US1046029A - Concrete wall construction. - Google Patents

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0. SEAT. CONCRETE WALL CONSTRUCTION.

APPLIUATION FILED DEC. 5, 1910.

Patented: Dec. 3, 1912.

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WOODFORD O. SEAT, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 ROBERT H. WALLER, 0F NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

CONCRETE WALL CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec.3,,1912.

To all whom it may concern:v

Be it known that I, Woonrom) O. SEAT, citizen of" the United States, residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Concrete-Wall Construction, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to improvements in concrete walls, and the object of the invenattained in the use ofthe device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and the mvention consists in certain novel. features of the samewhich will be hereinafter first fully described and then more particularly'pointe out in the appended claims. v j

In the drawing, I have shown a sectional perspective view of a portion of a walliembodying my invention.

In .carrying out my invention, I provide a foundation 1 which may be of any desired size according to the building to be erected and may, of course, be of any material, but I prefer to employ concrete. When the foundation has reached theproper height a coping or facing 2 may be set in or formed upon the front side of the same so as to point where'the wall proper begins. Upon the upper surface of the foundation and the said facing, I then spread two lines of mortar or cement, indicated at 3, which respectively follow the front and rear sides of the foundation, as clearly shown. At intervals along both these lines of cement or mortar,

I place braces or bonding bars 4 which extend diagonally upward and are provlded at their lower ends with feet 5 resting upon the foundation and having spurs 6 projecting upward from their. extremities. The main portions of these braces or bondmg bars extend upward obliquely and the upper ends of the bars are provided witn horizontally disposed heads 01 sh0ulders 7 having lips 8 at their extremities. These lips 8 may be turned downward or upward and in actual practice it will be found desirable I to have the lips of the alternate braces extend in opposite directions. The brace bars having their lips turned downward will preferably be provided at the ends of their heads or horizontal portions 7 with lugs 9 extending slightly upward to aid in centering the blocks which will be utilized in building'the wall. At intervals along the lines of cement or mortar I provide the horizontal tie bars 10 which will rest directly on the foundation and will have lips 11 at their ends corresponding to the spurs 6 at the lower ends of the brace bars 4. The several brace bars and tie bars being thus placed in position, concrete blocks 12 having with the grooves fitting over the upturned spurs 6 and lips 11,, as will be readily understood, The weight of the blocks will cause "them to sink in thecement or mortar so that the space between the bhttom of the blocks and the space within the grooves in the blocks will be entirely filled with the mortar and a close tight joint thereby effected. The upturned spurs 6 and teeth 11 will aid in bringing the blocks into the proper position over the front and rear sides of the-foundation, and the blocks may be leveled and brought into the exact position they should occupy inthe finished wall by the usual methods of masonry. The lips 8 at the upper endsof the brace bars are' brought into engagement: with the grooves 13 in the upper edges of the blocks and the blocks will thus be thoroughly braced and held in their proper relative positions. The first. course of blockshaving been thus laid,

a second row of straight tie. bars 1,,0 is laid upon the said blocks and a second row of crossed, diagonally extending brace bars 4 is also placed in position upon the blocks. The m'ortaris then applied and a second row of blocks laid upon the first row with. the joints in the superposed row brealn'ng' joint with the under row. The wall' may thus be carried to any desired height in.

an expeditious manner withoutthe use of any forms and without any loss of time 0c"; casioned ordinarily by waiting for the. greenconcrete to set. The horizontal tie bars '10 may be provided with lugs 14 correspondtwo ing to the lugs 9 on the bracebars 4, and 11.0

the said horizontal tie bars will be so dis posed that the alternate bars in any one row will have the lips at their ends extending in opposite directions so that the transverse bonding or tyi'n g force will be applied to. the upper edges of one row of blocks and in the same plane to the lower edges of the superimposed -row of blocks. In this manner the wall will be very thoroughly braced throughout its extent.

- It will be observed on reference to the drawings that the spurs or lipsat-the ends of the'several braces and tie bars will engage the inner wall of} the groove in the blocks so that the blocks will be properly spaced and will be effectively bonded. These lips or spurs, and the lugs adj'acentthe same, also serve as guides to aid in bringing :each'superposedblock into its proper position upon the subjacent block so that the work involved in making the wall plumb is reduced to a minimum. The wall may be pointed up and finished in the usual manner,

and the outer surface may be given any desired ornamental appearance. At the proper points of the wall I will place over the blocks of the, inner member of the wall a timber seat 15 in which the .end of ajoist 16 may be supported. I

with the walls so thatthe access of moisture and dampness to the inner walland through the same to the-interior'of the building-will be positively prevented. The walls may be built of thoroughly dried compressed concrete blocks so that settling or cracking of the walls. will be reduced to a minimum, and the Walls are braced in such a mannerthat the vertical position of the same will be efi'ectually maintained. It will be readily noted' that the corresponding edges of the parallel blocks are connected by the hori- 'zont-al tie-bars and'that the lower edges of the blocks in each row are connected with the upper edges of the blocks in the parallel row by the diagonal braces so that the two wall members will be connected and braced ag'ainst strain in every direction. If, for any reason, it is desired to 'have a very heavy wall the space between the inner and outer members may be filled with liquid cement or similar material so that a thick, solid wall will be rapidly formed without the use of any of the well known false work i The advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will'be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the Invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention,-. together with the apparatus which I now consider to be the bestembodiment thereof,- I desire to have it understood A wall constructed as illustrated and as 7 .herein described will present substantially 'two independent inner and outer'walls separated by a continuous air space coextensive thatt-he apparatus shown is merely illustratlve, and that such changes maybe made when desired as are Within the scope of the claims appended hereto.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A concrete wall comprising inner and outer rows of superposed concrete, blocks having; longitudinal grooves in the'edges- I constituting the upper and lower edges of the laid rows, a filling of cementing material between the superposed blocks entering the their opposite ends'extending between superposed blocks of the respective rows and provided at their extremities with lips projecting in. opposite directions with respect to the intermediate portions of the bars, the lip ends of the bars being embedded in the cementing material, and the tie bars extending diagonally upward from one end toward grooves in the blocks, and tie bars having* the other end and alternating in direction from one row of superposed blocks to the like blocks of the other row, the lip on one end of a bar extending upwardly into the groove of the block andthe lip at the other end of the bar extending downwardly into, the groove at the opposite edge of the corresponding block of the other row.

2. A wall composed of spaced rows of superposed concrete blocks, each block having longitudinalgrooves on the edges constituting the upper and lower edges when laid in a Wall, and tie bars extending across the space between the rows of blocks and having their endsentering the respective rows ofbloc ks at the joints and terminating in lips engaging in the grooves in the blocks,

the tie bars each extending from the joint between two blocks of one row to the joint between two blocks'of the other row at a higher point on the other row than the first named blocks,

v 3. A concrete wall comprising inner and outer rows' pf superposed concrete blocks.

to the other.

4. A concrete Wall comprisinginner and outer rows of superposed concrete blocks having longitudinal grooves in the edges constituting the upper and lower edges of the laid rows, a filhngof cementing material between the superposed blocks, said maierial entering the grooves in the blocks, and tie bars having their opposite ends extending between superposed blocks of the re spective rows and provided at their extremitles with lips entering the grooves in the respective blocks, the hpped ends of the bars being embedded 1n the cementing material, the tie bars extending diagonally upward from one end toward the other and alternating in direction from one row of supersame level in the rows of superposed blocks. 15

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto atiixed my. slgnature in the presence of two wltnesses.

WOODFORD O. SEAT. Witnesses O. H. LooNEY, B. DUGGAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner ot latents.

Washington, D. 0.

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