Building element

DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A building element comprising a pair of right-angled elements interengaged to form a topless and bottomless box, upper or lower edges of the box including a channel formation adapted to receive the periphery of an adjacent element in stacking relationship, an outer wall of the channel being continuous and uninterrupted and an inner wall of the channel including a series of castellations opposite said continuous outer wall and adapted to receive the peripheries of building elements.
2.
A building element according to claim 1, in which the right angled elements are L-shaped.
3.
A building element according to claim 1, in which the channel formation includes recesses therein.
4.
A building element according to claim 1, in which the right angled elements include formations at the ends thereof slidable into and out of engagement in a horizontal plane.
5.
A building element according to claim 4, in which the formations comprise flexible male elements having hooked free ends engageable in female elements including formations adapted to receive and retain the hooked ends.
6.
A building element according to claim 5, in which the male elements are tongues with straight sides and hooked ends providing shoulders for engaging in complementary formations in the female element.
7.
A building element according to claim 1, which includes longitudinally disposed horizontal reinforcing ribs.
8.
A building element according to claim 7, in which the ribs comprise inwardly extending flanges located around the inner dimensions of the box.
9.
A building element according to claim 1, which includes cutout formations adapted to provide deformability.




Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a building element which is particularly useful in the rapid erection of low cost housing.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The majority of schemes for low cost housing have centered around the provision of interlocking building blocks but these have to be transported to the site or made on the site with moulds which have to be transported