Flexible brick plate for building architectural elements, and method for manufacturing said plate
AssigneeFlexbrick, S.L.
InventorVicente Sarrablo Moreno
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Abstract
A flexible brick plate including a plurality of flexible interwoven rods forming a mesh, and a plurality of bricks provided with fastening shapes coupled to at least some of the rods in order to retain the bricks in the mesh. Optionally, the plate is designed to be placed with one side thereof against a formwork and to receive a binding agent from and on the other side thereof. The manufacturing method includes crossing and interweaving warp rods and weft rods to form a mesh, arranging at the same time rows of bricks in the mesh between the weft rods, and coupling fastening shapes formed in the bricks with at least some of the warp or weft rods.
Claims18
A flexible brick plate for building architectural elements, comprising a plurality of mutually parallel flexible support rods crossed and interwoven with a plurality of mutually parallel flexible positioning rods forming a mesh, said support rods and positioning rods being corrugated to immobilize the intersection points thereof in the mesh, and plurality of bricks retained in said mesh, wherein each brick has opposite larger faces, first opposite edges, and second opposite edges perpendicular to said first edges, said first opposite edges having channels formed therein, each channel having an inner area communicated with the outside through a slot sized to allow the passage of the support rod, and wherein the support rods are housed in said inner area of said channels.
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