Pittsburgh Corning Corporation

Francis J Zavada

Thomas J Pirosko

Kenneth J Erickson

Translucent building block or the like

A translucent block includes a pair of parallel upper and lower faces each having a generally irregular hexagonal shape. There are a pair of generally rectangular, opposing sides which are parallel with each other, have a first preselected height and a first preselected width, and are perpendicular and joined to the upper and lower faces. A first pair of generally rectangular, opposing ends are parallel with each other, have the first preselected height and a second preselected width, and are perpendicular and joined to the upper and lower faces. A second pair of generally rectangular, opposing ends are parallel with each other, have the first preselected height and the second preselected width, and are perpendicular and joined to the upper and the lower faces. One of the first pair of ends is joined to one of the second pair of ends with a predetermined angle of ninety degrees therebetween. Each of the first pair of ends and each of the second pair of ends are respectively joined to one of the pair of sides. The translucent block can be joined to similar translucent blocks and/or different translucent blocks to form a wide variety of wall and column structures. There is included a method of forming the wall structures and a method of forming the column structures.

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Aliquippa, PA, United States of America

Francis J Zavada