CA2537356A1 - Drywall construction method and means therefor - Google Patents
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Abstract
Means for and a method of erecting block drywall wherein the blocks, or bricks, are, for the most part, rectangular in appearance and each provided, on their undersides, with a longitudinal and centrally oriented cavity extending the full length ofeach block and leaving longitudinal, horizontal, contact areas on each side of the cavity for seating on an underlying block in a wall construction, the upper sides of each block being provided with a horizontal and centrally located protruberance extending the full length of the block, there being longitudinal seating areas along the top side of each block situated to cooperate with the underside seating areas on each side of a similar block seated thereon, the cavities and protruberances of the blocks constituting symmetrically opposed mating surfaces facilitating the stacking of blocks, one upon another and slideable longitudinally with respect to each other in a vertical drywall construction, preferably, the blocks each being provided with centrally located and horizontally and longitudinally spaced holes extending vertically and completely through each block., the longitudinal spacing of the holes being such that when blocks are stacked in standard staggered offset layer relationship in an erected wall the holes are coincident from layer to layer accommodating the insertion of locating pins fixing the longitudinal displacement of blocks of one layer to each of vertically adjacent layers in a completed wall construction, in order to provide greater wall stability space may be provided between the protruberances and the undersides of cavities of blocks seated thereon to accommodate a belt, running lengthwise of a row of blocks, the belt being provided with holes coinciding with the coincident holes of stacked layers to allow the insertion oflocating pins extending vertically from centrally of one block to a position centrally of a vertically adjacent block mated therewith, the pins each being of a length approximating the height of a block.
Description
DRYWALL CONSTRUCTION METHOD AND MEANS THEREFOR
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to block-type drywall construction and, more particularly to a drywall construction and the method for carrying it out. The constructed wall is designed to be, essentially, self supporting, easily constructed and economical insofar as material and labour costs are concerned.
DISCUSSION OF THE PRIOR ART
Drywall construction is used generally for low walls and takes the form of a wall constructed of unitary building units or blocks which can be stacked to provide a self supporting wall structure, a securing cement, or mortar, being dispensed with.
United States patent 5,048,250 - Ellias, issued September 17, 1991, is directed to a building block per se which is designed for stacking in a drywall structure.
The blocks are provided with vertically oriented holes, which in stacking are vertically aligned through row layers, through which rods may be passed, after the wall is constructed, to provide reinforcement of the structure.
United States patent 4,426,815 - Brown, issued January= 26, 1984, is directed to a mortarless concrete building block provided with key means locking one layer of blocks to the underlying or overlying next layer. Here again reinforcing rods may be used for added strength.
United States patent 2,199,112 - O'Leary, issued April 30, 1940, is directed to an insulated building block having, in one instance, a simulated brick construction surface being applied to the face of the block.
United States patent 2,006,462 - Kupper, issued July 2, 1935, is directed to a miniature building system wherein individual building blocks are mounted on and secured by vertical rods passing consecutively through layers of the blocks.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to a drywall construction method and means facilitating ease of construction while, at the same time, providing a strong structure. The preferred construction block is similar to a standard size brick modified somewhat to accommodate the features of the present invention.
The construction block, upon which the present description is primarily based, is provided with holes, preferably more than one, passing vertically through the block with the holes symmetrically situated so that the holes of offset block layers will align or coincide I
between vertical layers with, in the case of the three hole block, the centre hole coinciding vertically with the butting ends of the blocks in the layers immediately above and below that particular center hole.
A particular feature of the invention of the aforementioned application is the use of short pin members, for instance tubes, which are dimensioned to fit snugly into the holes in the blocks. The length of the pin member is preferably substantially equal to the vertical height of a block and is inserted into the hole of a block to the approximate extent of half its length, the other half of the pin member acting as a locating pin upon which the block of a subsequent layer of blocks is laid. The pin members act as means for securing the block against lateral and horizontal displacement with respect to each other. In addition, the pins, in view of their snug fits in the holes of the blocks, provide an additional degree of vertical stability. When the pins are tubular in form, vertical reinforcing rods may be readily inserted through a number of laid layers of blocks to increase the vertical rigidity of the wall.
This type of construction reduces labour costs in the building of walls etc., is economical and, in view of the fact there are no rigid joints the wall may be subjected to considerable vibrational stress without consequent cracking and deterioration thus rendering the construction useful for earthquake prone areas.
The ends, or the abutting surfaces, of the blocks in a horizontal layer can be provided with vertical cutouts corresponding to half a hole which, in conjunction with an abutting brick, forms a composite vertical hole which is utilized by inserted pin means to align and maintain the alignment of abutting block ends in a horizontal layer. In addition, the inserted pin acts as a means of securing the block rows against lateral movement between the blocks and a vertically adjacent layer of blocks. Alternately, the vertical holes supplied in the block may be displaced symmetrically with respect to the ends ofthe blocks so that the holes in one layer of blocks are coincident with holes in a vertically adjacent layer of blocks, the coincidence being maintained throughout the vertically layers of blocks in a completed wall, According to the invention, the blocks are each provided on their upper surfaces with a raised, longitudinally oriented, laterally central, portion preferably extending for the full length of the block and having, preferably, a flat upper surface area. The lower surfaces of each block is provided with a symmetrically opposed and contoured cutout which mates with the upper surface of a block positioned therebeneath in a vertically adjacent layer of blocks to form an interlock resisting lateral movement of adjacent layers of blocks in a constructed wall. The blocks of a layer are longitudinally moveable with respect to the blocks of a vertically adjacent mating layer of blocks and, in order to prevent longitudinal movement of blocks in one layer with respect to the blocks in vertically adjacent layer of blocks, pins, mating with the holes in the blocks or the composite holes between the ends of abutting blocks, may be inserted in the holes of blocks in a layer leaving extended ends which insert into coincident holes of a vertically adjacent layer of blocks to limit the lo longitudinal movement of one layer of blocks with respect to an adjacent, mating, layer of blocks.
In order to facilitate construction, the pins are preferable, in overall length, slightly less than the distance between vertical centrals of adjacent layers of blocks.
Although it is possible to use longer pins difficulties may arise in assembling multilayer walls when the pins are a greater length than the preferred length. In addition, the repair of a wall can be greatly impeded when the pins employed in construction are greater in length than the preferred length.
In order to provide greater wall integrity, a belt layer may be inserted between the block layers and enclosed between the mating upper and lower surfaces of blocks to assist in 2o assuring longitudinal alignment of blocks in each layer and the layer adjacent thereto.. In order to accommodate such a belt the upper raised surface of a block can be designed to be free from contact with the lower surface of the cutout of a mated block so that an internal flat surface space is provided between the mated blocks to accommodate the belt.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figures 1, 2 and 3 show a top view, a side view and a cross-sectional view respectively of a building block according to the present invention, Figure 4, 5 and 6. show a top view, a side view and a cross-sectional view respectively of a modified version of a building block according to the present invention, Figures 7 shows, in end view, two building blocks, in exploded view, vertically stacked and oriented as, they would be situated in a vertical wall construction oftwo layers of blocks, Figure 8 shows two blocks, as illustrated in Figure 7, in cross-sectional and unexploded view with locating pins inserted in coincident vertical holes of the layers of blocks, Figure 9 shows an exploded view of a wall construction based on the use of blocks according to Figures 1, 2 and 3 and Figures 10 shows an exploded view of a wall construction based on the use ofblocks according to Figures 4, 5 and 6.
lo DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Figures 1, 2 and 3 show a building block 1, for instance a baked clay or concrete block, according to the invention and adapted for use in the construction of a vertical, motarless, wall (drywall). The block 1, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, is, for the most part, an elongated rectangular form which, as is illustrated best by Figure 3, is provided with a longitudinal, lower cavity 3 which extends linearly for the full length of the block, the cavity 3, preferably, being provided with lower flat, horizontal, portions 2 corresponding to the lower side of the block and an inner and upper flat surface 3 connected to the lower flat portions 2 by linearly sloping sides 4. On the upper surface of the block 1 a symmetrically opposed, raised and linearly elongated surface protruberance 5 is provided and proportioned to mate with the underside cavity 3 of a further correspondingly formed block so that the flat portions 2 of the corresponding block rest on the outer, top, flat portions 6 corresponding to the top surface of the block thus providing firm seating and mating surfaces 2, 6. It is preferable that the flat surface 3 of the cavity of each block is raised sufficiently, with respect to the surfaces 2, to ensure secure mating of the flat surfaces 2 and 6. The top surface 5 of the protuberance is joined to the flat portions 6 by sloping surfaces 7. It should be noted here that the contours of the mating cavities, protnisions and surfaces can be varied with respect to what has been described. It is essential however, in vertical drywall construction, designed to be essentially self supporting, that the mating surfaces, when assembled, automatically provide for substantially true vertical alignment between vertically stacked, horizontal, layers of blocks.
It should be noted here that the surface 3 of the lower cavity of a block can be raised sufficiently, with respect to flat portions 2 to make room for a longitudinal belt between t To layers of blocks as will be referred to in greater detail with respect to Figures 9 and 10.
The blocks 1 are each provided with vertical holes 11, laterally central of the block and extending fully from the lower surface 3 to the upper surface 5 of each block. The holes 11 maybe located longitudinally central of each block and at each end thereof, the end holes 11 a being in the form of a vertical cutout forming one limiting surface of a composite vertical hole, the vertical hole being completed by a similar block end abutted thereagainst in a lo horizontal row of blocks. As shown in figure 4 the vertical holes can be located midway between the ends and centers of the blocks. Other holes arrangements can be used so long as the holes of vertically and horizontal conventionally staggered layers of blocks are coincident. Such coincident arrangements being shown in Figures 9 and 10.
Figure 7 illustrates an exploded stacked arrangement of two blocks 1, 1 wherein the opposed mating surfaces 2 and 6 are spaced to show the contour ofthe mating surfaces more clearly. Figure 8 shows sectional end views of two fully seated blocks 1a, Ib with three stabilizing pins 9 a, 9b, 9c inserted into the coincident holes 11 of the two blocks, one pin 9a having a half-pin length part projecting below block 1 a, a pin 9b extending from midway of block 1 a to midway of block 1 b and the third pin 9c extending from midway of block 1 b to project there above for half its length The pins 9 stabilize the vertically stacked rows of blocks against lateral toppling and against relative longitudinal movement with respect to each other.
Figure 9 shows an exploded view of two longitudinal rows of blocks I a and 1 b in stacked vertical arrangement and longitudinally staggered relationship wherein the blocks are each provided with holes 111ocated midway between the longitudinal centers and the ends of each block 1 thus facilitating the respective longitudinal staggering of vertically adjacent horizontal rows of blocks. In this configuration a belt 10, provided with a series of longitudinally spaced holes 12 coinciding with coincident block holes 11, is placed between the vertically stacked rows of blocks and accommodated in the space allowed therefore between the upper faces 5 of the lower row and the lower cavity faces 3 of the upper row of blocks. Pins 9, when assembled, will extend from approximately midway of the lowerrow row of blocka 1 a to substantially midway of the upper row of blocks lb. This arrangement of rows of blocks is, of course, repeated vertically throughout the constructed wall.
Figure 10 shows an arrangement similar to that described in regard to Figure 9, differing only in the location of holes in the blocks and the accommodating and coinciding holes 12 in belt 10. In this arrangement every other horizontally located hole 11 a, in each horizontal row of blocks, is a composite hole formed between the abutting ends ofblocks in that row.
Although preferred embodiments of the invention have been described further variations and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope ofthe invention which is defined in the claims appended hereto.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to block-type drywall construction and, more particularly to a drywall construction and the method for carrying it out. The constructed wall is designed to be, essentially, self supporting, easily constructed and economical insofar as material and labour costs are concerned.
DISCUSSION OF THE PRIOR ART
Drywall construction is used generally for low walls and takes the form of a wall constructed of unitary building units or blocks which can be stacked to provide a self supporting wall structure, a securing cement, or mortar, being dispensed with.
United States patent 5,048,250 - Ellias, issued September 17, 1991, is directed to a building block per se which is designed for stacking in a drywall structure.
The blocks are provided with vertically oriented holes, which in stacking are vertically aligned through row layers, through which rods may be passed, after the wall is constructed, to provide reinforcement of the structure.
United States patent 4,426,815 - Brown, issued January= 26, 1984, is directed to a mortarless concrete building block provided with key means locking one layer of blocks to the underlying or overlying next layer. Here again reinforcing rods may be used for added strength.
United States patent 2,199,112 - O'Leary, issued April 30, 1940, is directed to an insulated building block having, in one instance, a simulated brick construction surface being applied to the face of the block.
United States patent 2,006,462 - Kupper, issued July 2, 1935, is directed to a miniature building system wherein individual building blocks are mounted on and secured by vertical rods passing consecutively through layers of the blocks.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to a drywall construction method and means facilitating ease of construction while, at the same time, providing a strong structure. The preferred construction block is similar to a standard size brick modified somewhat to accommodate the features of the present invention.
The construction block, upon which the present description is primarily based, is provided with holes, preferably more than one, passing vertically through the block with the holes symmetrically situated so that the holes of offset block layers will align or coincide I
between vertical layers with, in the case of the three hole block, the centre hole coinciding vertically with the butting ends of the blocks in the layers immediately above and below that particular center hole.
A particular feature of the invention of the aforementioned application is the use of short pin members, for instance tubes, which are dimensioned to fit snugly into the holes in the blocks. The length of the pin member is preferably substantially equal to the vertical height of a block and is inserted into the hole of a block to the approximate extent of half its length, the other half of the pin member acting as a locating pin upon which the block of a subsequent layer of blocks is laid. The pin members act as means for securing the block against lateral and horizontal displacement with respect to each other. In addition, the pins, in view of their snug fits in the holes of the blocks, provide an additional degree of vertical stability. When the pins are tubular in form, vertical reinforcing rods may be readily inserted through a number of laid layers of blocks to increase the vertical rigidity of the wall.
This type of construction reduces labour costs in the building of walls etc., is economical and, in view of the fact there are no rigid joints the wall may be subjected to considerable vibrational stress without consequent cracking and deterioration thus rendering the construction useful for earthquake prone areas.
The ends, or the abutting surfaces, of the blocks in a horizontal layer can be provided with vertical cutouts corresponding to half a hole which, in conjunction with an abutting brick, forms a composite vertical hole which is utilized by inserted pin means to align and maintain the alignment of abutting block ends in a horizontal layer. In addition, the inserted pin acts as a means of securing the block rows against lateral movement between the blocks and a vertically adjacent layer of blocks. Alternately, the vertical holes supplied in the block may be displaced symmetrically with respect to the ends ofthe blocks so that the holes in one layer of blocks are coincident with holes in a vertically adjacent layer of blocks, the coincidence being maintained throughout the vertically layers of blocks in a completed wall, According to the invention, the blocks are each provided on their upper surfaces with a raised, longitudinally oriented, laterally central, portion preferably extending for the full length of the block and having, preferably, a flat upper surface area. The lower surfaces of each block is provided with a symmetrically opposed and contoured cutout which mates with the upper surface of a block positioned therebeneath in a vertically adjacent layer of blocks to form an interlock resisting lateral movement of adjacent layers of blocks in a constructed wall. The blocks of a layer are longitudinally moveable with respect to the blocks of a vertically adjacent mating layer of blocks and, in order to prevent longitudinal movement of blocks in one layer with respect to the blocks in vertically adjacent layer of blocks, pins, mating with the holes in the blocks or the composite holes between the ends of abutting blocks, may be inserted in the holes of blocks in a layer leaving extended ends which insert into coincident holes of a vertically adjacent layer of blocks to limit the lo longitudinal movement of one layer of blocks with respect to an adjacent, mating, layer of blocks.
In order to facilitate construction, the pins are preferable, in overall length, slightly less than the distance between vertical centrals of adjacent layers of blocks.
Although it is possible to use longer pins difficulties may arise in assembling multilayer walls when the pins are a greater length than the preferred length. In addition, the repair of a wall can be greatly impeded when the pins employed in construction are greater in length than the preferred length.
In order to provide greater wall integrity, a belt layer may be inserted between the block layers and enclosed between the mating upper and lower surfaces of blocks to assist in 2o assuring longitudinal alignment of blocks in each layer and the layer adjacent thereto.. In order to accommodate such a belt the upper raised surface of a block can be designed to be free from contact with the lower surface of the cutout of a mated block so that an internal flat surface space is provided between the mated blocks to accommodate the belt.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figures 1, 2 and 3 show a top view, a side view and a cross-sectional view respectively of a building block according to the present invention, Figure 4, 5 and 6. show a top view, a side view and a cross-sectional view respectively of a modified version of a building block according to the present invention, Figures 7 shows, in end view, two building blocks, in exploded view, vertically stacked and oriented as, they would be situated in a vertical wall construction oftwo layers of blocks, Figure 8 shows two blocks, as illustrated in Figure 7, in cross-sectional and unexploded view with locating pins inserted in coincident vertical holes of the layers of blocks, Figure 9 shows an exploded view of a wall construction based on the use of blocks according to Figures 1, 2 and 3 and Figures 10 shows an exploded view of a wall construction based on the use ofblocks according to Figures 4, 5 and 6.
lo DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Figures 1, 2 and 3 show a building block 1, for instance a baked clay or concrete block, according to the invention and adapted for use in the construction of a vertical, motarless, wall (drywall). The block 1, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, is, for the most part, an elongated rectangular form which, as is illustrated best by Figure 3, is provided with a longitudinal, lower cavity 3 which extends linearly for the full length of the block, the cavity 3, preferably, being provided with lower flat, horizontal, portions 2 corresponding to the lower side of the block and an inner and upper flat surface 3 connected to the lower flat portions 2 by linearly sloping sides 4. On the upper surface of the block 1 a symmetrically opposed, raised and linearly elongated surface protruberance 5 is provided and proportioned to mate with the underside cavity 3 of a further correspondingly formed block so that the flat portions 2 of the corresponding block rest on the outer, top, flat portions 6 corresponding to the top surface of the block thus providing firm seating and mating surfaces 2, 6. It is preferable that the flat surface 3 of the cavity of each block is raised sufficiently, with respect to the surfaces 2, to ensure secure mating of the flat surfaces 2 and 6. The top surface 5 of the protuberance is joined to the flat portions 6 by sloping surfaces 7. It should be noted here that the contours of the mating cavities, protnisions and surfaces can be varied with respect to what has been described. It is essential however, in vertical drywall construction, designed to be essentially self supporting, that the mating surfaces, when assembled, automatically provide for substantially true vertical alignment between vertically stacked, horizontal, layers of blocks.
It should be noted here that the surface 3 of the lower cavity of a block can be raised sufficiently, with respect to flat portions 2 to make room for a longitudinal belt between t To layers of blocks as will be referred to in greater detail with respect to Figures 9 and 10.
The blocks 1 are each provided with vertical holes 11, laterally central of the block and extending fully from the lower surface 3 to the upper surface 5 of each block. The holes 11 maybe located longitudinally central of each block and at each end thereof, the end holes 11 a being in the form of a vertical cutout forming one limiting surface of a composite vertical hole, the vertical hole being completed by a similar block end abutted thereagainst in a lo horizontal row of blocks. As shown in figure 4 the vertical holes can be located midway between the ends and centers of the blocks. Other holes arrangements can be used so long as the holes of vertically and horizontal conventionally staggered layers of blocks are coincident. Such coincident arrangements being shown in Figures 9 and 10.
Figure 7 illustrates an exploded stacked arrangement of two blocks 1, 1 wherein the opposed mating surfaces 2 and 6 are spaced to show the contour ofthe mating surfaces more clearly. Figure 8 shows sectional end views of two fully seated blocks 1a, Ib with three stabilizing pins 9 a, 9b, 9c inserted into the coincident holes 11 of the two blocks, one pin 9a having a half-pin length part projecting below block 1 a, a pin 9b extending from midway of block 1 a to midway of block 1 b and the third pin 9c extending from midway of block 1 b to project there above for half its length The pins 9 stabilize the vertically stacked rows of blocks against lateral toppling and against relative longitudinal movement with respect to each other.
Figure 9 shows an exploded view of two longitudinal rows of blocks I a and 1 b in stacked vertical arrangement and longitudinally staggered relationship wherein the blocks are each provided with holes 111ocated midway between the longitudinal centers and the ends of each block 1 thus facilitating the respective longitudinal staggering of vertically adjacent horizontal rows of blocks. In this configuration a belt 10, provided with a series of longitudinally spaced holes 12 coinciding with coincident block holes 11, is placed between the vertically stacked rows of blocks and accommodated in the space allowed therefore between the upper faces 5 of the lower row and the lower cavity faces 3 of the upper row of blocks. Pins 9, when assembled, will extend from approximately midway of the lowerrow row of blocka 1 a to substantially midway of the upper row of blocks lb. This arrangement of rows of blocks is, of course, repeated vertically throughout the constructed wall.
Figure 10 shows an arrangement similar to that described in regard to Figure 9, differing only in the location of holes in the blocks and the accommodating and coinciding holes 12 in belt 10. In this arrangement every other horizontally located hole 11 a, in each horizontal row of blocks, is a composite hole formed between the abutting ends ofblocks in that row.
Although preferred embodiments of the invention have been described further variations and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope ofthe invention which is defined in the claims appended hereto.
Claims (7)
- Claim 1.
Means for use in constructing a mortarless block wall utilizing blocks laid in rows stacked vertically wherein the blocks are each provided with substantially elongated-rectangular configurations, each block being provided with, on its underside, a laterally central cavity extending for the full length of the block and leaving flat longitudinal side areas for accommodating the seating of one block upon another, each block being further provided with an upper side protuberance, extending for the full length of the block, symmetrically opposed to the lower cavity of the block to mate with the cavity of a similar block seated thereon, there being flat seating areas provided on each longitudinal side ofthe protuberance of each block to cooperate with the flat longitudinal underside areas of a similar block seated thereon - Claim 2.
Means for use in constructing a motarless block wall, as claimed in Claim 1, wherein each block is provided with holes, passing vertically therethrough, located centrally of the block and spaced to coincide with holes in a block seated thereon and offset longitudinally in staggered block wall construction and pins, adapted to be insertable into the holes and of a length approximating the height of one block. - Claim 3.
Means for constructing a motarless block wall, as claimed in Claim 2 wherein an elongated belt is provided with holes spaced longitudinally of the belt and spaced to coincide with the vertical holes provided in the blocks, when the blocks are laid in the staggered layer format, for securing the belt and block layers against horizontal displacement with respect to each other, there being a space provided between each protruberance and mating cavity to accommodate the insertion of the belt running longitudinally of a row of blocks. - Claim 4.
Means for use in constructing a mortarless block wall utilizing blocks laid in a rows stacked vertically wherein the blocks are each provided with substantially elongated-rectangular configurations, each block being provided with, on its underside, a laterally central cavity extending for the full length of the block and leaving flat longitudinal side areas for accommodating the seating of one block upon another, each block being further provided with an upper side protuberance, extending for the full length of the block, symmetrically opposed to the lower cavity of the block to mate with the cavity of a similar block seated thereon, there being flat seating areas provided on each longitudinal side ofthe protuberance of each block to cooperate with the flat longitudinal underside areas of a similar block seated thereon. - CLAIM 5 The means claimed in Claim 4 wherein a clearance space is provided between the upper side of a protruberance and the lower side of a cavity, seated thereover, to accommodate the insertion of a elongated belts between layers of mated blocks.
- Claim 6 Means for constructing a mortarless block wall, as claimed in Claim 5, wherein the belt is provided with holes longitudinally spaced to coincide with vertical holes provided through each block when the blocks are laid in abutting relationship in an elongated row and pins adapted to be insertable into the coincident holes to limit the longitudinal and lateral movement of the belt with respect to blocks in a row in a constructed wall.
- Claim 7.
Means for constructing a mortarless block wall as claimed in Claim 5 wherein the length of the pins is approximately equal to the height of a block.
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