Claims
- 1. A deck construction for a deck constructed on a building site, comprising, in combination, a plurality of concrete blocks and a plurality of horizontally oriented beam members, said blocks being arranged in generally parallel rows with each of said blocks comprising a one-piece body structure having a generally polygonal external peripheral surface, an upper end surface, and a lower end surface adapted for supporting engagement with the building site,
- each upper end surface having at least two open aligned recesses formed therein with each recess intersecting a centrally disposed enlarged open socket formed in said upper end surface,
- said recesses each being defined by laterally spaced-apart sidewall surfaces and a base surface and intersecting said external peripheral surface at diametrically opposite positions, each said enlarged open center socket being defined by a central base surface and by sidewall surfaces forming four mutually opposed right angle corners spaced apart farther than said spaced-apart sidewalls forming said recesses,
- said blocks each directly receiving a horizontally oriented beam member with said beam passing completely through said at least two recesses and said socket fully across the block.
- 2. A deck construction as defined in claim 1 wherein each upper end surface has two pairs of said open aligned recesses disposed in substantially mutually perpendicular relation to each other and intersecting said centrally disposed open socket.
REFERENCE TO PRIOR APPLICATIONS
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/364,659, filed Dec. 27, 1994 (abandoned); which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/976,611, filed Nov. 16, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,392,575, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/745,995, filed Aug. 9, 1991 (abandoned); which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/292,742, filed Jan. 3, 1989 (abandoned); which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/763,870, filed Sep. 19, 1991, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,163,967; which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/507,002, filed Apr. 10, 1990 (abandoned): which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/319,852, filed Mar. 3, 1989 (abandoned) which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/101,832, filed Sep. 28, 1987 (abandoned); which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 06/926,291, filed Nov. 3, 1986, U.S. Pat. No. 4,724,642.
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