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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7225590 | Brick tie A brick tie for interconnecting a brick wall with a back-up wall comprised of a plurality of spaced apart studs and a wall board secured to the studs wherein each stud includes a pair of opposed side flanges and a web formed between the flanges. The brick tie includ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7174687 | Web offset lug dry-stack system Generally, the invention is a dry stack building block for constructing a masonry wall. The dry stack unit has a front section having an outer surface, an inner surface, a bottom surface, and a top surface. The dry stack unit also has a rear section substantially pa... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7162845 | Concrete formwork wall serving also as reinforcement Wall made of concrete or similar materials built from an unfold formwork integrated in the wall and including two formwork walls (8,8′,10) placed face to face and connected by connecting elements (1) articulated to the formwork walls by stiffeners ( | 01/16/2007 |
| 6955010 | Continuous soffit panel and associated methods An elongate continuous soffit panel having an adjustable width comprises a first member having a soffit portion including a proximal periphery and a generally parallel and spaced apart distal periphery extending along a lengthwise dimension of the soffit panel, and ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6722094 | Insulating structural cores for block Improved insulating structural cores for use in self-aligned and leveled insulated drystacked block. Interlocking tongues (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d) join with corresponding receiving recesses (14a, 1... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6691485 | Universal modular building block and a method and structures based on the use of the aforementioned block The invention relates to modular building blocks with the minimal possible number of types which can be used for construction of buildings or other structures. The block has cellular structure defined by though openings made in the block body. The number ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6508038 | Modular tenon and slot mortise building blocks for habitable shelters Modular tenon and slot mortise building blocks include, for each building block: (a) hollow rectangular parallelepiped center block, (b) an outer siding member, (c) a first tenon member sandwiched between the center block and the siding member, (d) an inn... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6474032 | Brick pocket A brick prefabricated pocket construction element which becomes part of a cornice of a building under construction comprising a molded form made of metal, plastic, or vinyl, that is positioned on top of a brick wall facing. The device includes a soffit po... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6134853 | Interlocking insulated building block system An insulated building block system for use in building walls and other structures. Each full block has sidewalls and endwalls with a generally open interior and flat upper and lower surfaces. Two vertical ridges are provided along the interior of one side... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5822939 | Insulated building block system An insulated building block system for use in building walls and other structures. Each full block has sidewalls and endwalls with a generally open interior and flat upper and lower surfaces. Two vertical ridges are provided along the interior of one side... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5699640 | Foam building block Stackable and connectable foam building blocks include pairs of parallel side walls and opposite end walls extending between ends of side walls and multiple transverse members extending between the side walls at regular intervals. Each end wall has a U-sh... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5697189 | Lightweight insulated concrete wall A lightweight structural concrete wall panel for house construction, includes a sandwich construction of two thin fiber reinforced concrete faces enclosing vertical panels of insulation material consisting of expanded polystyrene. Vertical structural conc... | 12/16/1997 |
| 4631885 | Insulated concrete masonry unit A masonry block having through cavities therein of varying dimensions and a compressible, frangible insulating liner for insertion into such a cavity and having resilient arms with integral ribs adapted to bear against at least a pair of the walls of the ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4291513 | Wall construction unit for buildings A wall construction unit for buildings, said unit comprising a reinforced concrete layer with parallel, projecting flanges between which insulations are provided, and joists and an intermediate insulation preventing cold bridges are positioned on the free... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4206577 | Refractory lining element for a furnace or the like The element includes lateral walls and a bottom. An inner gap is arranged to be filled with bulk fiber. The walls and the bottom are formed of fibers bonded together. The bottom has a projection arranged to be nested in the inner space of an adjacent elem... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4134241 | Insulated building block A hollow building block filled with insulation is shaped as a pair of proximal but offset rectangles thereby to form steps at diagonal corners for fitting adjoining blocks together. A continuous insulation effect is obtained because the insulation in each... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4123881 | Wall structure with insulated interfitting blocks T-shaped building blocks are assembled in a wall structure in horizontal courses of blocks, with alternate ones of the blocks in each course facing opposite directions and with the main body sections of each block overlying the main body sections of the n... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4002002 | Insulating building block An insulating building block which is a composite of masonry material and a foam material is disclosed. The building block is obtained by applying a layer of foam material to a longitudinally extending side face of a cavity located within the block. A shi... | 01/11/1977 |
