US782441A - Wall construction. - Google Patents

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PATBNTED FEB. 14-, 1905.

J. A.FERGUSON. WALL CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20,1904.

Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. FERGUSON, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

WALL CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,441, datedFebruary 14, 1905. Application filed August 20, 1904. Serial No. 221,559.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J OI-IN A. FERGUSON, 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 certain new'and useful improvements in wall construction, pertaining more particularly to that style of wall in which veneer plates or blocks are employed, the said blocks or plates having arms which are bonded in the wall.

The present invention has for its objects, among others, to provide for the better securing of the veneer blocks or plates in and to the wall, the veneer being in the form of slabs, or the veneer may be in the form of blocks with arms and the wall a plain wallthat is, the conditions may be reversed, if found most desirable, without departing from the spirit of the invention. In either case the veneers are secured to the wall by metallic ties having angular end or ends. The blocks and veneers are laid to break joints and continuous air-spaces are formed throughout the wall.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by the appended claim.

The invention 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 of a portion of a wall constructed in accordance with my present invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the conditions reversed, a different form of armed block being employed. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing still another form of block.

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

Referring now to the details of the drawings, 1 designates a portion of a wall which, asseen in Fig. 1, is composed of blocks 2, each having two arms 3 equally spaced apart and at substantially the same distance from the ends as is the-distance between the said arms. These blocks are laid in the walLin courses,

one upon the other, and the blocks in the adjacent courses are laid so as to break joints, the arms'or projections being headless and all extending in the same direction, the ends of the said projections or arms being secured to the veneer or facing slabs 4: by means of the metallic members 5, which in this instance are shown as provided with the angular ends 6, which are secured the one in an arm 3 and the other in the veneer plate or block, as is seen clearly in all of the figures of the drawings. Where the ends of the arms abut against the joint between two adjacent veneer slabs or blocks, I'employ two of these metallic ties, each engaged in the said arm and each having one end secured in the adjacent end of the veneer slab. As will be readily understood upon reference to Fig. 1, the blocks of the wall, as well as the veneer slabs, break joints. This brings the armed blocks so that their arms are bonded in the wall'that is, the arms are so disposed that the blocks are bonded to the wall and toeach other.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a similar construction; but the wall is composed of a different form of blocks 9, each having three headless projections 8, one at each end and one in the center. These are laid in the same manner, and the veneer blocks 7 are secured to the said blocks by the metallic ties 10, having the angular end portions 11, as shown. In this construction there are two of the ties adjacent each other at every arm, in the one instance the two ties being held to the one arm and alternately therewith the two ties held in adjacent arms.

In Fig. 3 is shown a similar construction,

except that the blocks each have four arms preferably spaced equally apart, the parts being disposed substantially as in the other forms, and the metallic ties 13 secured to the blocks 15 and the veneer plates 14, there being two of the ties where the blocks and veneer plates break joints.

From the above it will be evident that I have devised a firm and secure manner of holding the veneer blocks to the wall, and it is to be understood that the wall may be of any suitable form of construction upon which it may be desired to aflix a facing of any suitable character, and I wish it to be distinctly understood that, if occasion may require, the facing may be in the form of the blocks with the arms, the wall to which the said veneer plates are affixed being aplain solid wall, such as would be provided were the above conditions reversed-that is, the wall proper being What has hereinbefore been described as the veneer and the before-described veneer the Wall proper.

What is claimed as new is In a wall, the combination of courses of blocks having projections extending from the side thereof, and said blocks laid in the wall to break joints with the projections all extending in the same direction, veneer facing abutting against the ends of said projections and laid in courses to break joints, and metallic ties having angular ends for securing the blocks and facing together, said ties being arranged with their ends disposed horizontally, and in pairs at points where the projections lie adjacent to each other.'

Signed by me at Denver, Colorado, this 17th day of August, 1904.

JOHN A. FERGUSON.

Witnesses:

ORA M. LASSWELL, EMMA L. KEMP.

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