Improvements in Walls and Wall-plates or Slabs.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Walls and Wall-plates or Slabs.
1, THEODOR KUPPER, of 20, Mittelstreet, Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia,
Germany, Foreman, 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 present invention relates to improvements in walls and wall-plates or slabs,
and the object of my improvement is to provide a wall made of plates or slabs, each
of which is connected with all surrounding slabs and supported by the same by
means of oblique crossed strutting rafters, thus producing a wall, that is run
through by means of a crossed channel-net continuously passing through the entire
wall and filled up with connecting medium.
This invention can be performed in two different manners, the one of which is
represented by Figures 1 and 2, and the other is shown by Figures 3 and 4 in the
accompanying drawings.
The wall, represented by Figs. 1 and 2 in side-view and cross-section, is constructed
of plates, all the four corners of which plates are passed through by oblique channels
running from both bed-joints to both side-joints. In order that those oblique
channels are continued into the surrounding slabs, the distances of the ends of the
channels from the corners of the plates are the following: The oblique channels
coming from the upper bed-joint, as well as those coming from the under bed-joint
terminate simultaneously in the middle of the side-joints: the distance of the end
of the channel in the bed-joint from the corners of the slab always is the fourth part
of the length of the slab.
The wall represented in Figs. 3 and 4 shows another arrangement of the oblique
channels, which run from the corners of the inferior bed-joint to the middle of the
upper bed-joint.
Both walls answer to the conditions of my present invention and they are the sole
ways in which the object of my invention can be performed.
In the wall represented by Figs. 1 and 2, each slab, if the channel-net is filled up
with hardened connecting medium, plaster, cement or the like, is secured to all
surrounding slabs by means of eight oblique rods made of such material; and that
the neighbouring upper and inferior plates are connected each with the said slab
by means of a single oblique rod, and the two slabs at the side-joints of the said
slab are secured to the latter by means of two oblique crossed rods. Those rods
support at both sides and from below like rafters the slab.
In the other wall there are indeed only six connecting rods and the rafters
support the inferior corners of each slab. But the two walls are passed through by
an oblique, crossed continuous channel-net and each plate is supported by the
surrounding slabs by means of oblique rafters, and is connected to the other slabs
by means of obliquely directed straight connecting-rods.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-

page_text: crossed and continuous channel-net filled up with connecting medium, essentially
as set forth.
2) A wall plate or slab, provided at its four corners with oblique channels
extending each from the horizontal bed-sides to the middle of the vertical sides of
the slab, the ends of the channels in the bed-sides being distant from the corners
about the fourth part of the length of the slab, essentially as set forth and for the
purpose specified.
3) A wall-plate or slab provided with two oblique channels each of which running
from an inferior corner to the middle of the superior bed-side essentially as described
and for the purpose specified.
D
1000
JOSEPH MÖHLIG,
Agent for Applicant; Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.