Device to facilitate the laying of masonry units
AssigneeHession Industries, Inc.
InventorsRodney J. Hession, Brent M. Hession
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Abstract
A device providing a guide to facilitate the laying of masonry units having side faces and a top surface to form a wall or the like. The device includes a plurality of clamping members for engaging the side faces of masonry units of a previously laid row or course with said clamping members providing a support for a rigid guide unit. The guide unit constitutes a straight edge against which masonry units may be positioned during the laying of a row or course of said units, whereby said units will be flush and level throughout said row or course, and in vertical alignment with the units of previously laid courses or rows.
Claims9
A device for facilitating the laying of courses of masonry units to form a wall or the like having inner and outer faces comprising at least a pair of spaced supporting units arranged to straddle a previously laid course of masonry units, said supporting units each constituting a rigid unitary structure including a top section having secured to one end thereof a first depending leg in a plane normal to the plane of the top section and a second depending leg secured to the other end of the top section at an obtuse angle with respect to the top section, each of said legs having pivotally connected thereto adjacent its lower end a shoe element, actuating means carried by the ends of said legs for moving said shoe elements into engagement with inner and outer faces of the wall for positioning said supporting units on the wall, said first leg having a pair of support members secured thereto in spaced relation to one another, an elongated rigid guide member interposed between and secured to said support members, said guide member locating the course for masonry units to be laid against it and upon previously laid course of masonry units.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.