Apparatus for Connecting or Fastening Together Building Stones or Slabs for the Formation of Walls.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, and Dec., 1852-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Connecting or Fastening Together Building Stones or
Slabs for the Formation of Walls.
I, GUSTAV LEICHT, Building Contractor, of Herderstrasse 30, Düsseldorf,
Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a special device for securing together stones, plates or slabs
in such a manner, that, when the rectangular blocks or plates are laid upright upon
each other in two or more courses, in the manner of brick walls, they form solid and
durable walls.
For this purpose, I employ specially formed metallic clamps, one or more, of
which are applied the top, bottom and side of each block, or wherever the block has
to be connected with adjoining blocks.
Each of the said special clamps consists of two ordinary rectangular shaped
clamps placed back to back and out of line with each other; the clear width of
each clamp being equal to the horizontal width of the block or plate, one side or
half serving to grip or clamp the edge of one stone, while the other side serves to
clamp or grip the adjoining stone. The two sides of each clamp are made of one
piece, or rigidy fastened together, so as to form practically one piece.
Instead of a double clamp, I may employ a triple or quadruple clamp, in which
the different parts are placed alternately upward and downward or right and left,
and so that their backs form one straight line situated in and along the joint between
the two blocks or plates.
Dated this 1st day of March 1892.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Connecting or Fastening Together Building Stones or
Slabs for the Formation of Walls.
I, GUSTAV LEICHT, Building Contractor, of Herderstrasse 30, Düsseldorf,
Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My invention relates to a simple device for securing together stoves, plates or
slabs in such a manner, that, when the rectangular blocks or plates are laid upright
upon each other in two or more courses, in the inanner of brick walls and secured
together, they form solid and durable walls.
For this purpose, I employ specially formed metallic clamps, one or more of
which are applied to the top, bottom and side of each block, or wherever the block
has to be connected with adjoining blocks.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a partial front view of a wall embodying my invention, while
Figs. 2 to 8 show various forms of connecting pieces or clamps.
A connecting piece consists of two or more clamps a made of one piece and
placed on opposite sides (alternately upward and partly downward), so as to grip or
hold simultaneously two contiguous stones.
The clamps may be applied to several or to all four sides of a stone or plate.
At the corners of the walls the connecting pieces are bent in such a manner, that
one connecting piece holds a stone of the longitudinal wall and a stone of the

page_text: transverse wall (Figs. 7, 8 and 9). At the ends of the walls, simple clamps may be
used, which are fixed to a wooden beam or other suitable support.
Figs. 2 and 3 represent clamps for holding two stones on their faces.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 represent a clamp for holding two stones on two faces, and also
at the end.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is -
A device for joining or securing together plates or building stones, which consists
of connecting pieces having flaps or clamps in various directions, substantially as
.described and illustrated by the drawings.
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GUSTAV LEICHT,
By Fairfax & Wetter,
433, Strand, London, Agents.
GUSTAV LEICHT,
By Fairfax & Wetter,
433, Strand, London, Agents.