US1319113A - Building-brick - Google Patents

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D. E. REAGAN.

uunms BRICK. APPLICATION FILED SEPTJI. I916.

Patented Oct. 21,1919

DANIEL E. REAGAN, 0F COLUMBUS; OHIO,

BUILDING-BRICK.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct, 21, 1919.

Application filed September 11, 1916. Serial No. 119,498.

To all whom it"may' concem:

Be it known that I, DANIEL E. REAGAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Columbus, in thecounty of Franklin'and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Building- Bricks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

,My invention relates to an improvement in building bricks, the object being to provide bricks of standard length and thickness but varying in width, the bricks of greater width than standard, being multiple or multiples in width of said standard so that the larger and smaller bricks may be used in a wall;

A further object is torprovide the bricks with holes and grooves the latter being approximately semi-circular and located at the edges midway the ends so as to aline with the grooves in adjacent bricks when assembled and also to break the mortar-joints both vertically and horizontally and thus prevent the passage of moisture through the walls at the joints.

With these objects in View my invention consists in the details of construction as will be more fully explained and pointed out in the claims. i

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in plan of an eight inch wall showing parts of two courses of brick; Fig. 2 is a View in elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a plan view of a twelve inch wall; Fig. is an end view of the same, Fig. 5 is a view of a twenty-four inch wall, the black lines showing the top course and the dotted lines the course next below and Figs. 6 and 7 are views of the bricks.

1 represents bricks of standard size and 2 are bricks of the standard length and thickness but aproximately twice the width, so that two bricks of standard size with motor joint between them, will be equal in size to one multi-or double brick 2. Each standard size brick is provided with a plurality, preferably, two circular holes 3 locatedv equi-distant from the ends, and 'extending through the brick and also with a the distance between them and the sides and ends of the brick. Each is also provided on one or both side edges with centrally located semi-circular grooves 4, so that whenlaid in a wall next to a single or double brick, its groove 4 will coincide with the groove in the adjacent brick and form dead air spaces which intercept moisture and prevent it from penetrating both horizontal and vertical joints.

In building say an eight inch wall, as shown in Fig.1, the bottom course may be wholly of the double brick and the course next above of standard ize bricks 1 at tlie corners and multi-bricks 2 intermediate the corners thus producing a perfect bond, with the holes and grooves in the top course registering with the holes and grooves in the course next below, so that each and every through joint has a break or dead air space that will intercept any moisture that may seep through the mortar.

In a twelve inch wall be composed of one layer of multi-brick with one of standard size at the end or ends, and a layer of standard size arranged to break joints with the bricks 2 as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. With this arrangement the grooves in the standard brick are located opposite the joint between the brick of the other series, while the other holes 3 and grooves 4 aline with the hole and grooves in the bricks in the course next below, and this is true also of the twenty-four inch wall shown in Fig. 5. This latter width of wall may be of two widths of multi-brick and two ofstandard size, laid of course to breakjoints with the course next below. The holes aline through out the height of the wall and may be used for wiring and piping the building or merely-for dead air spaces which are nonconductors of heat or cold, 1

each course would The multi-bricks may be faced on two sides so as to dispense with plastering of the inside walls. and by using them in connection with the standard size bricks as shown, I dispense with the necessity of unsightly header courses which all building codes require at every siXt-h course.

By providing the bricks with holes, the weight thereof is considerably reduced, and two bricks combined in one can be laid as quickly as one; cost less than two; less to transport, and take less mortar, and as each brick, both standard size and double, presents a face the size of a standard brick there is no change in appearance of a wall composed of these improved brick, from a wall of the ordinary brick, except that header courses may be omitted if desired.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As anew article of manufacture, a building brick having a plurality of equal size holes arranged in quin-cunx form through the same, the outer holes of the series being equi-distant from the ends and sides, and approximately twice thedistance from each other aS they are from the ends and sides,

and the center hole equi-distant from the outer holes, and a groove at each side midway the ends of the buck, the said grooves being approximately the diameter of the holes in the brick and shaped to conform approximately twice the distance from each I other as they are from the ends and sides, the center hole being equi-distant from the outer holes, and a groove at each side midway the ends of the brick, the said grooves being approximately the diameter of the holes in the brick and conforming in shape with the latter. and a second brick of approxi-- mately half the size of the first mentioned brick and provided with two holes equidistant from the ends and sides and approxi mately twice the distance from each other as they are from said ends and sides and a groove at one side edge midway the ends whereby when the tw bricks are placed side by side the groove in the smaller brick will register with the groove in the large brick and the holes therein register with the holes in the bricks above and below the same. In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' DANIEL E. REAGAN. iVitnesses:

F. J. S AFFER, J. R. AYRES.

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