US857628A

US857628A - Building-wall construction.

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Publication number: US857628A
Application number: US28246505A
Authority: US
Inventors: Theodore Jonas
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-10-12
Filing date: 1905-10-12
Publication date: 1907-06-25
Anticipated expiration: 1924-06-25

Description

No. 857,628. 4 PATENTED mm 25, 1901.

, T. JONAS.

BUILDING WALL CONSTRUCTION.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented June- 25, 1907.

Application filed Octob r 12,1906. Sarial'No. 282,465.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE Joms, a citizen of the United States, residing at Republic,in the county of Greene and State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Building- Wall Constructions, of which the following is a speci: fication. 1 1 I This invention involves novel building wall construction, ,the essential featuresgf the invention residing in the provision of con: struction of this t )e intended to resist to the greatest possible e ree the penetration of dampness, frost or t e like and at the same time the invention is designed to secure'a poses desired. I

The invention also involves a peculiar. form of bond-block, the construction and advantages of which will appear fully in the or a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for efiecting the result, reference appended description.

is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1. is a plan view showing a building wall structure in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the bond-blocks,

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The invention utilizes the rinciple of the air space'in the building w b which the non-penetrable qualities thereo are greatly subserved. In carr 'ng out the invention and referring to the rawings, the characters A and B designate spaced tiers of building blocks 1, said tiers being connected by means of a bond-block 2 of peculiar form. The spaced relation-of the tiers A and B of blocks 1. provides the air spaces 3 between said tiers and this air space will necessarily obviate likelihood of penetration of dampness, frost or the like to a great degree as has been noted in the practical use of wallconstruction of, this type. Opposite end portions of adja'- cent blocks 1 of each-tier A and B are formed with seats or recesses 4 so as to receive interlocking heads 5 which roject from op osite sides cf the bond-bloc s2. jjIt is pre erred that the recesses or seats 4 of the blocks 1 be of angular contour or many sided, and the block.

heads 5 ofthe bond-blocks are designed to snugl fifit in pairs of adjacent seats 4 to interlock t erewith. In the construction shown, the heads 5 are of somewhat dove-tail form and the seats 4 so receive the heads of the bond-blocks as to establish a ositive interlocking connection between t e blocks 1 of each tier A and B in the manner which will be readily seen. The bodies of the blocks 2 are arranged between the tiers of blocks 1 and space the tiers apart accurately to form the air s ace 3. 4

The b ocks 2 speaking, equal to the thickness of one or may be of a length, vertically more of the tiers ofsuperposed blocks 1 as is brought out more clearly in the modification.

in Fig. 3, but it will be understood that this feature is nonessential in the broad contemlation of the invention. The seats 4 of the locks 1 extend from the inner sides of the blocks and terminate some distance from the outer sides so that adjacent ends of the several blocks 1 of each tier A and B are in contact as indicated at 6.

It will be observed that opposite ends of the body portion of the block 2 project beyond the sides of the extensions or heads 5,

or in other words, the block is longer than the diametrical extent of the heads 5 at the points of jointure of the latter with the body of the block. The above construction forms shoulders 2 at opposite ends of the block 2, projecting from opposite sides of each of the heads 5, and these shoulders abut with the inner sides of the blocks 1 of the spaced tiers A and B. The formation of the shoulders 2 not only increases the resisting quality of the blocks 2, so far as regards inward pressure on the tiers A and B, but when the blocks 2 are in ,osition and mortared to the tiers A and B, t e shouldered portions 2* increase the bonding action of the blocks in an obvious way.

In the constructionbefore described, the blocks 1 may be made of plastic material of a suitable nature and molded in amannersimilar to the manner of forming the majority of building blocks now in use.

It is tobe noted that each building block 1 -is provided at its inner side only with a single dove-tailed tenon 10 the angular faces of which coincide with and constitute a portion of the end boundaries of the block, the remaining portion 6 of said'end boundaries extending erpendicular to the outer side of the t will be seen also that each bond block 5 is composed of a body portion providing at each end two rectangular shoulders converging walls joining the diverging walls at an angle and meeting at the perpendicular abutting portions 6 of the building blocks. Hence by this arrangement it-is not necessary, in building a wall, to fit any block into its mating block with a downward movement, to effect the binding action, but taking Fig. 1 for instance it will be seen that the first bond block to the left may be slid sidewise into the two building blocks at the extreme left that are shown broken away, then the next two building blocks fitted in with a sidewise or sliding movement against the opposite side of the bond block and so on around the wall. This has an advantage, obviously, and is ac- 'complished by the precise arrangement shown and set forth in the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In wall construction, the combination of inner and outer walls spaced apart, each wall being of like structure and composed of blocks laid in courses, the vertical joints between opposing blocks alining transversely, each block having a terminal abutting surface at its outer corner and a V-shaped recess at its inner corner, whereby adjacent blocks butt at their outer corners and have mortises formed between their ends at the inner cbr ners, said mortises having their walls outthence inwardly converged for the remainder of theirlength, and spacing bond blocks tying the walls and spaced apart and having opposite lateral extensions to come between the wall blocks, and end tenons fitted in the aforesaid mortises, said tenons 'having their walls outwardly diverged, thence inwardly converged, the said bond blocks breaking joint witlrthe wall blocks, the wall blocks and the spacing bond blocks being laid in courses in the formation of the wall.

In testimony whereof I afi'ix my signature 5 in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE JONAS. Witnesses: 5 WALTER A. Coos, i W. L. OBRYENT.

wardly diverged for a part of their length,