Patent GB-765092-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to wall panelling and to partition walls and screens
Inventor: STEPHEN EDWARD JOHN
IPC: E04B2/78
Filed: 1952-08-21
Abstract: 765,092. Partition walls; wall panelling. AULAND, Ltd., [formerly AULAND BUILDING SERVICES, Ltd.]. Nov. 23, 1953 [Aug. 21, 1952], No. 21056/52. Classes 20(3) and 20(4) The invention relates to wall panelling, or to partition walls, or screens, for dividing space in buildings to afford rooms or cubicles therein. Edging members 22, 22a of double-top-hat section used for a partition wall, Fig. 1, each have shallow recesses 23 to receive the edges of panels 25, the partition being located on an inverted channel member 26 screwed to the floor 30. Bosses 27, or alternatively a rib (not shown) on the member 26 extend into the central recess 24 of the lower edge member 22. The channel member 26 may have splayed sides, alternatively fillets may be secured to the floor in the angle between it and the vertical side walls 31 of the member 26. The locating member 26 may be of double-top-hat section according to Fig. 2, the double web 36 being inserted into the recess 34 of the edging member 32. Skirting plates 38 are secured by spring lugs 40 to the side webs 37 of the locating member 26. A glass pane 45, Figs. 1, 3, having marginal beading 43, is received along its lower edge within the central recess of the upper edging member 22a, its upper edge being accommodated in the recess 44 of an inverted edging member 42 in a ceiling assembly, Fig. 3. The side edges of the pane 45 (not shown) are inserted in the recesses of corresponding edging members for adjacent panel elements, during assembly. Provision may be made for removing, or replacing, a glass plate by securing its side edges by elongated "G" section clamps (not shown), which are screwed to the central webs of the edging members and resiliently engage the side edges of the pane. Inverted edging members as shown in the ceiling assembly, Fig. 3, receive the upper edges of the panels, horizontal edging members 54, secured by bolts 59 to the central webs of the inverted edging member 42 bracing the structure and supporting ceiling boards 60, or 61 as shown. Vertical edging members of adjacent panels, or door posts, are joined by an intermediate standard which is received by the outwardly presented recess of adjacent edging members whose marginal edges at each side of the standard may be covered with a channel section plate. Standards of "T," or "+," section may also be used. When the panels are not aligned the standard is curved, a wedge piece being permanently, or detachably, applied to fill the gap between the edging members on the outer side of the partition. Another form of intermediate standard consists of two edging members the crowns of their central arches being secured together. Fillets close their outwardly directed recesses which can be used to accommodate service wires &c. This type of standard can be secured to a wooden door post on one side and to the edging member of two panels on the other side. Three, or four, edging members may be secured each to one surface of a rectangular standard at the junction of partition walls, the panels of which have their corresponding side edges inserted in' the edging members. In a modified form of ceiling assembly, Fig. 7, a section capping member 78 is placed over an inverted edging member 42, supporting a glass pane 45, as in Fig. 3, resilient H-section members 82, secured to both sides of the capping member serving to secure ceiling boards 85.