US768079A - Building construction. - Google Patents

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' PATENTED AUG. 23,1904.

No. 768,079. I

J; T. RYTHER. BUILDING OGNSTRUGTION.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

Patented August 23, 1904.

PATENT .OFFICE.

JAMES T. RYTHER, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,079, dated August 23, 1904.

Application filed March 18, 1904- Serial No. 198,754. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES T. RYTHER, a citi-' zen of the United States, residing in Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Building Construction, of which the fol-lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to buildings constructed principally of wood, and specifically to the construction of the walls, floors, 'roofs, and partitions thereof, as the principle of my improved construction is applicable to any and all those portions of a building, although the invention is especially intended for outer walls and roofs.

In some portions of the country many of thehouses, especially in small cities and towns, are provided with walls in which thin overlapping or tongued-and-grooved boarding, known as siding, sheathing, weatherboarding, clapboarding, &c., is nailed to the joists or studding of the frame. This thin material warps and bends, creating spaces or open joints, so that it is often a very poor protection against cold. In some instances sheets of paper are applied to the frame under the siding; but these are apt to become torn, to sag, to be blown away, and to be affected by the rain and are hencezlshort-lived and of little service.

It is the object of my invention to provide an inexpensive means or structure whereby the paper can be kept in place and held in shape while in place, and thus the building rendered tight and warm.

In this invention I apply to the joists, studs,

' or framework ofsaid walls, floors, partitions,

or roofs a covering or layer of woven wire, screen-wire, wire-gauze, or the style of wire known as chicken-fence or hen-fence, and then I cover this layer of wire with sheets of building paper or felt, and finally apply to the outer surface of the felt or paper the usual,

siding or sheathing. The building-wall therefore consists of the joists or framework, the woven wire, the sheets of paper or felt, and thesiding, sheathing, or clapboarding.

The nature of the invention is fully described in detail below and illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a part of a building-wall embodying my invention, portions of the clapboarding and paper having been removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on line 2, Fig. -1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on line 3, Fig. 1. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

(4 represents the studs making a portion of the wall of an ordinary wooden building. Secured to the outer surfaces of said studs, by means of staples b or other suitable contrivance, is a flat vertical sheet or layer of woven wire 0. This layer or covering 0 of wire may be of any size mesh or opening, whether termed wire-cloth or wire-gauze,. screen-wire or hen-fence, the intention being to use any style of wire mesh or sheeting which is provided with openings or holes produced by weaving, braiding, or crossing strands of wire. Next and outside the wire 0 is a layer (or layers) of paper or'cloth e, and outside the paper or cloth there are applied clapboard's g or other siding or covering. The paper therefore is provided with a stiif and firm backing of wire 0, and hence cannot sag or become torn, and the clapboards are therefore prevented from opening at the joints, and hence the wind and rain are prevented from gaining access to the paper and tearing it or blowing it away or rotting it. Thus an economical means is provided whereby a building-wall may be rendered tight, keeping out the cold air, rain, and snow.

In illustrating this device in the drawings I have deemed it necessary to show it only as applied to the wall of a building, the wire network being secured to the studs 0, which are a portion of the frame. The network or wire screen, however, may be, with its sheets of paper or felt, applied to anypartition or 'to a floor or roof, and any suitable non-plastic covering may be applied in place of the clapboards g.

It is evident also that the wire screen, the cloth or felt sheets, and a suitable covering may be applied in the above-named order to either side of the frame for employment in the construction of any of the above-named parts of a building. In other words, this combination of netted wire and paper or felt may be used as a backing for boarding, siding, sheathing, paneled Wainseoting, ceilings, flooring, and analogous coverings, and these coverings need not necessarily be of Wood, but may be of other material used in the construction of frame lOUIldIHQS SUCl] as corrugated, stamped, or other sheet metal, tiles, glass, or coverings of any sheathing materialwhether applied to the outer or inner surfaces of walls, floors, roofs, or partitions.

In all the above-enumerated constructions the Wire netting or gauze is secured to the frame and operates as a firm, substantial, economical, and practically indestructible backing for the cloth or felt and its covering.

In applying this invention to a roof the paper should be, of course, Waterproof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In building construction, a frame, a network of Wire secured upon said frame, a layer of Wind-resisting fabric, as paper or felt, superposed upon said network, and an outer covering of sheathing material suitable for frame buildings, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES .l.. RYTHER.

\Vitnesses:

I'IENRY W. \VILLLms, A. K. H001).

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