Improvements in the Construction of Walls or Partitions for Silos and other Structures.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Walls or Partitions for Silos
and other Structures.
I, PAUL SEE, of 58, Rue Brûle Maison, Lille, France, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention. and in what manner the same is to per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement;-
The walls of silos are subjected to great horizontal thrusts which necessitates
strong and therefore expensive partitions. When ordinary brickwork is em-
ployed, it must be constructed of great thickness.
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Armed cement concrete is comparatively dear, and its construction is very
delicate, long and difficult to carry out. Iron and wood require horizontal ribs
which are subjected to very great vertical pressures by reason of the peculiar
way in which grain exerts its pressure in the receptacles in which it is stored.
According to my invention I construct the partitions of silos by placing solid
or hollow bricks, stones, blocks of cement or plaster or any other material, upon
one another, and I insert in the mortar of the joints lengths of hoop iron placed
flatwise.
According to the section of the cells of the silo, the thickness of the bricks
may vary from that of a brick laid on edge (six centimetres) up to twenty or
thirty centimetres. The hoop iron may be inserted in every joint, or in only some
of the joints, according to the thrust which the partition will have to resist.
The width of the hoop iron may be equal to the total thickness of the partition,
or it may be less. The hoop iron may be perforated with large holes for the
purpose of producing a union of the brickwork by allowing a portion of the sur-
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face of the mortar to unite the superposed bricks together.
armature may be composed, if desired, of pieces of hoop iron connected together
and rivetted or not, leaving the necessary openings for the union of the mortar.
The armature may also be made of iron wire, metallic cloth or netting, metallic
trellis, corrugated, fluted and perforated metal, and chains, or any other
combination.
One mode of carrying this invention into practice is illustrated by the accom-
panying drawing which represents in vertical cross section a partition of a silo,
built of bricks a, in the mortar or cement joints of which there are inserted
lengths of hoop iron c laid flatwise.
The advantage of this construction lies in economy of manufacture, light-
ness and strength.
The strength of this combination of bricks with interposed hoop iron is very
great. Thus work composed of bricks of 6 centimetres thickness, laid flat, with
hoop iron of 30 millimetres in width by one millimetre in thickness with a span
of 250 metres will carry without bending a load of 2000 kilogs. per square metre.
Although the invention is specially intended for silos, partitions or walls con-
structed as herein before described can be applied to other structures which have
to withstand horizontal thrusts, houses for example.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The construction of partitions or walls for silos, houses or other structures of
solid or hollow bricks or blocks with metal hooping or hoop iron introduced or
inserted in the joints, substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 14th day of October 1898.
A
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Chartered Patent Agents.