US876605A - Fireproof wall and partition. - Google Patents

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No. 876,605. PATENTED JAN.14, 1908. J. D. SULLIVAN.

PIREPROOF WALL AND PARTITION.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. so. 1907.

- rnnTED STATES PATENT oEEroE.

' Jenni).v SULLIVAN, or SALT LAKEGITY, UTAH.

rmnrnoor. WALL AND PARTITION.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 190s.

Application tiled pril 30. 1907. Serial No. 371.034.

To all whom tt'mcy concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN D. SULLIVAN, of Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake anchv State of Utah, 'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fireproof Walls and Partitions; and I do hereby de* clare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act descri tionfof the invention, such as will enable otli appertains to make and use the same.

he primary object of this invention istov s construct the blocks or sections composing a ireproof wall or partition as to render shows a corner block Ior section.

unnecessary the use of laths, studding, or o'rounds of any kind; an'd which may be used lor either exterior or interior purposes. And

'a further object is to provide a iire roof wall or partition which will occupy ut little s ace; which will re'quire but one coat of p aster; which will be sound-proof; which will form conduits for pipes and wires; and to which the trim or finish may be directly secured. l A

The invention will be hereinafter fully set particularlypointed 'out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, with parts in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is-a transverse sectional view on line 2-2', Fig. l. Figs. 3 and 4 are opposite edge views, with portions of adjoining blocks lbroken away. Fig. 5 1s a longitudinal sectional view on line 5 5, Fig'. Fig. .6 Fig. 7 is a vertical longitudinal sectional View of a portion of a completed Wall or partition.

Referring to the drawings, l designates a block in its entirety. It is formed with spaced apart' sides 2, a central Vconnectin web 3 and-two endI connecting webs 4, all being integral. The intervening hollow spaces 5 may be employed as conduits for pipes and wires, and being dead-air spaces serve as sound deadeners. In each endof the block, between the `sides 2, is formed a roove 6, the

. faces of the webs 4 being slight y concaved.

The opposite ends of these grooves are slightly l'ared or b elled, as 'at 7 and the opposite ends of the web 3 are formed with recasses 8. Theblock is preferably composed of fibrous gypsum hard .wallplaster`r composit-ion, and in each-side 21is a'fmetalli'c vre-inforcemerlt 9,'preferabl wire-mesh.. 1

In budding up'f'aj wa l or partition; the series of blocks composing each row are ar'- ranged end tof the contiguous grooves 6 ers skilled in the Vart to which itv forming a space or chamber which is de- Signed to be cned with a plastic binder, para.

erably fibrous plaster, the binder being poured in-at the top. In this way the several Ablocks composing each row are secured togetheri'ii; The blocks of the next or super,- posed row are arranged to break-joint with the blocks ol the lower row, the webs 3 being thereby caused to coincide withr the plaster filled spaces or chambers. The. recesses in the lower ends-of webs 3 are trowel-lled 'of'rny invention will be apparent. The connecting webs 3 and 4 formvsolid piers extendstudding or .grounds unnecessary," since the i trirn orf/finish may be nailed directly to the web-formed piers. Not| only is the wall soundproof, but the spaces 5 may be utilized as conduits. Each block may be made of' any desired thickness and of any suitable" length .and height, and under ordinary condi# er at topand l ing from ioor to ceiling, rendering the use`o tions a wall thus formed occupies only about one-half the space of an lordlnarylath,l and plaster wall.' .I

I claim as Inyvinvention: 1. A rwallerpartition composed of superposed rows' of blocks, each block having g `spaced-apart sides and webs connecting sai sides at their centers and ends, vertical grooves being formed in each end of the block and recesses in theupper and lower ends of the central webs, and plasticfbindin material in said grooves and recesses, the en webs of the blocks of one row bein located in line with the central webs-of the locks of the next adjacent'row, the spaces between said sides and the central and end webs forming conduits.

2. ,A wall `or partition composed 'of superposed rows of blocks, each block havin spaced-apart sides and webs'connecting sai `sides at their centers and ends, vertical fg'ooves being formed in each end of the ock and recesses in the upper"'and lower ends of the' central Webs, said grooves lat,4

l 4. The herein-described block for walls or partitions composed of reproof material and formed with spaced-apart sides, each i side having metallic reinforcing therein, such l block having Webs connecting said sides at or their ends being belled, and plastic binding material in seid grooves, the belled ends thereof and said recesses, the end webs of the blocks of one row being located in line with the central webs of the blocks of the next adjacent row, the spaces between said sides and the central and end webs forming conduits.

3. The wall block herein described consisting of two spaced-a art sides and webs orined therein. l formed integral with sai sides at the centers In testimony whereof, I have signed this and ends thereof, long narrow conduits beingr I specification in the presence of two subscribforrned between said sides and closed at thel ing witnesses. ends by said webs," grooves being formed be i JOHN D. SULLIVAN. tween said sides at the ends thereof and re I Witnesses:

R. W. GUEKOW, W. BUnNEsTnn.

i ends,v the latter web havingre'cesses in its op- Fosite ends, and the end webs having grooves i cesses in the opposite ends ofl the central web. l

i neer its ends and at e point intermediate said y

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