US1333820A - Wall construction and the method of making the same - Google Patents

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P. ORLANDO.

WALL CONSTRUCTION AND THE METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED JULY-25, I919.

1333,8200 Patented Ma1'. 16, 192( /1 /5 E] now W01,

PAUL ORLANDO, OF NEW YORK, N. 'Y.

WALL CONSTRUCTION AND THnMETHon or MAKING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

Application filed July 25, 1919. Serial No. 313,179.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PAUL ORLANDO, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vail Con structions and the Methods of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification,.such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved method of constructing walls of buildings boards or slab sections composed of cement or concrete reinforced by a lath construction, which is embedded therein; a further object being to provide boards or slab sectionsof various lengths, whereby the wall or walls of a building may be formed by using various sizes of boards; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a cement lath board constructedin the manner herein shown, described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed inthe following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which;

Figure 1 is a face view of a part of a wall construction and indicating the method of constructing such wall with my improvedlath boards;

Fig. 2 a partial section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 and on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 3 a partial section on the line 33 of Fig. '1 and on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 4: a partial section on the line 47-4 of Fig. 1 and on an enlarged scale; and,

Fig. 5 a detail plan view of one end portion of the lath-work which I employ in making my improved cement lath board. In the practice of my invention and in constructing a cement lath board I first make up orform the lath construction of such board in the manner illustrated in Fig.5 by first placing a plurality of transverse strips 10, preferably four in number, upon a smooth surface, but only two of these strips are shown in Fig. 5. -I then attach a plu- I rality of longitudinally arranged lath strips 11 to the transverse strips 10 in the manner shown in Fig. 5, the strips. 11 being also ten in number and being so formed to the strips 10 as to form a I plurality of longitudinal spaces 12 therebetween.

-The strips 10 are preferably placed sixteen inches apart from center to center thusbringing the ends of the lath strips 11, which are forty-eight inches long, centrally of the end strips 10 as is indicated at the left of Fig.5, .and as is also illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing. In this way the standard lengths of lath strips may be. used while the strips 10 are preferably twenty-four inches long, which is one-half the length of a standard lath strip.

After the framework or lath construction as shown in Fig. 5 has been completed, this framework is'laid upon a suitable table or support with the strips 10 facing downwardly, as is illustrated in Fig. 5, and. cement is applied to the top thereof by a trowel or other implement in the usual manner to' fill the spaces 12 between the lath strips 11 as shown at 13 in Fig. 3 of the drawing, as well as to fill the spaces in back of such strips and between the strips 10 as indicated at 14 in Fig. 3, and the top faces of the lath strips 11 between the strips 10 are also covered by cement as shown at 15 in Fig. 3. In this last operation it will be understood that a number of supplemental strips, not

shown, will be placed above the strips 10 and in common alinement therewith to prevent the cement from covering the top faces complete boards or slab sections 17 being 'shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

The object in providing the grooves 16 in the boards 17 centrally thereof and at the opposite ends thereof, is to provide means whereby such boards may be attached to the .main upright frame members 18 of a building by a plurality of nails 19 passed through the strips 10 and 11 of the boards 17 within the grooves 16. 4

In the accompanying drawing I have. shown the nails 19 passing through each of the strips 11 and 10, but it will be apparent that this is not essential as onlya suflicient number of the nails 19 need employed to properly secure the boards 17 to the uprights 18.

strips 10, or the, end

i the wall construction,

It will be apparent on a consideration of Figs. 1, 3, i and5 of the drawing that the portions thereof,- 02(- tend beyond the top and bottom longitudi-. nal lath strips 11 as shown at 20 so that when one board 17 is placed upon another in the manner shown in Fig. 1, a longitudinal aperture or apertures 21 areforn'ied between the separate boards and in finishing and after all of the boards 17 have been secured in position a thin coating of cement. plaster or the like is applied thereto to fill up the grooves 16 and apertures 21 as is indicated in dotted lines at 22 and 23 in l! 2 of the'draivinga It will be understood that my improved wall construction may be used on both the inner and outer sides of the upright members 18 to form theinner and outer walls of -a buildin the outer wall being indicated at 2,, 2a in Fig. 2 and the inner wall at 25, and in'applying the coatings indicated in dotted lines at 22 and cement or concrete will be used on the outer wall 24, as shown at 22 to form a stucco or other outer wall construction, while plaster or similar material -will be employed as the facing indicated at 23 on the inner wall 25. v

As hereinbefore stated,.1 have shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, two cement lath boards 17 composed of three cement sections 26; 27, "2S, made'in the manner hereinbefore set out, but it will be understood that I may 'alsomake up single boards as shown at 29 in Fig. 1 of the drawing, or said boards may be made up into two sections, if desired, or even a greater number of sections than three, but it is believed that the three sections will be.

the preferable. form of constructing the boards 17 in view of the standard lengths of the lath strips 11 which I prefer to use.

My improved cement or concrete lath board will greatly reduce the cost of constructing both the inner and outer walls, of

buildings of various kinds andclasses and, in addition. will produce a wall of better strength, and which will be less subject to cracking or other break-downs as is usual with walls ,as now constructed. It is also" apparentthat by making up these boards in arious sizes in a suitable shop or workplace, and shipping'them to the point desired in their completely manufactured state, all that will beessential in forming the walls of a building will be to space the separate boards 17,- c0mposed. of any number of sections on the uprights 18 and secure the same thereto in the manner hereinbefore set out. after which the facings 22 and 23 arc-applied in the usual manner. lVhile I have shown certain details of construction for-carrying my 6 5 invention into effect and one method of connecting the boards, or mounting the same in 1. The herein described method of making cement boards or slabs which consists in first providing a lath framework consistin of a plurality of longitiulinally arranged and spaced lath strips secured to transversely arranged and spaced strips and then applying cement to the lath framework thus "formed toembed the longitudinal lath strips between said' transverse strips within said cement and to form where the transverse strips are secured to said'longitudinal strips a plurality of transverse grooves.

The herein described method ofinakingcement boards or slabs which consists in first providing a lath framework consisting of a plurality of longitudiiuilly arranged and spaced lath strips secured to transversely arranged and spaced strips and cement to the lath framework thus formed to embed the longitudinal lath strips between said transverse stripswitliin said cement and to, form where the transverse strlps are secured to said longitudinal strips a plurality of transverse grooves which divides the board or slab into a plurality of reinforced eem'ent sections.

3. The herein described method of making cement boards or slabs which consistsin first providing a lath framework consisting-of a plurality of longitudinally arranged and spaced lath strips secured to transversely arranged and spaced strips and then embedding that part of the longitudinal lath strips between said transverse strips within a ce ment body and covering .that part of thetransverse strip between said longitudinal strips with cement.

4. A board oi-slab of the class described composed of a cement section'reinforced by a plurality oflongitudinally arranged and spaced strips the ends of. said strips being then applying secmredto transversely arranged strips at the opposite sides of and projecting beyond said cement section.

5-. A board or slab of the class described composed of a plurality of cement sections reinforced by a plurality of longitudinally arranged and spaced strips, said strips be: ing secured to transversely arranged strips at the opposite sides of and. projecting be-- yond each of said cement sections.

6. A board or slab of the class described composed of a plurality of longitudinally arranged and spaced lath strips, a pluralityof transverse strips spaced longitudinally bf In testimony that I claim the foregoing as said first named strips and to which said my invention I have signed my, name in 10 first named strips are secured, the longitudipresence of the subscribing Witnesses this nztlly arranged lath strips between said 23rd day of July, 1919;

transverse strips being embedded in a ce- PAUL ORLANDO. inent. mixture, and the transverse strip be- Witnesses: tween said longitudinal strip being covered C. E. MULREANY,

with a cement mixture. H. E. THOMPSON.

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