Improved Portable Solid Structures or Blocks for Building Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Portable Solid Structures or Blocks for Building
Purposes.
I, GUSTAV VON BREYMANN-SCHWERTENBERG, of No. 15 Josefsring, Budapest,
in the Kingdom of Hungary, Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to a novel method of construction of supporting walls,
abutments, pillars, piers, arches, roofings and the like, and it consists in building
these various structures, not on the spot or site where they are to be eventually crected,
but at works or in yards specially fitted for the purpose, whence they may, by
suitable means of conveyance, be readily transferred to the proposed place of
erection.
From Figures 1 of the accompanying drawings it will be seen that sustaining
walls are according to this invention composed of any suitable number of
variously shaped pillars a a arranged in juxtaposition. The contact-surfaces of
these pillars are, at convenient parts provided with slots or recesses of any desirable
shape which, for the purpose of joining the pillars, may receive suitable filling
material. Both the pillars themselves and the filling material may be made of
concrete, pisé (loam) or bituminous material. Each individual pillar has a metal stay
stiffening frame a' of suitable shape in section inserted into it, the object of which
is to facilitate and render safe the conveyance of the blocks or structures from
the yard or works to the more or less distant site of their eventual erection ;
especially where the material has not had time to become completely cemented
together; in which cases the said stay frame or skeleton will prove a valuable
mea is both for junction and protection. Walls run up by means of such portable
blocks will prove equally serviceable as main walls, and as supporting walls, abut-
ments, pillars, or piers, to sustain arches or roofs, or to prop up other walls. The
better to strengthen the structure (whatever its particular nature may be) the
filling-in work may be provided with additional metal fittings a² (Figures 18
and 1º).
Where it is desired to span or cover in with an arch or roof an intermediate
space between two walls, raised in this (or any other) manner, arches or roofs, such
as d d, may be similarly made of any of the materials named above and, if
necessary, also provided with metal fittings or stays h, whereby they are rendered
capable of being readily fitted together and carried from place to place, while at
the same time their firmness or resistance are ensured. The metal stays or
skeletons which I propose to insert in the manner stated have for their distinctive
feature that their main ribs, are of tubular shape in section, while the intermediate
ribs may be of any suitable shape (see Fig. 1). The arches or roofs referred to
may be formed of a number of bands or "widths," such as g, Figure 3B, or they
may be composed of parts or members of any desired shape, the metal skeletons
or fittings serving to facilitate the junction of such parts (whatever their configura-
tion), as illustrated in Figures 3 and 3B. To connect the ribs with each other,
and to secure them against lateral displacement, additional metal pieces may be
inserted such as i and k (Figure 1B).
Figures 2, 4, 5 and 6 illustrate diverse modifications of the improved method of
wall construction.
Structures of the nature herein described will prove useful and advantageous,
more particularly in those cases where the space available is insufficient to allow of

page_text: all the labour, which the erection of walls or other brick or masonry work entails,
being performed on the spot; for example, in narrow lanes or alleys, docks or
the like.
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 :-
1. Portable solid structures or building blocks of any convenient shape or
description, the main distinctive feature of which consists in the insertion into the
same of metal. stays, stiffening frames or skeletons such as a¹ a' and h, for the
purpose of facilitating the junction and conveyance from place to place of the said
block, while they are not yet completely hardened or cemented at the joints.
2. For the purpose of joining building blocks or structures, such as are claimed
in the first claim, the employment of filling-in material with internal metal pieces
or stiffeners, such as a², whereby, both the tightness of the joints and the strength
of the complete structure.are ensured.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.