Abstract: The invention relates to a bitumenised P.V.C. member for incorporation in a cavity wall, including two flanges and a bridging portion, the bridging portion in use spanning the cavity and the flanges being incorporated in respective skins of the cavity wall. The bridging member is prevented from sagging by a support mechanism, in a preferred embodiment a polystyrene block of wedge shape, which abuts the inner skin of the wall.

Abstract: An enclosure that is fire-resistive for a predetermined period of time including a floor having a structural forging which is covered with a glass wool felt. A platform of wooden plates is affixed to the glass wool felt. Lateral expansion joints are positioned at ends of the wooden plates. A wooden skirting board is positioned over the expansion joints and resides against walls of the enclosure. The walls are formed by plywood boards, incombustible boards, and a wooden board formed by planks. A metallic square bar is affixed to the floor and resides at the bottom of the walls. A ceiling is self-supported at the top of the walls.

Abstract: A masonry tie is provided for engaging a masonry veneer to an underlying support wall. The tie includes a rod and a stud engagement member engageable to the rod. The stud engagement member comprises first and second clamp members that clampingly engage a face plate of the stud. A sealing member may be engaged to the rod to sealingly engage the sheathing of the building wall. The sealing member may include a resilient sleeve encircling the rod that expands radially when compressed axially to grip the hole within the sheathing. A further aspect of the invention includes a tool for the installation of the stud engagement member. The invention further includes a method for installing a tie rod as described above in a retrofit application. The method requires the steps of drilling first, second and third coaxial holes through the brick veneer, sheathing and stud face plate, respectively.

Abstract: A reticulated net for use in reinforced concrete construction includes a first plurality of evenly spaced coplanar rods forming an upper rim and a second plurality of evenly spaced coplanar rods forming a lower rim. The rods of the upper and lower rims are laterally offset and connected by triangular waveform connecting rods. Each connected adjacent pair of upper and lower rods, in conjunction with the associated connecting rod, forms an individual truss member. Pursuant to the disclosed method for reinforced concrete construction, to pour a concrete slab, inexpensive permanent concrete forms are disposed within the upper and lower rims of the net. After completion, lower portions of the net remain exposed to facilitate securement of conventional construction elements such as electrical boxes, suspending ceilings, insulation, lighting fixtures, sprinkling systems, partition wall systems, etc.

Abstract: An adjustable wall tie for anchoring and tying a masonry veneer to a structural masonry wall having a combination of component parts which includes a tension anchor element disposed in a mortar joint of a structural masonry block wall interconnected with an adjustable double-end hook secured at both ends in adjacent horizontal mortar joints of courses of a masonry veneer wall.

Abstract: A former for supporting a layer of settable plastics material while it sets into hollow reinforcing ribs bonded to a laid up article of fibre reinforced plastics material during manufacture of said article, comprising a foraminous sheet (5) wherein the region of the sheet between each pair of neighbouring holes (6) is elevated above the plane in which the rims of the holes are disposed by means of one or more upstanding formations (7) joined to one another by a flexible web (10). The upstanding formations have rigidifying patterns (11) formed thereon. An article produced using the former is also disclosed.

Abstract: Bracket destined to be mounted on a wall to extend therefrom and so designed that a separately manufactured material in the form of sheets, such as a glass wool mat, is suspended on the bracket by pressing the material against the bracket and causing the material to be pierced by the bracket. The bracket is made out of bent wire (121, 122).

Abstract: A decorative quoin which is prefabricated and manufactured for application to corners of a building, such as a home or other structure. Cement, or like material in the form of a square, rectangle or other desired geometrical shape is applied about a wire mesh member to form a quoin which is applied to a building corner. In this example, the quoin is fashioned about a right angle mesh and forms a right angle quoin. The mesh is secured to the building, and the decorative quoin is then stuccoed into the structure and about the other stucco structure.

Abstract: The present veneer anchor includes a tie and a plate wherein the lateral movement of the tie relative to the plate is minimized while maintaining a longitudinal sliding motion of the tie relative to the plate. Such lateral movement is minimized by at least two features, including a transverse tie portion with bears against slot-forming edges of the plate and the lateral tie portion which bears against channel-forming inner faces of the plate.

Abstract: A seismic construction system for use in anchored veneer wall constructions which utilizes an inner and an outer wythe includes a veneer anchor member which is attached to the vertical channel of an inner wythe, a tie member which is attached to the veneer anchor member, a clip member which is attached to the tie member and a continuous reinforcing wire secured to the clip member which is embedded in the mortar joint together with the clip member during the construction of the outer wythe. The continuous reinforcing wire, the clip and the tie member, once embedded in the mortar joint, form a rigid connection which provides a high degree of seismic protection yet facilitates rapid and cost saving construciton.

Abstract: A tie assembly is used in a cavity wall having a back-up wall and a brick veneer to secure the brick veneer to the back-up wall. The tie assembly includes a plate that is secured to the back-up wall in a vertical orientation, with an tying portion of the plate projecting towards the brick veneer. A series of tie openings are spaced along the outer edge of the plate to receive a tie bar that projects into the mortar between adjacent brick courses. The tie bar cooperates with the plate to transmit loads oriented in any direction in the plane of the plate between the brick veneer and the back-up wall. This means that shear loadings as well as lateral loads are transmitted between the veneer and the back up wall, so that the two act as a truss structure.

Abstract: A cavity floor is formed by placing on a structural floor bottom a flexible floor mold which has leg forming portions arranged in an array with generally planar portions extending between and surrounding the leg forming portions. A flowable substance is applied over the mold, which subsequently hardens to form an upper floor having a plurality of legs defined by the leg forming portions, with a cavity region therebetween. The planar portions of the flexible floor mold permit adjacent leg forming portions each separately to contact the floor bottom under the weight of the applied flowable substance, even if the floor bottom is uneven.

Abstract: A multi-reinforced construction panel comprising a metal wire mesh or plate folded by a press machine to take the shape of acute V formations, square wave formations, natural wave formations, or trapezoidal formations to work structurally as folded plates. Both side of said folded metal mesh or plates are covered with two metal meshes shaped like two flat panels, to be secured to embodiments by welding. The two flat metal meshes can have different fabric to enforce the framework structurally a light-weight raw material, such as expanded polystyrene or foamed PU, is used to insert onto the back and loin sections of the metal wire skeleton structure produced accordingly, so as to build up an accomplished multi-reinforce construction panel.

Abstract: Method of making an improved sandwich type insulation wall having internal framework formed by channel bars and transverse members bridging two adjacent channel bars. A plurality of channel bars having lateral wings are erected to form the main skeleton; the spaces between the channel bars are filled with pieces of resilient insulating material of proper size and shape by inserting their edges into the channels of the bars to secure them in place; transverse members are positioned at both sides of the insulating material between and connected to the channel bars; wire panels are mounted to cover the whole area of the wall spaced from the insulating board by the wings and transverse members; and both sides of the structure are grouted with a proper thickness of grouting cement or vermiculite.

Abstract: A pre-fabricated consumable spacer extender on locking plate for use with a consumable wall assembly for forming a concrete wall in order to form a column or pilaster. A plate or plates are adapted to engage and lock two or more tie members of the wall assembly in an extended length greater than the normal width of a wall block assembly which is usually one tie member in width.The consumable locking plate includes preformed slots to mate with projections on said tie members wherein when assembled the projections may be distorted to fixedly lock the tie members together creating a rigid strength member to assure proper columns when the assembly is filled with concrete.

Abstract: Electrical power, instrument and communication cables constructed with combustible coverings can provide a pathway by which fire might spread. Cable fires within a room or compartment can be arrested by the construction of a properly designed "fire break" placed periodically along a cable run; and cable fire spread between rooms can be arrested by a properly placed "fire stop". Cable runs generally include a cable tray or raceway to contain the cables. An effective fire barrier, e.g., "fire break" or "fire stop" may be constructed in such a cable tray or raceway by filling a portion of the tray or raceway with a gypsum composition comprising gypsum plaster, an inert filler mixture of diatomaceous earth and lightweight expanded aggregate, and very small amounts of glycerin, boric acid and a corrosion inhibitor such as a boron nitride, boron nitrile or mixture of such boron compounds.

Abstract: A reinforced building component for buildings and like structures having a reinforcement consisting of a number of juxtaposed wires bent in zigzag and an insulation preferably consisting of insulating material that is foamed at the reinforcement. The central parts of the bent wires are located within the building component while the crests of the wires extend outside the two sides of the slab so that clamps are formed as integral parts of the reinforcement wires at both sides of the slab.

Abstract: The specification discloses a prefabricated wall form adapted to be left in place to provide surfaces after filling said form with a filler, for example, cement. The wall form comprises at least a pair of spaced panels interconnected with a tie-wire mesh structure. The panels consist of at least one layer, preferably, at least two layers of different materials. The tie-wire mesh structure is embedded in the panels and extending laterally within each panel and having linking portions from one panel to the other. The panels may be made of cement mixtures. There is also disclosed a method for producing the prefabricated concrete forms. According to the method, at least a pair of panel forming webs of cement mixture are extruded. After feeding tie-wire mesh structures mounted on mould members between the pairs of webs, the whole structure is pressed to embed the tie-wire mesh structures into the webs.

Abstract: A skeleton wall structure providing a form and matrix for building walls (both exterior and interior and including floors and ceilings) for providing a reinforced concrete or similar type structure.

Abstract: A block used for forming reinforced concrete structures employs a number of thin-wall tubes supported in spaced parallel relationship to one another. The upper and lower ends of the tubes are supported by laterally extending sheet metal frames which leave the tube ends open. The upper frame has an upward opening channel shaped cross-section. A pair of wall panels which form the inner and outer wall surfaces of the completed structure sandwich the tubes and extend between the frames. The volume between the panels, exterior of the tubes, is filled with a lightweight thermal insulation. In the completed structure, the tubes are filled with reinforced concrete to form the columns for the structure and interconnected by horizontal reinforced concrete bond beams poured in the upper frame members.