US1770189A - Vault construction - Google Patents

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July 8, 1930. A. L. ABBOTT VAULT CONSTRUCTION Filed Dec. 7, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ALAbbait 9M ta/M m e m P I A. L. ABBOTT VAULT CONSTRUCT ION Jul 8, 1930.

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A. L. Abbot! W Elflfotueq0' Patented July 8, 1930 UNITED; STATES- PATENT oFFIcE nrnnnr L. ABBOTfD, or CANTON, orrro, nssrenon T DIEBOLD SAFE & LOCK COMPANY,

or CANTON, OHIO, A GQRYORATION or OHIO VAULT CONSTRUCTION Application filed December 7, 1926. Serial No. 153,141.

The invention relates to fireproof vaults which may be, made of concreteor other fire resisting materials, and which include fireproof doorsand jamb frames and vestibules therefor.

It has been the usual practice in constructing andinstalling the doors for such vaults, tofprovide, for the doors, jamb frames and vestibules having straight sides. Whensuch door frames are installed,rthe opening there'- for, out in. thewall of thevault', has suficient clearance to admit the straight sided vestibule and jambs, thereby forming straight and direct passagesways about the j amb frame and vestibule between the same and the opening in the vault wall.

When such door framesv are properly installed, these straight and direct passageways are filled with grout or like material, but it has been found in practice that workmen omit to fill these passage-ways with grout, whereby even though the front of the jamb frame may be provided with an architrave covering the front end of these passageways, heat as from fire and the like infront of thevault doors soon warps the architrave, and the passage-ways then become straight and direct flue 's which carry the heat from the, outside of the vault to the interior thereof.

Accordingly, the objects of the present iminmates at its rear end in an inwardly directedfiange 16, and the inner rearwardly directed wall 15 terminates at itsinner end in provements are to, provide a vault construction which will overcome the difficulties incident to the usual practice as aforesaid, by providing means effectually stopping the direct passage of heat between the door jamb frame and vestibule and the vault wall open- '%hese and ancillary objects are attained by a construction and arrangement which may be stated in general terms as including in a vault and the like, a door jamb frame and a vestibule connected with the frame, and the frame including fireproof material pref erably completely filling a metallic casing extending outwardly, from the vestibule walls, the outwardly extending fire-proof frame being arranged to. be inserted in a rabbeted seat formed at the front side of the door opening in the vault wall, whereby even though grouting is omitted, a direct passage-way or flue for heat from the front of the vault to the interior is blocked.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which I Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the improved vault construction, as on line 1-1, Fig. 2.

. Fig. 2, a horizontal cross section of the improved construction as on line 22, Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.

The improved vault construction indicated generally at 10, includes door jainb frame side members 11 and 11 and top and bottom members 11 and 11.

Each of the frame members preferably includes a metallic casing 12 having a front wall 13 with an outwardly opening groove 13 and an outwardly projecting tongue 18 formed therein, for receiving an inwardly projecting tongue and an inwardly facing groove in the door, hereinafter to be described.

Each of the jamb frame casings further includes an outer rearwardly extending wall 14 and an inner rearwardly extending wall 15 preferably integral with and extending from the edges of the front wall 13.

The outer rearwardly extending wall tererably completely filled with a fireproofing J compound and the door frame thus includes fireproof material completely engirdling the sides, top and bottom of the door,

and this fireproof door frame, as will herea inafter be set forth in detail, is located in a rabbeted seat preferably formed in the vault wall at the front end of the door opening therein. Y 7

The inner rearwardly extending walls 15 of theamb frame form the front end of the 19'. extending through suitable apertures in;

doorvestibule, and for providing vestibules of any desired length, vestibule side plates 21 and 21", and top and bottom plates 21 and 21, having outwardly extending flanges 22 at their front edges are secured to the j amb framemembers by means of the screws 19 pass through the apertures 25 and 26 and.

are screwed into the apertures 24 in the clamping plate 23. i 1

The vestibule plates 21 21 21and 21 may be of any desired depth from-front to rear for accommodating vault walls of any desired thickness and are preferably providedat their rear edges with screw plates .27 spot welded thereto and threaded apertures. are provided in the vestibule plates and screw plates, for receiving screws 28 which pass through countersunk apertures 29 in a forwardly extending rear architrave flange 30of the rear architrave plates 31.

Upon the jamb frame thus formed, a vault door 32 of any desired type, and which may be o'fthe type set forth in United States Letters Patent. No. 1,712,000, issued May 7, 1929, to Bruno T. Gialdini for vault doors,

' may be hung in a usual manner as by means 7 I of hinges 33.

The combined jamb frame and vestibule constructed as aforesaid thus includes the casing 12 filled with fireproofing-compound 20, and the casing\12 extends laterally outwardly from the vestibule members 21 ,-.21

21, and 21 and the outer faces F of the outer members 1 10f the frame, are laterallyv F off-set from theouter faces F of the members 21, 21*, 21, and 21 of thevestibule; and the outerflfaces-of the casing member 18 withthe outer faces F of the vestibule mem bers comprise an external rabbeted seat in the combined jamb frame and vestibule.

For applying the aforesaid combined jamb frame and vestibule to a vault in order to at tain the fire resisting advantages set forth, a

door opening 34 ismade in awall 35 of the vault, and the door opening is providedwith 1 laterally off- set faces 36 and 37 connected by a? laterally extending face. 38 intermediate.

the front and rear of the wall; and the faces 37 and 38 comprise a rabbeted seat at the front end of the door opening for receiving the fireproof door frame; and "the vestibule members extend rearwardly parallel withthe door opening faces36, there being suflic1ent clearance between the faces of the door opening and the faces of the jamb frame and vestibule to admit the jamb frame and vertibule into the door opening and seat the frame in its rabbetedseat; and the outer face of the back walls 18 of the jamb frame casing preferably abuts against the laterally extending faces 38 of the door opening.

Accordingly the frame extending laterally outwardly from the vestibule laps over that portion-of the wall .extendinginwardly from the faces 37 and the wall'ispreferably con"- structed of fire resisting material. The aforesaid inwardly extending portions of the vaultwallfit in the rabbeted seat of the combined frame and vestibule.

In other words the combined door frame and vestibule, and the dooropening are each provided with interfitting rabbeted seats, whereby there is no direct passage-way from the outside of the vault tothe interior thereof between the door opening and the combined jamb frameand vestibule; i n

The usual type of vault construction in cludes a door opening having straight inner faces from front to rear and a door jamb frame and vestibule. having straight outer faces from frontto rear, there. being thus formed straight and direct passage-ways about the jamb frame and. vestibule which lead directly from the outside of the vault to the. interior thereof in the event that the outer architrave is warped by the action of heat and the like. '1 v I If the .usual vault. door is properly installed, the, passage-waysare filled with grout or like material, but in. practice workmen often omit to fill the passage-ways with grout, sothat the passage-Waysare straight and, direct flues which carrydheat from the outside .ofthe Vault to the interior thereof.

' It is obvious that the laterallyolfssetvfaces of the door opening and combined door frame and vestibule of the improved construction herein set forth.elimina'tethis direct flue material, the offset. closed clearance spaces 4-1 and 42 between the ofiset facesof the opening and frame.

I claim:

wall, and .a jamb frame and vestibule, the wall having a door opening formed therein and faces of the opening being laterally offset from each other, and the .frame including fire resisting material and faces of the frame and vestibule being offset from each other and fitting with the offset faces of the door opening. 1 I

1. Vault construction including a vault 2. Vault construction including a vault Wall, and a jamb frame, the .Wall having a door opening formed therein and having a rabbeted door frame seat formed therein at one end of the opening, and the jamb frame including fire resisting material fitting in the seat.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

ALBERT L. ABBOTT.

DISCLAIMER 1,770,189.-Albert L. Abbott, Canton, Ohio. VAULT CONSTRUCTION. Patent dated July 8, 1930. Disclaimer filed August 12, 1931, by the assignee, Dt'ebold Safe and Look Company. Hereby enters this disclaimer and disclaims as follows: Disclaims from claims 1 and 2 all vault constructions which do not utilize or include a hollow metal jam filled with fireproofing material and set in an enlarged opening, or ribbetileld seat, in the wall at the outer end of the door opening which extends through t e wa And disclaims further from claim 2 all structures in which the jamb does not extend wholly about the door opening, including top, bottom, and sides.

[Ofiict'al Gazette September 1, 1931.]

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