CA1258592A - Connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocks - Google Patents
Connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocksInfo
- Publication number
- CA1258592A CA1258592A CA000487362A CA487362A CA1258592A CA 1258592 A CA1258592 A CA 1258592A CA 000487362 A CA000487362 A CA 000487362A CA 487362 A CA487362 A CA 487362A CA 1258592 A CA1258592 A CA 1258592A
- Authority
- CA
- Canada
- Prior art keywords
- connecting element
- ring
- blocks
- inner portion
- apertures
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Expired
Links
Classifications
-
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
- E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
- E04B2/02—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
- E04B2/42—Walls having cavities between, as well as in, the elements; Walls of elements each consisting of two or more parts, kept in distance by means of spacers, at least one of the parts having cavities
- E04B2/44—Walls having cavities between, as well as in, the elements; Walls of elements each consisting of two or more parts, kept in distance by means of spacers, at least one of the parts having cavities using elements having specially-designed means for stabilising the position; Spacers for cavity walls
- E04B2/46—Walls having cavities between, as well as in, the elements; Walls of elements each consisting of two or more parts, kept in distance by means of spacers, at least one of the parts having cavities using elements having specially-designed means for stabilising the position; Spacers for cavity walls by interlocking of projections or inserts with indentations, e.g. of tongues, grooves, dovetails
-
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
- E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
- E04B2/02—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
- E04B2/14—Walls having cavities in, but not between, the elements, i.e. each cavity being enclosed by at least four sides forming part of one single element
- E04B2/16—Walls having cavities in, but not between, the elements, i.e. each cavity being enclosed by at least four sides forming part of one single element using elements having specially-designed means for stabilising the position
- E04B2/18—Walls having cavities in, but not between, the elements, i.e. each cavity being enclosed by at least four sides forming part of one single element using elements having specially-designed means for stabilising the position by interlocking of projections or inserts with indentations, e.g. of tongues, grooves, dovetails
-
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
- E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
- E04B2/02—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
- E04B2002/0202—Details of connections
- E04B2002/0243—Separate connectors or inserts, e.g. pegs, pins or keys
Landscapes
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Architecture (AREA)
- Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Electromagnetism (AREA)
- Civil Engineering (AREA)
- Structural Engineering (AREA)
- Revetment (AREA)
- Finishing Walls (AREA)
- Fencing (AREA)
- Building Environments (AREA)
- Joining Of Building Structures In Genera (AREA)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The connecting element is sought for connecting con-struction blocks for the erection of a wall and which com-prise, depending upon its seize, one or as most usual two, straight apertures. The connecting element consists of an inner portion with its ends extending into one aperture of the bottom block and into the aligned aperture of the upper block, and of a supporting ring with a greater diameter as the diameter of the apertures and connected to the inner portion. The supporting ring serves as spacer and support for the overlaying block.
In one embodiment, the inner portion consists of ra-dially extending pane-like, T-shaped fins connected to the supporting ring, and the whole connecting element is made of PVC, in one piece, and in the same color as the blocks.
This connecting element can be made in series and is thus non-expensive and replaces the complicated and expen-sive mold for forming the construction blocks with pins and collar on one side thereof and apertures on the other side thereof, all made in concrete and in one piece, and further allows a steady and stable construction.
The connecting element is sought for connecting con-struction blocks for the erection of a wall and which com-prise, depending upon its seize, one or as most usual two, straight apertures. The connecting element consists of an inner portion with its ends extending into one aperture of the bottom block and into the aligned aperture of the upper block, and of a supporting ring with a greater diameter as the diameter of the apertures and connected to the inner portion. The supporting ring serves as spacer and support for the overlaying block.
In one embodiment, the inner portion consists of ra-dially extending pane-like, T-shaped fins connected to the supporting ring, and the whole connecting element is made of PVC, in one piece, and in the same color as the blocks.
This connecting element can be made in series and is thus non-expensive and replaces the complicated and expen-sive mold for forming the construction blocks with pins and collar on one side thereof and apertures on the other side thereof, all made in concrete and in one piece, and further allows a steady and stable construction.
Description
~:5859~
CONNECTING ELEMENT FOR THE ERECTION OF WALLS MADE
OF CONSTRUCTION BLOCKS
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention refers to a connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocks laid upon one another.
There exist several sets of construction blocks for the erection of walls, in particular without the need to use wet mortar~ wherein the blocks are interconnected. One of the known sets, according to the German Patent No.
10 2,650,292, comprises a block with two tenons on one side and corresponding apertures on the other side. The tenon is surrounded by a concentric, stepped collar, causing a dis-tance between each course. ~his distance is not only a de-corative element, but also very practical, excluding the danger of crushing the fingers between two blocks of the persons laying said wall. Said blocks are further distin-guished by its peripherical form with smooth, outwardly arched sides, enabling the erection of streamline-shaped, curved walls. In general, those blocks are made of concre-te, whereby respectively the tenons with the collar and theapertures are formed with the blocks in one piece. Thus the molds for those blocks are complicated and expensive and, accordingly, the blocks are expensive. It became further apparent that a steady layer of the blocks upon one another cannot be warranted in every case, due to the irregulari-ties of the surface of the collars, whereupon the upper block is resting, necessitating in those cases additional measures.
The U.S. Patent No. 3,479,782 discloses a wall made of a plurality of construction blocks laying in courses one upon another, said blocks having apertures, in which metal-lic sleeves with a slot along their length and a bead in i25t359~
its central part are extending, for positioning and fixing said blocks. The blocks have an annular counterbore around the aperture, corresponding to the annular bead of the sleeve in such a way, that the blocks lay one upon another without any space between.
The German Laid Open No. 3,222,318 discloses similar double-bolts with a circular bead in its central part. The corresponding apertures in the construction blocks have an annular recess corresponding to the annular bead, thus enab-0 ling to put one block upon another without space between.The European Laid Open No. 0,052,082 discloses also a connecting element with an intermediate annular flange for connecting rectangular building blocks laid in superim-posed horizontal courses. The surfaces of the blocks being in contact and the connecting pins are made thus, that the blocks are laying one upon another without space between.
SUMMARY_OF THE INVENTION
Starting from the first mentioned, interconnected construction blocks with tenons surrounded by an annular collar, said collar serving as spacer between two blocks laying one upon another, it is an object of the present in-vention to provide a connecting element which is not expen-sive and easy to produce, results in a more efficient and less expensive production of the construction blocks to be connected by said element, facilitates the assembling of walls, and enables steady layers of blocks.
This object is attained with a connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocks laid one upon another, each construction block having at least one aperture at each of its horizontally oriented surface for receiving one end of said connecting element, said connect-ing element having an inner portion with one end thereof to be inserted into one aperture of a first block and the ~2S8592 other end thereof to be inserted into the aperture of a se-cond block laying aligned upon said first block and a ring intermediate to said ends connected to said inner portion, wherein the diameter of said ring is greater than the dia-meter of said apertures, said ring serving as spacer bet-ween said first, underlaying block and said second, super-imposed block resting upon said ring.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig. 1 is a lateral view of a wall erected with ele-ments and constructions blocks according to the invention, Fig. 2 is a section of the preferred connecting ele-ment according to the invention, between two construction blocks, Fig. 3 is a section along line III-III of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a section of a second embodiment of the invention, Fig. 5 is a section along line V-~ of Fig. 4, Fig. 6 is a section of a third embodiment of the in-vention, Figs. 7 and 8 are sections of details of the embodi-ment of Fig. 6, Fig. 9 is a top view of a fourth embodiment of the invention, and Figs. 10 and 11 are enlarged sections of details of the connecting element according to the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Fig. 1 shows a wall made of construction blocks 1 like the one shown in Fig. 3. The sides 2 of said block are smoothly, outwardly arched. As indicated by the irregu-lar line at the left side of Fig. 3, a block could be constituted by one, two or more such portions, the normal, 8S~'~
most used block being the block with two such portions and hence two apertures 3, shown in Fig. 2. Each portion is se-parated by an indentation 4. In the case of the one-portion block all four sides are arched. This arched shape enables the erection of streamlined-shaped, curved walls. Normally, the blocks are laid on a concrete base 5 as shown in Fig.
1. The aperture 3 is normally circular and and for all blocks, except the cover blocks of the top course, through.
It can be deduced from Fig. 2 that the circular aperture and the corresponding circular inner portion 7 of the con-necting element 6 is not obligatory, although preferred.
Instead of the circular shape any other shape of the aper-tures and the corresponding inner portion of the connecting elements can be used. If for the top course blocks with through apertures are used, those apertures can be closed by appropriate means, like a plug.
The connecting element 6 of Fig. 2 consists of an in-ner portion 7, serving to fix the blocks in its lateral po-sitions and also to center said blocks, and of a circular ring 8 intermediate to the ends of the inner portion, serv-ing as spacer between two blocks laying one upon the other and as a part of the supporting surface, both parts being made in one piece. The inner portion 7 consists of several, for example six, centering fins 9 with a T-shaped form, the longitudinal leg 10 thereof being connected to the ring 8 and constituting also a part of the supporting surfaces.
The outer diameter of the centering fins is adapted to the diameter of the aperture. For facilitating the insertion of the connecting element and of the block atop, the sides 11 of the fins, adjoining the aperture, are chamfered. There need not be six fins, a minimum of three are required for easy centering.
Preferably, the connecting elements are made of an appropriate plastics material, like soft or hard PVC (poly-~;~S859'~
vinyl chloride) and colored with the same color as theblocks. Other material can be used, such as elastomeres, rubber, or metal. Besides the non-expensive and easy mass production of the connecting element, if made of plastics material, the use of relatively soft PVC results in several further advantages: The relative compressibility of the supporting surface of the connecting element enables to compensate the irregularities inherent to the fabrica-tion of the blocks and allows a steady support of those blocks, resp. courses. This effect is enhenced, if the sup-porting surfaces are not flat and are provided with one or two circular lips, as shown in Figs. 10 and 11. In general, only the circular ring 8 is provided with such lips. For example, the supporting surfaces 11 can be U-shaped as in Fig. 10 or U-shaped in the other sense or the outer rim of the supporting surfaces 12 can be provided with a circular lip 13. It is evident that the circular lips adapts better to the irregularities of the block surfaces they are in contact with than the whole supporting surface of the ring and the supporting leg. The lips serve further as seal in the case the apertures are filled with concrete.
The fins can be executed otherwise than pane-like and T-shaped. They can be also L-shaped, with the vertical leg showing up or down and the section could be spherical like, althought the pane-like shape economizes material and allows an obstacle-free flow if concrete is poured into the connecting element.
In the Figs. 4 and 5 there is shown a second embodi-ment of the invention where the construction blocks have another shape, the sides 17 being arched in a stepped fa-shion. The connecting element 14 comprises a sleeve-like inner portion 15 consisting of a tube 16 and intermediate to its ends, radially arranged fins 18 similar in shape as the fins described above, said fins connecting the inner-most tube 16 with the circular supporting ring 1~.
12~1S~2 This ring can have supporting surfaces as described above.It follows from Fig. 4 that the ends 20 of the centering fins 16 are chamfered~ As can be seen from Fig. 4 solely the supporting circular ring 19 supports the blocks whilst the height o the connecting leg of the fins is slightly less than of said ring. It is evident, that this is not ne-cessary and that the height of the connecting leg of the fins can be equal to the height of the ring 19 and can have a greater length so as to obtain an increased stability.
The purposes of this embodiment are manyfold. If the aper-tures are filled by concrete, an inner concrete bar is formed by the tube 16 which is almost independent of the blocks and thus increases the stability of the wall. On the other hand, if no filling up with concrete is desired and an increased stability is necessary, a steel bar can be in-serted into the innermost tube and fixed thereto.
If the steadiness and the supporting ability has to be increased, it is possible to add a further supporting annular ring outside the rings 8 and 19 described above, as shown in the Figs. 6-8. This applies in particular if the height of the connecting legs of the T- or L-shaped fins or the links is less than the height of the supporting rings.
It is possible to provide an additional L-shaped ring 21 (Fig. 6), or a I-shaped ring 22 (Fig. 7), or a U-shaped ring 23 (Fig. 8) and also to form the supporting surfaces thereof as shown above.
Fig. 9 shows a third embodiment of a connecting ele-ment 24, with two variations, wherein the supporting ring 25 (left side) or 26 (right side) consists of radially ex-tending ribs 27, connected to an inner centering ring 28, from which centering fins 29, which can be the same as tho-se shown in Fig. 2, are extending inwards, said supporting ribs being further connected by a reinforcing ring 30, or not.
Beneath the preferred embodiments described above, 125~3592 further variations oE the connecting element are possible within the spirit of the invention. It is thus possible to fabricate the element of more than one piece and to pro~
duce for example the inner portion of another material and with another color as the supporting ring, or to shape the tubes of the inner portion conically, or, as mentioned abo-ve, to take any other section as the cylindrical one, with corresponding apertures in the blocks. The blocks can have any other shape as described, for example they can be rec-tangular slabs.
CONNECTING ELEMENT FOR THE ERECTION OF WALLS MADE
OF CONSTRUCTION BLOCKS
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention refers to a connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocks laid upon one another.
There exist several sets of construction blocks for the erection of walls, in particular without the need to use wet mortar~ wherein the blocks are interconnected. One of the known sets, according to the German Patent No.
10 2,650,292, comprises a block with two tenons on one side and corresponding apertures on the other side. The tenon is surrounded by a concentric, stepped collar, causing a dis-tance between each course. ~his distance is not only a de-corative element, but also very practical, excluding the danger of crushing the fingers between two blocks of the persons laying said wall. Said blocks are further distin-guished by its peripherical form with smooth, outwardly arched sides, enabling the erection of streamline-shaped, curved walls. In general, those blocks are made of concre-te, whereby respectively the tenons with the collar and theapertures are formed with the blocks in one piece. Thus the molds for those blocks are complicated and expensive and, accordingly, the blocks are expensive. It became further apparent that a steady layer of the blocks upon one another cannot be warranted in every case, due to the irregulari-ties of the surface of the collars, whereupon the upper block is resting, necessitating in those cases additional measures.
The U.S. Patent No. 3,479,782 discloses a wall made of a plurality of construction blocks laying in courses one upon another, said blocks having apertures, in which metal-lic sleeves with a slot along their length and a bead in i25t359~
its central part are extending, for positioning and fixing said blocks. The blocks have an annular counterbore around the aperture, corresponding to the annular bead of the sleeve in such a way, that the blocks lay one upon another without any space between.
The German Laid Open No. 3,222,318 discloses similar double-bolts with a circular bead in its central part. The corresponding apertures in the construction blocks have an annular recess corresponding to the annular bead, thus enab-0 ling to put one block upon another without space between.The European Laid Open No. 0,052,082 discloses also a connecting element with an intermediate annular flange for connecting rectangular building blocks laid in superim-posed horizontal courses. The surfaces of the blocks being in contact and the connecting pins are made thus, that the blocks are laying one upon another without space between.
SUMMARY_OF THE INVENTION
Starting from the first mentioned, interconnected construction blocks with tenons surrounded by an annular collar, said collar serving as spacer between two blocks laying one upon another, it is an object of the present in-vention to provide a connecting element which is not expen-sive and easy to produce, results in a more efficient and less expensive production of the construction blocks to be connected by said element, facilitates the assembling of walls, and enables steady layers of blocks.
This object is attained with a connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocks laid one upon another, each construction block having at least one aperture at each of its horizontally oriented surface for receiving one end of said connecting element, said connect-ing element having an inner portion with one end thereof to be inserted into one aperture of a first block and the ~2S8592 other end thereof to be inserted into the aperture of a se-cond block laying aligned upon said first block and a ring intermediate to said ends connected to said inner portion, wherein the diameter of said ring is greater than the dia-meter of said apertures, said ring serving as spacer bet-ween said first, underlaying block and said second, super-imposed block resting upon said ring.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig. 1 is a lateral view of a wall erected with ele-ments and constructions blocks according to the invention, Fig. 2 is a section of the preferred connecting ele-ment according to the invention, between two construction blocks, Fig. 3 is a section along line III-III of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a section of a second embodiment of the invention, Fig. 5 is a section along line V-~ of Fig. 4, Fig. 6 is a section of a third embodiment of the in-vention, Figs. 7 and 8 are sections of details of the embodi-ment of Fig. 6, Fig. 9 is a top view of a fourth embodiment of the invention, and Figs. 10 and 11 are enlarged sections of details of the connecting element according to the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Fig. 1 shows a wall made of construction blocks 1 like the one shown in Fig. 3. The sides 2 of said block are smoothly, outwardly arched. As indicated by the irregu-lar line at the left side of Fig. 3, a block could be constituted by one, two or more such portions, the normal, 8S~'~
most used block being the block with two such portions and hence two apertures 3, shown in Fig. 2. Each portion is se-parated by an indentation 4. In the case of the one-portion block all four sides are arched. This arched shape enables the erection of streamlined-shaped, curved walls. Normally, the blocks are laid on a concrete base 5 as shown in Fig.
1. The aperture 3 is normally circular and and for all blocks, except the cover blocks of the top course, through.
It can be deduced from Fig. 2 that the circular aperture and the corresponding circular inner portion 7 of the con-necting element 6 is not obligatory, although preferred.
Instead of the circular shape any other shape of the aper-tures and the corresponding inner portion of the connecting elements can be used. If for the top course blocks with through apertures are used, those apertures can be closed by appropriate means, like a plug.
The connecting element 6 of Fig. 2 consists of an in-ner portion 7, serving to fix the blocks in its lateral po-sitions and also to center said blocks, and of a circular ring 8 intermediate to the ends of the inner portion, serv-ing as spacer between two blocks laying one upon the other and as a part of the supporting surface, both parts being made in one piece. The inner portion 7 consists of several, for example six, centering fins 9 with a T-shaped form, the longitudinal leg 10 thereof being connected to the ring 8 and constituting also a part of the supporting surfaces.
The outer diameter of the centering fins is adapted to the diameter of the aperture. For facilitating the insertion of the connecting element and of the block atop, the sides 11 of the fins, adjoining the aperture, are chamfered. There need not be six fins, a minimum of three are required for easy centering.
Preferably, the connecting elements are made of an appropriate plastics material, like soft or hard PVC (poly-~;~S859'~
vinyl chloride) and colored with the same color as theblocks. Other material can be used, such as elastomeres, rubber, or metal. Besides the non-expensive and easy mass production of the connecting element, if made of plastics material, the use of relatively soft PVC results in several further advantages: The relative compressibility of the supporting surface of the connecting element enables to compensate the irregularities inherent to the fabrica-tion of the blocks and allows a steady support of those blocks, resp. courses. This effect is enhenced, if the sup-porting surfaces are not flat and are provided with one or two circular lips, as shown in Figs. 10 and 11. In general, only the circular ring 8 is provided with such lips. For example, the supporting surfaces 11 can be U-shaped as in Fig. 10 or U-shaped in the other sense or the outer rim of the supporting surfaces 12 can be provided with a circular lip 13. It is evident that the circular lips adapts better to the irregularities of the block surfaces they are in contact with than the whole supporting surface of the ring and the supporting leg. The lips serve further as seal in the case the apertures are filled with concrete.
The fins can be executed otherwise than pane-like and T-shaped. They can be also L-shaped, with the vertical leg showing up or down and the section could be spherical like, althought the pane-like shape economizes material and allows an obstacle-free flow if concrete is poured into the connecting element.
In the Figs. 4 and 5 there is shown a second embodi-ment of the invention where the construction blocks have another shape, the sides 17 being arched in a stepped fa-shion. The connecting element 14 comprises a sleeve-like inner portion 15 consisting of a tube 16 and intermediate to its ends, radially arranged fins 18 similar in shape as the fins described above, said fins connecting the inner-most tube 16 with the circular supporting ring 1~.
12~1S~2 This ring can have supporting surfaces as described above.It follows from Fig. 4 that the ends 20 of the centering fins 16 are chamfered~ As can be seen from Fig. 4 solely the supporting circular ring 19 supports the blocks whilst the height o the connecting leg of the fins is slightly less than of said ring. It is evident, that this is not ne-cessary and that the height of the connecting leg of the fins can be equal to the height of the ring 19 and can have a greater length so as to obtain an increased stability.
The purposes of this embodiment are manyfold. If the aper-tures are filled by concrete, an inner concrete bar is formed by the tube 16 which is almost independent of the blocks and thus increases the stability of the wall. On the other hand, if no filling up with concrete is desired and an increased stability is necessary, a steel bar can be in-serted into the innermost tube and fixed thereto.
If the steadiness and the supporting ability has to be increased, it is possible to add a further supporting annular ring outside the rings 8 and 19 described above, as shown in the Figs. 6-8. This applies in particular if the height of the connecting legs of the T- or L-shaped fins or the links is less than the height of the supporting rings.
It is possible to provide an additional L-shaped ring 21 (Fig. 6), or a I-shaped ring 22 (Fig. 7), or a U-shaped ring 23 (Fig. 8) and also to form the supporting surfaces thereof as shown above.
Fig. 9 shows a third embodiment of a connecting ele-ment 24, with two variations, wherein the supporting ring 25 (left side) or 26 (right side) consists of radially ex-tending ribs 27, connected to an inner centering ring 28, from which centering fins 29, which can be the same as tho-se shown in Fig. 2, are extending inwards, said supporting ribs being further connected by a reinforcing ring 30, or not.
Beneath the preferred embodiments described above, 125~3592 further variations oE the connecting element are possible within the spirit of the invention. It is thus possible to fabricate the element of more than one piece and to pro~
duce for example the inner portion of another material and with another color as the supporting ring, or to shape the tubes of the inner portion conically, or, as mentioned abo-ve, to take any other section as the cylindrical one, with corresponding apertures in the blocks. The blocks can have any other shape as described, for example they can be rec-tangular slabs.
Claims (12)
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocks laid one upon another, each construction block having at least one circular aperture at each of its horizontally oriented surface for receiving one end of said connecting element, said connecting element having an inner portion with one end thereof to be inserted into one aperture of a first construction block and the other end thereof to be inserted into the aperture of a second construction block laying aligned upon said first block and a spacing and support ring intermediate to said ends connected to said inner portion, wherein the diameter of said ring is greater than the diameter of said apertures, and wherein said inner portion consists of radially arranged centering fins with their outer diameter corresponding to the diameter of said apertures and connected by linking portions to the spacing and support ring, the said ring serving as spacer between said first, underlaying block and said second, superimposed block resting upon said ring.
2. The connecting element of claim 1, wherein the supporting surfaces of said ring which are in contact with said blocks have a U-shaped section or are provided with a lip at their outer rim, facilitating the compensation of irregularities of the horizontally oriented surfaces of the construction blocks and serving as seal if the apertures of the blocks are filled up with concrete.
3. The connecting element of claim 1 wherein said fins are pane-like and T-shaped or L-shaped with some vertical legs directed upwards and some vertical legs directed downwards.
4. The connecting element of claim 1 made of plastics material, soft or hard polyvinyl chloride (PVC), elastomers, rubber or metal.
5. The connecting element of claim 4 made of soft or hard PVC, the inner portion and the spacing and support ring being made in one piece.
6. The connecting element of claim 1, wherein said inner portion comprises a tube and, intermediate to its ends, radially arranged centering fins with linking portions connecting said tube with the spacing and support ring.
7. The connecting element of claim 6, wherein the height of said linking portions is less than the height of said spacing and support ring.
8. The connecting element of claim 1, wherein said spacing and support ring is provided at its outside with an additional ring.
9. The connecting element of claim 8, wherein said additional ring has an L-shaped, I-shaped, or U-shaped section.
10. The connecting element of claim 1, wherein said spacing and support ring consists of radially extending support ribs connected to an inner ring, from which centering fins are extending inwards and into said apertures of the construction blocks.
11. A connecting element for the erection of walls, said wall comprising construction blocks having each two portions with each a circular straight aperture in its center and three smooth, outwardly arched sides, said connecting element having an inner portion with one end thereof extending into an aperture of a first construction block and the other end thereof extending into the aperture of a second construction block laying aligned upon said first construction block, said inner portion consisting of radially arranged pane-like, T-shaped fins with their outer diameter corresponding to the diameter of said apertures and connected to a circular supporting ring intermediate to said ends and with a greater diameter as the diameter of said apertures, the whole connecting element being made of PVC and in one piece.
12. The connecting element of claim 11, wherein the supporting surfaces of said supporting ring are U-shaped or provided with a lip at their outer rim.
Applications Claiming Priority (4)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE19843428148 DE3428148A1 (en) | 1984-07-31 | 1984-07-31 | Dry stone wall system |
| DEP3428148.7 | 1984-07-31 | ||
| DEP3447931.7 | 1984-12-15 | ||
| DE19843447931 DE3447931A1 (en) | 1984-07-31 | 1984-12-15 | Dry-masonry-wall system |
Publications (1)
| Publication Number | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| CA1258592A true CA1258592A (en) | 1989-08-22 |
Family
ID=25823435
Family Applications (1)
| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| CA000487362A Expired CA1258592A (en) | 1984-07-31 | 1985-07-24 | Connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocks |
Country Status (5)
| Country | Link |
|---|---|
| EP (1) | EP0170840B1 (en) |
| CA (1) | CA1258592A (en) |
| DE (2) | DE3447931A1 (en) |
| DK (1) | DK162300C (en) |
| NO (1) | NO853018L (en) |
Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WO2012143585A1 (en) * | 2011-04-18 | 2012-10-26 | CLAVERIAS VELASCO, Joel | Construction system |
| US8955282B2 (en) | 2005-04-21 | 2015-02-17 | Mixza Yap Ching | Soloarmar construction engineering system |
Families Citing this family (11)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB2215749A (en) * | 1988-03-11 | 1989-09-27 | John Heelan | Apertured building blocks with locating pegs |
| ATE65568T1 (en) * | 1988-06-14 | 1991-08-15 | Rolf Scheiwiller | SPACERS FOR THE BUILDING OF WALLS WITH SUCCESSIVE BRICKS. |
| US4947610A (en) * | 1989-04-13 | 1990-08-14 | Robert Koerner | Method and apparatus for building a brick wall |
| FR2668519A1 (en) * | 1990-10-29 | 1992-04-30 | Millescamps Jacky | Building block for detached houses |
| DE19633707C2 (en) * | 1996-08-21 | 2001-02-15 | Paul Kramer | Drywall system |
| DE19805252B4 (en) * | 1998-02-10 | 2004-03-25 | Langenstein & Schemann Gmbh | Wall panel with crossbeam layers and supporting device and process for their production |
| DE19840774A1 (en) * | 1998-09-07 | 2000-03-09 | Bernd Beck | Connector to link hollow bricks at their end sides has a main plate or bar with projecting spacers to fit into hollow zones of the bricks and lock them together in rows |
| AU5052701A (en) * | 2000-04-27 | 2001-11-07 | Woodblocx Limited | Block construction |
| GB2443414B (en) * | 2006-11-02 | 2011-08-24 | Stuart Edward Allbrighton | A building block |
| WO2015132422A1 (en) * | 2014-03-06 | 2015-09-11 | Industrias Audiolis, S.L. | Construction plate, anti-seismic construction system, and construction method |
| ES2545162B1 (en) * | 2014-03-06 | 2016-09-13 | Industrias Audiolis, S.L. | CONSTRUCTION PLATE, ANTISISM CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD |
Family Cites Families (4)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE2518739A1 (en) * | 1975-04-26 | 1976-11-04 | Schleich Josef | Hollow bricks or concrete building slabs for insulated walls - have large cavities contg. insulating bodies, ducts, and junction grooves |
| CH602965A5 (en) * | 1975-11-17 | 1978-08-15 | Rolf Scheiwiller | |
| IT1129828B (en) * | 1980-11-10 | 1986-06-11 | Keybrick System Srl | BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM |
| GB2089863A (en) * | 1980-12-18 | 1982-06-30 | Moss Peter | Building Structure |
-
1984
- 1984-12-15 DE DE19843447931 patent/DE3447931A1/en not_active Ceased
-
1985
- 1985-06-20 DE DE8585107610T patent/DE3562788D1/en not_active Expired
- 1985-06-20 EP EP85107610A patent/EP0170840B1/en not_active Expired
- 1985-07-24 CA CA000487362A patent/CA1258592A/en not_active Expired
- 1985-07-30 NO NO853018A patent/NO853018L/en unknown
- 1985-07-30 DK DK346285A patent/DK162300C/en not_active IP Right Cessation
Cited By (3)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8955282B2 (en) | 2005-04-21 | 2015-02-17 | Mixza Yap Ching | Soloarmar construction engineering system |
| WO2012143585A1 (en) * | 2011-04-18 | 2012-10-26 | CLAVERIAS VELASCO, Joel | Construction system |
| ES2390685A1 (en) * | 2011-04-18 | 2012-11-15 | Joel CLAVERIAS VELASCO | Construction system |
Also Published As
| Publication number | Publication date |
|---|---|
| DE3562788D1 (en) | 1988-06-23 |
| NO853018L (en) | 1986-02-03 |
| DK162300C (en) | 1992-03-16 |
| DK346285A (en) | 1986-02-01 |
| DK162300B (en) | 1991-10-07 |
| DE3447931A1 (en) | 1986-06-26 |
| DK346285D0 (en) | 1985-07-30 |
| EP0170840A1 (en) | 1986-02-12 |
| EP0170840B1 (en) | 1988-05-18 |
Similar Documents
| Publication | Publication Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| CA1258592A (en) | Connecting element for the erection of walls made of construction blocks | |
| US4081935A (en) | Building structure utilizing precast concrete elements | |
| AU637665B2 (en) | Method and apparatus for erecting a glass block wall | |
| US1757077A (en) | Building construction | |
| US4648226A (en) | Glass element, notably glass block or tile | |
| EP1092816B1 (en) | Improved formwork for the construction of floors, roofings and the like | |
| US6065268A (en) | Floor jack covering device | |
| US1031043A (en) | Concrete cosntruction. | |
| US4302915A (en) | Parking garage construction | |
| US4703600A (en) | Vertically assembling box type blocks | |
| US3538656A (en) | Prefabricated sectional elements for chimneys and dropping-chutes | |
| US6327822B1 (en) | Modular prefabricated element used in building construction | |
| US3763796A (en) | Furnace wall construction | |
| US4494352A (en) | Reinforced structural member and method of fabrication | |
| GB2183269A (en) | Construction of tall tanks, silos, towers, chimneys etc. | |
| ITUD970235A1 (en) | CONCRETE BLOCKS FOR BUILDINGS | |
| WO1995016835A1 (en) | Insulated construction form element, and reinforcement therefor, and wall construction | |
| US3438165A (en) | Plastic moulded building member | |
| US1848357A (en) | Floor and ceiling member for metal concrete construction | |
| GB2216921A (en) | Building block | |
| US2105106A (en) | Precast reinforced tile beam and span tile floor structure | |
| US20050000178A1 (en) | Poured-in-place concrete construction components and method of construction | |
| JPS6175147A (en) | Connection member | |
| US2537715A (en) | Reinforced wall with ring interlock | |
| EP1074667A1 (en) | Method for erecting masonry made of bricks and/or blocks and associated product |
Legal Events
| Date | Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| MKEX | Expiry |