Patent ID: 6065259
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
A wall structure of at least two panels wherein:each of said panels having a foam core having at least two side faces and peripheral edges;a cementitious facing at least one of said side faces of each panel;two separate parallel grooves extending into at least each of two parallel edges of said foam core for receiving panel connecting tongues therein;said grooves being formed in said core such that each groove in each edge is open at said edge and has two opposed faces formed by said foam core and a blind end in said foam core;said grooves having a thickness less than the distance between the grooves and the nearest foam core side face;one interconnecting elongated tongue disposed in cooperating and aligned grooves of each of said adjacent panels, said respective cooperating grooves being aligned and in register with each other for receiving said tongue for coupling said panels together, such that two tongues are aligned respectively in the two separate parallel grooves in each panel edge adjoining another panel edge;and further including a U-shaped footer channel disposed horizontally beneath a panel and having two flanges extending upwardly into respective grooves disposed on a bottom edge of at least one panel and in which grooves said respective tongues are disposed.