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EP 0168259 A3 19860813 - AN IMPROVED METHOD OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

Title (en)

AN IMPROVED METHOD OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

Publication

EP 0168259 A3 19860813 (EN)

Application

EP 85304994 A 19850712

Priority

GB 8417728 A 19840712

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0168259A2] A building method utilising the pozzolanic characteristics of pulverised fuel ash by making blocks of such ash with cement and chalk or limestone curing the blocks and then bonding the cured blocks together with a mortar mix of the same materials in the same or different proportions from those used to make the blocks. A plaster having the same materials in the same or different proportions from those used to make the blocks may then be applied to the bonded blocks.

IPC 1-7

E04B 1/02

IPC 8 full level

E04B 1/02 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

E04B 1/02 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

[AD] GB 799545 A 19580813 - GERARD JANNECE
[A] US 3306000 A 19670228 - BARNES MARION D

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0168259 A2 19860115; EP 0168259 A3 19860813; GB 8417728 D0 19840815

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 85304994 A 19850712; GB 8417728 A 19840712