Textured brick form

Claim 1

A construction form including: a normally upright panel embossed to present a masonry pattern in one face of the panel and an impression of said pattern in the opposite face, said pattern defining a plurality of offset courses, each having a series of stretchers, presenting a number of vertical joints between the stretchers with the joints in each course vertically misaligned relative to vertical joints in adjacent courses, said one face having a vertical, marginal border traversing said courses, said border terminating at one lateral edge of said panel, a number of said series of stretchers extending across said border to said edge, said border having a plurality of vertically spaced depressions defined by the joints in certain of said courses; and an elongate, vertical flange rigidly secured to said panel along said border for reinforcing said panel against buckling, said flange including a longitudinal surface contiguous with said border and in contact with the stretchers presented therealong, said surface having a plurality of vertically spaced projections disposed to be received within the depressions, whereby said surface contacts substantially the full length of said border to prevent deformation of the latter, said flange being laterally offset from said one edge.