Composite building system and method of manufacturing same and components therefore
OwnerRussell P. Ellison, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A composite building system includes a special joist having a lower flange in one embodiment and a special ladder reinforcement in another embodiment, a plurality of special masonry blocks defining a longitudinal trough, the blocks having mutually co-planar upper surfaces and at least one stepped upper edge, the stepped upper edges of the plurality of blocks running substantially transverse the trough in a grid-like pattern, a network of wire lateral reinforcement disposed in at least some of the stepped edges; and a flowable or fluid grout filling the stepped edges and the trough and, when cured, binding the joist or ladder reinforcement and the plurality of blocks to form an integral steel reinforced concrete structure having a substantially planar surface.
Claims3
A steel reinforded masonry slab comprising:
- a multiplicity of masonry blocks arranged in rows and columns with each of said masonry blocks having two sides, two ends at least one of which is open and a top and bottom;
- ledges running the entire length of each block on each of the two sides adjacent said top;
- spaces between one said end of said blocks in one column and one said end of said blocks in an adjacent column;
- a reinforcing ladder having two spaced apart longitudinal wires connected by evenly spaced transverse wires perpendicular to said longitudinal wires located between the rows of said masonry block with said longitudinal wires on said ledges and said transverse wires in said spaces between the ends of said blocks;
- reinforcing bars located in said spaces between the ends of said blocks running perpendicular to said reinforcing ladder;
- and cured grout filling said spaces between the ends of said blocks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.