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US 8,910,438 B1Granted
Above ground tornado resistant structure from tire wall building blocks
AssigneeInnovative Engineering Solutions, Inc.
InventorSamir S. Shiban
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Abstract
Used tires are cut or shredded. Boxes are built. Vapor barriers are mounted in the boxes. Beams are fastened inside the boxes. Cut or shredded tires are added to the box. Force on a lid compresses the tires before the lid is fastened. Faces are offset to form linking tongues and grooves. Exposed portions are connected with fasteners to build walls and barriers. A tornado resistant structure based on the foregoing structural materials is formed to provide superior performance for resisting high winds over traditional framing methods or brick construction.
Claims13
Apparatus comprising:
- a building block having
- shredded tires surrounded by
- a plywood or oriented strand board shell;
- wherein the shell further comprises an outer wall,
- an inner surface, and
- sides connected to the outer wall and inner surface;
- wherein the building block is assembled into a building wall of similar building blocks with a tongue in groove construction and with at least two horizontal beams of one block near at least one vertical beam of an adjacent block, and further comprising lapping joint plates connected at corners of the front edges of the blocks and fasteners extending through the plates and the outer walls into the beams;
- further comprising concrete footers beneath the building walls, wherein sheet metal straps are installed such that the building blocks forming the building wall are secured to concrete footers by the sheet metal straps.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.