Building System for Constructing Walls

Abstract

The invention concerns a building system for constructing vertical walls using wooden building blocks. The parallelepiped blocks comprise on their upper and lower surfaces a first groove (5a) extending over the entire length of said surfaces. The ridge between the upper surface and the outer surface of the blocks includes a chamfer (12) folding down part of the first groove over its entire length. The system further comprises a first block aligning tongue (6a) designed to be arranged horizontally between the first grooves of adjacent blocks in the wall. The first tongue includes a double-panel incision. The first panel of the incision is engaged in the first groove, the second panel of the incision is pressed against the chamfers of the blocks. The surface opposite the second panel forms an oblique slope for draining off water.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The invention relates to a building system for constructing vertical walls, which comprises wooden building blocks substantially of rectangular parallelepipedal shape that are intended to be placed substantially horizontally one beside another and substantially vertically one on top of another in a vertical wall and comprising an upper face, a lower face, an inner face, an outer face and two abutting faces in the wall. The upper and lower faces of each block comprise at least a first groove extending over the entire length of these faces. The system also includes at least a first block alignment tongue intended to be placed horizontally between the first grooves of adjacent blocks in the wall.[0002]The invention relates to any type of wall comprising at least one part constructed from wood. It may apply to walls of dwellings, such as the outside walls, supporting walls and internal partitions. The invention may also be used for constructing swimming pools...

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Benefits of technology

[0013]One particular object of the invention is to provide a building system for constructing, for a lower cost, stable walls that are sealed and easy and rapid to construct.

[0067]Solid wood has well-known insulation properties which make it a material of choice for constructing exterior walls. The cost of constructing such a dwelling is less since it is unnecessary to cover such a wall for the interior of the dwelling, both as regards insulation and esthetics. Moreover, by choosing bricks made from wood of different colors, it is possible to construct walls that are patterned. Alternatively, the blocks may also be made of fiber components (for example compreg wood or sealed MDF or laminated wood, etc.).

Problems solved by technology

This type of construction is relatively expensive both in terms of raw material and labor.

In addition, transporting and assembling on the worksite very long logs are operations difficult and expensive to carry out.

Moreover, these constructions have major sealing problems.

This is because, since wood is a material that works, it is difficult to obtain logs that remain perfectly straight.

In addition, through the effect of time, gaps form between the logs, greatly reducing the thermal, acoustic and moisture sealing among others of the building.

Such a building system does not allow simple, rapid and effective assembly of the various modules.

This is because the building system requires the manufacture and use of numerous “small” parts, namely the alignment keys, thereby making the manufacture and assembly of the parts lengthy and costly in labor.

In addition, the building system does not allow straight walls to be obtained.

The use of alignment keys, as described in this prior art, allows adjacent bricks to be aligned only pairwise, but does not allow alignment of the bricks over the entire wall.

Moreover, these keys do not keep the bricks in place one against another, since it is necessary to bond the bricks together.

This constitutes an additional step in the construction of a wall, which step moreover makes the building system environmentally unfriendly owing to the use of adhesive.

This results in a distortion of the wall, which then does not have a straight support surface.

The use of anchor bolts for each stack of bricks also makes any subsequent modification of the wall (opening for a window, door, etc.) difficult.

Finally, this system does not solve the problem of sealing the construction since these walls are less sealed the more the bricks are deformed under the pressure of the anchor bolts.

Although this system does allow bricks to be rapidly assembled in order to form a wall, it does not solve the problem of how to seal the construction.

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