Modular wall block, interlocking block assembly, and retaining wall constructed of an assembly of modular wall blocks
AssigneeRidgerock Retaining Walls, Inc.
InventorCurtis Shillingburg
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Abstract
A modular wall block is adapted for being assembled together with a number of other blocks in stacked courses to form a retaining wall. First and second spaced apart formations are located at a rear of the block body and define therebetween a vertical fastener channel. The vertical fastener channel is adapted for receiving a complementary shaped formation of a rearwardly placed embedment block.
Claims20
A modular wall block adapted for being assembled together with a number of other blocks in stacked courses to form a retaining wall, said wall block comprising:
- a block body having a front and rear, top and bottom, and opposing sides, and an intermediate block wall located between said front and rear and extending between said opposing sides, said top and bottom defining respective substantially planar stacking surfaces;
- first and second spaced apart formations located at the rear of said block body and defining there between a vertical fastener channel, and wherein said vertical fastener channel is adapted for receiving a complementary shaped formation of a rearwardly placed embedment block;
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- a shear lug formed with said intermediate block wall between said first and second formations and projecting from one of the planar stacking surfaces of said block body.
An interlocking block assembly adapted for incorporating in a retaining wall, said block assembly comprising:
- a face block comprising:
- (i) a face block body having a front and rear, top and bottom, and opposing sides, said top and bottom defining respective substantially planar stacking surfaces;
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- (ii) first and second spaced apart formations located at the rear of said face block body and defining therebetween a vertical fastener channel;
- an embedment block comprising:
- (i) an embedment block body having a front and rear, top and bottom, and opposing sides, said top and bottom defining respective first and second substantially planar stacking surfaces, and wherein each side of said block body has an intermediate portion which extends vertically from a first point coplanar to one of said first and second stacking surfaces to a second point spaced apart from another of said first and second stacking surfaces;
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- (ii) first and second spaced apart rear formations located at the rear of said embedment block body and defining therebetween a vertical fastener channel of said embedment block.
A retaining wall constructed of an assembly of modular wall blocks arranged in stacked courses, each of said wall blocks comprising:
- a block body having a front and rear, top and bottom, and opposing sides, and an intermediate block wall located between said front and rear and extending between said opposing sides, said top and bottom defining respective substantially planar stacking surfaces;
- first and second spaced apart formations located at the rear of said block body, and defining therebetween a vertical fastener channel, and wherein said vertical fastener channel is adapted for receiving a complementary shaped formation of a rearwardly placed embedment block;
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- a shear lug formed with said intermediate block wall between said first and second formations and projecting from one of the planar stacking surfaces of said block body.
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