RELOCATABLE MODULAR CONCRETE BLOCK PARTITION SYSTEM

摘要

A light weight concrete partition construction which may be erected as a firerated wall consisting of a number of modular standard sized concrete blocks which are linked together by splines. The concrete blocks are made from autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) having a density of less than 50 lbs. per cubic foot. The partition system incorporates a sufficient number of rectangular blocks used to form the partition wall or walls, having the desired height and width. The blocks have a generally rectangular shape with parallel and coplanar top and bottom surfaces, joined at parallel edge surfaces which extend perpendicularly thereto. Grooves are formed across the top and bottom surfaces of the blocks, aligned with a midplane of the blocks. To form a fire-rated wall, the splines are used to link successive courses of wall blocks to each other without mortar by partially locating with both the top grooves formed in the wall blocks of the underlying course, and the bottom grooves of overlying course of wall blocks which rest directly thereon. The splines are formed as elongated rectangular bars which have a thickness which is marginally less than the lateral width of the grooves formed in the wall blocks.