CA1138616A - Building panel and method of utilizing same - Google Patents

Building panel and method of utilizing same

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CA1138616A
CA1138616A CA000365212A CA365212A CA1138616A CA 1138616 A CA1138616 A CA 1138616A CA 000365212 A CA000365212 A CA 000365212A CA 365212 A CA365212 A CA 365212A CA 1138616 A CA1138616 A CA 1138616A
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Willi Arpagaus
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04BGENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B2/00Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
    • E04B2/02Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
    • E04B2/14Walls having cavities in, but not between, the elements, i.e. each cavity being enclosed by at least four sides forming part of one single element
    • E04B2/26Walls having cavities in, but not between, the elements, i.e. each cavity being enclosed by at least four sides forming part of one single element the walls being characterised by fillings in all cavities in order to form a wall construction
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04CSTRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS
    • E04C2/00Building elements of relatively thin form for the construction of parts of buildings, e.g. sheet materials, slabs, or panels
    • E04C2/30Building elements of relatively thin form for the construction of parts of buildings, e.g. sheet materials, slabs, or panels characterised by the shape or structure
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04BGENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B2/00Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
    • E04B2/02Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
    • E04B2002/0202Details of connections
    • E04B2002/0204Non-undercut connections, e.g. tongue and groove connections
    • E04B2002/0206Non-undercut connections, e.g. tongue and groove connections of rectangular shape

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Abstract

Willi ARPAGAUS PUPLINGE /Switzerland "BUILDING PANEL AND METHOD OF UTILIZING SAME"

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

This building panel consists of coplanar parallel tubes of cardboard, plastics or other similar material, assembled and embedded in a block of synthetic material, preferably expanded polystyrene, and adapted to be fil-led with a suitable material such as concrete. Radial apertures are formed through the tube walls to provide transverse aligned passages extending throughout the panel width. In a typical form of embodiment, the radial apertures constitute rows along two diametrally opposite generatrices and the bridge portions between adjacent apertures of a same row are adapted to fit into the registering apertures of the adjacent tube.

Description

- ~L3~616 The present invention relates to a building panel made of light-weight, moderately fragile material, capable of receiving a final sheathing, comprising empty passages adapted to be filled with adequate materials, said empty pas-sages consisting partly of parallel tubes of cardb~ard, plastics or similar material.
This invention is also concerned with an improved method of constructing buildings by using panels of this type.
Many building methods have already been proposed which imply the use of juxtaposed elements such as brick, blocks, rough-casting, girders, reinforced-concrete panels or plaster panels, and lost shuttering elements.
As a rule, these last-mentioned elements have a poor resistance to concrete vibration and an insufficient trans-verse bonding strength.
However, these building methods have other inconveniences.
Their implementation is both time-robbing and expensive. Brick or block walls must be coated internally and externally, pre-ferably with the interposition of layers of insulating mate-rial. Walls made of reinforced concrete panels are sheathed internally with plaster so as to leave therebetween a gap subsequently filled with insulating material. Obviously, this arrangement is thoroughly illogical for in winter humidity condensates OII the inner cold surfaces of the reinforced con-crete panels, and the insulating material is thus caused to rot To comply with the laws of physics and avoid condensa-tion, a concrete wall must be isolated on its outer surface, but this is scarcely possible with hitherto known building materials.
The French Patent N 1,495,245 to Paxellent discloses a building panel consisting of juxtaposed tubular elements adapted to be filled with concrete so as to constitute bear-ing panels. The major inconveniences of this building panel lie in the absence of transverse bonding between the tubular
- 2 -113~6~6 elements, so that the panel rigidity across the axes of said tubes is not sufficient, thus limiting the use of panels of this type.
The US Patent N 4,038,798 discloses cardboard tubes embedded in synthetic foam,but the panel disclosed therein is attended by the same inconveniences as the building panel disclosed in the above-mentioned French Patent, i.e. the lack of transverse bonding.
The present invention is directed to avoid the above-mentioned inconveniences of prior art building panels by pro-viding an improved building panel combining a light weight, a good heat and sound insulation, and a high mechanical strength with the possibility of implementing a particularly fast building method. The panel of the present invention comprises a plurality of coplanar tubes parallel to one another and provided with radial apertures disposed along the coplanar generatrices of the tubes, so as to constitute transverse through passages extending throughout the panel width.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a building method consisting in juxtaposing the above-describ-ed panels used as lost shuttering elements into which, if desired, insulating materials and/or concrete, reinforced or not, are poured, of course after reserving the space to be occupied by doors and windows.
The use of tubes made of cardboard, plastics or similar materials for constituting the lost shuttering is ad~antageous in that it is particularly strong when casting and vibrating the concrete, the circular section of the tubes causing the walls or partitions to be only traction-stressed. Thus, it is unnecessary to make very thick walls or partitions, so that a substantial reduction in panel weight and building cost is obtained, and in addition the building method is particuIarly -easy to carry out.
Many advantageous results can be obtained with the present invention, and by using the technique of lost shutter-.

--` 1131~}6~6 ing it is possible with this invention to construct solid-concrete basement or foundation walls, story walls with the interposition of an insuIating sheathing on the outer surface, with inner partitions of light concrete, plaster or other suitable material. The panels of this invention may receive directly a final coat, such as a rustic set on the outer surfaces and wall-paper on the inner surfaces. In addition, the fact of reserving the space to be occupied by windows and doors in solid erected walls before casting the concrete greatly simplifies the construction process.
The following disclosure sets forth more in detail a few forms of embodiment of the invention, given by way of example with reference to the attached drawing.
Fig.1 is a front elevational view with parts broken away, showing a first form of embodiment of a building panel according to this invention;
Fig.2 is a plane view from above of the panel of Fig.1;
Fig.3 is a side elevational view of the panel of Fig.1;
Fig.S is an elevational view showing the manner in which two adjacent tubes are assembled, according to a second form of embodiment of the panel of this invention;
Figs.4 and 6 are side elevational views showing the two opposite faces of this specific mode of assembling adjacent tubes;
Fig.7 illustrates a third form of embodiment of the tube assembling method, and Fig.8 is a plane view from above showing the method of building a wall made of panels according to this invention.
Reference will now be made firstly to Figs.1 to 3 of the drawing, showing three orthogonal views of a panel 1 according to this invention, which consists of two biocks 2 and 3 of expanded polystyrene providing therebetween parallel hollow cylindrical apertures 10 and transverse passages 14. The cylinders 10 are lined with tubes made of cardboard, plastics -- ~. .

~13~6~6 or similar material 11, so that they can withstand the concre-te vibration. The panels are assembled in coplanar relation-ship by means of lapped joints 12,13 which, by alternating male and female portions 12,13, respectively, permit the jointing of the panels. However, groove-and-tongue or scarf flat joints may also be used, if desired, for assembling the panels with one another. The panels and the cardboard or plastic tubes are provided-with radial apertures 14 extending throughout the panel width.
If desired, the two blocks 2 and 3 may also be molded into a single piece of synthetic foam. The radial apertures 14 extend throughout the panel width, from one face to another.
For this purpose, the tubes 11 of cardboard, plastics or other suitable material are provided with radial holes 14 having the same diameter and relative spacing as in the molded block. The tubes 11 are coated with glue and introduc-ed into the block of expanded foam by causing their holes 14 to register with those of the molded block.
In a second form of embodiment illustrated in Fig.5, the so-called interfitting tube panel comprises card~oard or plastics tubes 11a which, instead of being somewhat spaced from one another, are jointed side by side and assembled along their generatrices by means of windows or ports 4 and bridges 5 interfitting according to the well-known hinge principle, as shown. Thus, along one generatrix of the card-board or plastics tube 11a a row of windows or ports 4 are cut so as to leave therebetween bridge portions 5 of a height a matching substantially that of the single windows, and on of the diametrally opposite generatrix the height b/windows 6 is about three times the height a of the bridge portions, so that every third single window constitutes a transverse passage 15 corresponding to the central portion of the opposite window 6 having a height b which is three times said height a.
The thus assembled cardboard, plastics or other tubes , .

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11a are glued in the corresponding ca~ities formed in two blocks similar to blocks 2 and 3 of Figs.1 to 3 of the drawing.
It is also possible to prepare a panel incorporating tubular elements, as illustrated in Fig.7. In this modified form of embodiment, the tubes 11b are assembled by interfitt-ing, as described hereinabove with reference to Fig.5, and coated on one side with insulating material 7 and on the opposite side with plaster or other similar material 8.
Before implementing the above-described panels, their main surfaces are covered with sheets or plates of a material selected from a wide range of known materials such as vegeta- -ble or mineral fibres, with or without the addition of agglo-merated glass fibres, and with the addition of synthetic resins, plaster or cement. Preferably,~a material of moderate fragility will be selected, this material having preferably a surface capable of receiving a final internal and internal coat or lining.
The tubes may consist of ordinary cardboard, fireprofed (phenolated) cardboard, or synthetic material.
If the panels of this invention are intended for erect-ing basement or foundation shutterings, they can be made of suitable synthetic (plastics) material and left in their molded condition for both internal and external surfaces. Thus, the conventional and hitherto necessary application of a water-tight or moisture-repellent coat is unnecessary since these panels have the required external water-tightness.
With the panels of this invention it is possible to construct a house structure consisting of multi-tubular panels and to finish the surfaces, for instance the internal surfaces, with plaster panels or any other sheathing or linin~ material, and the space between adjacent tubes may be filled by inject-ing synthetic foam; the outer surface may be lined with a suitable insulating material such as expanded polystyrene to which a rustic set is eventually applied, and if desired the :~
3~36~6 lining panels may match the configuratio~ of the tubes in order to improve the adherence surface.
When the panels incorporating the tubuIar elements are used for making basement walls or the li~e, it is possible to either fill up directly against the walls thus construct- ¦
ed, or line the walls with fibrocement panels, polystyrene panels or the like. The remaining grooves formed by the tubes are useful for draining water.
In the case of internal partition$, 'the tubes are filled with light concrete, mortar or any other suitable binder.
Of course, the panels according to the present invention can be manufactured in various widths and different materials, and also according to the various forms af embodiment describ-ed herein. ~
With the method of this invention and the panels of this invention it is also possible to build light temporary build-ings; in this case, the panels remain unfilled and are assembl-ed without using concrete, by simply cem~nting them. The space for doors and windows is cut in the solid walls.
. 20 With the panels of this invention, which comprise trans-verse passages 14 Lmparting a transverse strength through con-tinuuus bonds, it is possible to erect a building by using the method disclosed hereunder with reference to Fig.8 of the drawing.' By using flat panels 1 and corner panels 1'a, the solid walls are erected by simply disposing the panels side by side and cementing them. Then, the apertures for the windows and doors are cut by using a saw. In the slits left by the saw, sheets 16 of metal or other material are inserted. Then, the iron fittings, duct means and other conduits are introduced ; into the free passages. Thenconcrete is cast into the verti-cal tubes and ~ibrated to facilitate its penetration into the ~-horizontal passages, in order to provide continuous horizontal bonds. When the concrete has set, the sheets are removed from - -- , -, :

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` 11386~6 the slits and the panel materi~l of the ~indows and doors is also removed, 50 that the necessary frame can be fitted in position and sealed ac~ording to the known method~

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Claims (6)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:-
1. A building panel of light-weight and moderately fra-gile material, adapted to receive a final sheathing on its major faces, which comprises empty passages adapted to be filled with suitable materials, said empty passages consist-ing partly of tubes disposed in parallel coplanar relation-ship and made of cardboard, plastics or other similar mate-rial, wherein apertures having their axes perpendicular to the tube axes provide aligned transverse passages extending throughout the panel width.
2. The building panel of claim 1, wherein said tubes of cardboard, plastics or other similar material are assembled along their coplanar generatrices by means of apertures and bridge portions interfitting according to the hinge principle.
3. The building panel of claim 1, which comprises a block of synthetic foam in which parallel coplanar hollow cylinders are formed and provided with transverse passages, said cylin-ders being provided with liners of cardboard, plastics or other similar material, in which aligned radial apertures are formed.
4. The building panel of claim 1, which comprises at least two blocks of molded synthetic foam material disposed side by side and a plurality of tubes of cardboard, plastics or other similar material,
5. The building panel of claim 2, wherein each tube of cardboard, plastics or other similar material has formed along one generatrix a row of aligned single apertures sepa-rated by bridge portions having an axial length corresponding substantially to the axial length of said single apertures, and along the generatrix diametrally opposite said one gene-ratrix another row of aligned apertures having an axial length of about three times the axial length of said bridge portions, whereby every third single aperture constitutes a transverse passage registering with the central portion of the opposite triple-length aperture.
6. A method of constructing buildings by using building panels of light weight and moderately fragile material, adapted to receive a final sheathing on major faces, including empty passages adapted to be filled with suitable materials, said empty passages consisting partly of tubes disposed in paral-lel coplanar relationship and made of cardboard, plastic or other similar material, wherein apertures having axes perpendicular to the tube axes provide aligned transverse passages extending throughout the panel width, comprising the steps of erecting solid walls by laying the building panels side by side, cutting the space for doors and windows, inserting a sheet of metal or other suitable material into the slit resulting from the cutting step, introducing fittings, conduits and supply lines into the empty passages, casting concrete into the tubes of the building panels, vibrating the concrete to cause same to penetrate into the trans-verse passages of the building panels, allowing the concrete to set, removing said sheets from said slits, removing the material corresponding to said doors and windows, and carrying out sheathing and finishing operation.
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CH1120579A CH638266A5 (en) 1979-12-18 1979-12-18 HOLLOW CONSTRUCTION PANEL FOR USE AS LOST FORMWORK.
CH11205/79-7 1979-12-18
EP80200334.3 1980-04-14
EP80200334A EP0031171B1 (en) 1979-12-18 1980-04-14 Method of constructing a building using insulating panels as shuttering

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US4924641A (en) * 1988-04-01 1990-05-15 Gibbar Jr James H Polymer building wall form construction

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