US778925A - Pillar. - Google Patents

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No. 778,925. PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905; A. VETTERLY.

PILLAR.

APPLIOATIO-H FILED MAY 17. 1904.

- UNITED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

PILLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,925, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed May 17, 190 1. Serial No. 208,442.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, AUGUST VETTERLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Buffalo, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pillars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to masonry columns or pillars and to the blocks usedin the construction thereof. These blocks are not limited to any particular material, but may be made of stone, cement, clay, wood, or other material.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved and ornamental construction by the use of blocks having the novel characteristics hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a rectangular pillar constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the courses thereof. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a round column constructed according to the invention. Fig. 4: is a plan view of one of the courses of the pillar shown in Fig. 3.

The pillars are constructed of a plurality of blocks superposed in courses in the manner hereinafter described and bound together by slabs and tie-rods.

Referring specifically to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the blocks are indicated at 6, and each block has in the side thereof near the ends grooves 7 disposed vertically. Each course in a rectangular pillar is formed of two blocks set oppositely with the grooves faced toward each other. These grooves receive the side edges of slabs 8, which are cemented in place and serve to connect and bind the blocks and also space them at proper distance apart. These slabs may be made of glass, wood, marble, or other material and are preferably ornamented, so that they form when in place ornamental panels, which add materially to the appearance of the pillar. The successive courses are laid with the blocks crosswise of each other, as indicated in Fig. 1, and are set in mortar or cement. The ornamental slabs 8 will thus appear or show in alternate courses on the respective sides of the pillar, and by reason of the location of the holes 9 are at the inner corners.

the grooves 7 a short distance from the ends of the blocks 6 will set back such distance from the face of the pillar and be thus protected to some extent from injury. If the slabs are made of glass, a transparent effect will be obtained by the passage of light through the glass and the hollow space therebetween, and if colored or ornamented glass be used novel and pleasing effects result. To strengthen the pillar, the blocks have in the ends thereof vertical holes 9, which are located to register when the successive courses are laid, and r0ds'10 are run through these holes to bind the courses together. Instead of the rods soft cement may be run down in the holes to fill the same, which cement when it hardens produces a result similar to the rods referred to. The pillar is shown erected upon a base 11 and having a cap 12.

In the column shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the blocks, with the grooves and holes therein, and also the slabs, are indicated by the same symbols; but the parts are differently arranged and located to suit the different shape. the grooves 7 are in the ends of the blocks and When the courses are laid, the blocks are staggered and overlap each other at the ends, where the holes 9. register to receive the binding rods or cement heretofore referred to. The slabs 8 Thus are set edgewise between the blocks, with their ends in the grooves. Preferably the blocks are set so that the front corners thereof in the successive courses form a straight line or corner from the bottom to the top of the column, as shown in Fig. 3, the curvature of the column causing the rear corners of the block to overlap to bring the holes 9 in register.

It will be seen that in the column when transparent slabs 8 are used the transparent effect is obtained, since the column is hollow and the blocks are spaced apart so that light may pass through, the ornamental effect of which when colored or ornamental glass is used may be readily appreciated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pillar formed of blocks spaced apart courses, the blocks having grooves and holes in the ends, which holes register in the successive courses, slabs between the blocks and having their edges in the grooves, and rods extending through the holes.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

AUGUST VETTERLY.

Witnesses:

JOHN FIsHER, J. E. BOMMERSOHEIN.

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