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US 4,269,013 AGranted
Insulated building block wall construction
OwnerEarl L. Westinventor
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Abstract
A building block having hollow cores therein with rigid insulating core panels inserted into each of the core cavities and having insulation sealing cap elements overlying said core panels and extending beyond the ends of the cores to overlie the masonry web portions formed between adjacent cavities and thereby form a continuous insulating sealing strip extending the full length of a block wall.
Claims3
In combination with a plurality of masonry building blocks having cavities formed therein and having masonry divider webs interposed between adjacent cavities,
- insulating barrier panels inserted into each cavity and constructed to define a cap-receiving groove in the upper portion thereof,
- a cap element with a portion thereof extending above each cavity and extending horizontally beyond each cavity to overlie a portion of each web and form with adjacent cap portions, a continuous barrier strip between adjacent rows of blocks while providing an insulating barrier within each block cavity,
- said cap element having a portion adapted to extend downward into the groove to produce a sealing retaining fit with the respective upper edges of said cavity barrier panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.