Interlocking System for Building Walls, Floors, and Roofs

Abstract

A wall comprising superposed rows of aligned conventional building blocks being approximately parallel front and back faces connected by a plurality of transverse webs defining chambers there between in which the tops and bottoms of the blocks are formed with V-shaped grooves to mate with similarly shaped V-shaped grooves in the adjacent wall or a block placed thereon. Tubing is placed within the adjacent V-shaped grooves to space the blocks from each other and maintain the adjacent rows in proper alignment. Lateral temperature rods may be placed inside the tubes.

1 . A building system comprising: 
 at least one building block having approximately parallel front and back faces connected by a plurality of transverse webs defining chambers between said webs, the top and bottom of said front and back faces being approximately parallel and providing a longitudinally extending top and bottom portions for said at least one block; said top and bottom portions being formed to include two parallel-spaced v-shaped grooves extending along a longitudinal axis defined by said top and bottom portions so that grooves in the top of a block mate with grooves in the bottom of another block above it.    
   
   
       2 . The building system of  claim 1 , further comprising at least one alignment element longitudinally positioned in relation to a space defined by a top v-shaped groove an a corresponding bottom mating v-shaped groove.  
   
   
       3 . The building system of  claim 2 , wherein said alignment element comprises at least one of: a hollow tube, a reinforcing wire, or a combination thereof.  
   
   
       4 . The building system of  claim 2 , wherein said alignment element comprises a circular cross-section element.  
   
   
       5 . The building system of  claim 4 , wherein said alignment element comprises an outer diameter of about ⅜″.  
   
   
       6 . The building system of  claim 2 , wherein the diameter of said alignment element and the depth of said v-shaped grooves are selectively chosen so that the spacing between vertically disposed blocks varies from about 0″ to about ⅛″.  
   
   
       7 . The building system of  claim 6 , wherein the spacing between vertically disposed blocks varies from about 0.010″ to about 0.020″.  
   
   
       8 . The building system of  claim 2 , wherein said alignment element extends longitudinally and horizontally to an adjacent block providing two-dimensional block alignment.  
   
   
       9 . The building system of  claim 2 , further comprising a plurality of vertically stacked building blocks and at least one alignment element between each block, wherein the distance from a centerline of a bottom portion alignment element to a centerline of a top portion alignment element is about 7.875″ with a tolerance of from about ±0.002″ to about ±0.004″.  
   
   
       10 . The building system of  claim 9 , wherein the height of said building blocks vary from about 7.625″ to about 7.750″.  
   
   
       11 . The building system of  claim 1 , further comprising a first hinged retaining element selectively positioned to retain said block substantially fixed in relation to a first surface.  
   
   
       12 . The building system of  claim 11 , further comprising a second hinged retaining element selectively positioned to retain said block substantially fixed in relation to a second surface.  
   
   
       13 . The building system of  claim 11 , further comprising an adjustable leveling element selectively coupled to said first hinged retaining element.  
   
   
       14 . The building system of  claim 13 , wherein said adjustable leveling element comprises at least one adjusting portion and a rotating adjusting element to selectively level said block in relation to at least one of: a floor, a door frame, a roof, another block, or any combination thereof, by converting rotary motion into linear motion.  
   
   
       15 . The building system of  claim 1 , wherein said block further comprises a slot receiving a door frame connecting element to retain said door frame fixed in relation to said block.  
   
   
       16 . The building system of  claim 1 , further comprising at least one roof supporting channel including at least one receiving element receiving at least one end of an alignment element, wherein said at least one roof supporting channel is selectively positioned between at least two adjacent blocks.  
   
   
       17 . A wall comprising the building system of  claim 1 .  
   
   
       18 . A roof comprising the building system of  claim 1.