Constructional components for use in a wall structure

A constructional component for a wall system definable in an xyz Cartesian coordinate system capable of resisting high gravity and lateral loads, both uniform and cyclical, the component comprising:

• a solid building block, formed of a constructional material, having a generally rectangular exterior configuration definable in said xyz Cartesian coordinate system, an x-axis thereof defining a width axis of said wall structure, a y-axis thereof defining the directionality of said wall structure, and a z-axis thereof defining a vertical axis of the wall structure, in which one xz end surface and one yz end surface of each building block comprises a positive y-axis deep key geometry, each of said geometries complementally interlockable to a negative geometry of an opposite surface, in which a ratio, of the width of a base of each positive deep key geometry to a width of each opposing xz end surface, comprises at least twenty percent of the entire x-axis width of each block, in which each y-axis deep key dimension of said respective deep key geometries also comprises a range of about eight to about twenty five percent of the x-axis dimension of said block, in which said block includes a plurality of vertical cavities extending through the entire z-axis length thereof, said cavities separated by a web portion, said cavities each including (i) a rectilinear recess at an upper xy surface of said block, said recess defining, in a xz plane cross section, a shallow U-shaped negative sub-platform, homologous with said recess, beneath and co-parallel with an xy top surface of said block, in which a vertical z-axis of said web begins at said negative sub-platform, and (ii) an opposite and lower xy surface of said block, at an opposite end z-axis end of said web, having an integral projecting positive sub-platform co-parallel with said negative sub-platform and complementally interlockable into adjoining negative sub-platforms of like blocks of vertically adjacent courses of blocks within said wall structure, each of said sub-platforms having a z-axis dimension in a range of about five to about twenty five percent of the x-axis dimension of said block,
• whereby a substantially rigid and load-resistant interlock between horizontally and vertically contiguous blocks, when joined as a component of a wall system, is resultant therefrom.

A constructional component for a wall system definable in an xyz Cartesian coordinate system capable of resisting high gravity and lateral loads, both uniform and cyclical, the component comprising:

• a solid building block, formed of a constructional material, having a generally rectangular exterior configuration definable in said xyz Cartesian coordinate system, an x-axis thereof defining a width axis of said wall structure, a y-axis thereof defining the directionality of said wall structure, and a z-axis thereof defining a vertical axis of the wall structure, in which one xz end surface of each building block comprises a positive y-axis deep key geometry and each opposing xz end surface thereof comprises a negative y-axis deep key geometry extending through an entire y-axis of the width of a wall of said xz end surface, said negative geometry complementally interlockable to said positive geometry of an opposite xz surface, in which a ratio, of the x-axis width of a base of each positive and negative deep key geometry of each opposing xz end surface, comprises at least twenty percent of the entire x-axis width of each block, in which each y-axis deep key dimension of said respective deep key geometries also comprises a range of about eight to about twenty five percent of the x-axis dimension of said block, in which said block includes a plurality of vertical cavities extending through the entire z-axis length thereof, said cavities separated by a web portion.

A constructional component for a wall system structure definable in an xyz Cartesian coordinate system capable of resisting high gravity and lateral loads, both uniform and cyclical, the component comprising:

• a solid building block, formed of a constructional material, having a generally rectangular exterior configuration definable in said xyz Cartesian coordinate system, an x-axis thereof defining a width axis of said wall structure, a y-axis thereof defining the directionality of said wall structure, and a z-axis thereof defining a vertical axis of the wall structure, in which one xz end surface of each building block comprises a positive y-axis deep key geometry and each opposing xz end surface thereof comprises a negative y-axis deep key geometry complementally interlockable to said positive geometry of an opposite xz surface, in which a ratio of the x-axis width of a base of each positive and negative deep key geometry of each opposing xz end surface comprises at least twenty percent of the entire y-axis width of each block, in which each y-axis deep key dimension of said respective deep key geometries also comprises a range of about eight to about twenty-five percent of the x-axis dimension of said block, in which said block includes at least one vertical axis cylindrical cavity including (i) a circular ledge and an upper xy surface of said block, said ledge defining a circular negative sub-platform beneath said xy upper surface, and (ii) a circumferential ledge at each opposite lower xy surface of said block from which projects a complemental positive sub-platform, co-parallel to said negative sub-platform, said positive platform interlockable into adjoining negative sub platforms of like blocks of vertically adjacent courses of block within said wall structure, each of said sub-platforms having a z-axis dimension in a range of about five to about twenty five percent of the x-axis dimension of said block,
• whereby a substantially rigid and load-resistant interlock between horizontally and vertically contiguous blocks, when joined as a component of a wall system, is resultant therefrom.

A constructional component for a wall system structure definable in an xyz Cartesian coordinate system capable of resisting high gravity and lateral loads, both uniform and cyclical, the component comprising:

• a solid building block, formed of a constructional material, having a generally rectangular exterior configuration definable in said xyz Cartesian coordinate system, an x-axis thereof defining a width axis of said wall structure, a y-axis thereof defining the directionality of said wall structure, and a z-axis thereof defining a vertical axis of the wall structure, in which one xz end surface of each building block comprises a positive y-axis deep key geometry and each opposing xz end surface thereof comprises a negative y-axis deep key geometry complementally interlockable to said positive geometry of an opposite xz surface, in which a ratio of the x-axis width of a base of each positive and negative deep key geometry of each opposing xz end surface comprises at least twenty percent of the entire y-axis width of each block, in which each y-axis deep key dimension of said respective deep key geometries also comprises a range of about eight to about twenty-five percent of the x-axis dimension of said block, in which said block includes at least one vertical axis cylindrical cavity including (i) a circular ledge and an upper xy surface of said block, said ledge defining a circular negative sub-platform beneath said xy upper surface, and (ii) a circumferential ledge at each opposite lower xy surface of said block from which projects a complemental positive sub-platform, co-parallel to said negative sub-platform, said positive platform interlockable into adjoining negative sub platforms of like blocks of vertically adjacent courses of block within said wall structure, each of said sub-platforms having a z-axis dimension in a range of about five to about twenty five percent of the x-axis dimension of said block,
• whereby a substantially rigid and load-resistance interlock between horizontally and vertically contiguous blocks, when joined as a component of said wall structure, is resultant therefrom.

A constructional component for a wall structure definable in an xyz Cartesian and system, capable of resisting high gravity and lateral loads, both uniform and cyclical, the component comprising:

• a solid building block formed of a structural material, having a generally rectangular exterior configuration definable in said xyz Cartesian coordinate system, an x-axis thereof comprising a width axis of said wall structure, a y-axis thereof comprising the directionality of said wall structure, and a z-axis thereof comprising a vertical axis of the wall structure, in which one xz end surface of each building block comprises a positive y-axis deep key geometry and each opposing xz end surface thereof comprises a negative y-axis deep key geometry complementally interlockable to said positive geometry of said opposite xz surface, in which each y-axis deep key dimension of said respective positive and negative deep key geometries comprises a range of eight to twenty-five percent of the x-axis dimension of said block in which said block, in which said block includes a plurality of vertical cavities extending the entire z-axis length therethrough, said cavities separated by a web portion, said web portion, in an xy plane, defining a diagonal relative to y-axis edges of said block, said cavities each comprising rectilinear interior edges, at xy surfaces thereof, said ledges comprising respectively negative and positive complementally interlockable structures each having a z-axis dimension in the range of five to twenty-five percent of the x-axis dimension of the block,
• whereby, a substantially rigid and load resilient interlock between horizontally and vertically contiguous blocks when joined as components of a wall structure resultant therefrom.