Interlocking building block
OwnerOlivier W. Aurasinventor
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Abstract
A rectangular building block with surface indentations corresponding to a geometrical arrangement of rhombic dodecahedral elements. The indentations are designed to interlock closely with those of the adjoining blocks in order to provide a mortarless bond.
Claims4
A building block having the general shape of a six sided rectangular solid and an outline corresponding to the agglutination of a plurality of interlocked identical elements each having the form of a symmetrical rhombic dodecahedron wherein each said rhombic dodecahedron is positioned so that two of its diagonally opposite vertices are in an axis parallel to a first edge of said rectangular solid and each of the faces parallel to said axis is in a plane forming a forty-five degree angle with the other edges of said rectangular solid which are perpendicular to said first edge.
The building block claimed in 1 wherein the length, width, and depth dimensions of said rectangular solid are of different sizes and wherein the second largest dimension is a multiple of the smallest dimension and the largest dimension is a multiple of the second largest dimension.
The building block claimed in 2 wherein said agglutination comprises one hundred eight elements positioned in three interlocking strata each comprising six interlocking rows of elements.
The building block claimed in 3 having at least a transversal hole in the center of a face.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.