US1793129A - Floor for kilns - Google Patents

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' Feb. 17, 1931. v. c. PATTON 1,193,129

FLOOR FOR KILNS Filed June 3. 1929 Summer VERNON O. PATTON attorney 5 Patented Feb. 17, 1931 UNITED STATES VERNON o. PATTON, OF NEW LEXINGTON, onro V FLOOR FOR KILNS Application filed June 3, 1929. Serial N'o.v 368,098.

Tile floors of brick kilns as heretofore commonly constructed buckle upward. This buckling is caused by the fact that dirt and sand accumulates in the spaces between the 5 'Jile and the floor upon expanding due to the heat of the kiln, buckles upward. At first this buckling may be slight but repeated buckling widens the spaces between the tile so that they receive more and more dirt and up, dirt removed and the floor laid anew.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved kiln floor and member therefor in which the dirt and sand deposited on the floor escapes from the spaces between the tile so that the tile are free to expand from their normal position without impedence by sand, dirt or other impeding means between them. The invention is embodied in the example herein shown and described, the features of novelty being finally claimed.

in the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tile included in the construction according to my invention.

Fig. 2 illustrates a portion of kiln including a floor according to the invention, the tile being on a smaller scale than in Fig. 1.

In the views 5 designates the body of the tile which is of fire clay and generally speaking is rectangular or oblong and has near the middle of one of its vertical faces a groove 6 expanded downward. At the top of the tile is a rectangular upward projection 6 locat- K ed near the middle of the groove, said projoction having one vertical face coinciding with the face of the groove and its other face coinciding with the opposite face of the block.

Referring now to Fig. 2 the characters 7 represent ridges parallel to one another to a common level at the top, these ridges being built of brick on the ground. The spaces between the ridges form lines for the passage of heat and products of combustion to the fiues. The tiles according to Fig. 1 are first laid as shown in rows on the ridges as shown in Fig. 2, the ends of the tiles resting on the ridges and bridging the fines. On the adj a- 0 cent ends of the tile and in the spaces between :;and until finally the floor must be taken the rows of the tile projections 6 are placed rectangular slabs 8 of the same material as the tile, said slabs being of such thickness that when laid on ribbons of mortar 9 their upper faces are substantially level with the upper faces of the projections 6*. Said slabs are made of such dimensions that they loosely occupy the spaces indicated and so as to allow for normal expansion by the kiln heat.

It will be observed that by reason of the ample spaces afforded between the members and at the expanded grooves of the tile composing the floor the sand and dirt dribbles down into the flues between ridges and may be easily removed from time to time.

The forms of the parts can be changed without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

.VVhat I claim is: V

1. A floor for a kiln including rows of tile blocks each having a horizontal upper face and an upward projection from said upper horizontal face of less width than the length of said horizontal face and on said upper horizontal faces and slabs laid on said tile block between said rows of projections.

2. A floor for a kiln including rows of tile some of which have a groove in their vertical faces and a projection from their upper faces, and slabs with a horizontal flat face thereof laid on said tile between said rows of projections.

3. A floor for a kiln including rows of tile some of which have a downwardly expanded groove in their vertical faces and a projection from their upper faces substantially coinciding with said groove, and slabs each with a horizontal flat face laid at each face on said tile between said rows of projections.

l. A floor for a kiln including a tile having a groove in one of its vertical faces, its upper face substantially horizontal and a projection from said upper face having one ofits vertical faces substantially coinciding with the face of the groove.

5. A floor for a kiln including parallel ridges, parallel rows of tile supported on said ridges, said tile having upward projections and slabs laid on said tile between said rows of projections and over the tops of the spaces between the parallel rows of tile.

6. A floor for a kiln including parallel ridges, parallel rows of tile supported on said ridges, said tile having upward projections and slabs laid on said tile between said rows of projections over the tops of the spaces between the parallel rows of tile and indirectly supported by said ridges.

7. As an article of manufacture a tile member for a kiln floor, said tile member having vertical faces and a horizontal upper face having a projection therefrom, one of said vertical faces provided with a groove said upper face at the side of said projection forming a horizontal support for a slab to constitute a part of the kiln floor.

8. As an article of manufacture a tile memher for a kiln floor, said tile member having vertical faces and a horizontal upper face, one of said vertical faces provided with a groove and the upper horizontal face pro vided with a projection therefrom having one of its faces coinciding wih the groove, said upper face of the slab at the side of the projection forming a horizontal support for a slab constituting a part of the kiln floor.

9. As an article of manufacture a tile member for a kiln floor, said tile member having vertical faces and a horizontal upper face, one of said vertical faces provided with a groove flaring downward, and the upper horizontal face provided with a projection therefrom having one of its faces coinciding with the said vertical groove, said upper horizontal face of the tile at each side of said projection constituting a horizontal support for a slab to form a part of the kiln floor.

VERNON G. PATTON.

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