Triangular stackable building wall method

Abstract

A stackable building wall unit adapted to be stacked with a plurality of identical building wall units in a plane to form a wall comprising three rectangular panels each including inner and outer faces, a pair of spaced apart long edges, and a pair of spaced apart short edges joined to the short edges of the other two panels to form a triangular, stackable building wall unit which can be stacked with the exterior surfaces of the panels in abutting relation. The exterior face of at least one of the panels includes a female recess therein for receiving a complementally formed key to facilitate alignment and preclude relative shifting of the stacked units in a direction extending between said long edges between the long edges. The key may suitably comprise a complementally formed male projection extending outwardly from another panel of an abutting unit. One aspect of the invention contemplates a method of constructing a wall with triangularly shaped building units stacked in a plane with the exterior plane or surfaces in abutting relation. Transverse flanges are provided on the long edges.

1 . A method of constructing a wall comprising the steps of: 
 forming a plurality of triangularly shaped building wall units each including three angularly disposed sheets each having inner and outer faces and opposite ends each fixed to one of the opposite ends of the two other sheets; and    stacking the plurality of units in a vertical plane with the outer faces of each sheet abutting an adjacent outer face of an adjacent unit to form an upstanding wall disposed in said vertical plane.    
   
   
       2 . The method set forth in  claim 1  including the step of precluding shifting each unit relative to each adjacent unit.  
   
   
       3 . The method set forth in  claim 2  wherein the step of precluding shifting includes the step of forming a female recess in the outer face of at least one of said sheets of each unit.  
   
   
       4 . The method set forth in  claim 3  wherein said step of precluding shifting includes the step of inserting a complementally formed male key into each of said female recesses.  
   
   
       5 . The method set forth in  claim 3  wherein said step of precluding shifting comprises the step of forming a male projection, complementally shaped to said female recess, on the outer face of another of said sheets of each unit being detachably received in said female recess of the abutting face of the adjacent unit.  
   
   
       6 . The method set forth in  claim 5  wherein said step of forming a female recess includes the step of forming an elongate slot in said one sheet and said step of forming a male projection comprises the step of forming an elongate rib in said another sheet complemental to said elongate slot.  
   
   
       7 . The method set forth in  claim 1  wherein said step of forming each of said triangularly shaped units comprises forming three sheets each having a pair of spaced apart parallel long edges and a pair of spaced apart, parallel short edges at said opposite ends spanning said long edges.  
   
   
       8 . The method set forth in  claim 7  wherein said forming step includes the step of forming transversely disposed flanges on each of said long edges.  
   
   
       9 . The method set forth in  claim 8  wherein said step of forming said flanges includes the step of forming offset terminal ends on each of said flanges.  
   
   
       10 . The method set forth in  claim 9  wherein said sheets of each unit are integral.