Mortarless brick panel

Abstract

The mortarless brick panel has upper and lower horizontal metal framing tracks with vertical metal wall studs secured therebetween that forms a rectangular frame to which a sheet of expanded metal lath is secured to the face thereof. A sheet of insulation overlays the expanded metal lath and is attached to the frame with screws or other fasteners. The mortarless brick, with a mounting rod protruding from its back side is secured to the panel by hand pressing the mounting rod through the insulation and expanded metal lath and is secured to the expanded metal lath with speed washers or other mechanical fasteners, thereby forming a mortarless brick panel. Time and motion studies have concluded that this mortarless brick can be installed up tp eight times faster than mortar joint brick, providing great savings in erection costs. This savings is used to provide a minimum of four inches of thermal insulation to the exterior walls of the structure to conserve energy and provide great savings to the consumer in heating and cooling costs.

Claims

1. A mortarless brick panel comprising a rectangular metal frame with upper and lower horizontal framing tracks and a plurality of vertical framing studs, with a sheet of insulation overlaying the metal frame and a sheet of expanded metal lath sandwiched between the frame and insulation with a plurality of mortarless brick mounted to the outer surface of the insulation by way of a mounting rod.

2. The panel as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mortarless brick has a mounting rod protruding from its back side in order to mount the brick to the panel by hand pressing the mounting rod through the exterior side of the panel and securing the mounting rod to the metal lath with a speed washer or other fastener.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0013] FIG. 1 is a top view of the panel

[0014] FIG. 2 us a top view of the mortarless brick

[0015] FIG. 3 is an end view of the mortarless brick

[0016] FIG. 4 is a front view of the panel

[0017] FIG. 5 is a rear view of the panel

[0018] FIG. 6 is an isometric view of the panel with the upper track removed for clarity

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0019] With reference to the drawings, and in particular FIG. 1, the mortarless brick panel is comprised of mortarless bricks 10 and insulation board 16 whereby the mortar-less bricks 10 are secured to the insulation board by hand pressing mounting rod 12 through the exterior of the insulation board and expanded metal lath 18 and securing the mounting rod on the interior side of the expanded metal lath by way of speed washer 14. A metal frame is formed by metal wall studs 20 and upper and lower tracks 22 and is attached to the insulation by screws and washers.

[0020] FIG. 2 details the mounting rod 12 embedded in the back of mortarless brick 10. Mortar-less brick 10 may be comprised of standard common bricks, queen sized bricks, king sized bricks, or other sized brick or block with the texture and appearance of the brick and block used throughout the building industry in the construction of homes and other residential and commercial buildings.

[0021] FIG. 3 is an end view of mortarless brick 10.

[0022] FIG. 4 is a view of the exterior side of the mortar-less brick panel showing the mortar-less brick 10 attached to the insulation board 16.

[0023] FIG. 5 shows the interior side of two mortarless brick panels secured together with metal framing screws 26 and secured to wooden or concrete flooring 28 by mechanical fasteners or concrete anchors 24.

[0024] FIG. 6 is an isometric view of the panel with the upper track removed for clarity.

DRAWINGS

[0025] FIG. 1

[0026] FIG. 2

[0027] FIG. 3

[0028] FIG. 4

[0029] FIG. 5

[0030] FIG. 6