Improvements in the Construction of Walls.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1894-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1894
Improvements in the Construction of Walls.
A communication from ALFRED BRÜCKNER, of 101, Ludwigsallee, Aix-la-Chapelle,
in the Empire of Germany.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Ageut, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows: -
By means of the following process solid and firm walls composed of plates may
be constructed in a very short time.
The plates are preferably provided with grooves upon their vertical edges and
with a central channel or perforation. They are then so placed on each other and
joined together in such a manner that the grooves at the edges coincide with each
other and with the adjacent median channels, so as to form a continuous passage
traversing the whole height of the wall. These passages are filled with a liquid
cement, a part of which also penetrates between the horizontal joints, and effects
the firm connection of the plates.
Dated this 4th day of October 1893
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
London, Nottingham, Liverpool, and Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Walls.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a
communication to me from abroad by Alfred Brückner of 101 Ludwigsallee,
Aix-la-Chapelle, in the Empire of Germany, Merchant, 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 construction of solid and firm walls by means of plates
which are grooved and filletted to fit one into another at their top and bottom
edges, grooved also at their vertical edges and perforated vertically through the
middle said vertical grooves and perforations in conjunction, forming continuous
passages traversing the whole height of the wall which is securely held together
by a liquid cement poured into said passages, or by tubes, bars or rods introduced
into the same and fixed by their ends respectively in the floor and ceiling or top
covering.
In the drawing Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a wall constructed in accordance
with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof drawn to an enlarged
scale and Fig. 3 a horizontal section shewing some of the wall plates placed
together side by side.
a are the wall plates provided at each vertical edge with a groove b and in the
middle with a perforation c. ff, are respectively the grooved and filleted horizontal
edges by which the plates engage in one another. These are so placed in rows one
above another that each middle perforation of a plate comes in line both above and
below with the vertical grooves 6 of two juxtaposed plates thus forming a series of
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-continuous passages traversing the whole height of the wall. These passages are
filled in with a cement or binding material in a fluid state a portion of which also
penetrates between the horizontal joints and effects the firm connection of the
plates. This end may also be attained by employing, instead of cement alone, a
series of metal tubes, bars or rods r which are introduced through the vertical
perforations and grooves forming the passages in the wall, and fixed in any suitable
manner by their ends to the floor and ceiling, liquid cement being poured into the
space between the tubes, bars or rods and the plates. The drawing shews tubes
with pointed and screwed ends fixed in the floor e¹ and ceiling and further
secured by screw nuts or screw collars m at t. Instead of the tubes, bars, or rods
being in one piece as shewn in Fig. 2 they may each be composed of several lengths
connected together by screw sockets m' in the manner of gas or steam tubes as
shewn in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the vertical passages being made to correspond.
With this modified form of construction firm and solid walls of a very large
superficial area may be built as compared with the known construction of walls
-composed of gypsum and other kinds of plates with short pieces of iron inserted
in the vertical passages whereby the plates are only connected one with another
without obtaining the firmness and rigidity which by means of this invention is
given to the whole of the wall.
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. A wall composed of plates each of which is provided with a groove at the
vertical meeting edges, and with a central perforation, so as to form continuous
passages traversing the whole height of the wall, said passages being filled in with
-cement, substantially as described and shewn.
2. In a wall composed of grooved and perforated plates, the application of metal
tubes, bars or rods which are introduced into the vertical passages, fixed in the
.floor and ceiling and filled round with cement, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 4th day of July 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.