GB1277895A - Wall construction - Google Patents

Abstract

1277895 Partition walls; building panels UNITED STATES STEEL CORP 10 June 1969 [14 June 1968] 29434/69 Headings E1B and E1W A partition wall comprises a plurality of aligned panels 10 each including a pair of wallboards 20, 22 spaced apart by outwardly open channels 16, 17 along two opposite edges, which at each joint form a cavity in which a fire-resistant barrier member 30 is disposed to bridge the cavity in the transverse direction of the wall, and to opposite transversely extending faces of which carrier member, fire resistant spacer members 32 are secured, the spacer members 32 having less width measured transversely of the wall than the barrier member. The barrier member 30 and the spacer member 32 may be formed of gypsum wallboard. The wallboards 20, 22 are secured to the channels 16, 17 by fasteners 21 which may project into spaces defined by the spacer members. A channel shaped or hollow internal support member 34 receives a heat sink member 36 which controls the temperature rise of the fastener 21 which may be used to connect the panels to the support member. The heat sink may be formed of material, e.g. gypsum or cement containing water chemically bonded thereto, or may have water mechanically incorporated therein. A double partition wall Fig. 8 may be formed by a pair of walls, each constructed in accordance with the invention, the joints in a first of the pair of walls being staggered in relation to the joints in the second of the pair. The first and second walls of the pair may have interposed therebetween a filler wall board which is spaced from the first and second walls.