Irregular building units having mating sides
AssigneeKeystone Retaining Wall Systems, Inc.
InventorThomas S. Riccobene
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Abstract
An irregularly-shaped building unit includes a front surface, a rear surface opposite of the front surface, and an outer contour surface that extends generally perpendicularly from the front surface to the rear surface. The outer contour surface is irregularly shaped. A plurality of mating sides are disposed on the outer contour surface, where at least two mating sides intersect with a major axis, and at least two mating sides intersect with a minor axis. The major axis and the minor axis are generally perpendicular to each other. Each mating side is a centered rotation about the respective axis that the mating side intersects with.
Claims13
An irregularly-shaped building unit comprising:
- a front surface;
- a rear surface opposite of the front surface;
- an outer contour surface extending from the front surface to the rear surface, said outer contour surface being irregularly shaped in the planes of the front and rear surfaces;
- a plurality of mating sides disposed on the outer contour surface, wherein at least two mating sides intersect with a major axis, and at least two mating sides intersect with a minor axis, wherein the major axis and the minor axis are generally perpendicular to each other intersecting at substantially the center of the unit, wherein the dimension of the unit along the major axis is longer than the dimension of the unit along the minor axis, wherein each of the plurality of mating sides is a centered rotation about the respective axis that the mating side intersects with, and wherein each of the mating sides has substantially the same configuration such that each mating side of one building unit can mate with any mating side of a second building unit.
An irregularly-shaped building unit comprising:
- a major axis of the building unit;
- a minor axis of the building unit intersecting the major axis, wherein the major axis and the minor axis are generally perpendicular to each other intersecting at substantially the center of the unit, wherein the dimension of the unit along the major axis is longer than the dimension of the unit along the minor axis;
- a front surface of the building unit;
- an outer contour surface extending generally perpendicularly from the front surface, said outer contour surface being irregularly shaped in the plane of the front surface;
- the outer contour surface comprising a plurality of mating sides, wherein at least two mating sides intersect with the major axis, and at least two mating sides intersect with the minor axis, wherein each of the plurality of mating sides is a centered rotation about the respective axis that the mating side intersects with, and wherein each of the mating sides has substantially the same configuration;
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- the outer contour surface further comprising a plurality of non-mating corner portions extending between each said mating side such that mating sides and corner portions alternate, wherein said corner portions are rounded and irregularly shaped;
- wherein each of the mating sides are configured to mate with any mating sides of other of said units.
An irregularly-shaped building unit comprising:
- a front surface;
- a rear surface opposite of the front surface;
- an outer contour surface extending from the front surface to the rear surface, said outer contour surface being irregularly shaped in the planes of the front and rear surfaces;
- a plurality of mating sides disposed on the outer contour surface, each mating side spaced apart from the other mating sides, wherein at least two mating sides intersect with a major axis, and at least two mating sides intersect with a minor axis, wherein the dimension of the unit along the major axis is longer than the dimension of the unit along the minor axis, wherein each of the plurality of mating sides is a centered rotation about the respective axis that the mating side intersects with, and wherein each of the mating sides has substantially the same configuration such that each mating side of one building unit can mate with any mating side of another building unit;
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- a plurality of non-mating corner portions disposed on the outer contour surface, each corner portion extending between two mating sides.
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