Improvements in Bricks, Tiles, Slabs, or Blocks for use in the Construction of Floors, Roofs, Vaults, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1898-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1898.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
* Improvements in Bricks, Tiles, Slabs, or Blocks for use in the
Construction of Floors, Roofs, Vaults, and the like.
I, CARL WEYLER, of 60, Gartenstrasse, Heilbronn on the Neckar, in the
Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
For the construction of floors, roofs, vaults and the like; bricks, tiles, slabs or
blocks with metal insertions as a means for strengthening them are already well
known. Such metal insertions have however hitherto been mostly specially
prepared for the above named object from new material in very varying forms of
construction so that they were comparatively expensive.
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This invention has for its object an improved brick, tile, slab, or block, with
metallic insertion. It is shown in the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 being a vertical section;
Figure 2, an elevation;
Figure 3, a horizontal section of Figure 1; and
Figure 4, a transverse section of Figure 2.
The block or tile shown in the said drawings has according to the present
invention a metallic insertion formed of the almost worthless and therefore very
cheaply procured stamped waste sheet metal such as is formed for instance in
stamping out discs for making electric or other signal bells such as is shown more
particularly in Figure 2. This stamped out waste sheet metal has in addition to
its cheapness the further and specially important advantage that the substance of
the block B when the latter is being cast or moulded can everywhere pass freely
through the stamped holes a in the insertion A. Further the waste metal inser-
tions which are cast standing up on edge in the blocks or the like act precisely
like latticed girders in which as is well known the upper and under members
are connected with one another by means of ties or connecting pieces. The top
and bottom members of a girder are represented here by the two edges A¹ and A³
of the stamped waste sheet and the struts or ties by the parts a' remaining between
any two adjacent holes a so that the insertion is afterwards secured in the block
extremely firmly and imparts to it great strength even when very thin sheets
are used as the latter when cast in can nowise be displaced laterally. The metal
bars were formerly mostly inserted always in the centre of the block and in this
position had to prevent the bending of the block which of course could not impart
to the block the firmness which a strip of waste metal set on edge in the manner
hereinbefore described can impart.
The block or brick B may easily be rounded off at two diagonally opposite
corners: in. order to facilitate the insertion of the brick or slab between the
supports C.
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page_text: Improvements in Bricks, Tiles, Slabs, or Blocks for use in the
Construction of Floors, Roofs, Vaults, and the like.
I, CARL WEYLER, of 60, Gartenstrasse, Heilbronn on the Neckar, in the
Empire of 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: —
For the construction of floors, roofs, vaults and the like, bricks,. tiles, slabs or
blocks with metal insertions as a means for strengthening them are already well
known. Such metal insertions have however, hitherto been mostly specially
prepared for the above named object from new material in very varying forms of
construction so that they were comparatively expensive.
This invention has for its object an improved brick, tile, slab, or block, with
metallic insertion. It is shown in the drawings accompanying the Provisional
¡Specification-
Figure 1 being a vertical section ;
Figure 2 an elevation;
Figure 3 a horizontal section of Figure 1; and
Figure 4 a transverse section of Figure 2.
The block or tile shown in the said drawings has according to the present
invention a metallic insertion formed of the almost worthless and therefore very
cheaply procured stamped waste sheet metal such as is formed for instance in
stamping out discs for making electric or other signal bells such as is shown more
particularly in Figure 2. This stamped out waste sheet metal has in addition to
its cheapness the further and specially important advantage that the substance of
the block B when the latter is being cast or moulded can everywhere pass freely
through the stamped holes a in the insertion A. Further the waste metal inser-
tions which are cast standing up on edge in the blocks or the like act precisely
like latticed girders in which as is well known the upper and under members
are connected with one another by means of ties or connecting pieces.. The top
and bottom members of a girder are represented here by the two edges A¹ and A²
of the stamped waste sheet and the struts or ties by the parts a¹ remaining between
any two adjacent holes so that the insertion is afterwards secured in the block
extremely firmly and imparts to it great strength even when very thin sheets
are used as the latter when cast it can in nowise be displaced laterally. The metal
bars were formerly mostly inserted always in the centre of the block and in this
position had to prevent the bending of the block which of course could not impart
to the block the firmness which a strip of waste metal set on edge in the manner
hereinbefore described can impart.
The block or brick B may easily be rounded off at two diagonally opposite
corners in order to facilitate the insertion of the brick or slab between the
supports C.
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
1. A fire resisting brick, tile, slab or the like (B) having a strengthening inser-
tion (A) of stamped waste sheet metal with the object of enabling the substance
of the block when in a semi-liquid condition to pass freely through the stamped
holes in the insertion, thus allowing of a thorough combination of the substance
of the block with the insertion, and further of imparting to the insertion the
action of a kind of latticed girder (or girder with. connecting struts or ties) by

page_text: the said insertion being placed up on edge in the block, substantially as herein-
before set forth.
2. A roofing slab or block such as herein before described in which two
diagonally opposite corners are rounded or bevelled off to facilitate the insertion
5 of the slab or block between its supports (C), substantially as set forth
Dated this 21st day of November 1898
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.