US1106584A - Wall construction. - Google Patents

Description

H. G. RBBINS.

WALL UNSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JULY ze, 1913.

1,106,584. Patented Ag. 11,1914,

HARRY G. ROBBINS, QF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

WALL CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedsAug. 11, 1914-.

Application led July 26, 1913. Serial No. 781,340. i

To all whom/it 'may concern.

Be it known that I, HARRY G; RoBiNs,

citizen of the United States,`resident of Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Iliiprovements in Wall Construction, of which the follcwingis a specification.

My invention relates to a fire-proof building wall and the object of the invention is to hermetically seal the horizontal and verti- Y cal joints between the blocks composing the wall to the end that the entrance of cold an into the building through the wall will be positively prevented.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following detailed description. l

The invention consists generally 'in various constructions and combinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 vis a perspective view of a building wall embodying my invention, Fig. 2 is a horizontal scctional view of a portion of the wall,Fig. 3 is a view of one of the flexible filler plates or pads inserted in the vert-ical Vjoint between the blocks.

In the drawing, 2 represents the blocks of which the wall is composed. These blocks are provided with a series of openings 3 onreaeh side of the middle portion thereof and a central opening 4, forn'iing, when the blocks are placed in courses in the wall, a series of passages running horizontally through the wall, having the function, as usualI in hlorlis of this kind, oi' preventing the moisture from passing through th'e blocks from the outer to the inner surfaces thereof. lhe longitudinal middle portions of th(` blocks above and below the openings 4 are also provided with longitudinal i'ecesses 5 extending from end to end of each block and adapted to register with one another when the blocks are placed with abutting endsI in the course.

ln building ya wall, the blocks ai'e laid in courses, one upon another, in mortar t3, and it has been found difficult, if not impossible, to close the joints between the abutting ends of the blocks in the saine course and prevent the passage of cold air through the joints and provide a reutral dead air spare in each block that is lu-,rinetieally sealed at each end. 'lhe mortar ivill drop out of the joints lietwren the blocks, allowing air to enter the central opening therein and prevent the formation ofthe deadgai'r space. To avoid this objection, I prefer Vto lomit entirel the vuse of mortar between abutting bloc s in the sa'me course, and providea filler plate or pad 7 of suitable flexible material, suchas felt, or the like, of sufficient width and` height to cover the eentralopening tand exclude the entrance of air therein when the blocks are set up in the building wall; The

yielding surfaces of thesefller plates will coliform tothe slightly uneven endsof the blocks and when the courses are laidfand Y the ends ofthe blocks brought together, the

filler plates will be securely held lbetween the hlocksrin the same course, thereby excluding the passage of air between them andthe' and outside coats and be concealed vthereby when the wall is finished, and as 1 prefer to provide a filler plate inreach vertical joint of the wall, it follows that there will be a central dead air space `formed in each block to cut o the passage `of moisture through the blocks, w'hile the fllerplates will hermetically seal each jointvbetweenthe 'abutf' eeive the edges of these strips at the points 'where they cross the joints between the abutting ends of the blocks. These strips may be made of felt or any other suitable material that is adapted for this purpose. When these strips have been inserted into the recesses in the Vblocks, the horizontal joints between the ycourses will be hermetically 'sealed and passage of air or moisture through these joints will be entirely pre vented. These strips will also hold the filler plates 7 in position between the ends of the abutting blocks. A wall constructed in this manner will have a central dead air space in each block separated at each end by the flexible filler plate from the corresponding air space of the adjacent block. The novelty in this case lies in the use of an insulating filler plate in the joint between the ends of abutting blocks, this insulating plate not only closing the ends of the opening in the Cai ies

lof longitudinal, independent openm block-,but fermingva non-cenductor of heat ifi'd cold in the joint itself and thereby the entire wall is rendered proof against the passageof air or moisture` I claim as my invention n `1.,A wall composed of a series of blocks,

veach having. a narrow central opening ex# tendin through the block from end to end thereo and vertically from a point near the to of the block -to a oit near the bottom t ereof, each block aving a plurality BX- tending vfrom end to end of the block on each side of said central opening, filler 'plates of insulating material inserted between abutting ends of blocks in the same course and seated against the walls of said central opening and closing and concealing each end of said central openings, whereb aoentral dead air space is formed in eac side of said central blocksoperatingV theelongitudinal independ-i ent openings on on opening from the corkespondinglongitudinal yopenings on the oppositeside thereof, thereby insulating said wall and the joints thereof against the passage of lient and cold.

cealing each end of Vsaid central opening to form a dead air space separating the ,longiltudinal openings one from the other and insuluting said wall andV the joints thereof against the passage of heat and cold.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hund this 22d day of July, 1913.

HARRY G. ROBBINS.

Witnesses GENEVIEVE E. SonENsEN,

C. H.l REHFUSS.

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