural building blocks together into a unified structure. Modular blocks are rapidly fit together into finished assemblies. Finished assemblies include reinforcing elements aligned in a structurally sound pattern. The unified structure includes walls, provisions for corners, and provisions for door/window spaces. The unified structure optionally includes raised floors or lowered ceilings, offset from ordinary associated height, using blocks disposed side-by-side with intermediate supports. The unified structure optionally includes one or more curved structures, such as vaulted ceilings, rounded walls or silos, tunnels, or otherwise.
Claims24
A modular structural building block, including a first and second wall;
- an iterated interlocking equilateral triangular structure disposed between the first and the second wall,
- each triangular structure including one or more internal walls between the first and the second wall,
- the triangular structures alternating in opposite orientations;
- each internal wall including one or more protrusions/recesses, the protrusions/recesses alternating in orientation,
- wherein the protrusions/recesses each form one or more vertical offsets, the vertical offsets alternating in opposite vertical offsets,
- whereby a block fits into a rigid structure when its protrusions/recesses match that of another said block, wherein the protrusions/recesses are disposed so that rotations about the block about at least three coordinates still allow the protrusions/recesses to fit together with at most one rotation of one said block;
- wherein an end-piece includes a partially solid triangular structure,
- whereby the block includes an edge having a right-angle perpendicular to the first or second wall.
A modular structural building block, including
- a first and second wall;
- an iterated interlocking equilateral triangular structure disposed between the first and the second wall,
- each triangular structure including one or more internal walls between the first and the second wall,
- the triangular structures alternating in opposite orientations;
- each internal wall including one or more protrusions/recesses, the protrusions/recesses alternating in orientation,
- wherein the protrusions/recesses each form one or more vertical offsets, the vertical offsets alternating in opposite vertical offsets,
- whereby a block fits into a rigid structure when its protrusions/recesses match that of another said block, wherein the protrusions/recesses are disposed so that rotations about the block about at least three coordinates still allow the protrusions/recesses to fit together with at most one rotation of one said block;
- wherein a top of the block is disposed at a non-parallel angle to a bottom of the block, whereby a stack including the block and one or more other said blocks forms a structure curved about a vertical radius of curvature, whereby the structure is disposed as a vault above a defined area.
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