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WO2011089442A1
WO2011089442A1 PCT/GB2011/050107 GB2011050107W WO2011089442A1 WO 2011089442 A1 WO2011089442 A1 WO 2011089442A1 GB 2011050107 W GB2011050107 W GB 2011050107W WO 2011089442 A1 WO2011089442 A1 WO 2011089442A1
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brick
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Albert Arthur Bland
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Springair Limited
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    • 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
    • E04B2002/0254—Tie rods

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  • the present invention relates to a brick for the assembly of a structure, to a system for the assembly of a structure, and to a method of assembling a structure.
  • a brick wall is constructed from bricks held together by a cement mix applied when wet, thereafter drying to bond the bricks together. If the brick wall is later subjected to an earthquake, tremor, tsunami, tornado or other major forces e.g. explosion, the mortar bonding may be substantially weakened without the wall itself collapsing. Such weakening may well not be apparent without very careful and expert examination or surveying of the structure, and yet the structure may well be very vulnerable to even a minor further force causing total collapse of the structure.
  • An objective of the present invention is to provide a form of brick which allows the ready, easy and fast assembly of a structure by a person without specialist brick-laying skills.
  • Another objective of the present invention is to provide a form of brick which provides a structure which is more resistant to earthquakes, tremors, tsunamis, explosions and other major forces than conventional brick structures.
  • the present invention provides a brick for the assembly of a structure, the brick having an aperture extending between two major faces of the brick, the aperture having a plurality of regions for accommodating an elongate member to extend between a plurality of overlying bricks and for accommodating and holding an anchor for the elongate member.
  • brick is used throughout this patent specification to include bricks in all forms of building and construction, particularly but not solely house bricks, and to include building blocks of all sorts including breeze blocks and thermolite blocks.
  • the aperture has a plurality of regions of different width, comprising a first region of a width and shape to accommodate an elongate member to extend between a plurality of courses of bricks, and comprising a second region of a width and shape to accommodate and hold an anchor for the elongate member.
  • the aperture may comprise a second region of a width and shape for
  • an anchor comprising a base plug to secure a lower section of an elongate member, the brick having a recess shaped to prevent rotation of the base plug.
  • the aperture comprises a second region of a width and shape for accommodating and holding an anchor comprising a connecting sleeve for attachment to two elongate members.
  • a brick for the assembly of a structure having an aperture extending between two major faces of the brick, the aperture for accommodating an elongate member to extend between a plurality of overlying bricks and to be secured to bricks of different courses.
  • This form of brick has the features to accommodate an elongate member but does not incorporate the features for use with an anchor.
  • this form of brick can be used in those parts of a structure in which only an elongate member needs to be accommodated, and then the version of the brick with both sets of features is used in those parts of the structure where use with an anchor is required.
  • a second aspect of the present invention provides a brick for the assembly of a structure, the brick having an element shaped for inter-engagement with a co-operable element on another structure component, the brick having an aperture extending between the major faces of the brick for accommodating an elongate member to extend between a plurality of bricks.
  • the brick has for example a protrusion and/or recess to ensure ready and quick correcy positioning on another brick for alignment of the apertures of the two bricks.
  • a third aspect of the present invention provides a brick for the assembly of a structure, the brick having a recess for inter-engagement with another structure component, the recess being shaped to have two spaced-apart centres of symmetry.
  • a recess is shaped to enhance and ameliorate engagement with a co-operable element on another brick, by providing a slightly enlarged recess to guide a protrusion into engagement, even when the respective elements are not particularly well aligned or have grit or detritus on their surfaces.
  • the present invention also provides a structure comprising a plurality of bricks as hereinbefore defined in the present invention.
  • the present invention also provides a system for the assembly of a structure, the system comprising at least one brick as defined hereinbefore, and further comprising at least one elongate member for location in at least one said brick to extend between a plurality of overlying bricks.
  • the system comprises an anchor for location in a brick to secure with an elongate member, the anchor being a base plug for location in a lower region of a brick to secure an elongate member.
  • the anchor comprises a sleeve for connecting lengthwise two elongate members.
  • the present invention provides a structure made using the system as defined hereinbefore.
  • the present invention also provides a method of assembling a structure, the method comprising: applying a course of bricks having at least one brick with an aperture extending between two major faces of the brick, applying at least one more course of bricks on the first course, providing an elongate member extending through the apertures of bricks of different courses.
  • the elongate member is inserted into apertures of the bricks after courses of the bricks have been positioned, and the elongate member may then be secured to an anchor in a brick.
  • the elongate member may be connected to an anchor for connection to another elongate member.
  • the present invention provides a structure assembled by the method as defined hereinbefore.
  • An advantage of the present invention is that it enables a structure to be built more quickly, and more easily, than a conventional structure.
  • the brick shell of a typical 3 -bedroom domestic house may be constructed within 7 days, with a time saving of up to 60% as compared to the present construction techniques of the comparable part of an equivalent conventional house..
  • a further advantage of the present invention is that the assembly of the structure can be done by unskilled labour, thereby significantly reducing the overall cost of assembling the structure.
  • a further advantage of the present invention is that it does not use mortar or cement which has a number of substantial benefits, including: further cost-savings by use of fewer materials, labour time-savings by eliminating the need to mix materials (and having to switch between mixing and applying with the risk of some materials being wasted if not used in time), reducing the environmental impact by reducing use of materials and enhancing the opportunity to recycle the bricks and other components of the system (without the need of trying, usually unsuccessfully, to remove hardened mortar from conventional bricks), a cleaner work environment due to no materials- mixing, ready assembly of the structure in all weather conditions in that there is no mortar to be affected by rain, storms, frost, snow etc.
  • a further advantage of the present invention is that a brick structure made using the present invention may be substantially stronger and less vulnerable to weakening caused by earthquakes, tremors, tsunamis, tornados, explosions or other major forces as compared to conventional brick structures. Even if a brick structure of the present invention is weakened by such an event, it would remain less susceptible to spontaneous collapse or collapse by further earthquakes, tremors etc than a conventional brick structure.
  • a further advantage of the present invention is that it may provide a structure which is capable of flexing when subjected to major forces for example resulting from earthquakes, tremors,etc.
  • the present invention relates to any form of brick structure, whether a house, house shell, building, stand-alone wall, support or barbecue.
  • the present invention is primarily directed to construction bricks, typically used for and in such brick structures, but the present invention is also applicable to building blocks generally used in construction, for example made of pre-cast cement, concrete or equivalent or similar materials and constituents.
  • building blocks generally used in construction, for example made of pre-cast cement, concrete or equivalent or similar materials and constituents.
  • the term "brick" is used within this patent specification to include all appropriate suitable forms of building block including breeze blocks and thermolite blocks.
  • FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a brick embodying the present invention
  • FIGURE 2 is view from below of the brick of Figure 1;
  • FIGURE 3 is a section through the brick of Figure 1 along the lines B-B;
  • FIGURE 4 is a view of the front face of the brick of Figure 1 ;
  • FIGURE 5 is a section through the brick of Figure 1 along the lines A- A;
  • FIGURE 6 is a side view of a plug of the present invention.
  • FIGURE 7 is a view from below above of the plug of Figure 6;
  • FIGURE 8 is a side view of a rod of the present invention.
  • FIGURE 9 is a side view of a wall tie for use with a brick of the present invention
  • FIGURE 10 is a plan view of the wall tie of Figure 9;
  • FIGURES 11 and 12 are views of a connecting sleeve
  • FIGURES 13 and 14 are views of the front face and a section of a building block embodying the present invention.
  • a brick 10 of the present invention being of dimensions 2.4 x 10 "1 metres in overall length, 7.5 x 10 "2 metres in height (i.e. from bottom surface to top surface), and 1.2 x 10 1 metres in total width.
  • This brick is slightly longer than the standard conventional brick at 2.15 x 10 1 metres, due to the important consequence and benefit of the present invention that any use of mortar is obviated.
  • the length of a brick of the present invention corresponds to the combined length of a conventional brick and the appropriate amount of mortar at the ends for bonding.
  • brick 10 is of the traditional type, manufactured by a baking process with constituents of clay, lime and cement-based mixture of aggregate and silica sand, and with appropriate standard finishing operations and techniques, but incorporating the novel and inventive features of the present invention.
  • brick 10 include the finish 12 of the front face 14 which can be seen on the lower side of brick 10 as shown in Figure 1, and on the right side of brick 10 as shown in Figure 3.
  • Brick 10 of the present invention includes two domed protrusions 16, 18 of height 1.8 x 10 "2 metres extending above top surface 20 of brick 10, each of the protrusions shaped to engage with one recess (if the bricks of adjacent courses are half bonded) of another brick 10' when positioned on top of brick 10.
  • brick 10 has two recesses 22, 24 of depth 2 x 10 ⁇ 2 metres to engage with protrusions of bricks thereunder.
  • Each recess 18, 20 is shaped such as to have two axes of symmetry which are spaced apart, in order to allow for expansion and contraction due to temperature and weather conditions and to facilitate ready and easy guiding of a protrusion into engagement even with imprecise initial alignment and to ensure that there is close contact and engagement of the surfaces even in the event of loose particles, grit and detritus being present.
  • Brick 10 has an aperture 26 extending between top surface 20 and base surface 28. This aperture 26 lies vertically in normal use orientation of brick 10 and has a number of regions (as can be seen from Figure 3), being (from base surface 28 upwards in normal use orientation) :-
  • Region 30 of elliptical cross-section 32 (see Figure 2) to hold elliptical base section 34 of plug 36 fixed against axial rotation;
  • Region 38 of circular cross-section to contain the upper, internally-threaded cylindrical sleeve 40 of plug 36, into which a rod 42 can be threadedly secured;
  • Region 44 of circular cross-section to slidably accommodate rod 42; Region 46 of generally circular cross-section to accommodate an end portion of a wall tie 48.
  • Bricks 10 of the present invention are used as follows to assemble a brick structure.
  • Each end face 49 of brick 10 which abuts with the equivalent face of the adjacent brick has a vertical indentation 50 of semi-circular cross-section to accommodate half of a rod 42 should it be appropriate for a rod to pass through a course of the bricks for securing to a plug 36.
  • At the bottom of indentation 50 is an elliptical shaped recess 51 to hold fixed a plug 36 if required.
  • Aperture 26 is suitably tapered to ensure ready, easy and fast release from the manufacturing mould process and to provide optimum support for the fitting within the brick.
  • a number of bricks 10 are laid out lengthwise touching end-to-end on top of a suitable foundation layer (with appropriate bonding as required).
  • a plug 36 has been positioned in the appropriate region 30 such that the base of plug 36 is flush with base surface 38 and plug 36 is fixed against any axial rotation.
  • Each fourth brick 10, in which a plug 36 has been positioned, is suitably marked.
  • a second course of bricks is placed over that first course in a half-bond arrangement and such that the respective recesses 22, 24 of a brick 10' in the second course inter- engage with one protrusion of one brick 10 on the first course and one protrusion of the adjacent brick 10 on that first course.
  • the rods 42 are inserted into the aligned apertures 26 only once the courses of bricks have been assembled, otherwise there could be a risk that a person assembling the structure might be injured by rods which are sticking up to 6.3 x 10 1 metres out of the courses of bricks being assembled.
  • the present invention allows eight courses of bricks to be assembled (which can be achieved very quickly and easily because of the inter-engaging protrusions and recesses, and also with the respective apertures suitably aligned), whereupon only then the rod is inserted into the aligned apertures, with no risk of the rod injuring the person because the rod does not then extend out of or beyond the top course of brick.
  • a hollow internally-threaded connecting sleeve 50 is attached to the upper end of rod 42.
  • This rod insertion operation is repeated for all of the bricks 10 marked as having a plug 36. Then a further eight courses of bricks 10 is laid, and the rod insertion operation repeated.
  • each rod 42 is cut to the appropriate length so that it doesn't extend unnecessarily beyond the top course of bricks, and a end cap is applied to the top of the rod to top it off.
  • Plug 36, rod 42, wall tie 42 and end cap are made from stainless steel, other steel, fiber thermoplastics resins for example thermoplastics materials of which one is marketed with the Trademark CFT Continuous Fiber Thermoplastics with composite thermoplastic 55 volume by % glass, or any other appropriate and suitable metal or other material.
  • fiber thermoplastics materials are that, after applied forces are removed, the materials return to their original form, whereas steels and other metals remain in the deformed state, s
  • any may be replaced by a suitable push- fit connection arrangement.
  • the brick may be shorter, effectively with a single protrusion and recess, for example with just half apertures at ends, or it may be longer, for example with three, or four, or more, pairs of protrusions and recesses, and appropriate apertures. Also, the brick may be wider, for example two rows of two pairs of
  • Figures 13 and 14 show another embodiment of the present invention wherein the brick 10 is replaced by a pre-cast concrete building block 60 typically made as a breeze block with concrete and clinker material or made as a building block with conctere/cement or as a thermolite aerated block, of dimensions 2.25 x 10 -1 metres in height, 2.4 x 10 1 metres in length and 1.2 x 10 1 in width, and front face 62 with an aperture 64 extending between base surface 66 and top surface 68, aperture 64 having regions 70, 72, 74 and 76 which have equivalent functions to the respective regions 30, 38, 44 and 46 of brick 10.
  • Other features of building block 60 and its accessories, use and operation are identical, equivalent or similar (with appropriate modification, as required) to brick 10 and the associated system and methods as described herein.

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L'invention porte sur une brique (10) qui comporte une ouverture verticale (26), laquelle comporte : une région (30) de section transversale elliptique (32) pour supporter une section de base elliptique (34) d'un bouchon (36) fixé à l'encontre d'une rotation axiale; une région (38) de section transversale circulaire pour contenir le manchon cylindrique intérieurement fileté supérieur (40) du bouchon (36), dans laquelle une tige (42) peut être fixée par vissage; une région (44) de section transversale circulaire pour recevoir par coulissement la tige (42); une région (46) de section transversale globalement circulaire pour recevoir une partie d'extrémité d'un tirant de mur (48). Un certain nombre de briques (10) sont posées dans le sens de la longueur, se touchant bout à bout, une brique sur quatre comportant un bouchon (36). Une seconde étendue de briques est disposée sur cette première étendue selon un agencement en quinconce, ceci étant répété sur sept autres étendues. La tige (42) est insérée dans les ouvertures alignées (26) et est tournée jusqu'à ce qu'elle soit fixée par vissage dans le bouchon (36).
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US3618279A (en) * 1970-10-26 1971-11-09 True F Sease Building block
EP0165856A1 (fr) * 1984-06-01 1985-12-27 Alpha-Composants Ensemble d'éléments de construction pour l'édification de murs par post-contrainte
US4688362A (en) * 1985-04-01 1987-08-25 Constro S.A. Set of modular building construction elements
EP0940513A2 (fr) * 1998-03-06 1999-09-08 Werner Ing. Vogel Elément structural pour l'édification de murs à sec, et mur construit avec de tels éléments
US20040163358A1 (en) * 2003-02-26 2004-08-26 Gregory Clarke System for constructing log structures

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US3618279A (en) * 1970-10-26 1971-11-09 True F Sease Building block
EP0165856A1 (fr) * 1984-06-01 1985-12-27 Alpha-Composants Ensemble d'éléments de construction pour l'édification de murs par post-contrainte
US4688362A (en) * 1985-04-01 1987-08-25 Constro S.A. Set of modular building construction elements
EP0940513A2 (fr) * 1998-03-06 1999-09-08 Werner Ing. Vogel Elément structural pour l'édification de murs à sec, et mur construit avec de tels éléments
US20040163358A1 (en) * 2003-02-26 2004-08-26 Gregory Clarke System for constructing log structures

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