Patents by Inventor Bertin Castonguay
Bertin Castonguay has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11585086Abstract: A concrete block system is provided and allows for the use of a single type of non-integral connector to perform different functions in a mortarless structure, the system comprising a plurality of structural concrete blocks and a plurality of veneer units. The same connector can be used to connect veneer units to structural blocks, to retain the veneer units in different orientations; to create near vertical installations or a setback between stacked rows of structural blocks. In addition, the system provides a single structural block, which can be used for both straight portions or corners of a same structure. The structural block can also be used to create double-sided walls, with opposite lateral walls being configured to received/retain veneer units thereon.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Oldcastle Building Products Canada Inc.Inventors: Marc-André Lacas, Joël Rémillard, Bertin Castonguay, Robert Declos
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Publication number: 20210214942Abstract: A modular building system, a method and a connecting assembly for building a hardscape structure, the modular building system comprising: a plurality of preformed hardscape structure sections including: a first hardscape structure section including a first section face and at least one first section groove defined in the first section face; a second hardscape structure section having a second section face and at least one second section groove defined in the second section face, the second hardscape structure section being disposed adjacent the first hardscape structure section such that the second section face is adjacent the first section face; and a connecting member having a first engagement portion for engaging one of the at least one first section groove and a second engagement portion for engaging one of the at least one second section groove to thereby secure together the first and second hardscape structure sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: OLDCASTLE BUILDING PRODUCTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Marc-André LACAS, Robert DECLOS, Bertin CASTONGUAY
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Publication number: 20210207336Abstract: A concrete block includes a dry cast concrete body having opposite first and second sides, opposite first and second end faces extending between the first and second sides, and opposite first and second bearing faces extending between the first and second sides and the first and second end faces. Each of the first and second bearing faces defines an inset region sized to receive a key that will also fit into the inset region of a like block stacked thereon. The body has at least a pair of rod-receiving apertures extending completely therethrough between the first and second sides to permit attachment to a like block through the first and second sides with a rod extending through each of the apertures. The block can be tapered to form curved walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Bertin CASTONGUAY, Marc-André LACAS, Robert DECLOS
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Publication number: 20210115672Abstract: A cladding system for covering an exterior wall is provided. The cladding system includes a panel for assembling on the exterior wall and an anchor for securing the panel to the exterior wall. The panel has a body with channels formed on a rear side thereof for draining water on an interior surface of the channel which is spaced away from the exterior wall. The anchor comprises tabs for fitting in to the channels and preventing a pull-out and/or a push-in of the panel relative to the exterior wall. The anchor cooperates with the panel to direct water into the drainage channels, and to define a continuous drainage path from top to bottom of the cladding system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: OLDCASTLE BUILDING PRODUCTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Frédéric AUSSEUR, Michel BOUCHARD, Bertin CASTONGUAY, Nader ASSAD, Martin LATOUR
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Patent number: 10844608Abstract: A cladding system for covering an exterior wall is provided. The cladding system includes a panel for assembling on the exterior wall and an anchor for securing the panel to the exterior wall. The panel has a body with channels formed on a rear side thereof for draining water on an interior surface of the channel which is spaced away from the exterior wall. The anchor comprises tabs for fitting in to the channels and preventing a pull-out and/or a push-in of the panel relative to the exterior wall. The anchor cooperates with the panel to direct water into the drainage channels, and to define a continuous drainage path from top to bottom of the cladding system.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Oldcastle Building Products Canada Inc.Inventors: Frédéric Ausseur, Michel Bouchard, Bertin Castonguay, Nader Assad, Martin Latour
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Publication number: 20200181902Abstract: A concrete block system is provided and allows for the use of a single type of non-integral connector to perform different functions in a mortarless structure, the system comprising a plurality of structural concrete blocks and a plurality of veneer units. The same connector can be used to connect veneer units to structural blocks, to retain the veneer units in different orientations; to create near vertical installations or a setback between stacked rows of structural blocks. In addition, the system provides a single structural block, which can be used for both straight portions or corners of a same structure. The structural block can also be used to create double-sided walls, with opposite lateral walls being configured to received/retain veneer units thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Marc-André LACAS, Joël RÉMILLARD, Bertin CASTONGUAY, Robert DECLOS
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Publication number: 20200123713Abstract: A set of grass pavers for creating a paver arrangement is provided. Each grass pavers comprises intersecting longitudinal members and transverse members forming an inner opening for growing grass. Pairs of adjacent member extremities form partial openings configured to form complete openings when a 5 grass paver is assembled with adjacent grass pavers. The longitudinal members and/or the transverse members have recessed portion(s) having an upper face extending below the exposed top face of the unitary body. The recessed portions are hidden by grass when the grass paver is installed and in use in the paver arrangement. The grass paver have an overall surface area delimited by the 10 extremities of the longitudinal and transverse members, and a void surface area corresponding to a sum of the inner opening area and the partial opening areas. The void ratio, defined as the void surface area over the overall area, is greater than 50%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Bertin CASTONGUAY, John PENTERMAN, Tamara EVANS, Robert DECLOS
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Patent number: 10619348Abstract: Disclosed is a wall assembly including preformed building blocks and a trellis type support member for maintaining the building blocks in place in the desired orientation. The wall assembly further includes at least one support for holding the trellis upright. The individual blocks are connected to the supporting trellis for added stability. Although not every block in the wall need be connected to the trellis support member in order to achieve the desired added stability, it is preferred to connect each block in the wall to the trellis. Connectors are provided for connecting the blocks to the trellis. Each block preferably is connected to the trellis by at least one connector, most preferably by a pair of connectors. To accommodate relative movement or shifting of the blocks during installation and in situ, the connectors are preferably movably connected to the trellis or the block, or both.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Inventors: Bertin Castonguay, Robert Declos, Joel Remillard, John Penterman
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Patent number: 10472821Abstract: Disclosed is an economical and effective way of producing a double sided wall using facing panels having a face surface and a back surface with a retaining structure. The facing panels are stacked in a back-to-back arrangement into a pair of first and second wall components connected by separate articulated connectors. The articulated connectors each have a first base connector that fits into a respective retaining groove in the first wall component and a second base connector that fits into a respective retaining groove of the second wall component. The first and second base connectors are connected to each other by a link that forms a first pivot joint at the first base connector and a second pivot joint at the second base connector.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: LES MATERIAUX DE CONSTRUCTION OLDCASTLE CANADA, INCInventors: Bertin Castonguay, Robert Daoust
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Patent number: 10273647Abstract: Disclosed is an economical and effective way of producing a modular retaining wall for a material to be retained, using only blocks which in and of themselves are of insufficient thickness to function as retaining wall blocks. The modular wall includes backer blocks and facing blocks which are connected by separate connectors in a back to back, spaced apart arrangement, thereby forming a hollow retaining wall. The hollow wall is filled with loose filler material to increase the mass and retaining capacity of the wall. None of the wall components is embedded in the material to be retained. Further disclosed are wall components and a wall kit for a modular retaining wall. A double sided decorative wall is also disclosed. The modular wall system allows for the construction of retaining walls and freestanding, double sided, decorative walls forming both straight and curved walls.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Les materiaux de construction Oldcastle Canada, Inc.Inventors: Bertin Castonguay, Marc-Andre Lacas, Robert Daoust
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Publication number: 20190119912Abstract: Disclosed is a wall assembly including preformed building blocks and a trellis type support member for maintaining the building blocks in place in the desired orientation. The wall assembly further includes at least one support for holding the trellis upright. The individual blocks are connected to the supporting trellis for added stability. Although not every block in the wall need be connected to the trellis support member in order to achieve the desired added stability, it is preferred to connect each block in the wall to the trellis. Connectors are provided for connecting the blocks to the trellis. Each block preferably is connected to the trellis by at least one connector, most preferably by a pair of connectors. To accommodate relative movement or shifting of the blocks during installation and in situ, the connectors are preferably movably connected to the trellis or the block, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Bertin CASTONGUAY, Robert Declos, Joel Remillard, John Penterman
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Patent number: 10240301Abstract: An artificial flagstone for use in combination with other similar flagstones for covering a surface with a natural random look, the flagstone having a generally hexagonal body comprising a first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth consecutive vertices; a first pair of first and second sides extending radially from the first vertex; a second pair of third and fourth sides extending radially from the third vertex; a third pair of fifth and sixth sides extending radially from the fifth vertex; wherein the sides of at least one of the first, second and third pair of sides have at least one split deviation along their length and are respectively rotational images of each other, and the artificial flagstone has no rotational symmetry when rotated about a central axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Oldcastle Building Products Canada, Inc.Inventors: Bertin Castonguay, Marcel Thomassen
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Patent number: 10145102Abstract: Disclosed is a wall assembly including preformed building blocks and a trellis type support member for maintaining the building blocks in place in the desired orientation. The wall assembly further includes at least one support for holding the trellis upright. The individual blocks are connected to the supporting trellis for added stability. Although not every block in the wall need be connected to the trellis support member in order to achieve the desired added stability, it is preferred to connect each block in the wall to the trellis. Connectors are provided for connecting the blocks to the trellis. Each block preferably is connected to the trellis by at least one connector, most preferably by a pair of connectors. To accommodate relative movement or shifting of the blocks during installation and in situ, the connectors are preferably movably connected to the trellis or the block, or both.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Les Matériaux de Construction Oldcastle Canada Inc.Inventors: Bertin Castonguay, Robert Declos, Joel Remillard, John Penterman
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Patent number: 10087597Abstract: A stackable concrete wall block is disclosed having a body with an irregular front portion and a prism shaped rear portion, the irregular front portion has a three dimensional surface structure embossed in the front face providing the appearance of natural stone and the regular rear portion facilitating stacking of like blocks. The rear portion has parallel sidewalls perpendicular to a rear wall, which are more easily manufactured by dry casting than tapered sidewalls. A lip protrudes from at least one of the sidewalls of the rear portion and is coplanar with the front face for spacing the body of the block from that of a like block placed adjacent thereto. The lateral lip generates spacing between adjacent blocks at a back terminal edge, thereby allowing the assembly of curved walls. The irregular front face extends over the lip so that the front face is continuous over the lip.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: LES MATERIAUX DE CONSTRUCTION OLDCASTLE CANADA, INC.Inventors: Robert Daoust, Bertin Castonguay, Tamara Evans, John Penterman
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Publication number: 20180209103Abstract: A set of grass pavers for creating a paver arrangement is provided. Each grass pavers comprises intersecting longitudinal members and transverse members forming an inner opening for growing grass. Pairs of adjacent member extremities form partial openings configured to form complete openings when a 5 grass paver is assembled with adjacent grass pavers. The longitudinal members and/or the transverse members have recessed portion(s) having an upper face extending below the exposed top face of the unitary body. The recessed portions are hidden by grass when the grass paver is installed and in use in the paver arrangement. The grass paver have an overall surface area delimited by the 10 extremities of the longitudinal and transverse members, and a void surface area corresponding to a sum of the inner opening area and the partial opening areas. The void ratio, defined as the void surface area over the overall area, is greater than 50%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Bertin CASTONGUAY, John PENTERMAN, Tamara EVANS, Robert DECLOS
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Publication number: 20180209154Abstract: A cladding system for covering an exterior wall is provided. The cladding system includes a panel for assembling on the exterior wall and an anchor for securing the panel to the exterior wall. The panel has a body with channels formed on a rear side thereof for draining water on an interior surface of the channel which is spaced away from the exterior wall. The anchor comprises tabs for fitting in to the channels and preventing a pull-out and/or a push-in of the panel relative to the exterior wall. The anchor cooperates with the panel to direct water into the drainage channels, and to define a continuous drainage path from top to bottom of the cladding system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: OLDCASTLE BUILDING PRODUCTS CANADA INC.Inventors: Frédéric AUSSEUR, Michel BOUCHARD, Bertin CASTONGUAY, Nader ASSAD, Martin LATOUR
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Publication number: 20180094398Abstract: Disclosed is an economical and effective way of producing a modular retaining wall for a material to be retained, using only blocks which in and of themselves are of insufficient thickness to function as retaining wall blocks. The modular wall includes backer blocks and facing blocks which are connected by separate connectors in a back to back, spaced apart arrangement, thereby forming a hollow retaining wall. The hollow wall is filled with loose filler material to increase the mass and retaining capacity of the wall. None of the wall components is embedded in the material to be retained. Further disclosed are wall components and a wall kit for a modular retaining wall. A double sided decorative wall is also disclosed. The modular wall system allows for the construction of retaining walls and freestanding, double sided, decorative walls forming both straight and curved walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Bertin CASTONGUAY, Marc-Andre Lacas, Robert Daoust
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Publication number: 20180044915Abstract: Disclosed is an economical and effective way of producing a double sided wall using facing panels having a face surface and a back surface with a retaining structure. The facing panels are stacked in a back-to-back arrangement into a pair of first and second wall components connected by separate articulated connectors. The articulated connectors each have a first base connector that fits into a respective retaining groove in the first wall component and a second base connector that fits into a respective retaining groove of the second wall component. The first and second base connectors are connected to each other by a link that forms a first pivot joint at the first base connector and a second pivot joint at the second base connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Bertin CASTONGUAY, Robert DAOUST
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Patent number: 9890512Abstract: Disclosed is an economical and effective way of producing a modular retaining wall for a material to be retained, using only blocks which in and of themselves are of insufficient thickness to function as retaining wall blocks. The modular wall includes backer blocks and facing blocks which are connected by separate connectors in a back to back, spaced apart arrangement, thereby forming a hollow retaining wall. The hollow wall is filled with loose filler material to increase the mass and retaining capacity of the wall. None of the wall components is embedded in the material to be retained. Further disclosed are wall components and a wall kit for a modular retaining wall. A double sided decorative wall is also disclosed. The modular wall system allows for the construction of retaining walls and freestanding, double sided, decorative walls forming both straight and curved walls.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Les materiaux de construction Oldcastle Canada, Inc.Inventors: Bertin Castonguay, Marc-Andre Lacas, Robert Daoust
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Publication number: 20180038053Abstract: An artificial flagstone for use in combination with other similar flagstones for covering a surface with a natural random look, the flagstone having a generally hexagonal body comprising a first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth consecutive vertices; a first pair of first and second sides extending radially from the first vertex; a second pair of third and fourth sides extending radially from the third vertex; a third pair of fifth and sixth sides extending radially from the fifth vertex; wherein the sides of at least one of the first, second and third pair of sides have at least one split deviation along their length and are respectively rotational images of each other, and the artificial flagstone has no rotational symmetry when rotated about a central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Bertin Castonguay, Marcel Thomassen