US1542909A

US1542909A - Brick

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Publication number: US1542909A
Application number: US681493A
Authority: US
Inventors: Regan Joseph
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1923-12-19
Filing date: 1923-12-19
Publication date: 1925-06-23
Anticipated expiration: 1942-06-23

Description

JOSEPH", ensign, or :aooKvItLn; connnorroor.

' BRICK.

, Application.filed'December 19, 1 23. Serial No.1 681,493.

To all whom it may 00m 7 Be it known that I, .Josmur'BneAN, a' citizen or the Unlted States, residing atv Rockville, in lthe county of Tolland and size, proportions, strength and'durability.

State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bricks, of" which the following is a specificatlon. 5

This invention is a brick for the bulld'in of masonry walls and the like, and has for :The-recess is disposed centrallybetween the sidewalls of; the brick and has one end its object to reduce the cost of manufacture and at'thes'ame time preserve all-of the essential characteristics of a brick such as The reduction in cost is accomplished by omitting some of the material from each brick, and the essential characteristicsof the brick are preserved by reason of the location of the omission.

In the drawings, 7 v V Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brick embodying the features of 'thepresent invention,

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevation of a well constructed of bricks of the present invention arranged so as not to show any mortar in the joints between adjacent bricks,

j Figure 3 is a cross sectional view on the the line 33 of'Figure 2,

Figure 4c is a view similarto Figure 21but showing another arrangement of the bricks with mortar showing at the joints between adjacent bricks,

Figure 5 is a cross sectional line 5'5 of Figure 4, and V Figure 6 is a top plan view ofa wall portion showing the manner of using the bricks with a minimum amount of mortar. I

The brick of the present. invention is shown in Figure 1 of the drawings wherein l designates the back of the brick from which rise the longitudinal side walls extending the entire length ofthe brick, while 3 designates an end wall connecting the side view on the -walls 2. It will of course be understood that the brick of the present invention is an.

integral rectangular brick molded in any conventional or preferred man'nenand may have the usual standard dimensions orspef cial dimensions as may be desired; "Theele ments of the brick, which have been designated 1, 2 and 3 define a rectangular recess which has onelongitudinal open side and one open end. The amount of brick mate rial omitted is about one-third of the amount of materialcommonly employed in the for .mation of a standard brick, and therefore i the wall brick.

- the cost of producing the presentbrick'is' I E-T materially lessthan that of a standard brick wherein the brick is continuous throughout allof lts dimenslons.

I Statedinanother way, the brick "ofth'e present invention is rectangular in form V and. is provided with a rectangularrecess the cubical area of whichyis" substantially one-third of the cubical area ofthe brick.

openingthrough one end offthe brick, the

:One manner of laying of thepres I,

ent invention in a wall has been'shown in F igures2 andr3, wherein it will'be seenthat the bricks are placed one upon the other the mortar designated a being placed with-' in each recess so as to bond together adjacent bricks. In this arrangement, the lower 7 face of the back of one brick rests directly.

upon the top of the next lower brick and closes the open top of'the recess therein, the

and 3, it will be noted that no mortar appears in the joints between the bricks thereopposite end of the recess being closedby provided by the opposite endof the by producing what is commonly called a ,90

dry wall.

In- Figures 4 and5 there has been shown a wall whereinthe recessin each brick is at the under side thereof and the mortar 6 shows in the joints betweenadjacent bricks I atthe ends, bottoms and tops thereof, In 9 laying the bricksin this manner, mortar is placed upon the top of a brick in theusualfl 1 manner, and then another brick-isplaced downwardly upon the mortar. in the usual manner and pressed into place, a" small por- 100 tion of the'mortar rising into each. recess. In thisarrangement. dead air spaces-areformed throughout the wall.

In the, arrangement shown in Figures 2 and 3 of the drawings the bricks eventually 105 become substantially solid bricks in that the recess in each brick is filled with mortar, and a beam may be supported upon the top of a brick at any part thereof. s

In the arrangement shown" in Figures 4 and 5 the arch shape of the brick renders it substantially as strong as a solid brick, and

5 with the open side of the recess uppermost, 1 a

a beam can be supported on the top of brick at any portion thereof Without danger of crushing the same. Furthermore, the end Wall 3 of each brick is in Vertical alignment With the end Walls of the bricks in" the same vertical alignment, and therefore this portion of the Wall is identical with an or- '1. A building brick comprising a rectan-' gular body having aback, opposite duplicate longitudinal side Wallsand an lntegral end Wall, said parts defininga rectangular recess openinggthrough one'face of the brick and through one end thereof, the inner end of the recess being closed by the end Wall of the brick and the cubical area of said cubical area of the entire brick.

2. A building brick comprising an inte-' gral rectangular brick having a recess located centrally between the longitudinal sides of the brick, one end of the recess open a space being substantially onethird'of the ing through one end of the brick and the 7 other end of the recess terminating short of the opposite end of the brick, the cubical area of the recess being substantially onethird of the cubical area of the entire brick.

3.'A building brick comprising a solid rectangular back, opposite duplicate longi- ;tudinal solid side Walls integral With the back and extending throughout the'length thereof, and a solid end Wall integral with the back and the sidewalls, the back, side and end walls defining a rectangular recess having a cubical area of'substantially one third that of the entire brick, side recess opening through one end of the brick and also opening through the face ofthe brick opposite the back thereof.

JOSEPH REGAN.