STACKABLE SURFACE MODULE FOR A WALL SURFACE

• US 20130333319A1
• Filed: 05/30/2012
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Klaus Zinser
• Original Assignee: Klaus Zinser
• Inventors: Zinser, Klaus
• Granted Patent: US 8,752,353 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/588.1
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/12 using elements having a general shape differing from that of a parallelepiped
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2002/0226 with tongues and grooves next to each other on the end surface
• CPC Class Codes: E04C 2/46 specially adapted for making walls E04C2/52, E04C2/54 take precedence; structure of slab-shaped elements E04B1/02; walls of elements of relatively thin form E04B2/72

Abstract

A stackable surface module is provided for a wall surface that can be both erected and dismantled. The stackable surface module is especially useful in certain applications, such as for earthquake-resistant walls, a cupola, a bridge, a site fence, a noise protection wall, an upwind power station, a heat exchanger or a coastal protection wall.

Claims

1. A stackable surface module for the reversible construction and dismantling of a wall-surface or shell-surface,

wherein the module has a three-dimensional shape, and extends over a space in the x-, y-, and z-directions, and

a multitude of these modules can be stacked on each other in the z-direction, and the front and rear sides of the module each point in the y-direction, the top and bottom sides each point in the z-direction and the lateral sides point in the x-direction, and

the side projection area of the front side or rear side onto the x/z-plane is greater in each case than the side projection area of the top or bottom side onto the x/y-plane, and

the side projection area of the front side or rear side onto the x/z-plane is greater in each case than the side projection area of the lateral sides onto the y/z-plane, and

a multitude of such modules can be joined together so that these form, in the assembled state, a contiguous wall or shell surface from these surface modules, which extends continuously in the x- and z-directions, and

wherein a multitude of the modules, in the stacking z-direction, each offset in the x-direction and rotated through 180°

about the x- and/or y-axes, can be stacked in the z-direction,

wherein the module includes at least two lower extensions in the z-direction and at least one lower recess limited by these extensions in the x-direction, the upwards reaching recess in the z-direction lying in the x-direction between these said lower extensions,

wherein the module also includes interlocking points overlaid on the basic surfaces of the module perimeter that are interrupted at least at one point along the entire module perimeter,

wherein an interlocking point can block the module movement of neighboring modules in the wall in one of the two y-directions,

wherein the module includes at least one interlocking point pair with positive and negative interlocking points, wherein the positive interlocking points can lock in the positive y-direction and the negative interlocking points can lock in the negative y-direction so that an interlocking point pair can block both y-directions in the wall.

2. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the module is characterized by the fact that, in order to construct the wall surface from these modules, at least two extensions from two adjacent modules in the wall course together can fit into a recess of a module of the next wall layer above and/or below in the z-direction.

3. The stackable module according to claim 1, wherein

the overall module thickness varies in the z-direction.

4. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the depth of the recess lies between 25% and 75% of the total module height in the z-direction.

5. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the maximum module thickness in the y-direction is less than the maximum depth of the recess or of a recess.

6. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein,

in a projection on to the x/z-plane, the total area of two extensions is equal to the total area of the recess formed in the x-direction between these extensions.

7. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the module includes at least two upper extensions in the z-direction and at least one downward-reaching recess in the z-direction confined in the x-direction by these said upper extensions, which lies in the x-direction between these upper extensions.

8. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the module includes at least two upper cutouts in the z-direction and at least one upward-reaching upper bulge in the z-direction, confined in the x-direction by these cutouts and lying in the x-direction between these upper cutouts.

9. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the module has no cavity in the x/y-plane.

10. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

every interlocking point includes surface modulations with at least one interlocking protuberance from the basic surfaces plane and a complementary hollow to this protuberance so that complementary surface modulations on neighboring modules in the assembled state of the wall surface can form an interlocking point structure, and

the curve of the surface modulation at the interlocking point in the y-direction is not continuously parallel to the y-direction, so that an interlocking point structure can form a positive form-fit lock in at least one y-direction normal to the wall or shell surface.

11. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the interlocking point comprises at least one locking surface on a y-axis position which lies between 40% and 60% of the maximum y-axis depth of the module.

12. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the interlocking point has an extent of 5 to 20% of the maximum overall module extent in the x-direction.

13. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the module is curved in one or two directions.

14. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, wherein

the extent of the protuberance of the interlocking points in the z-direction is at least 10% of the overall module extent in the z-direction.

15. Use of a surface module according to claim 1 for earthquake-resistant walls, a bridge, a cupola, a site fence, a noise protection wall, an upwind power station, heat exchangers, a coastal protection wall or a toy house.