Light weight brick
A light weight brick includes foaming elements centrally located in and surrounded by cement, decorative slates securely attached to an outer periphery of the cement and at least one through hole defined through the cement.
Latest Patents:
- PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS OF AMORPHOUS SOLID DISPERSIONS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF
- AEROPONICS CONTAINER AND AEROPONICS SYSTEM
- DISPLAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
- DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY MODULE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY APPARATUS
- DISPLAY PANEL, MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND MOBILE TERMINAL
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a light weight brick, and more particularly to a light weight brick which is easy to be employed for a wall, a fence or a pole.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Using bricks to build a wall or a fence around a garden is quite common in the countryside, especially in European countries. However, due to the dull and plain color of the bricks, people start using slates to build walls or fence. Because of the diversified shapes and colors, slates are becoming one of the major materials for constructions.
Again, due to various shape and heavy weight of the slates, the workers are having a hard time controlling the position and arrangement of the slates when building a wall. As a result, the cost for building a wall using the slates as the material is high. Therefore, despite the colors and diversified shapes of the slates, “how much it will cost” becomes a major concern for the users.
To cope with the problems, the current practice of building a wall is to prepare bricks, sands and slates or granite to the site where the wall is to be built. Then the workers start building the wall from scratch by mixing the bricks, the sand and the slates together. The slates are attached to the outer face of a brick wall so as to increase the decorative purpose of the wall. However, the current practice still suffers from the following drawbacks:
Difficult to assemble:
After the brick wall is finished, it is not easy for the worker to arrange the slates or the granite regularly on the outer face of the wall. It often requires professional technique to accomplish the task.
Time concern:
It is necessary for the worker to attach the slates or the granite to the outer face of the brick wall piece by piece such that it takes a long time to finish the building of the desired wall. Also, the transportation of the heavy-weight slates is another concern for both the user and the worker.
To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention tends to provide an improved light weight brick to mitigate the aforementioned problems.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe primary objective of the present invention is to provide a light weight brick composed of foaming elements surrounded by cement and decorative flagstones attached to an outer wall of the cement.
Still another objective of the present invention is that the light weight brick has multiple through holes defined through the brick and a step formed on two opposed ends of the brick to correspond to and engage with the step of an adjacent brick so as to form a fence.
In order to accomplish the aforementioned objectives, the light weight brick of the present invention has:
foaming elements centrally located in and surrounded by cement; and
decorative slates securely attached to an outer periphery of the cement.
There are through holes defined through the cement and the foaming elements.
There are two steps formed on two opposed ends thereof so as to enable two adjacent bricks to be on top of one another.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
With reference to
When the light weight brick of the present invention in this embodiment is assembled, it is noted that the multiple decorative slates (20) are securely connected to one another and mounted on top of the rectangular base (10) to encompass the contour of the rectangular base (10). The inner core (11) is mounted on top of the rectangular base (10) to allow the through hole (101) to communicate with an interior of the inner core (11). Then the rectangular foaming elements (21) are sandwiched between the decorative slates (20) and the inner core (11). Thereafter, cement (30), as shown in
The decorative slates (20) may be made of granite or any kind of natural stones with various patterns and shapes so as to increase the decorative effect once the light weight brick is finished.
With reference to
With reference to
Therefore, it is noted that the light weight brick in the first embodiment of the present invention is able to be used to build a pole and the light weight brick in the second embodiment of the present invention is able to be used to build a fence.
It is to be understood, however, that even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
Claims
1. A light weight brick consisting essentially of:
- foaming elements (61) centrally located in and surrounded by cement (70); and
- decorative slates (60) securely attached to an outer periphery of the cement (70).
2. The light weight brick as claimed in claim 1, wherein through holes (71) are defined through the cement (70) and the foaming elements (61).
3. The light weight brick as claimed in claim 2 further having two steps (81,82) formed on two opposed ends thereof so as to enable two adjacent bricks to be on top of one another.
Type: Application
Filed: Sep 12, 2006
Publication Date: Mar 13, 2008
Applicant:
Inventor: Li-Yu Hung (Taipei Hsien)
Application Number: 11/519,523
International Classification: E04C 2/04 (20060101);