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US 5,315,802 AGranted
Modular wall system
AssigneeSolite Corporation
InventorThomas W. Hart
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InventorThomas W. Hart
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Construction block units having spaced vertical bores with angularly disposed reduced rear access openings are assembled without mortar and have elongated rearwardly extending anchors with head ends received in the bores, the outer portions of adjacent converging anchors interengaging and supported so that the head ends extend vertically above a row of units for engagement by a second row of units to form a retaining wall. A freestanding wall is formed by parallel rows of facing block units interengaged by anchors having head ends at each end engaging angularly disposed bore openings in the facing offset units and supported so that the head ends extend into successive stacked staggered units. A column is formed by alternate courses of corner units having angularly disposed bores and side block units interconnected at each course level by anchors having head ends at each end and engaging side units across each of the corners and supported so that the head ends extend into successive rows of corner and side units. Various arrangements of combinations of the wall types with corners and columns is possible due to the arrangement of bores in the block and corner units and the configuration of the two anchor types.
A masonry construction block assembly unit comprising a block member having an outer face, upper and lower substantially parallel planar bearing surfaces, end walls and a rear wall, said block member having a plurality of spaced bores extending vertically therethrough, each of said bores having an access opening through said rear wall, the diameter of each bore exceeding the width of its access opening, each said bore having a lateral axis substantially parallel to the plane of the bearing surfaces of the block member and extending centrally of the bore and its access opening, said block member having first and second bores and access openings at its remote ends whose respective lateral axes converge generally toward each other, said block member having third and fourth intermediate bores in spaced relation and adjacent to said first and second bores, respectively, the lateral axes of said third and fourth bores diverging generally away from the center of the block member, and said first second, third and fourth bores including portions lying substantially in a common vertical plane.
A masonry construction block assembly unit comprising a block member having perpendicularly disposed outer face portions, upper and lower substantially parallel planar bearing surfaces, end walls and a rear wall, said block member having a plurality of spaced bores extending vertically therethrough, each of said bores having an access opening through said rear wall, the diameter of each bore exceeding the width of its access opening, each said bore having a lateral axis substantially parallel to the planes of the bearing surfaces of the block member and extending centrally of the bore and its access opening, said block member having opposed first and second bores whose lateral axes substantially coincide, and a third bore intermediate said first and second bores and substantially equally spaced therefrom.
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