US767413A - Wall construction. - Google Patents

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No. 767,413. PATENTED ,AUG.-16, 1904.

F. B. KIDDBR. WALL CONSTRUCTION.

APPLIOATIOII FILED FEB. 29, 1904. N0 MODEL.

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FRANK E. KIDDER, OF DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO K. FERGUSON, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

WALL CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,413, dated August 16, 1904.

Application filed February 29, 1904. Serial No. 195,873. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. KIDDER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wall Construction, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wall construction, and pertains more particularly to that class of wall construction in which a wall of brick or of building-block or the like is veneered so as to give an air-space or air-spaces, while at the same time the facing or veneering is solidly bonded to the brickwork or other interior wall.

It has for its objects, among others, to provide an improved and simplified construction of this nature in which the facing is'more effectually bonded to the wall.

I employ facing-blocks having an arm or arms, which are designed to be bonded into the wall.

The invention embraces the embodiment of this principle in a wall having one or more rows of air-spaces in depth-that is, between the inner and outer faces of the wall when completed. The inner or the intermediate wall may be composed of concrete blocks having air-passages therethrough or of solid blocks, as may be deemed most expedient.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will beparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention in some forms of its embodiment is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the numerals of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a portion of a wall constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3- is a perspective view showing a portion of: *wall having double air-spaces, and Fig: 4' is a plan'view" of one course ofsuch wall. j

Like 'numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I employ blocks of concrete or other suitable material adapted for the facing or veneering of the wall, and these blocks each comprise a body portion, and, as seen in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 1, each facing-block has a substantially central long arm or projection 2 and a short arm or projection 3 at each end. The long arms or projections 2 are as much longer than the arms 3 as is the thickness of the brick, as is illustrated clearly in Fig. 2. In laying the wall these facing-blocks are bonded into the wall by having the long arms 2 in each horizontal layer or course extended between two adjacent bricks or portions of bricks, as the case may be. The short arms 3 bear'against the face of the bricks, as seen in Fig. 2. The next course is laid with the facing-blocks moved one-half their length, more or less, to the right or left, so that the long arms of the facing-blocks in said next succeeding course will lie over the short arms 3 30f the lower course, and the long arms 2 are of a width substantially equal to the combined width of the two adjacent short arms 3. It will thus be evident that the long arm of each and every block is surrounded upon the top and bottom and both sides by the bricks, as indicated clearly in Fig. 1. Air-spaces 5 are provided between the inner faces of the facing-blocks and the adjacent faces of the bricks 1, as clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and the depth of these air-spaces is regulated by the length of the arms 2 and 3, as will be readily understood.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a somewhat similar construction of the wall in which there is a facing-block upon both sides. The blocks 1 employed are the same as those employed in the form illustrated in Fig. 1, the said facingblocks being arranged upon opposite sides of the center wall 6, which may be of brick, stone, concrete blocks, or any desired material, and these blocks are disposed or laid in the wall so that the inner and outer facing-blocks in each horizontal course are alternately oppositely disposedthat is, in one horizontal course the long arm 2 of the facing-block upon one side of the wall extends 111 one direction with its inner end opposed to the oppositelyextending ends of the two adjacent short arms 3 3 upon the facing-block upon the opposite face of the wall. In the next succeeding course the inner and outer facing-blocks are oppositely disposedthat is, the long arms 2 of the facing-block upon the inner face of the wall is laid over the two short arms 3 3 of the facingblock upon that side of the wall in the lower course, and this of course brings the short arms 3 3 of the facing-block in the same course of the opposite side of the wall over the long arms 2 of the block in vertical line therewith upon that side of the wall. It will be noted that in this form of wall I provide two rows of air-spaces 7 7 within the depth or thickness of the wall and that the facing-blocks upon the opposite sides of the wall are completely bonded into each other and into the intermediate wall 6.

It is to be noted that in the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4t the long arms 2 of the blocks 1 extend entirely through the intermediate "wall 6, and the long arms of the facing-blocks upon opposite sides of the wall being extended in opposite directions and the long arm of the facing-blocks of one course being disposed and overlapping the joint between the long and short arms in the lower course the result is a most substantial and rigid bonding of the blocks and of the wall.

From the above it will be seen that I have devised a simple, strong, and durable, easilylaid form of wall construction, and while the structural embodiment thereof as herein disclosed is what I at the present time consider preferable it is evident that the same is subject to changes, variations, and modifications, and capable of being constructed of blocks of different forms from those herein illustrated without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages. I therefore do not wish to be restricted to the details of construction, form, size, or proportions of parts herein set forth, but reserve the right to make such changes, variations, and modifications as come properly within the scope of the protection prayed.

hat is claimed as new is 1. The combination with a wall, of a facing therefor having an arm bonded in said wall and shorter arms bonded by the arms in the next succeeding course.

2. The combination with a wall, of facingblocks upon opposite sides thereof having integral arms bonded into said wall with continuous vertical air-spaces between the adjacent faces of the wall and blocks.

3. The combination with a wall, of facingblocks upon opposite sides thereof having integral arms bonded into said wall and forming air-spaces upon opposite sides thereof.

l. The combination with a wall, of facingblocks upon opposite sides thereof having integral arms bonded into said wall forming airspaces upon opposite sides of the same, and integral arms bonded by the arms of the blocks in the next succeeding course.

5. The combination with a wall, of a facing therefor having an integral arm bonded in said wall with an air-space between the wall and the adjacent face of the block, said airspace being adapted to communicate with like air-spaces above and below it.

Signed by me at Denver, Colorado, this 25th day of February, 1904:.

FRANK E. KIDDER.

Witnesses:

HARMON H. RICE, EMMA L. KEMP.

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