Stackable surface module for a wall surface

• US 8,752,353 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2012
• Issued: 06/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Klaus Zinser
• Original Assignee: Klaus Zinser
• Inventors: Zinser, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): WENDELL, MARK R
• Application Number:
  US14/002,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20130333319A1
• Time in Patent Office: 748 Days
• Field of Search: 525/881, 525/78, 525/61, 525/69, 525/74, 525/75
• 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, the module comprising:

a front side having a side projection area;

a rear side having a side projection area;

a top side

a bottom side;

lateral sides;

at least two lower extensions in the z-direction;

at least one lower recess limited by the least two lower extensions in the x-direction, and being in the z-direction lying in the x-direction between the at least two lower extensions, and

interlocking points overlaid on a surface of a perimeter of the module that are interrupted at at least at one point along the entire perimeter,

the module having a three-dimensional shape, and extending over a space in the x-, y-, and z-directions,

the module being configured to be stacked on an additional module in the z-direction,

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,

the side projection area of the front side or the 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,

the side projection area of the front side or the 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,

the module being configured to be joined with a multitude of modules so as to form, in an assembled state, a contiguous wall or shell surface, which extends continuously in the x- and z-directions, the module being configured to be stacked in the z-direction with the multitude of modules, and configured to be offset in the x-direction and rotated through 180°

about the x- and/or y-axes, so as to be stacked in the z-direction,

an interlocking point of the interlocking points is configured to block movement of adjacent modules in the wall in one of the two y-directions,

the interlocking points including at least one interlocking point pair with positive and negative interlocking points, the positive interlocking points configured to lock in the positive y-direction and the negative interlocking points configured to lock in the negative y-direction so that the at least one interlocking point pair is capable of blocking both y-directions in the wall.

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

the at least two extensions are configured to fit into a recess of a module of a next wall layer above or below in the z-direction.

3. The stackable module according to claim 1, wherein

a thickness of the module varies in the z-direction.

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

a depth of the at least one lower recess lies between 25% and 75% of a total module height in the z-direction.

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

a maximum module thickness in the y-direction is less than a maximum depth of the at least one lower recess.

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

in a projection on to the x/z-plane, a total area of two extensions is equal to a total area of the at least one lower recess formed in the x-direction.

7. The stackable surface module according to claim 1,further comprising

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 the at least two upper extensions, the at least one downward-reaching recess lying in the x-direction between the at least two extensions.

8. The stackable surface module according to claim 1, further comprising

at least two upper cutouts in the z-direction and at least one upward-reaching upper bulge in the z-direction, the at least one upward-reaching upper bulge confined in the x-direction by the at least two upper cutouts and lying in the x-direction between the at least two 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 a surface modulation with at least one interlocking protuberance from the surface of the perimeter and a complementary hollow to the at least one interlocking protuberance so that every interlocking point is capable of forming an interlocking point structure with surface modulations on adjacent modules in the assembled state of the wall surface, and

a curve of the surface modulation at every interlocking point in the y-direction is not continuously parallel to the y-direction, so that every interlocking point is capable of forming the interlocking point in 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 of the interlocking points comprises at least one locking surface on a y-axis position which lies between 40% and 60% of a maximum y-axis depth of the module.

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

the interlocking point of the interlocking points is 5 to 20% of the module 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 interlocking point of the interlocking point includes a protuberance in the z-direction that is at least 10% of the module in the z-direction.

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

the module is configured to form 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.