US468132A

US468132A - Wainscoting

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Publication number: US468132A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-02-02
Anticipated expiration: 1909-02-02

Description

K. DIETERIOH.

WAINSGOTING.

Patented Feb. 2, `1892.*

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KARL DIETERICII, OF BROOKLYN, NEWv YORK..

WAINSCOTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,132, dated February 2, 1892.

Application filed August S, 1891. Serial No. 402,065. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL DIETER-10H, a citizen of Germany, residing in Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Wainscoting, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is tov provide for attaching tiles and similar ornamental earthenware or vitried blocks against the walls or ceilings of buildings, so that such tiles are held with firmness and reliability, and they can be set together with rapidity and in any desired pattern or ornamental combination, and the slab can be prepared ready for insertion in its position, and the fastening devices are conveniently shifted, so as to be connected to the studding or other wood-work or to adapt the fastening devices to the positions of the joints between bricks or in stone-work; and the improvements relate to the combinations ot' devices hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure I is a horizontal section of the tiles and the fastening devices at the line .r no of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partially in section, representing the frame-work with portions of the tiles in position; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section at the line y y, Fig. 2. Y

The bars A are of metal and of a size and strength adapted to the tiles that are to be supported by them, and these bars A are made with projecting ribs 2, forming a T-hcad to each bar, and the tiles I3 are grooved upon their edges to t upon the T-heads of the bars A, and these bars A are to be at the proper distances apart to suit the measurements 'ot the tiles, and these tiles can be slipped in between the respective bars A and can be placed so as to break joints, as indicated in the drawings, or to form continuous ranges, and the surfaces of the tiles may be colored and glazed or otherwise ornamented, or they may be plain.

In order to connect the respective bars A together and to clamp them and secure the tiles between such bars A, I make use of the tierods C, passing transversely to the bars A and through holes in such bars, and these tierods are of a length adapted to the panel of the wainscoting, and there are nuts i upon the screw-threaded portions 5 of the tic-rods;

bars can be raised or lowered as their ends slide in the slots in the bars A, and these cross-bars D are slotted longitudinally for the reception of the attaching-screws E or similar fastenings. By these means the crossbars D can be brought into the proper position and the screws E inserted wherever there is suitable framing or joints between the brick-work or masonry for the attaching device to be screwed or driven in.

In some instances my improved wainscoting may be employed as a screen or facing away from and not attached to a wall. In such cases the cross-bars D will :not be used and the rods C will not alone be'sufticient to insure the true alignment of the tiles, so that the surface of the wainscoting will be fiat and on a straight line throughout. For this pur pose I employ additional tie-rods C', passing through two or more of the bars A, and these rods C are short and are threaded their entire length for the reception of nuts O2 atopposite sides of vthe bars A, as shown. These nuts C2 are to be operated at the respective sides of the bars A to either slightly force them apartor draw them together to straighten the line of the wainscoting.

I am aware that it is not new to use T- headed bars or strips for holding blocks or slabs.

I claim as my invention- I. The combination, with the tiles B, having grooved edges, of the metal bars A, with T-heads passing into the grooves in the tiles, and the tie-rods passing through the bars A and provided with nuts for clamping the tiles by the bars, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the tiles having grooved edges, of bars A, with T-heads fitting the grooved edges ot the tiles or blocks, the slotted cross-bars passing at their ends into the mortises in the bars A, and the attaching devices passing through the slots in the crossbars, substantially as set forth.

The combination, in the wainscoting, of

tiles or blocks grooved on their edges, the bars IOO A, having T-heads fitting such grooves, the provided with nuts for clamping the tiles by tie-rods passing through the bars A and prothe bars, and the short screw-threaded bars vided with nuts for clamping the bars and tiles C and nuts Cgfor aligning the face of the tiles together, the slotted cross-bars D, received at forming the Wainscoting, substantially as set 15 5 their ends in mortises in the bars A, and the forth.

attaching devices passing through the slots Signed by me this 3d day of August, A. D.

in the cross-bars, substantially as set forth. 1891.

4. The combination, With the tiles B, hav- KARL DIETERICH. ing grooved edges, of the metal bars A, with NTitnesses: Io T-heads passing into the grooves in the tiles, GEO. T. PINCKNEY,

the tie-rods passing through the bars A and HAROLD SERRELL.