Insulated masonry block and wall

An insulated masonry block comprising:

• a first masonry facing member comprising a first rectangular element and second rectangular element, each having a lower surface and upper surface defining its height, an outer surface and inner surface defining its width, and a first end surface and second end surface defining its length, said upper and lower surfaces of said first and second elements being in respective upper and lower parallel planes and said second element extending outward at right angles from the inner surface of said first element such that said second end surface of the first element and said outer surface of the second element define a singular plane;
• a second masonry facing member having a lower surface and upper surface defining its height, and outer surface and inner surface defining its width and a first end surface and second end surface defining its length, said inner surface opposing the inner surface of the first element of said first facing member, the first end surfaces of said first and second facing members defining a singular plane, the upper surfaces of said first and second members defining a singular plane, and the lower surfaces of said first and second facing members defining a singular plane;
• said second facing member having a length substantially less than the length of said first facing member;
• a substantially three-dimensionally rectangular core member of rigid insulating material configured to extend between the opposing inner surfaces of the first and second facing member;
• said core member having a first outer surface contacting and corresponding with the inner surface of the first element of the first facing member, an opposite second outer surface, corresponding, in part, with the inner surface of said second facing member, a first planar end surface in the same plane as defined by the first ends of the first and second facing members, and a second end surface contacting and corresponding to the inner surface of the second element of the first masonry facing member;
• an adhesive means for affixing the inner surfaces of the first and second elements of the first facing member and the inner surface of the second facing member to the contacting surfaces of said core member;
• wherein said core member further defines a linear indentation of a defined depth in its upper surface, said indentation running at right angles from and through the first end surface of said core member to a point on the upper surface of said core member equidistant between the inner surfaces of said first element and second element and then at right angles parallel to the length dimension of the second rectangular element to and through the second outer surface of said core member;
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• said core member further comprises a linear protrusion of defined height on its lower surface, said protrusion being configured to fit within said linear indentation, in a male-female relationship.

An insulated masonry block comprising:

• a first masonry facing member and a second masonry facing member each comprising a first rectangular element and a second rectangular element, each rectangular element having a lower surface and upper surface defining its height, an outer surface and inner surface defining its width, and a first end surface and second surface defining its length, said upper and lower surfaces of said first and second elements of each facing member being in respective upper and lower parallel planes;
• the inner surfaces of the first and second masonry facing members opposing each other, in parallel;
• the second element of the first facing member extending outward at right angles from the inner surface of said first element, such that the second end surface of the first element and the outer surface of the second element define a singular plane;
• the first element of the second facing member being aligned so that the length dimension of its upper surface is parallel to the length dimension of the upper surface of the first element of the first facing member;
• said second element of the second facing member extending outward at right angles from the outer surface of said first element such that the second end surface of the first element and said inner surface of the second element define a singular plane;
• the first end surface and second end surface of the first element of each facing member being in a singular vertical plane and the second end surface of the second element of each facing member being a singular vertical plane;
• a core member of rigid insulating material having an upper substantially planar surface and a lower substantially planar surface, configured to extend between the opposing inner surfaces of the first and second facing members;
• said core member having a first outer surface and a second outer surface contacting and corresponding, respectively, to the entire opposing inner surfaces of the first and second facing members, and two substantially planar end surfaces;
• an adhesive means for affixing the inner surfaces of said facing members to the contacting outer surfaces of said core member;
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• said core member further defines a linear indentation of a defined depth in its upper surface, said indentation running at right angles from and through the first end surface of said core member to a point on the upper surface of said core member approximately equidistant between the inner surfaces of said first element and second elements and at right angles from said point parallel to the inner face of said second rectangular element to and through the second outer surface of said core member.

An insulated masonry block wall assembly, comprising:

• A. a first plurality of masonry blocks, each block comprised of:
• a first masonry facing member;
• a second masonry facing member correspondingly aligned in parallel with said first member;
• each facing member further comprising an outer substantially planar surface and an opposing inner substantially planar surface defining a width dimension;
• an upper substantially planar surface and lower substantially planar surface, defining a height dimension a first end substantially planar surface and second end substantially planar surface, defining a length dimension, the respective planes of said upper, lower and end planar surfaces being at substantially right angles with the planes defined by the outer and inner surfaces of said parallel first and second facing members;
• a substantially three-dimensionally rectangular core member of rigid insulating material configured to extend between the opposing inner surfaces of the parallel facing members;
• said core member having a first outer surface and second outer surface contacting and corresponding, respectively, to the opposing inner surfaces of the first and second facing members, an upper surface, a lower surface, and two end surfaces, with the first and second outer surfaces extending above the plane defined by the upper surfaces of said facing members;
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• an adhesive means for affixing the inner surfaces of said facing members to the contacting outer surfaces of said core member;
• a plurality of apertures defined by and extending through said core member between and through its upper surface and lower surface, one aperture being centered at a point equidistant between a point equidistant between the two end surfaces and one end surface and one aperture centered equidistant between a point equidistant between the two end surfaces and the other end surface;
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• said core member further defining a linear indentation of a defined depth in its upper surface running between and through the two end surfaces of said core member;
• B. a second plurality of masonry blocks according to said first plurality A, wherein said core member further comprises a linear protrusion of a defined height, on its lower surface, running between the two end surfaces of said core member, said protrusion being configured to fit within a like indentation as described in said first plurality of masonry blocks, in a male-female relationship;
• said first plurality of blocks being linearly aligned in a base course of blocks so that the second end planar surfaces of each block oppose and approximate the first end planar surfaces of the succeeding block in said linear arrangement;
• said second plurality of blocks likewise linearly aligned in a first upper course so that the lower substantially planar surfaces of the facing members of each block of said first upper course oppose and approximate the upper substantially planar surface of the blocks of said base course;
• a plurality of additional sequentially upper courses of said second plurality of blocks, likewise linearly aligned so that the lower planar surfaces of the facing members of each successive course oppose and approximate the substantially planar upper surfaces of the preceding course of blocks;
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• a means for joining individual blocks in linear alignment and a means for joining said base, first upper, and sequentially upper courses of blocks.