Patent ID: 8122663

Claim:
An anchor and reinforcement device for use in a wall having a backup wall and a facing wall in a spaced apart relationship having a cavity therebetween, said backup wall formed from successive courses of masonry block with a bed joint of predetermined height between each two adjacent courses and, further, each course of masonry block having an embedment surface lying in a substantially horizontal plane, said anchor and reinforcement device comprising, in combination: a wall reinforcement adapted for disposition upon one of said courses of masonry blocks and for embedment in said bed joint of said backup wall, said wall reinforcement adapted for disposition in said embedment surface, in turn, comprising; a pair of side wires disposed parallel to one another; one or more intermediate wires attached to the interior sides of said side wires maintaining the parallelism thereof in a truss or ladder configuration having, when disposed on said embedment surface, all the longitudinal axes of said side wires and said intermediate wires in a substantially horizontal plane; at least one wire-formative wall anchor attached at one end thereof to said wall reinforcement at the side opposite said interior side of said intermediate wire attachment, and, upon installation, adapted to extend into said cavity, said wall anchor comprising: two leg portions extending into said cavity, said two leg portions attached by non-welding fusible attachment to said side wire at a substantially 90 degree angle with the longitudinal axes of said side wires and said two leg portions being substantially coplanar, said fusible attachment through high pressure compression liquefying the surfaces of said two leg portions and said side wires and being conjoined upon solidification thereof; and, a free end contiguous therewith, said free end disposed in said cavity and adapted to interengage a veneer anchor for embedment in said bed joint of said facing wall.