Multi-purpose building block, and a building system comprising the same
OwnerSaeed Albawabinventor
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Abstract
A building block may be designed to hold utilities, including but not limited to, electricity and plumbing. Such a building block can resist compression forces and moment and can connect to other building blocks to form a modular wall system with the ability to distribute the forces in a way that reduces the stresses on each individual block. The building block may include a body with an upper end and a lower end, one or more main compartments, and one or more inner pass-through openings, wherein the upper end includes one or more protrusions, and the lower end comprises one or more intrusions and one or more slots. A building system may include more than one such building blocks and a base.
Claims20
A building block, comprising:
- a body comprising an upper end, a lower end, and a plurality of holes configured to receive a back separable cover and a front separable cover, the body having a first side between a low point of the upper end and a high point of the lower end and a second side between a high point of the upper end and a low point of the lower end, a first extension direction along the first side being parallel to a second extension direction along the second side, the first side, second side, upper end, and lower end defining a substantially trapezoidal form;
- a first main compartment;
- an inner pass-through opening;
- a first set of tapered lateral protrusions defining a first lateral dove-tail passageway;
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- a second set of tapered lateral protrusions defining a second lateral dove-tail passageway,
- wherein the upper end comprises a protrusion extending in the first and second extension direction of the building block beyond the upper end in the trapezoidal form,
- wherein the lower end comprises (i) a slot and (ii) an intrusion, the intrusion intruding into the lower end in a direction of the upper end and removing a volume so as to accommodate the protrusion,
- wherein the lower end and upper end are flanged such that the upper end connects with the lower end in the slot of the lower end, and
- wherein, if present, the front and back separable covers are configured to substantially cover the first main compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.