US 4,263,765 AGranted

High mass wall module for environmentally driven heating and cooling system

AssigneeOne Design, Inc.

InventorTimothy Maloney

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Abstract

Each module includes a block body and an outer wear surface joined by one or more separator webs. The block body either is massive as constructed, or receives a massive filling, such as concrete, at the job site. Provision is also made for providing a filling of thermal insulation such as foamed synthetic plastic for the module. Modules are stacked and coursed to make walls. Mortar may be used between adjacent modules, and/or the module walls may be facially coated with a substance which securely interconnects the modules. Such walls have a high interior mass, insulated on the exterior and protected exteriorly of the insulation by the wear surface. The high mass tends to assume room temperature and perform as a thermal energy flywheel. Some measures for partial prefabrication of module parts are disclosed.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A high mass module for an environmentally driven heating and cooling system, said module comprising:

a block body for incorporating massive material;
an outer wear surface member ranked outside the block body, with a space thus defined therebetween;
separator web means extending between and joining the block body to the outer wear surface member;
the block body is generally tubular, having a lumen for receipt of a massive filling;
the separator web means comprising two laterally spaced webs of thin, flexible sheet material;
and two respective securement means for securing both the webs to the block body and to the weatherable surface member;
said block body including a generally vertical slot connecting the exterior of the outer side of the block body with the lumen thereof, and at one end thereof one of said webs has the respective securement means stuck through said slot and bearing against the block body both internally of the lumen and externally of the slot to lock that end of that web to the block body;
a second generally tubular block body coursed along with the first-mentioned block body and having a lumen for receipt of a massive filling;
the second block body including a generally vertical slot connecting the exterior of the outer side of the second block body with the lumen thereof;
the last-mentioned web further including a branch web, based thereon at the opposite end of that web, and having a free end provided with a third securement means;
the third securement means being stuck through the slot of said second block body and bearing against the second block body both internally of the lumen of the second block body and externally of the slot of the second block body to lock the free end that web branch to the second block body.

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A high mass module for an environmentally driven heating and cooling system, said module comprising:

a block body for incorporating massive material;
an outer wear surface member ranked outside the block body, with a space thus defined therebetween;
separator web means extending between and joining the block body to the outer wear surface member;
at least one of said block body and said weatherable surface member being a generally rectangular-sided three-dimensional object having a plurality of edges where respective two adjacent sides meet;
the separator web means comprising two laterally spaced webs of thin, flexible sheet material;
and two respective securement means for securing both the webs to the block body and to the weatherable surface member;
the three-dimensional object including means defining two generally vertical grooves therein ramked on opposite sides of one of said edges, adjacent that one edge;
and
at one end thereof, one of said webs having the respective securement means constituted by a pair of generally right angle-opposed fingers respectively inserted into said two generally vertical grooves to lock that end of that web to the three-dimensional object.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 05/942,131Filed 13 Sep 1978
Granted: 28 Apr 1981
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

E04B 1/4185
Masonry wall ties: for cavity walls with both wall leaves made of masonry
E04B 2/44
Walls having cavities between, as well as in, the elements; Walls of elements each consisting of two or more parts, kept in distance by means of…:…
E04B 2/54
Walls having cavities between, as well as in, the elements; Walls of elements each consisting of two or more parts, kept in distance by means of…:…
E04B 2002/021
Non-undercut connections, e.g. tongue and groove connections: of triangular shape