Patent ID: 8863476
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: E04B,E04C

Abstract:
1. A method of constructing a structure comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of alignment rods and a plurality of mortar-less building blocks, each of the plurality of blocks formed of masonry material and including a front face and a back face, a top face and a bottom face, and a protrusion side face and a recess side face; the front face and the back face each include a single pair of longitudinal recesses, the top face includes a single pair of longitudinal recesses aligned with and extending to join in a one-to-one relationship with the longitudinal recesses of the front face and the back face, the top face also including a transverse recess centrally located on the top face for transversely intersecting the single pair of longitudinal recesses, creating intersection points, the recess side face having a transverse recess aligned with and extending to join the transverse recess of the top face, the protrusion side face having a transverse protrusion designed to mate with the transverse recess of an other of the building block, the bottom face having at least one transverse protrusion for mating with a recess of a top face of an other of the building block, the transverse protrusion being aligned with and extending to the transverse recess of the recess side face and aligned with and extending to the transverse protrusion of the protrusion side face, and a pair of bores, each bore longitudinally disposed to extend through the solid masonry material forming the building block from the intersection points of the top face to the bottom face intersection points, for allowing a user to place an alignment rod within the bore of a first building block and within the bore of a second building block when said first and second building blocks are placed on top of each other; placing a first block in a first location; forming a course by mating one side face of the first block with a cooperating side face of an additional block such that the protrusion side face of the first block is mated with the recess side face of the additional block, or the recess side face of the first block is mated with the protrusion side face of the additional block; laterally interlocking one or more additional blocks by mating one side face of the one or more additional blocks with a cooperating, oppositely-configured side face of an other of the one or more additional blocks; forming a transverse course by (a) mating one recess of the front face or back face of the first block with a protrusion side face of an additional block and (b) laterally interlocking one or more additional blocks by mating one side face of the one or more additional blocks with a cooperating, oppositely-configured side face of an other of the one or more additional blocks; setting a second transverse course by mating the transverse protrusion of the bottom face of an additional block with a longitudinal recess of the top face of the first block; setting a second course by mating the transverse protrusion of the bottom face of an additional block with a longitudinal recess of the top face of the first block; aligning the bore of the additional block with the bore one or more additional blocks; and inserting an alignment rod into a bore of one block and extending the alignment rod into a bore of one or more additional blocks.