US1051068A - Non-freezing silo. - Google Patents

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W. BLAKEL NON-FREEZING EH10;

APPLICATION FILED MAR; 23, 1912.

Patented Jan. 21, 1913.

FIG. 1.

MMJw M Had HIS ATTORNEY.

Pi h it NON-FREEZING S1110.

Specification of Letters Fetent.

retested Jan. 2i, iota.

Application filed March 2a, 1912. Serial No. easy 7e.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ,WAL'rnn BLAKE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Appleton, county of Outagamie, and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Freezing Silos, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to silos, and the object of my improvementis to provide a frostproof silo of the construction hereinafter described.

The invention consists in the combinations and' arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed. The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawini forming a part of this specification, and in which 1 Figurel is a sectional view of a silo built in'accordance with my invention, taken on line 1-l in Fig. 2, Fig. 2 is a part sectional elevation of the same, Fig. is a fragmental vertica section showing the method of spacing the walls apart, Fig. is a fragmental cross section -of the wall showing the rod reinforcements, and Fig. 5 is a similar view showing a modification of my invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate imilar parts throughout the several figures.

The preferred form of construction, as illustrated in the drawing. comprises an inner wall 6 and an outer wall 7 supported on a base 8. Both said inner wall and outer ,wall are extended to form roof portions 6" and 7. of the building and are spaced apart to form a free air space 9 therebetween. Saidwalls are provided with a door-opening 10 and said roof portions are provided with a'ventilator opening-11. In said ventilator opening is formed a ventilator 12. The edges of said walls are joined at said ventilator opening by means of a filler 1.3

is so desired, metallic coverings 21 and 22,

as indicated in Fig. 5, may also be provided on the inner side of the inner wall and the outside of the outer wall. The metallic coverings l9 and 20 are rigidly spaced apart by means of a plurality of tie rods 23, which are threaded and fitted with. clamping nuts :24 to form a rigid connection.

Inclosed in the walls 6 and 7 and the roof portions 6' and 7, are a plurality of rods 25 spaced apart to reinforce said Walls and roof portions. Also inclosed in such walls and roof port-ions are the rod reinforce ments 26 placed in vertical position. Supporting members 27 are preferably provided with eyes 28 through which the rods 26 are placed. Such supports 27 may be made, as indicated in Big. a, with the eyes 28 in their central portions and provided with irregular ends .29 on one end and their other end portions extended through the metallic linings on the walls 6 and 7, or the end por tions of such supports may be provided with screw-threads and nuts threaded on, as indicated at 30 in Fig With this construction a frost-proof building is constructed of very rigid and (1111 8. ble construction.

While .l have illustrated. and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention.

ering on the outer side of said inner Wall;

l'lllTfi-tlilbtl bolts extending between and through the coveringson said inner wall and said outer wall; nuts threaded on said bolts spacing said walls apart; vertical reinforcing rods in said walls; transverse rods in said Walls, each transverse rod having] one of its ends secured in one of said coverings and an eye in its intermediate portion and secured on one. of said vertical 'relnforcing rods; and horizontal reinforcing rodsm said walls and restlng on said transverse rods, substantially as descrlbed.

WALTER BLAKE.

E Witnesses THEO. BERG,

A. G. SIEKMAN.

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