US809163A

US809163A - Dismountable building.

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Publication number: US809163A
Application number: US23847804A
Authority: US
Inventors: Johann Aradi
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1904-12-27
Filing date: 1904-12-27
Publication date: 1906-01-02
Anticipated expiration: 1923-01-02

Description

PATENTED JAN. 2, 1906.

J. ARADI. DISMOUNTABLE BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED D130. 27. 1904.

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DISMOUNTABLE BUILDING.

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DISMOUNTABLE BUILDING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

Application filed December 27, 1904. Serial No. 238,478.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHANN ARADI, a subj ect of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, re

siding at Prakfalu, in the Empire of Austria- I-Iungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dismountable Buildings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that description of dismountable buildings in which the walls are constructed of Wooden frames covered with artificial stone.

The present improvements have for their object the construction of light and strong wall units, that can therefore readily be transported, for forming dry and fireproof dismountable buildings that can withstand vibrations, While the wall units are capable of being combined to form walls of any desired thickness, and the ceiling and the roof covering can likewise be built up in a simple manner with aid of artificial stone to be quite impervious.

According to this invention the skeleton of the wall unit is formed of a double Wooden frame held apart by interchangeable transverse bars. The outer surface of the outer wall unit is covered with a layer of perforated sheet metal carrying a coating of artificial stone, while the inward-directed surface of the inner wall-surface is either similarly constructed or can receive a facing of artificial stone spread upon a jute fabric or similar material. In consequence of the changeable arrangement of the transverse bars the thickness of the wall can be varied at will. The connection of the wall units with each other is effected either in the known manner by means of slotted tubes which are slid. over the projecting flanges of angle-irons fixed to the edges of the wall units or the wall units are connected by means of screws. The connection of the roof-framing is effected by shoes that can engage with each other, and thus constitute a reliable connection that can readily be disconnected. The ceiling can be made of perforated sheet-metal plates, wire-nettings, or of frames tightly covered with jute or similar material or of perforated sheet-metal plates or wire-nettings fastened to the frames, carrying a coating of artificial stone.

The accompanying drawings show a dismountable building constructed according to the present invention.

Figure 1. shows a section on line A B of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, and Figs. 3,

4, 5, and 6, 7, 8 show, respectively, separate views of the parts of the shoes employed for connecting the roof-frame in a plan, side elevation, and end elevation. Fig. 9 shows a section of a partly-modified constructional form of such a building, while Fig. 10 represents a top view of the same, partly fully covered, partly without the covering material, partly with the rafters taken off, and partly without the timber-work of the roof. Fig. 11 is a cross-section appertaining to Fig. 9. Figs. 12 and 13 show in section and in top view, respectively, two beams with an interposed plate or slab for the forming of the ceiling, while Fig. 1 1 is a perspective view of the end of a beam with the shoe connected to it.

The wall units forming the building consist of a frame 1, with a series of cross-laths or cross-bars 2. These frames are provided on one side with a perforated sheet-metal covering 3, on which is laid a layer 4 of artificial stone. Instead of a perforated sheetmetal plate can be employed a wire-netting, and the inner Wall units may be covered by a suitable wall-paper or by wall-coverings of jute fabric and similar material onto which a layer of artificial stone is applied. For the construction of the wall two wall units are arranged parallel to one another, and these units are connected by cross-bars 5.

The thickness of the wall is determined by the length of the cross-bars and can be modified by changing the latter. The space between the inner and outer wall can remain empty or can be filled with some bad conductor of heatsuch as moss, sawdust, sand, and the like. The connection of the wall units with each other is efiected by means of lengthwise-slotted tubes 7 being slid in the known manner over the projecting flanges of angle-irons fixed to the edges of the wall units. Instead of these connecting means or in addition with the same can be employed screws 8, with nuts, Figs. 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, pass ing through the frames 1 and the interposed cross-bars 5. As corner-pieces are employed prismat1c boXes 9, provided at those of their side faces which remain free after the connec tion with perforated sheet-metal plates 10, wire-nettings, or the like, to which a layer of artificial stone is applied. The wall units thus connected forming the side walls stand upon the bottom foundation-frame 12, formed of two parallel beams, Figs. 1 and 2, or of one single beam of sufficient breadth, Figs. 9 to 11. On the top the walls can be provided with a covering-frame 13, supporting the timber work of the roof. The coveringframe can be formed of two beams, Figs. 1 and 2, or of one single beam, Figs. 9 to 11. The truss-frame or the roof-timbers are constructedv in such a way that they are enabled to be readily mounted and dismounted and to be connected whenever required fast and safe to the building. The woodwork of the roof is formed of the beams 14 and the rafters 15, Figs. 1, 9 to 11, the latter being connected by cross-bars 16, serving as a bottom for the roof-covering. The connection of the beams with the rafters in the constructional example represented by Fig. 1 and Figs. 9 to 11 is effected by means of iron shoes 17, Figs. 1, 9. These are composed of three parts, Figs. 3, 8viz., of an angular piece 18, Figs. 6 to S, which is fixed to the beam 14, and of the other two angle-pieces 19, which are half as Wide as 18, each ofthese being fixed to one of two rafters placed close together and consequently forming a kind of lengthwise split compound roofrafter 15, Figs. and 11. The angle-piece 18 is provided with two projections 20, Fig. 14, which are engaged by the bent-over ends 21 of the angle-pieces 19, so that an unintentional disconnection of the joint is impossible as long as the two adjacent parts of the rafter are connected together by means of screws 22, Figs. 9 and 10.

Instead of a simple beam 14 can be employed supports Of a special construction, Figs. 9 to14. These are composed of two wooden parts or boards 23 24, between which is fixed a flat steel rail 25. These wooden parts are connected by means 01 screws 26,

. and are provided at their bottom side with a strong lath 27, which is broader than the compound beam. The compound beam thus constructed unites the lightness of wood with the solidity or strength of steel. The

construction of the ceiling can be eflected by fastening boards 28 onto the bottom side of the beams 14, Fig. 1.

In the same manner can be constructed the dust-board 29that is to say, a board preventing the intrusion of dust.

In special cases the ceiling and the dustboard can be coated with a layer of artificial stone. For the same purpose may be employed a framework (or a skeleton of laths) 30, covered on one side with perforated sheet metal 31, wire-netting, jute fabric, and the like serving as a bottom for a coating of artificial stone 32, and on the other side with simple boards 33. These ceiling units, Figs. 12 and 1.3, are then placed on the projecting parts of the laths 27, Figs. 9 to 13.

I claim 1. A knockdown building comprising in its construction a floor-frame and a ceilingframe, building units arranged in pairs, one behind the other between said floor and ceilin g frames and connected by transverse cross bars at desired distances apart, each of said units consisting of a wooden frame having a foraniinous metal sheet secured thereto and provided with-a coating of artificial stone,

and means for connecting said units together in the erilgewise relation.

2. A knockdown building comprising in its construction a series of beams each one of which has secured to one end an angle-iron provided at one end with projections, and rafters resting at one end on said beams, said rafters being arranged in pairs secured together transversely by screws and provided with angle-irons engaging the projections on the angle-irons on one or the other of said beams.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J OHANN ARADI.

WVitnesses:

LOUIS VANDORN, CHARLES -E. BALOZO.