Prefab brickwork
OwnerWallace J. Laneinventor
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Abstract
Prefabricated, light-weight, columnar or rectangular, convertible to fencing or stand-alone columns resemble solid brick and masonry structures built by skilled masons. Modules comprise heavy duty durable plastic liners with corner reinforcements comprising heavy duty square plastic tubing, faced with concrete, mortar and exterior brick and mortar. Modules are erected on concrete footings equipped with (1) raised studs that mate with square plastic tubing and (2) embedded anchor bolts which mate with bottom apertures. Ends of rectangular modules are bolted together and columnar faces. Capitols are of same plastic faced with concrete or mortar and brick veneer. Black plastic tubing simulating wrought iron may be disposed along wall tops. Module inner spaces may be ballast-filled.
Claims9
A prefabricated, lightweight square or rectangular module comprising:
- (a) a heavy duty square or rectangular plastic wall section comprising heavy duty liner material reinforced in each corner with heavy duty plastic tubing, which plastic liner encompasses an inner core of air and is sheathed in an outer veneer of brick and mortar on exterior faces that are to be exposed and has a veneer of cement on lateral surfaces that are to be bolted together, which is equipped with
- (b) a separate footing member of solid heavy duty plastic of the same outer dimension as the wall section and is equipped with bolt holes for bolting it to a preprepared concrete footing and with snap-in pegs on its upper surface that are positioned and adapted to mate the corner plastic tubing members of the wall section when the unit is assembled, and
- (c) a separate capitol member comprised of solid heavy duty plastic overlaid with an outer veneer of cement or brick and mortar and equipped with snap-in pegs on its under surface that are adapted to mate at the top with the corner tubing members of the wall section when the unit is assembled.
A columnar member in which the ballast material comprises cement or concrete which has been allowed to cure before installation of the capitol member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.