INSULATION WALL AND INSULATION PLATE FOR CONSTRUCTING THE INSULATION WALL
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Abstract
An insulation wall is constructed from insulation plates. The edge sides of the insulation plates are provided with edge connecting elements such as a tongue, a groove or a ridge for forming a tongue and groove joint or a half lap joint between adjacent insulation plates in the insulation wall. At least one drainage channel is provided through the insulation wall for draining away moisture that has penetrated between the insulation plates into the insulation wall. This at least one drainage channel includes adjoining drainage channel sections which are provided in the longitudinal direction on the edge connecting elements of the interconnected insulation plates.
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36 Claims
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1-16. -16. (canceled)
- 17. An insulation plate for constructing an insulation wall, comprising a plurality of interconnected isolation plates, wherein the insulation plate is substantially rectangular in shape, wherein the insulation plate has a front side, a rear side, and four edge sides, wherein each edge side is provided lengthwise with an edge connecting element selected from the list consisting of a tongue, a groove, a ridge flush with the front side of the insulation plate, called the front ridge, and a ridge flush with the rear side of the insulation plate, called the rear ridge, wherein the tongue is essentially complementary to the groove and the front ridge is essentially complementary to the rear ridge, wherein at least one of the edge connecting elements at the edge sides is provided lengthwise with at least one drainage channel section, wherein the insulation plate is provided lengthwise at each edge side with a different edge connecting element selected from the list consisting of the tongue, the groove, the front ridge and the rear ridge, and wherein the tongue and the groove are provided at two opposing edge sides of the insulation plate, and the front ridge and the rear ridge are provided at the two remaining opposing edge sides of the insulation plate, and in that the different edge connecting elements of the insulation plate merge into each other at the corners between the edge sides such that no rectilinear passageways for moisture through the insulation wall are present in the joints between the interconnected insulation plates of the insulation wall.
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20-21. -21. (canceled)
- 35. An insulation wall for a building, wherein the insulation wall is composed of a plurality of interconnected, substantially identically shaped insulation plates, wherein each insulation plate is substantially rectangular in shape, wherein each insulation plate has a front side, a rear side, and four edge sides, wherein each edge side is provided lengthwise with an edge connecting element selected from the list consisting of a tongue, a groove, a ridge flush with the front side of the insulation plate, called the front ridge, and a ridge flush with the rear side of the insulation plate, called the rear ridge, wherein the tongue is essentially complementary to the groove and the front ridge is essentially complementary to the rear ridge, wherein at least one of the edge connecting elements at the edge sides is provided lengthwise with at least one drainage channel section, wherein each insulation plate is provided lengthwise at each edge side with a different edge connecting element selected from the list consisting of the tongue, the groove, the front ridge and the rear ridge, and wherein the tongue and the groove are provided at two opposing edge sides of each insulation plate, and the front ridge and the rear ridge are provided at the two remaining opposing edge sides of each insulation plate, and in that the different edge connecting elements of each insulation plate merge into each other at the corners between the edge sides such that no rectilinear passageways for moisture through the insulation wall are present in the joints between the interconnected insulation plates of the insulation wall, wherein the edge connecting elements of the insulation plates are arranged in such a way that the insulation plates of the insulation wall are interconnected by means of a connection selected from a tongue and groove joint, formed by said tongue and said groove, and a half lap joint, formed by said front ridge and said rear ridge, wherein at least one drainage channel is provided through the insulation wall for draining moisture penetrated between the insulation plates into the insulation wall, wherein the at least one drainage channel is composed of adjoining drainage channel sections of the interconnected insulation plates.
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