Retaining wall system

In a retaining wall system wherein like interlocking wall defining blocks are laid in horizontal courses one upon the other in end to end relation with the upper blocks interlocking with the lower blocks and displaceable therealong in sliding fit and therebeyond to overlap the adjacent ends of the lower blocks to thereby define a wall structure uniformly inclined to the vertical and wherein a plurality of interlocking anchoring blocks and laid at intervals throughout its extent in horizontal courses interlocking with said wall defining blocks and extending therefrom at substantially right angles thereto in the direction of the inclination of said wall structure, each of said blocks having an axis terminating in spaced apart end walls and bounded by generally flat top and bottom walls arranged in parallel relation to said axis and to each other and by front and rear facings extending from end wall to end wall and so separated as to provide a substantially uniform cross-section throughout the axial extent of same, projecting means upstanding from said top wall and extending axially of said block between said end walls and spaced inwardly from said front facing to present an uninterrupted flat top wall portion therebetween said bottom wall having recess means therein likewise spaced inwardly from said front facing and extending axially of said block between said end walls said projecting means and said recess means having a configuration and extent so as to matingly interlock in sliding fit when such blocks are disposed in horizontal courses to present said projecting means upwardly said projecting means being spaced rearwardly in relation to said axis a selected event exceeding that of said recess means whereby each overlying horizontal course of said blocks are uniformly set back from the next below horizontal couse of said blocks so as to define a uniformly inclined wall structure at a selected angle to the vertical and anchored at intervals throughout its extent by said anchoring blocks.

In a retaining wall system wherein a plurality of like interlocking wall defining blocks extend in horizontal couses in end to end abutment and one upon the other in overlapping interlocking retaining wall defining relation and wherein a plurality of interlocking anchoring blocks are laid in horizontal couses and extend at right angles from said plurality of wall defining blocks in wall anchoring relaton thereto at intervals throughout the extent of same, said wall defining blocks and anchoring blocks each having a generally parallel flat top and bottom wall end walls and a front and rear facing, projecting means upstanding from said top wall and extending therealong between said end walls and uniformly set back from said front facing so as to present an uninterrupted flat top wall portion therebetween, said bottom wall having recess means therein extending therealong between said end walls and likewise uniformly set back from said front facing, said projecting means being offset rearwardly in relation to said recess means and having a matching extent and configuration in relation to said recess means such that when the projecting means of lower blocks in one horizontal course are registered within the recess means of blocks in a horizontal course thereabove the front facings of the upper blocks are substantially uniformly rearwardly offset from the front facings of the lower blocks and displaceable longitudinally therealong in sliding fit to overlap the end walls of the lower blocks and wherein said projecting means of said wall anchoring blocks includes at least a second projecting means uniformly set back rearwardly from said first mentioned projecting means to present an uninterrupted flat top wall portion therebetween and a second recess means likewise set back from said first mentioned projecting means, whereby a substantially uniform inclination to the vertical is imparted to said plurality of end to end abutting overlapping interlocking blocks secured against displacement by said plurality of interlocking wall anchoring blocks extending therefrom and with that part of said wall anchoring blocks extending from said first mentioned wall defining blocks presenting said second projecting means and recess means respectively for interlocking engagement with a plurality of like interlocking wall defining blocks extending in horizontal courses and in parallel relation to said first mentioned wall defining blocks.

In an interlocking block structure the combination with a plurality of like lower supporting blocks arranged to extend in side by side parallel relation to one another of a plurality of like upper blocks mounted thereon and extending therebetween at substantially right angles thereto, said lower supporting blocks each including parallel flat top and bottom walls and end walls and a front and rear facing each of said lower supporting blocks including a plurality of projecting means upstanding from said top wall therof in uniformly separated rows extending in a direction substantially parallel to said front facing said row adjacent said front facing being spaced inwardly therefrom and presenting a flat top wall portion therebetween and said bottom walls having a plurality of recesses therein in uniformly separated rows extending in a direction substantially parallel to said front facing, said upstanding projecting means being offset in relation to said recess means and having a matching extent and configuration such that when the plurality of projecting means of one such block are registered within the matching recess means of another such block the front facings of such blocks are substantially uniformly offset in relation to each other, each said upper blocks each including a generally parallel flat top and bottom wall end walls and a front and rear facing, with said bottom wall of said upper block having recess means therein extending therealong between said end walls thereof and uniformly set back from the front facing thereof, said recess means of said upper block having a matching extent and configuration in relation to said projecting means of said lower supporting blocks such that when the projecting means of said lower supporting blocks are registered within the recess means of said superior block the front facings of the upper blocks are substantially uniformly rearwardly offset from the front facings of said lower supporting blocks.