US1108506A - Building-block. - Google Patents

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T. LOUDEN.

BUILDING BLOCK.

APPLIoATloN FILED Imm, 191s.

` 1,1()8,506, Patented Aug. .25,1914n l /L' 9. NM Z I WLM ya@ Arron/VH the blocks. Additional tiers of tie-plates and blocks will now be set in the mannerV The arrangement is such that each tie-plate is. placed on a single lower block with its de? pressed center entering the upper edge ofr described unt-il the wall is completed.

made of metal instead of a clay product.

By the construction and arrangement herein described, it will be seen that the blocks cannot be drawn apart as long as the tie-plates and transverse walls of the blocks remain intact. Neither can one `tier of blocks be drawn endwise or in anyway out of line on another'. The arrangement of the tieplates makes a good wide, close, ldurable mortar joint between every tier of blocks having single openings, and at every other tier when blocks with three openings are used. Also, the transverse end walls B being mortared all over will form durable mortar joints between each of the blocks thus insuring good solid mortar joints all around the blocks the full thickness of 4the wall, and at the same time forming an isolated dead air space in each and every block. Y

lVhen blocks having horizontally disposed openings are used there is always trouble in getting the ends of the blocks sufliciently mortared to make a good durable joint. The abutting ends of the blocks with horizontally disposed openings are seldom over threequarters of an inch thick, and sometimes not over half an inch thick 4and when used for building silos, Jthe silage acid on the inside and the freezing Iand thawing on Ithe outside will in time cut through these thin oints of mortar and make openings in the wall which will spoil the silage or ren'der a building cold. By my invention this defect is overcome and a strong durable wall is provduced 'having large isolated dead air spaces throughout which will effectuallj7 keep out frost and cold in vany ordinary climate. The tie-plates will hold ythe blocks together at both top and bottom instead 'of f Y one side only. When clips are 'used which catch over the upper edges only, the blocks will not be held together at both sides. The ties are also economical in holding the mortar and preventing it from dropping into the openings and being wasted. In case the ties should be a little` too narrow to elffectu'- ally close the openings, a strip of metal lath may be laid on the open side or other means may be used to catch and hold the mortar and form a vsolid mortar joint.

j The entire arrangement is extremely simple and easily laid, and is effective in every respect both in holding the blocks securely together and in forming isolated dead air spaces throughout the wall. Also the construction is such that ordinary variations in the size and shape of the blocks and ties, caused by shrinkage and warping in burning is amply provided for, which cannot be successfully done when the ties have notches in both their upper and lower faces.

Furthermore, thetie-plates may be made of uniform thickness, whichl is an important feature that cannot be had when there are notches in their faces and they do notjhave to be made wider on their outer than on their inner sides when used in a curved Wall.

that I claim is:

l.. In a-wall, the vcombination of a series of hollow building blocks placed in a row.,

each having Ia vertically disposed opening and transverse walls, a series of tie-plates, each having a depressed center correspond'- i-ng approximately to and entering the upper edge of the opening in the block below it and having upwardly `offset ends resting 'on the transverse walls of the block, and another series of hollow blocks lsimilar to the rst laid upon lthe first series so as to break joints, and the lower edges of the adjacent transverse walls of said blocks inserted in the depressed portion between the upwardly offset ends ofthe tie-plate immediately below said transverse walls.

2. Ina hollow wall, the `combination 0f a series of superposed blocks having vertical openings and abutting transverse walls, a series of tieplates each having a rvdepressed center, 'corresponding to and 'entering the upper edge of `the opening ina block, and upwardly offset ends resting upon the ktransverse walls of the block, the upwardly offset ends of the adjoining tieplates being bound together by entering 'the lower edge of the vertical openings of the blocks above and being held by the transverse walls of said blocks. l l

'3. In a wall, a plurality of superposed series 'of hollow building blocks, o en at their upper and lower ends and aving transverse walls, in combination with a plu ralfity of series 0f interposed tie-plates, each provided with a depressed portion and upwardly offset ends, the said depressed portion corresponding to and ente-ring the opening in the upper end of an adjacent block, the upwardly offset lends resting upon the transverse walls thereof, and the lower edges of the transverse walls fitting loosely in the depressed portions "of the tie-plates in the next lower series 'of blocks and plates.

4;; A plurality of superposed series of hollow building blocks, having vertical openings and abutting transverse walls, in eom-` blnatlon with e plurality of series of 1I1ter posed tie-plates each provided with a des pressed portion and upwardly offset ends, the depressed portions of the tie-plates eorresponding to and entering the openings in the blocks below, the upwardly ofset ends resting upon the Jnransverse walls thereof,

and the lower edges of the adjacent transf.` l0

Verse walls of the blocks fitting loosely in thedepressed portions of the tie-platesntlie next lower series.

Fairield, Iowa, Jan.` 30, 1913.

l p THOMAS LOUDEN.

VVit-nesses CARRIE L. BEEDLE, Crus. H. GAGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents eaoh, by addressing the Commissioner of Ptentl, Washington, D. C." l

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