Building wall constructions

Claim 1

A building construction for fabricating a veneer facing wall, comprising: a flat panel formed of thin, rigid material, said panel having pairs of spaced parallel ridges co-extensive with the longitudinal length thereof and forming a flat-bottomed trough between each pair, each ridge being U-shaped in cross-section to form a bight and legs extending at right angles from said bight and integrally joined at right angles with an adjoining trough portion, a plurality of veneer building blocks, each formed as a rectangular slab of a predetermined length and of a width to fit flatwise within a trough and closely but freely and without interference fit between bight legs of adjacent ridges, said blocks being of a thickness at least equal to the depth of a trough so that outer faces of said blocks are exposed, and with the bights of said ridges exposed between said blocks, the bottom of each trough having a series of lanced-out portions along a line but inward of each ridge, each lanced-out portion providing a lip displaced from the inner surface of said trough and projecting from an outer surface of the same, and each lip being aligned with the opening formed in the Lancing operation, adhesive material between the inner face of each of said blocks and the inner surface of a said trough for holding said building blocks in place, said adhesive material being applied in layer form along the line of and over said lanced-out portions to interlock with the same, and said building blocks being assembled with said panel by pressing individual blocks into a said trough and against said adhesive to urge some of the latter through the openings formed by the lanced-out portions, said displaced lips providing a stop for said adhesive material to restrain it from falling from the outer surface of said trough.