Patent ID: 6443662
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: E02D

Abstract:
A connector for being received within a channel defined in blocks stacked side by side in tiers to define an earth retaining wall and being engaged to soil reinforcing grids extending through slots from the channels outwardly of the blocks, to transfer tensile loading imposed by backfill on the soil reinforcing grids to the earth retaining wall, comprising:an elongate first member having a plurality of pins spaced-apart along the longitudinal length thereof and each pin extending in a first direction from a first side of the first member; and an elongate second member having a plurality of openings spaced-apart along the longitudinal length thereof for aligning with the pins, whereby the first member and the second member matingly connect by slidingly receiving the aligned pins within the openings while sandwiching therebetween a soil reinforcement grid having open apertures through which the pins extend, the assembled connector received in the channel for securing the soil reinforcement grid thereto.