Claims
- 1. A freestanding unitary precast concrete, one-half room building unit having an inverted U-shaped cross-sectional configuration and comprising:
- a generally horizontally extending web having upper and lower surfaces and opposite longitudinal edges; and
- a pair of spaced, generally vertically extending flanges having bases; said flanges being integral with and depending from said lower surface of said web respectively adjacent said longitudinal edges;
- said base of one of said flanges being formed with a tongue and said base of the other of said flanges being formed with a groove, and said tongue of said one flange being relatively dimensioned and configured to complement and fit into said groove of said other flange of an identical other unit brought in flange-to-flange inverted position relative to said unit;
- said web being dimensioned, configured and adapted to serve as the ceiling or floor of a room of a building and said flanges being dimensioned, configured and adapted to serve as upper or lower halves of the room; and
- said web being formed adjacent said longitudinal edges with alternating tabs and voids, the positions of said tabs adjacent one longitudinal edge corresponding to the positions of said voids adjacent the other longitudinal edge, and said tabs of said one edge being relatively dimensioned and configured to complement and fit into said voids of said other edge of an identical other unit brought in diagonally adjacent inverted position relative to said unit.
- 2. A precast building unit as in claim 1, further comprising a latticework of intermeshed reinforcing bars integrated within the structure of said unit.
- 3. A precast building unit as in claim 1, wherein said flanges are formed with hollow cores running vertically therethrough, said cores being dimensioned, configured and adapted for receiving reinforcing bars therethrough to extend between said unit and like cores of adjacent identical building units utilized in building construction and for receiving a poured binding substance therein to form reinforcing columns rigidly joining the units.
- 4. A room structure comprising a first precast building unit as in claim 1 and a second, identical unit inverted and positioned in flange-to-flange position relative to said first unit with said bases joined so that said tongue of said first unit is fitted into said groove of said second unit, and said tongue of said second unit is fitted into said groove of said first unit, said first unit serving as the ceiling and top halves of opposite walls of said room structure and said second unit serving as the floor and lower halves of the opposite walls of said room structure.
- 5. A room structure as in claim 4, wherein said flanges of said units are uniformly outwardly tapered from said bases to said lower surfaces, and the walls have indentations at the location of said joined bases; and said structure further comprises at least one linear diffusing unit of arcuate shape mounted on said units and having a concavity facing one of said indentations.
- 6. A precast building unit, as in claim 1, wherein said flanges have a lateral horizontal dimension adjacent said longitudinal edges, and said voids have a corresponding lateral horizontal dimension equal to generally one-half of said lateral horizontal dimension of said flanges.
- 7. A precast building unit as in claim 6, wherein said web has a vertical dimension adjacent said flanges, and said voids have a corresponding vertical dimension equal generally to one-half of said vertical dimension of said web.
- 8. A structure comprising a first precast building unit as in claim 1 and a second, identical unit inverted positioned in diagonally adjacent, web-to-web position relative to said first unit, with said units joined so that said tabs of said one longitudinal edge of said first unit are fitted into said voids of said other longitudinal edge of said second unit, and said tabs of said other longitudinal edge of said second unit are fitted into said voids of said one longitudinal edge of said first unit, said first unit serving as the ceiling and top halves of opposite walls of a room on a lower level of said structure and said second unit serving as the floor and lower halves of opposite walls of a room on an upper level of said structure.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/398,095, filed Aug. 23, 1989, abandoned.
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