US1420020A - Tile construction - Google Patents

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E. CERIAT. TILE CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-2| 1 92l.

1,420,020, Patented J 11119 20, 1922.

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Application filed August 2, 1921.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE CERIAT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Tile Construction, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices used in building up walls.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a block or tile that can be built up to form a rigid wall in which the inner face is insulated from the outer face or portion.

Another object is to provide L-shaped tiles, to be arranged in a wall so that the longer shank forms the inner and outer surface of the wall while the shorter shank forms the interengaging portion between the inner and outer surface.

Another object is to provide L-shaped tiles to be arranged in a wall as set forth above, having recesses and ducts in which re-enforcing rods can be arranged for binding the several tiles in each layer and for binding the several layers of tiles one layer with the other.

Another object is to provide L-shaped tiles of this type of a shape and form to allow a ventilation in a vertical and horizontal direction when the tiles are placed in a wall.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a typical unit in form of a block, molded or finished in itself before being placed in a wall.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a wall section, illustrating the interengaging of sev eral blocks.

Each single block or unit is made with the idea in view of facilitating and simplifying the building up of a wall. The preferred form, illustrated in Fig. 1 in detail, is of L-shape, the longer shank 3 forming normally the inner and outer surface of a wall, while the shorter shank 4 forms an intermediate member or portion between the inner and outer surfaces of a wall when the block is so placed. All the edges 5, 6, 7 and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20, 1922.

Serial No. seams.

9, so that the wall, inside as well as out side, can be fully and well sealed or grouted in, as indicated at 10 in Fig. 2. The edges 11 and 12 are also preferably provided with grooves, as indicated at 13. The shorter shank-portion 4: is furthermore provided with a passage 1 1 to allow the insertion of vertical re-enforcing rods. The end of the shorter shank 1 is preferably cut out as indicated at 15, leaving the proportionally small terminations 16, for purposes which will be described more fully hereafter.

In building up a wall, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the ends 17 of the longer shankportions of the several blocks are placed against the shoulders 18 ,of the joining blocks so as to bring the surface 19 of one block flush with the surface 19 of the adjoining block. The re-enforcing rods 20 and 21 are placed in the grooves 9, so as to become embedded between the several layers of blocks in a wall.

To assure a well aligned wall, the longer shank-portions 3 are disposed in a wall properly spaced so that the ends 16 of the shorter shanks 1 do not come into contact with the inner surface of the longer shankportions. In making blocks or tiles of this type, it is impossible to avoid slight differences in the length of the shank portions, and, if the blocks or tiles were placed so close as to touch one another, it would normally be hard to align the outer surfaces of the many blocks in a wall. Under the arrangement, described above, the slight space, indicated at 22, may differ between different blocks without bringing the outer surfaces of the several blocks out of alignment. The cut-outs 15 in the ends of the shorter shank-portions serve to form horizontal ventilating passages, as indicated at 23.

Beenforcing rods 24 are disposed in the passages 14 of the blocks, being grouted in, as indicated at 25, serving to interconnect the several layers in a wall and re-enforcing the whole wall.

The different layers in a wall are, of course arranged so as to bring the several blocks in one layer suitably shifted over the blocks in the layer above or below, as indicated in dotted lines at 26.

The spaces between the shorter shank-portions 4 and the longer shank-portions3 Serve "form horizontal passages in each of the layers of the structure, the shorter shanks being also disposed in spaced relation to one another'to form vertical passages for ventilation, -re-enforcing rods embedded between theseveral layers in the structure, and other re-enforcing rods disposed through the shorter'sh'anks for connecting and re-enforcing thestructure vertically.

2. Ina tile, a rectangular portion to form the' face member 'ina wall, a second rectangular portion projecting at practically right angles from one of the edges of the first named portion to form the connecting member within the wall for the face members when face members are disposed in the opposite surfaces of the wall, the second-named portion having means for forming horizontal passages between the inner and outer surfaces in a wall.

3. In a tile, a rectangular portion to form a face member of a wall, a second rectangular portion projecting at practically right angles from one of the edges of one of the fiat surfaces of the first-named portion, the free end of the secondnamed portion having a cutout to form a horizontal ventilating passage when placed against a second tile, the secondnamed portion being furthermore provided with a passage from edge to edge practically parallel to the flat faces of the first-named portion for allowing a grouting-in of re-enforcing rods in a vertical direction, the edges of both rectangular portions having grooves to allow a grouting-in of adjoining tiles.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUGENE CERIAT.

Witnesses:

O. H. KRUEGER, Jnssm A. MoNooK.

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