US1405579A

US1405579A - Monolithic wall

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Publication number: US1405579A
Application number: US379813A
Authority: US
Inventors: Malcolm J Graham
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-05-08
Filing date: 1920-05-08
Publication date: 1922-02-07
Anticipated expiration: 1939-02-07

Description

M. 1. GRAHAM.

.MONOLITHIC WALL.

APPLICATION HLED MAY 8, I920.

Patented Feb. 7',

- I aware; 3 Malcolm J. 'GP aham.

H To allwhomit may concern:

UNITED STA E PATENT, osrlcs;

mLcoLn J. emai or BEAUMONT, rmus.

Be it known that I, MALCOLM J. GRAHAM,

acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Beaumont, in the county of Jefferson and Stateof Texas,have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Monollthic Walls, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to concrete wall construction and more particularly to a monolithic wall, my object being the provision of a wall construction of simple inexpensive construction in connection with which both the inside and outside surfaces may be similarly formed and orna-' mented as desired, as well as one which will be strong and durable and is capable of easy quick formation.

With these general objects in mind my invention proposes a wall construction sue as shown in the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my invention and forms a part of this specification and in which, I

Figure 1 is a side view, partly broken away and in section, 4

F1gure'2 is a horizontal section therethrough, i

Figure 3 is a detail horizontal section on an enlarged scale, and Figures 4 and 5 are detail perspective views of portions of two forms of furring ach of the frames 11 includes vertical parallel sidemembers13 preferably formed of wooden beams, with cross beams 14 rigidly spacing the same apart, a series of vertical rods or wires 15 being utilized at the sides, and connected to the cross beams 14:,

to form supports for the o osite walls of the frames, the latter of w'ich are preferably in the nature of tar or other waterproof aper 16 secured along the edges of the si e beams 13 by 'means of furring stri s 17.

e furring strips above mentioned are i Specification of Letters Patent.

strips, the former Figure '4 being shown in moivonrrnic WALL.

preferably in the nature of metal strips and areplaced not only for the purpose of securing the paper walls- 16 upon the frames Patented Feb. 7, 19.22. 7 Application mm my a, 1920. Serial no. 379,818.

may be in the form of flanged ribs, the

flanges of which are secured to the frame sides and the ribs of which have openings 19 to which the continuous mesh reinforcements 18 may be laced or tied by lacing or t1e wires 20 as seen particularly in-Figure 3. On the other hand the furring strips maybe in the corrugated form shown at 21 1n igure 5, the apertures 22 of which serve to receive the 'mesh connecting wires such as 20.

It is obvious I p that by virtue of the furring strips the mesh remforcements 18 are sospaced from the opposite faces of the frames that the concrete is permitted to thoroughly bond and embed the mesh reinforcements "and that, extending as it does between the several frames, the concrete forms continuous vertical studding as at 23 in Figure 2, these portions bein additional reinforced by vertical reinforcing rods 24 located between the several frames and secured b ties 25 as in Figure 1 to the mesh rein orcements 18 These'reinforcing rods 24 are of course embedded in the concrete 10', which latter is applied after the frames 11 have been formed and set in position and after the mesh reinforcements18 have been applied and connected tothe furring strips. 17 and to the a vertical reinforcing rods 24,'and the placing of concrete may be accomplished in any suitformed in the wall by the several frames 11,

with. continuous vertical studding between. the frames. When the required thickness is, built up, the wall surfaces may be (given any of the known concrete finishes an it is obvious that while the concrete is forced into the wall the paper covered faces of the. frames are prevented from collapsing inwardlyby the supporting rods or wires 15.

The.

In this way it is obvious I provide a wall construction which will be light in weight and simple and'inexpensive in construction and in such manner as to permit of ready application and attachmentof the continuous mesh reinforcements and the vertical rod or barv reinforcements 24 of the vertical studdings.

I claim:

1. A monolithic wall including laterally spaced and covered frames forming air spaces therein and constituting permanent parts of the wall, continuous reticulat'e reinforcements secured continuously along and spaced from opposite sides of the frames, vertically extending reinforcing members outwardly beyond and secured to the reticulate reinforcements opposite the spaces be spaces therein and constituting permanent parts of the wall, continuous reticulate reinforcements secured continuously along and spaced from opposite sides'of the frames, vertically extending reinforcing members outwardly beyond and secured tothe reticulate reinforcements opposite the spaces betweenthe frames, each of said frames including rigidly spaced side members and water-proof covers for its opposite faces,

and furring strips securing the covers to the side members of the frame and to which the reticulate reinforcements are, connected and plastic material between and around the frames and enclosin said reinforcements.

MAL OLM J. GRAHAM.