US1610380A

US1610380A - Heat-insulating wall lining for buildings

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Publication number: US1610380A
Application number: US54261A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hutton Willis Abrum
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-09-03
Filing date: 1925-09-03
Publication date: 1926-12-14
Anticipated expiration: 1943-12-14

Description

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w. A. HUTTON Filedsebt". 5. 1925 HEAT INSULATING WALL LINING FOR BUILDINGS Dec. 14, 1926..

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WILLIS AB RUM HU'ITON, 0F MELEOSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEAT-INSULATING WALL LINING FOR BUILDINGS.

Application filed September a, 1925. Serial No. 54,2(51.

The invention relates to a building frame, the walls of which are composed of parallel stud members and sheathing members fixed thereto. The stud members may be vertical studs, horizontal floor beams, or inclined rafters. andthe sheathing members may be wall sheathing attached to vertical studs, horizontal floor boards attached to floor beams. or roof boards attached to inclined rafters.

The building may be a refrigerating structure enclosed in an outer building.

The invention is embodied in a heat-insulating wall lining, composed of a plurality of vacuum-enclosing boxes, adapted to be arranged in a continuous row between two adjacent parallel frame members and to be attached thereto and fill the space therebetween, so that avacuum, or tospeak more accurately, a partial Vacuum, is maintained between the adjacent stud members and beside the sheathing members of the wall.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speeification,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a vac: uum-enclosing box constituting a member or unit of my improved lining.

Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary side View, lookis a section' on line 3-?3- of ing toward the inner side of a wall provided with my improved lining.

Figure 5 1s a section on line 5-5 of Figure 4. r

Figure 6 is a section on line 6-6 of Figure 4.

Figure 7 is a section on line 77 of Figurea The wall shown by the drawings includes arallel frame members 12, such as the ,up-, right studs ofa vertical wall, and enclosing members such as the sheathing boards 13, attached to, and extending across the spaces between adj acent'studs, the sheathing boards and. studs forming elongated recesses receiving the lining in which my invention is embodied. Such lining is composed of a p1u'-. 'rality of vacuum-enclosing boxes 14, from which air is exhausted, to produce a partial vacuum. Each box'is composed of metal, such as tinned 11011, an alloy, z ne or galvanized iron, and is of such orm that a plurality'of box'es may be arr nged in a continuous row between the members 12, and

practically fill the width and length of the. space or recess formed by said

members

12 and 13. Any suitable means may. be provided -to prevent the boxes from collapsing under atmospheric pressure Each box has parallel oppositely projecting

flanges

15, 15, adapted to overlap and be attached to the members12, said flanges having holes 16, adapt-ed to receive fasteners 17, driven into the members 12. Air-excluding joints are formed by the members 12 and the flanges 15, as indicated by Figure 6. Each box has an i'ntermediate'flange 18, projecting from one of its edges between the flanges 15, and adapted to be overlapped by an edge portion of'an adjoining box, so that other air-excluding joints are formed by said intermediate flanges and overlapping edge portions, as indicated by Figure 5. It will now be seen that the flanges 15 constitute elements of means for securing the boxes to frame members 12, and means packingsthe joints between the

members

12 and 13. and that the intermediate flanges 18 constitute means for packing thejoints between adjoining boxes.

The boxes are m all cases proportionedthe recesses andbear on the members 13.

It will also be seen, particularly by reference to Figures 4 and 5, that the proximate edge walls of the several boxes are abutted together, while the intermediate edge walls, or those at right angles to the proximate edge walls, have close contact with the adjacent sides of the stud members 12, so that the row forms a practically continuous or uninterrupted heat-insulating filling, coextensive with the recess, both crosswise of the recess as shown by Figure 6, and lengthwise'thereof aslshown by Figure'5. The heat insulation' afforded by the partial vacuum in the boxes is therefore interrupted only by the minute crevices at the joints formed by said.

abutted walls. This interruption is so inconsiderable, that the admission of air between adjacent boxes is not detrimental. Said interruption is reduced and rendered entirely negligible by the single intermediate flanges 18, one of which is provided on the back wall of each box, the flange 18 of each box overlapping a portion of the back wall of the next box. and closing the crevice at the joint formed by the abutted proximate edge Walls.

I claim:

1. In a heat-insulating wall, the combination of spaced parallel stud members, and a series of rectangular shaped partially exhausted air tight boxes extending lengthwise of the space between each pair of stud members, each box having relatively narrow edge .walls, two of which cont-act throughout their length with the stud members, and back and front walls of relatiyely greater area, one of which projects beyond the body of the box forming flanges which overlap the stud members, the edge walls of adjoining boxes that extend across the space between two studs abutting throughout their length to provide a practically continuous or uninterrupted elongated heat-insulating filling coextensive in area with the space between two stud members.

2. In a heat-insulatlng wall, the combination of spaced parallel stud members, a series of rectangular shaped partially exhausted air tight boxes extending lengthwise of the space between each pair of stud members, each box having relativel narrow edge walls, two of which contact tiroughout their length with the stud members, and back and front walls of relatively greater area, one of which projects beyond the body of the box forming flanges which overlap the stud members, and an interi-nediate flange connecting said stud engaging flanges, the edge walls of adjoining boxes that extend across the space between two studsabutting throughout their length,

and the joint between said abutting faces bemg overlapped by the aforesaid intermediate flange of the next box 1n the series.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIS ABRUM HUTTON.