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US 9,347,224 B1Granted
Step-block precast stair
AssigneeUmm Al-Qura University
InventorKhaled I. Nabil Ahmed
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Abstract
A precast step-wall block including a step portion projecting perpendicularly out of a wall system and a wall block portion, is disclosed. Wall blocks used in constructing the wall system are T-shaped in plan view with exemplary dimensions of 400 mm×200 mm×200 mm. These wall blocks are arranged in Flemish bond courses to facilitate the projection of the precast steps from the wall system. A mold designed for preparation of the precast steps of different lengths is also described.
Claims23
A construction unit comprising:
- a wall system having a plurality of T-shaped wall blocks arranged in a plurality of horizontal courses in Flemish bond, each of the T-shaped wall blocks having a main body portion, a side body portion and first and second intersecting corners, the main body portion having a rectangular cross section, a central portion, a first arm and a second arm extending horizontally from the central portion in opposing directions,
- wherein:
- the side body portion has a square cross section emanating vertically from the central portion;
- the first and second intersecting corners are disposed between the main body portion and the side body portion on both sides of the side body portion;
- each of the T-shaped wall blocks, through the first and second arms, connects securely with the intersecting corners of two adjacent T-shaped wall blocks that are in the opposite orientation in the horizontal courses so that alternate T-shaped blocks in the horizontal courses have rectangular side surfaces and square side surfaces facing outward and square side surfaces in a first horizontal course are disposed in the middle of rectangular side surfaces of a second horizontal course below the first horizontal course;
- and
- a stair system having a plurality of precast concrete steps, each of the precast concrete steps including a generally horizontal tread portion, a riser portion connected integrally to the tread portion and a T-shaped connecting portion connected integrally to the tread portion and the riser portion, the T-shaped connecting portion having dimensions equal to the T-shaped wall blocks, each of the precast steps being installed by substituting a T-shaped wall block having the rectangular side surface outward with the T-shaped connecting portion so that the tread portion and the riser portion project perpendicularly out of the wall system.
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A precast concrete step comprising:
- a horizontal tread portion;
- a vertically arranged riser portion connected integrally to the tread portion at 90° and depending from the tread portion;
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- a T-shaped connecting portion including a main body portion having a rectangular side surface, wherein the rectangular side surface is connected integrally to the tread portion at 90° and depending from the tread portion and the riser portion, and wherein the T-shaped connecting portion has a T-shaped cross-section in a plane parallel to the horizontal tread portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.