US2467581A - Wall assembly - Google Patents

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R. CONNELL WALL ASSEMBLY April 19, 1949.

Filed July 3, 1944 INVENTOR. ROBERT CONNELL 8% z HIS ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 19, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WALL ASSEMBLY Robert Connell, Portland, 0reg., assignor to California Container Corporation,

Emeryville,

4 Claims.

My invention relates to wall structures and more particularly to a method of applying wallboard sections and the Wall assembly resulting therefrom,

' Among the objects of my invention are:

' 1. To provide a novel and improved method of assembling wallboard sections in the fabrication of a wall assembly;

2. To provide a novel and improved method of assembling wallboard sections in the fabrication of a wall assembly, which method shall permit the use of light-weight board sections of corrugated paper laminations without mutilation of such board sections;

3. To provide a novel and improved method of assembling wallboard sections of light-weight corrugated paper laminations, which shall result in a firm support for such sections;

4. To provide a novel and improved method of assembling wallboard sections of laminated corrugated paper, which will inhibit warpage or buckling;

5. To provide a novel and improved wall of wallboard sections;

6. To provide a novel and improved Wall of light-weight wallboard sections having laminations of corrugated paper.

Additional objects of my invention will be brought out in the following description of a preferred embodiment of the same, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings where- Figure 1 is a three-dimensional view illustrating the method of assembling wallboard sections in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 2 is a three-dimensional view illustrating structural features of the wall assembly resulting therefrom.

My invention is particularly concerned with the assembling of wall structures from wallboard sections having laminations of corrugated paper, In general, the invention contemplates the application of such wallboard sections to a wall framework or studding by supporting the same upon wires running along the corrugations and anchored to elements of the framework or studding at points along the edges of such wall sections where the wires enter and emerge.

More specifically and with reference to the drawings, the wall framework may comprise a plurality of vertically spaced studs I, and the wallboard sections 3 may involve one or more layers of corrugated paper 5, backed up by covering sheets 1. These sections are cut transverse to the corrugations to a width sufficient to span adjacent studs. In applying these sections to the framework, preferably two or more wires 9 are anchored at spaced vertical points it and I3, respectively, to one of the studs and threaded through a wallboard section along correspondingly spaced corrugations, following which, the wires are drawn taut so as to bring the wallboard section into pressure contact with the studs, and the wires are then each anchored to the adjacent stud at the points I5 or H, respectively, where it emerges from the wallboard section. Such anchoring is preferably effected by looping such wire one or more turns about a tack or nail I 9 and driving the nail into the stud at the aforementioned point.

The free or hanging ends of the wires are then similarly threaded through another section of wallboard, such wallboard section then being moved into intimate edge-to-edge contact with the preceding or previously applied section, and the wires again drawn taut and anchored to the next stud in the same manner as before.

The successive application of such wallboard sections forms a horizontal row across the wall framework with the corrugations also disposed horizontally. Additional rows may then be added in like manner, to cover the entire framework, and the wall assembly thus resulting, may, if desired, be painted, papered or otherwise treated.

The aforementioned method of assembling the wallboard sections to the framework or studding, provides a very firm support for the wallboard sections and permits of the use of lightweight sections involving at least one and preferably a plurality of laminations of corrugated paper, without necessarily mutilating the wallboard sections in the application thereof to the framework. The intimate edge-to-edge placement of the sections in the manner described, will serve to cover up and conceal the nails and result in a finished wall surface having no nail depressions.

Inasmuch as the supporting wires engage each Wall section along the entire length of a corrugation, vertical slippage of the wallboard section bodily is precluded, and such manner of supporting the section will further serve to inhibit warpage or buckling of the section, which might otherwise result from exposure to moisture or dampness.

The term wire, as used herein, is deemed to cover string or other equivalents.

While I have disclosed my invention in a preferred form, it is apparent that the method and the resulting wall assembly may be altered as to details without departing substantially from the underlying basic features of my invention, and I accordingly do not desire to be limited to the details of disclosure described above, except as may be necessitated by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A wall assembly comprising a framework, a plurality of wallboardsectioiis on saidY frame'-' work, each of said wallboard sections having wire threaded therethrough and afiixed to said framework intermediate said sections.

2. A wall assembly comprising a framework,

a plurality of wallboard sections on said framework, each of said wallboard sections having-a corrugated layer with the corrugations thereofrunning horizontally, and wire tightly threaded along certain of said corrugations and aflixed to said framework intermediate said sections to" support said section against said framework.

3. A wall assembly comprising a framework, a plurality of wallboard sections disposed in edgeto-edge relationship on said framework, each of said wallboard sections having a corrugated layer and an outside covering sheet; and wirethreaded along certain of said corrugations between said corrugated layer and said outside-covering sheet REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the fil'e' of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 483,032 Wands Sept. 20,- 1892 676,183 Ferres June'sll, 1901:

1,426,872 Hummert -1 Aug; 22, 1922 1,555,914 Denning Oct. 6,1925 2,133,088 Faber Oct. 11,1938 2,222,572 Reger' Nov. 1 19, 1940

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