US540639A - House - Google Patents

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No. 540,639. Patented June .11, 1895.

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i JAMES I. COMLY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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i SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,639, dated June 11, 1895.

Apenas@ tied Api-i12, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES I. COMLY, of the city f Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new andr useful Improvement in Houses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention has relation to the construction of houses and its advantages are manifestin such as have front and back buildings and are built in rows with a house orrbuilding adjoining them on each side, and consists in the construction hereinafter described and claimed whereby a house has front and back buildings in which the front building of the first story islonger than the front building of the second or upper stories, and in which the rear wall of the front building ot the second and upper stories .is in front of therear wall of the first story front building and over the back room of the rst story front building; and the side wall of the back building in the second or upper stories is extended frontward also over the back room of the first story front building to the back wall of the front building of the second or upper stories.

The object of my invention is to provide a ioor spacein all the stories of such a size and shape as to admit of convenient, symmetrical, well-lighted, and desirable interior divisions, and at the same time to economize in space and cost of construction.

In houses, as above mentioned,built in rows with front and back buildings, as usually constructed, the first story of the front building contains the parlor and hall, while the dining-room is generally in the back building and is poorly lighted, the length of the parlor beingin this construction the length of the front building in all the stories and is insufficient to make two, desirable-sized vrooms over it in each of the second and upper stories. In my constructionthe front building is made long enough in the first story to contain the parlor and hall, together with a dining-room in the rear. The same-sized front building in the second and upper stories would be undesirable, as the back one of the two rooms into which it would be divided in each story semina 427,438. (No man dining-room, places the bath-room, while in the back building of Vthe second story, over the front building of the first story, giving it .a communicating door with the back room ot the front building and thus allowing the back stairway, by being placed back of the bath room, to have alanding in the first story back of the dining room, and at the same time, by using the space of the ceiling .of the back part of the 'front building of the irst story left uncovered by making the front building in the second and upper stories shorter than in the first story as a skylight or window in addition to the other window, giving to the d ining-room much greater and sufcient light. In this construction, when the width instead of the length of the dining room, as in the old way, is part of the length of the house, the total length is shortened; consequently the cost of construction is diminished. In Reissue Letters Patent No.`1l,304, dated February '7, 1893, issued to me,I have claimed one method of construction whereby this result is obtained, and my present invention relates to another construction to obtain the same result.

In the accompanying drawings similar let- 'tersof reference referto similar parts throughout.

' Figure l is a plan View of the iirst iioor ot the building containing my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the second floor.

Fig. 3 isa side elevation of a building con` one end in the wall, C, of the back building at or near the level ofthe second fioor of the front building and extends longitudinally preferably on a line with the side Wall, C, to a point beyond the girder G preferably at or near the partition dividing the front from the back room of the first story of the front building and is supported upon apier, P, or a cross-girder, or by said partition, or other suitable means. The cross girder, G', is supported at one end in the Wall, A, at or near the level of the second floor of the front building at a desirable distance from the rear wall, B', of the front building of first storysay six or seven feet-and extends latitudinally to the point of intersection with the lou gitudinal girdcr, G, to which it is secured by braces, bolting or otherwise, and by which it is at that end supported. Upon the gir-der, G', is built the rear wall, B2, of the second or upper floors of the front building, While the side wall, C, of the second and upper stories of the back building is continued and built upon a portion of the girder G, and connected with the Wall, B2. It will thus be seen that the second and upper stories of the front building will not extend as far rearward as the first story of the front building. By this construction, the second story front building can be divided into symmetrical rooms of nearly equal size, while the rooms of the first story front building can be properly proportioned for parlor and dining room. The rear room of the ilrst story of the main building which is above termed the dining-room, can be advantageously lighted by a skylight S, constructed in the space where the wall B2 recedes. A window may also be provided in the rear wall B.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a dwelling house, a combination of the longitudinal wall, A, the longitudinal wall, C, and the partition, F, between the parlor and dining room, the longitudinal girder, G, one end being supported by the wall, C, the other end by a pier, cross girderor otherwise, the short transverse girder, G', one end supported by the wall, A, the other by the girder, G, the rear wall,B2, of the main building in the second story being supported by the girder, G', and a portion of the side wall, C, of the back building in the second story being supported by the girder, G, arranged in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described. i

2. A dwelling house having front and back buildings in which the first story front building is constructed into afront room or parlor and a hallway together with a back room or dining-room in the rear, and in which the second story front building is shortened and the second story back building is lengthened by dividingr between them that part of the length of the house which in the first storyis the dining-room, by constructing the wall, B2, on the short transverse girder, G', and a part of the Wall, C, on a portion of the longitudinal girder, G, and in which the full Width and part of the length of the back room of the second story front building extends over a portion of the dining-room, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of April, 1892.

JAMES I. COMLY.

IVitnesses:

HORACE PETTIT, J. HENDERSON.

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