US 4,095,384 A · Building block wall fabricating device

Abstract

At current high cost of materials and labor, a preferred embodiment of the present invention makes possible easy do-it-yourself erecting of building block walls of proper alignment and of sturdy structure with easy handling materials of a simple nature, including an elongated sheet strip of corrugated cardboard having tar coating upper and lower broad faces of the strip, with length-wise spaced-apart markers indicating consecutive length units, and having on each of lateral side faces the corrugated cardboard series of consecutive openings, with the strip width being less than the width of the blocks under which and above which foundation and/or tiers of blocks are to be mounted such that a groove is formed for each additional tier between that tier and the support foundation or tier therebeneath, into such groove a mortar or other binder composition is insertable to be pressed into the corrugation openings in which the mortar or other binder hardens to set-up securing the mortar or binder against the possibility of cracking away from and/or out of the groove(s) and welding the tiers solidly together, there being similar short fin strips between the end to end blocks with opposing end flat faces pressed flushly against opposite tar-coated faces and with the corrugated cardboard openings facing in each of opposite lateral side direction in directions axially perpendicular to front and back wall faces such that the mortar is pressed also into vertical grooves between end faces of serially consecutive blocks into the corrugated fin strip openings.

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Dependent claims

A method of fabricating a building block wall comprising in combination:

lineally serially aligning end to end a series of building blocks;
placing between serially consecutive block ends and between consecutive tiers, an elongated sheet structure means of a first predetermined thickness having each of opposite lateral side faces extending longitudinally along the sheet structure means in substantially parallel alignment with one another and each of the parallel lateral side faces defining aperture structure forming a series of laterally-facing apertures, the sheet structure means being of a second predetermined width such that the predetermined width is less than a building block with which the sheet structure means is to be employed, and the sheet structure means including on each of upper and lower faces thereof a binder composition coated along upper and lower faces of the sheet structure means.

Building blocks fabricating-element device comprising in combination:

an elongated sheet structure means of a first predetermined thickness having each of opposite lateral side faces extending longitudinally along the sheet structure means in substantially parallel alignment with one another and each of the parallel lateral side faces defining aperature structure forming a series of laterally-facing exposed recess-spaces, the sheet structure means being of a second predetermined width such that the predetermined width is less than a building block with which the sheet structure means is to be employed, and the sheet structure means including each of upper and lower faces thereof and an exposed binder composition exteriorly coated along the upper and lower faces of the sheet structure means, the binder composition comprising substantially a tar material as an outer-coating of third predetermined thickness sufficient for the setting and adjusting of blocks therein along an upper face of the cardboard strip and sufficient for concurrent setting and adjusting of the cardboard strip on a supporting surface therebeneath, the sheet structure comprising corrugated cardboard strip having substantially flat upper and lower faces, and end-gasket strips each of a fifth predetermined length of a dimension less than a predetermined building block to be employed therewith extending vertically across the end of each of opposite ends of the building block, with each of opposite lateral side faces including serially additional aperature structure forming an additional series of laterally-facing exposed recess-spaces, there being the tar material on each of opposite broad faces of the respective end-gasket strips, and the end-gasket strip being of a sixth predetermined width of a dimension less than the width of the building blocks with which the end-gasket strips are to be employed, and groove filler composition, the groove filler composition being a setting-type binder, and a plurality of building blocks of substantially cuboid shape having upper and lower and opposite end substantially squared faces relative to other sides such that consecutively serially arranged building blocks are lineally alignable with one another and such that building blocks placed one on top of the other with the sheet structure means strip therebetween are substantially lineally alignable upwardly with one another insofar as lateral faces thereof.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Building block wall fabricating device

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