US779117A - Wall for the interior of fireproof buildings. - Google Patents

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No. 779,117. YPATBNTED JAN. 3, 1905.

F. 0. GAINE. I WALL FOR THE INTERIORS 0F PIREPROOPBUILDINGS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25. 1904.

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NTTED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

PATENT FFTCE.

WALL FOR THE INTERIOR OF FIREPROOF BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming p r of L r P n N 779,117, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed February 25, 1904. Serial No. 195,210.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK G. OAINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Walls for the Interiors of Fireproof Buildings; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in walls for the interiors of fireproof buildings; and the invention consists in a wall constructed substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section of a wall and of portions of two floors in connection with which it is anchored, as will hereinafter more fully appear. Fig. 2 is a side view of a section of wall and other parts as seen in Fig. 1.

As thus shown, the invention comprises a wall which has an exclusively metallic, and hence fireproof, framework and adapted to be connected up along its top and bottom in a suitable manner and to be taken down and its parts used over again in the erection of other walls as occasion may require and as there is constant need of doing in all modern office buildings. To these ends the wall itself as such or the framework or skeleton thereof, apart from the plastering, which is not herein considered,is built up with a series of upright metallic bars or rigid pieces B and slabs or plates O of substantially flat sheet metal, provided with loops 0 and constructed after a well-known manner heretofore extensively used in ceilingwork especially and taking the place of perishable laths. The said bars or heavy pieces B are straight between their ends and extend from floor to ceilingand are placed at as frequent intervals as may be found necessary to give good results. The ends of these bars are provided with hooks 7?, or other equivalent formation for making connections; but loops, eyes, rings, or the like may be employed. gaged over the metallic stringers D and E at top and bottom, as shown. These stringers,

The said hooks are en-- bars, or straps are supported at intervals by stirrups G at their top and by angle-pieces H at their bottom. It is assumed that the usual I-beams 1 are found embedded in fireproof cement J, and stirrups G are made to engage upon the sides of the cement walls J and secured thereto by nails or spikes, as shown in this instance; but any other suitable means of fastening the stirrups or their equivalent may be employed. These nails are removable, and the stringers D may rest within the stirrups or be secured thereto by rivets or otherwise. As here shown, the stringers run edgewise, but are quarter-turned where they meet stirrupsG to expose fiat surfaces thereto. At the bottom of the wall or wall-frame thus constructed the bars or stringers E are shown as being riveted to the angle-pieces H, but might be otherwise secured, and any equivalent of said angle-pieces may be used for engaging the said uprights B. The said angle-pieces are secured to the cement or other floor by nails or spikes. The sheet lathing is shown here as threaded through the upright supports B in and out alternately, so as to secure the same without rivets or other special means, though such means might be used and be within the invention, only it would take from the knockdown character of this wall and its cheapness and facility in erection.

If the I-beam be not found at the place where the wall is to be erected, other means than the stirrups may have to be employed to secure the stringers, and such means will be the equivalent of the stirrups in function and service and within the present invention.

The loops 0 on plates O enable plastering upon both sides.

The wall herein shown and described is more particularly designed for partition purposes, and hence its knockdown construction; but it can be used for permanent outside walls as well, if this be desired.

-What I claim is 1. In walls for fireproof buildings, a wall consisting of a series of vertical bars at intervals and sheet-metal lathing secured to said bars. metallic beams at the ceiling and cement covering said beams, stringers upon which said vertical bars are secured at their ends and yokes secured upon the side Walls of said cement and carrying the upper series of stringers, substantially as described.

2. A fireproof partition-Wall for buildings consisting of a series of metal bars and metal lathing thereon, in combination With cementineased I-beams at the ceiling, yokes fastened to the cement at the sides of said beams, a stringer fixed to the bottom of said yokes and I0 the said metal bars of the Wall removably se-' cured upon said stringer, and angle-pieces to secure the bottom of said Wall and a stringer thereon to which the lower ends of said metal bars are secured, substantially as described.

In testimony Wh ereof 1 sign this specification 1 5 in the presence of t-wowitnesses.

FRANK C. CAINE.

Witnesses:

R. B. MOSER, C. A. SELL.

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