US2465603A - Partition - Google Patents

Description

' March 29, 1949.

J. A. PoTcHl-:N 2,465,603

PARTITION Filed April 9, 1947 flush with the outer faces of the bars. When the panels and bars have been assembled and joined together as illustrated in Fig. 6, it has been found by test, that torsional and other` stresses to which the wall or partition may be subjected, do not damage the panels or the joints, and do not cause crazing. In practice, these panels and bars may be supported at their upper and lower ends by iiXed beams, and it has been found in practice that the joints between the bars and the panels adequately support the wall or partition between the beams.

The tapered portions at the sides of the grooves are resilient land when forced into the channels in the bars, become wedged against the ared sides of the channels in the bars, to form an eflicient and tight-fitting joint. When the contiguous corners of the veneer at the longitudinal edge of the panel are in contact, the compressi'bility and resiliency of the Veneer aid in making the joint secure.

In the modication illustrated in Fig. 7, a T- shaped panel 35 is used to form corners between partitions or walls at right angles to each other. This T-shaped panel -comprises straight inner laminations of wood veneer 36 and an outer straight lamination 3l of metal bonded thereto, angularly bent corner laminations of Wood veneer 38 with outer laminations 39 of metal bonded thereto. The three longitudinal margins of the panel 38, are grooved and bent in the same manner as previously described and each is adapted to be joined to a bar I6 having a flared channel for receiving the panel, in the manner previously described.

The invention is not to be understood as limited to the details described, since these may be modified within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A composite wall construction, comprising: a panel including interior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal adhesively bondedk together, at least one edge of the panel having its central portion cut away so as to leave some veneer and the lamination of metal at each side of the groove, the remaining portions of the laminations at the sides of the groove being bent to form a cross-sectionally tapered margin, and a bar having a ared channel with sides between which the tapered margin is wedgingly confined.

2. A composite wall construction, comprising: a panel including interior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal adhesively bonded together, at least one edge of the panel having its central portion cut away so as to leave some veneer and the lamination of metal at each side oi the groove, the remaining portions of the laminations at the sides of the groove being bent to form a cross-sectionally tapered margin with the contiguous corners of the veneer substantially in contact along the longitudinal edge of the panel, and a bar having a flared channel with correspondingly tapered sides between which the tapered margin is wedgingly coni-ined.

3. A composite wall construction, comprising: a panel including interior laminations of wood ve.- neer and outer laminations of metal adhesively bonded together, at least one edge of the panel confined.

4. A composite wall construction, comprising: panels each including interior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal adhesively bonded together and having oppositely disposed longitudinal edges with the central portions of the veneer being cut away longitudinally at said edges so as to leave some Veneer and the lamination of metal at the sides of the cut-aways, the remaining portions at the sides of the cutaways being bent to form cross-sectionally tapered longitudinal margins, and bars having ilared channels therein With sides between which the tapered margins of the panels are wedgingly coniined.

5. A composite wall construction, comprising: panels each including interior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal adhesively bonded together and having Oppositely disposed longitudinal edges with the central portions of the veneer being cut away longitudinally at said edges so as to leave some veneer and the lamination of metal at the sides of the eutaways, the remaining portions at the side-s of the cutaways being bent to form cross-sectionally tapered longitudinal margins with contiguous corners in contact at the edges of the panels, and bars having flared channels therein with sides between which the tapered margins of the panels are wedgingly confined.

' 6. That improvement in constructing wall-s which include panels having interior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal and bars having cross-sectionally flared channels for the edges of the panels which comprises:

cutting longitudinal grooves in the edges of they panels so as to leave some of the veneer and the lamination of metal at each side of the groove, bending the portions at the sides of the groove to form cross-sectionally tapered longitudinal margins and assembling the panels and the bars with the tapered margins of the panels in the flared channels in the bars.

7. That improvement in constructing walls which include panels having interior laminations of wood veneer and outer laminations of metal and bars having cross-sectionally flared channels for the edges of the panels which comprises: cutting grooves in the edges of the panels so as to leave some veneer and the lamination of metal at each side of the groove, bending the portions at the sides of the groove to form cross-sectionally tapered longitudinal margins and assembling the panels, `inserting tape between the bars and tapered margins of the panels.

JOSEPH REFERENCES crrnn The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Olsen Nov. 17, 1942 A. POTCHEN.

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