Glass brick wall

A glass brick wall having at least one separation strip and a vertical frame member with a plurality of vertically spaced horizontal slots, wherein each glass brick is made from edge welded together dish-like sections having a weld bead extending around the brick in a shallow recessed side wall thereof, each separation strip being self locating in adjacent recesses of adjacent horizontal runs of bricks, each separation strip having transversely spaced pairs of back-to-back channels for holding jointing paste and opposed relatively thick longitudinally extending marginal edge portions adjacent the channels and there being provided at the juncture between the channels and the marginal edge portions, recess register means adapted to project into the glass brick recess to automatically locate the separation strip, each pair of back-to-back channels sharing a relatively thin wall and the separation strip having a relatively thick central medial portion located over the weld bead, and at least one end of a separation strip projecting into a respective horizontal slot in said frame member.

A curved glass brick wall including a vertical frame member having a plurality of vertically spaced horizontal slots, and a separation strip between adjacent horizontal runs of glass bricks, the separation strip having cut-out portions at spaced intervals between straight separation strip sections so that the cut-out portions provide a bending site so adjacent straight separation strip sections in the wall are angled relative to one another to provide an overall curve, at least one end of said separation strip coupling with a corresponding horizontal slot of said vertical frame member.

A glass brick wall comprising a plurality of generally rectangular glass bricks layed in horizontal runs between spaced elongated vertically extending support frame members, the wall having horizontally extending elongated separation strips between adjacent horizontal runs, characterized in that, the separation strips have opposed longitudinally extending beading locating the separation strips between the runs of bricks and each separation strip being supported on at least one end by a bracket having a support member projecting into a space between a channel of an adjacent glass brick and the separation strip.

A glass brick wall having a support assembly utilizing channels so formed in the glass bricks to support a separation strip between adjacent glass bricks, the separation strip having opposed longitudinally extending beading locating the separation strip in said channels of said adjacent glass bricks and the separation strip being supported on at least one end by a bracket having a support member projecting into a space between a channel of an adjacent glass brick and the separation strip.

A glass brick wall comprising:

• a plurality of generally rectangular glass bricks layed in horizontal runs between spaced elongated vertically extending support frame members, the wall having horizontally extending elongated separation strips between adjacent horizontal runs, characterized in that, the vertical support frame members present a face incorporating vertically spaced apertures receiving said separation strips,
• wherein each of said vertical support frame members has a channel-like cross-section including a bridging web section extending between opposed flanges, said face comprising an outer face of said web section and a vertical run of said bricks abuts against said outer face of said web section.

A glass brick wall comprising:

• a plurality of generally rectangular glass bricks layed in horizontal runs between spaced elongated vertically extending support frame members, the wall having horizontally extending elongated separation strips between adjacent horizontal runs, characterized in that, the vertical support frame members present a face incorporating vertically spaced apertures receiving said separation strips,
• wherein each of said vertical frame members has a channel-like cross-section including a bridging web section extending between opposed flanges, at least one of said flanges having at least one return flange, the return flange incorporating vertically spaced apertures aligned with said apertures in said face to provide pairs of apertures and the respective separation strips are received in each pair of apertures.

A glass brick wall comprising:

• a plurality of generally rectangular glass bricks layed in horizontal runs between spaced elongated vertically extending support frame members, the wall having horizontally extending elongated separation strips between adjacent horizontal runs, characterized in that, the vertical support frame members present a face incorporating vertically spaced apertures receiving said separation strips,
• wherein each of said vertical frame members has a channel-like cross-section including a bridging web section extending between opposed flanges, at least one of said flanges having at least one return flange, the return flange incorporating vertically spaced apertures aligned with said apertures in said face to provide pairs of apertures and the respective separation strips are received in each pair of apertures, and
• wherein the separation strips are received in the apertures as a tight fit.

A glass brick wall comprising:

• a plurality of generally rectangular glass bricks layed in horizontal runs between spaced elongated vertically extending support frame members, the wall having horizontally extending elongated separation strips between adjacent horizontal runs, characterized in that, the vertical support frame members present a face incorporating vertically spaced apertures receiving said separation strips,
• wherein the support frame member has a channel-like cross-section including a bridging web section extending between opposed flanges and at least one return flange having a portion abutting against edges of the separation strips to align the separation strips within the support frame.