US1742884A - Building structure - Google Patents

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Jan. 7, 1930. F. M. VENZIE i;742,884

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Patented Jan. 7, 1930 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FREDERICK M. VENZIE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING STRUCTURE Application filed February 18, 1929. Serial No. 340,862.

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A further object is to provide a wall or partition construction which may be erected y unskilled labor in quicker time, at less expense and more efliciently than skilled me- 5 chanics now erect commercial wall board.

Other and further objects of the present invention reside in the provision of general details of construction and arrangement of parts for attaining the results sought by the foregoing objects.

, The invention consists of the novel construction hereinafter described and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1, is a fragmentary View in elevation of a wall or partition structure embodying the invention.

Fig. 2, is a view in elevation showing a detail of construction.

Fig. 3, is a similar view illustrating a de tail of construction.

Fig. 4;, is a view in section taken upon the line 4-4: of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5, is a View in section taken upon the line 5.5 of Fig. 2; and v Fig. 6, ,isIa view in perspective illustrating one of the clips shown in the foregoing figures.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in the accompanying drawings one form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of 50 which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that-my invention-is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of the instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the referencenumeral 10 designates sections of plaster board as Rockwall or any of the other well known commercial makers. These sections or slabs of plaster board 10 are erected upon studding 11 and nailed thereto. However, practice dictates that stability of the slabs may be materially increased by the employment of the attachments of the present invention, a description of which follows:

As the slabs 10 are nailed to the studding 11 many of the slabs have their ends unsupported. This makes for a .veryinefiicient structure to support the plaster thereafter to v 'be applied. Therefore, I propose to leave be tween adjacent wall slabs spacessuflicient to accept the devices forming part of the invention. 1

First I use a U-shaped, staple-like member, best seen in Fig. 4 and which is designated 12. This member 12 I drive into a pair 5 of adjacent slabs 10 which may be readily done because the slabs are of relatively soft material. The member 12 is provided with a depressed portion 13 to accept a clip 14 about to be described. This clip 14 may be best seen in Fig. 6 and like the member 12 is made of wire. The member 14 is bent to provide a cross piece 15 extended from which at right angles thereto is a short section 16, extended from. which at an inclination thereto is an arm 17 terminating in a finger 18. In practice the cross piece 15 is introduced to a slot 19 between adjacent slabs 10, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The cross piece is then shifted so that the &

cross piece 15 extends across the lot 19 instead of in parallelism therewith and the arm 17 is forced down over the member 12 so that the part 16 abuts against the member 12 and clamps the parts securely together with the arm 17 paralleling the slot 19. This arrangement of parts is very clearly seen in Fig. 5. It is apparent that with a plurality of these members 12 and clamps 14 used between adj acent slabs, as is best seen in Fig. 1, stability 1 of the slabs is secured. It is also apparent that these devices are so simple and so easily applied that unskilled labor may readily po-'- sition them. It will be understood, of course, that with the slabs 10 in positionand the various clips in position the usual plaster is placed over the wall or partition, although the plaster is not shown in the drawing. Between the parts 16 and 17 of the clamp there is provided a curved portion 20 which fits over the depression 13 of member 12 and adds to the efficiency in the interlocking of parts. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A building-structure comprising a plurality of wall slabs suitably supported, adjacent slabs having free spaces therebetween, staple-like members driven into a pair of slabs and arranged across said free spaces, clamping clips having cross members arranged across said free spaces upon the faces of the slabs opposite said staple-like members, and arms extended from said cross members and clamped over said staple-like members, said .arms' being arranged within said free spaces and in parallelism there with. a 2. A structure as described in claim 1 characterized by said staple-like member being formed of wire and having a central de pressed portion to be engaged by the arm of the clamping member. a

3. A structure as described in claim 1, characterized b the clamping clip being formed of wire 1n one piece bent to form the cross-piece which has extended at right angles thereto a short section which terminates in an arm disposed in the-same plane with said short section and having a curved part between said short section and arm for engaging over the staple-like member.

FREDERICK M. VENZIE.

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