Masonry wall system with guiding means

摘要

The present invention concerns a masonry wall system consisting of a plurality of panels and artificial masonry units. The panels are provided with channels sized to receive the artificial masonry units and delimited by protruding ribs. The protruding ribs have a predetermined width w and also have notches uniformly spaced along the ribs. The artificial masonry units have protuberances devised and positioned on the masonry units to be fitted in the notches of the protruding ribs so that the masonry units are equally spaced-apart from each other by a predetermined gap (g).

主权项

1. A system for building a masonry wall on a building surface, the system comprising:
a plurality of artificial masonry units, each one of said masonry units having a front face, a back face, and two pairs of parallel lateral faces having a thickness (tm); at least one panel having a front face provided with a plurality of horizontally extending channels delimited by protruding ribs for receiving rows of said masonry units in the channels, said ribs having a predetermined thickness (tr) smaller than said thickness (tm) of the masonry units, wherein each of said channels is delimited by an upper rib and a lower rib of the protruding ribs; rib guiding means comprising projecting teeth positioned along one of the upper rib and the lower rib of each of said channels and facing toward each of said channels; and unit guiding means positioned along one of the lateral faces of the masonry units, wherein the unit guiding means comprises at least one cavity that is partially enclosed along the back face by a pair of bulges, wherein angles formed by the back face of the masonry unit and each bulge are acute for gripping sides of the projecting teeth when said masonry unit is installed between two ribs; wherein the single masonry unit lateral face comprising the unit guiding means is engaged by the rib guiding means and the remaining faces of the masonry unit are not engaged by the rib guiding means, said rib and said unit guiding means being interdependently positioned for guiding the installation of the masonry units in the channels so that horizontally-arranged masonry units are equally spaced-apart from each other by a predetermined gap (g).