US1484398A - Sheet-metal building structure - Google Patents

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Feb. 19 1924. 1,484,398

B. KERBER SHEET METAL B UELDING STRUCTURE Filed Dec. 24. 1921 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 B. KERBER SHEET METAL BUILDING STRUCTURE Feb. 19 192 4 Filed Dec 24 1 921 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 "Feb. 19, 1924. 1,484,398

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrlca.

BENJAMIN Kansas, or

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SHEET-METAL BUILDING STRUCTURE Application tiled December 24, 1921. Serial No. 524,722

.- provide a novel means for efi'ecting a 010- sure between the wall and roof-sheets; to provide a construction whereby an interior wall and ceiling lining may readily be secured in place, and to also provide a novel arrangement of opening in the wall whereby the doors may be hung on one end wall and one side wall so they may meet at one corner of the building whereby to provide a corner opening for entrance to and exit from the building.

With the above and other objects in view the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein,-

Fig. '1 shows the complete building structure' in perspective, in which certain of the features of the invention are embodied.

Fig. 2 illustrates an enlarged vertical sectional detail through the horizontal doorhead, the roof-sheets and the interposed devices which unite the same,-the section being taken through the roof-sheets on a line between the corrugations in the latter.

Fig. 3 shows another vertical section through the wall and roof-sheets and also through the cave channel and shows the vertical lugs on the cave channel entering and closing the corrugation in the roof-sheet.

Fig. 4 illustrates a sectional erspective detail through the upper ends of the wallsheets, the cave-channel and the roof-sheets to show the joint between the wall and roof.

Fig. 5 shows a horizontal sectional detail through the door-jamb and wall-sheets and also shows the lining on the interior of the wall-sheets.

Fig. 6 ilustrates another vertical section through the wall and roof-sheets and also through the wall and ceiling lining.

Fig. 7 shows a vertical sectional detail through the sill and lower ends of the wallsheets at the floor and foundation, and

Fig. 8 illustrates an end edge view of one of the wall or roof sheets.

In constructing the building I first prepare a foundation of any suitable material but preferably of concrete 10, (as shown in Fig. 7) and around this foundation I provide a sill-plate or angle-bar 11, which latter has an outwardly-projecting horizontal flange 12, and a vertical flange 13.

The walls and the roof are both formed of a series of plates or sections. Each of the wall plates or sections, as best shown in Figs. 4 and 8, has a central corrugation 14 and a flat portion 15 at each side of the central corrugation. ldach flat portion of the plate or section has a portion of another corrugation formed along its longitudinal edge such portional corrugations comprising one complete inclined wall 16, a complete flat crosswall 17, and a flange 18, which latter is inclined in a direction reversed to the inclination of the wall 16, as clearly shown in both Fig. 4 and Fig. 8 of the drawing.

The object in thus forming a portion of a corrugation on each of the longitudinal edges of the wall and roof sheets is, that two sheets may be placed side-by-side so that the portion of the corrugation on the edge of the one sheet will receive the similar portion of the corrugation on the next sheet so that the two portions will lap with their flat crosswalls 17 in contact, as clearly shown in Figs.

4 and 5, and bolts 19, may then be passed through the lapped cross-walls 17 so as to rigidly secure the two plates together.

It will thus be seen that when the two sheets, whether they be wall orroof-sheets,

are bolted together the flange 18 on the edge of one sheet will seat against the inclined wall 16 on the other sheet and the two interfitting corrugation portions will form a weather-proof joint.

Moreover, it will be understood that in erectin a wall or when placing the roofsheets 1n position, one sheet may simply be placed at the side of another with the portional corrugations on the two edges lapped, and then bolted together, instead of requiring the entire wall or entire roof structures to be locked together before putting them in place, as is necessary when the edge of one sheet is required to telescopically engage the edge of the next sheet.

Another feature which is common to both the wall and the roof sheets is that at one end of each flat portion 15 between the central and edge corrugations has a laterallyturned flange. The flange on the wall sheet being designated 20, while that on the roofsheets is designated 21, merely for the ,purpose of distinguishing the roof flange from the wall flange on the assembled views of the drawing.

The lower ends of the wall plates are seated on the horizontal flange 12 of the sill or angle plate 11 and the plates are erected with the corrugations projecting inwardly and seating against the vertical flange 13 of the sill plate so that the same bolt 22, which unites the lower ends of the-lapped corrugations may be utilized to engage the sill flange 13 and hold the fiat cross-walls 17, of the corrugations seated against said sill flange, as shown in Fig. 7 of the drawlach wall flange 20, has a perforation 23 therein for a purpose that will presently be ex lained.

11 top of the wall plates I provide a novel construction of eave channel 24, which is shown in Figs. 234 and 6 of the drawings.

This eave channel has a down-turned flange 25, at the inner side of the wall and extends over the top edge of the wall-plates and has a down-turned flange 26 at its outer edge. This cave-channel straddles the top edge of the wall with the flange 25, depending at the inner side and the flange 26 depending at the outer side of the wall sheets.

The connecting portion of the eave-channel between the flanges 25 and 26 seats on the top edge of the wall sheets and also seats on the flanges 20 of those sheets, as best shown in Figs. 4 and 6 of the drawings and said connecting portion of the eave channel has a series of perforations 27, which latter re ister with the perforations 23, in the wall-flanges 20.

It will also be understood that the cave channel by seating on the upper edge of the wall and the wall flanges 20, will close the upper ends of the vertical corrugations in the wall plates and make a comparatively closed joint at the top of the wall.-

Another and novel feature in the wall structure resides in the use by me of a lug strip 28 on top of the eave channel which serves a useful purpose as will now be explained.

The lug strip 28 is best illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawing wherein it is shown seated on top of the cave channel with an upturned flange 29 along its inner side and with a series of vertical lugs 30 extending upwardly from said flange at spaced apart intervals. The spacing of these lugs 30 is such that they will register with the corrugations 31 in the roof-sheets and by proa. see

jecting u wardly into said corrugations, as shown in ig. 3, effect a closure of the latter from the inner side of the wall.

also register with and project up into the.

corrugations 31 of the roof sheets and effeet a closure of those corrugations from theouter side of the wall.

The lug-strip 28, is rigidly secured down on the upper side of the cave channel by means of bolts 33.

The roof-sheets may have their upper ends secured to a ridge structure in any desired manner, butthey incline downwardly from the ridge and have their lower ends rest ing upon the lug-strip 28 and also upon the connecting portion of theeave channel so that bolts 34: may be passed through the roof plates then through the perforations 27 and 23 inthe cave channel and the wall flanges respectively which will rigidly hold the roof plates down.

The construction of wall hereinbefore described materially facilitates the attachment of an interior lining during or after the building is erected. This lining may consist of wall-board asbestos-board, metal or Wood as preferred and as will now be explained.

On the top edge of the sill flange 13, I seat the lower edge of the lining. 35's0 that the outer face of the lining will seat against the inwardly-projecting corrugations of the wall plates, as shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 of the drawings.

In practice the wall-sheets are of a size that the engaged edge corrugations will be located, say about twenty-four inches apart or from center to, center. The lining 35. will therefore preferably be formed in slabs of a width slightly less than twenty-four inches so they will extend from the corrugations at one edge of a sheet to the corrugation at the opposite edge of the same sheet,the adjacent edges of two lining slabs will thus terminate at opposite sides of the vertical row of bolts 19 which are utilized to secure the corrugation joints, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawing.

By reference to Fig. 5, it will be noted that the bolts 19 have a nut 36 which serves to clamp the flat faces 17 of the corrugations together and that said bolt then is of suflicient length to project between the adjacent edges of the lining slabs and to extend on the inner side of the linings. To rigidl secure the lining slabs in place l provi e a vertical clamping strip 37 on the inner side which is of sufficient width to overlap the edges of the two adjacent slabs and this stri 37, has. perforations through which the b0 t 19 may project so that a sec- 0nd nut 38, may be screwed onto the inner end of the bolts and hold the clamping strip against the inner faces of the slabs.

When a ceiling is to be placed in the buildng I make use of a ceiling channel strip 39, (shown in Fig. 6) which has a downturned flange 40 which is interposed between the inner face of the wall lining and the clamping strip 37 so it may be clamped in place by the same nuts 38, that hold the upper end of the said clamping strip.

The ceiling lining sections 41 have their side edges 42 projecting into the channel strip 39 which securely holds the same as clearly shown in Fig. 6 of the drawing.

As doors must be provided in a building of this kind, and large doors. when the building is to be used as a garage, suitable reinforcements around the door-opening must be provided to produce a rigid and substantial structure.

By reference to Figs. 2 and 3 these structures will now be explained.

On the interior of the wall and adjacent to the upper horizontal edge thereof I provide a channel-bar 43, which is bolted at frequent intervals against the inner side of wall-plates and extends all the way over the door-opening.

Directly what I term a over the door-opening I provide horizontal door-head 44, which comprises a wooden block or blocks covered with sheet-metal and having an'outwardly and downwardly-inclined flange 45, whereby to shed water and throw it outwardly.

The door-head 44, is rigidly secured in a horizontal position against the outer side of the wall over the door-opening, by means of long bolts 46 which extend through the head and also through the channel-bar 43, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 ofthe drawing.

The metal covering of the door-head has 2. depending horizontal flange 47 which forms a jamb-stop for the horizontal top rail of the door 48, as shown in Fig. 2.

For additional stiflening purposes I also employ. a stay-plate 49, which is interposed between the door-head and the channelbar 43. I

Beneath the door-head and at each side of the door-opening I provide a vertica door-jamb 50,. as shown in Fig. 5. This jamb comprises an interior filler of wooden blocks or bars which are also covered with sheet-metal and which have a vertical groove 51, down the inner side in which the end flange 18 of the wall plate is engaged and then clamped in place by means of horizontal bolts 52 which extend all the way through from the outer to the inner side of the jamb.

The metal covering on the jamb 50, has

a vertical flange 53 formed thereon which also serves as a sto and a weather strip down the vertical e ge of the door.

1 the corrugations,

,It frequently happens in the erection of garage buildings that the outlet from the garage is into a very narrow alley in which suflicient turn cannot be made to either enter or leave the garage. In some instances this difliculty can be met by locating the garage on the property so as to be set back from the line of the alley, :but in many instances the lot is too short to permit the garage to be located back of the alley line but there is ample width to the lot.

To meet this emergency I have found that my channel-bar wall structure is such that I can form a door opening directly in the corner of the building because the reinforcing channel bars 43, can be placed on the inner side of one end'wall 54, and also on one side wall 55 of the building and the meeting ends of the bars will sufliciently' sup ort the roof at the-corner 56.

T is arrangement of corner door-opening is shown in Fig. 1, of the drawing,--the wall and roof structure being the same as has been hereinbefore described in connection with Fi s. 2-3 and4 of the drawings. In the sai Fig. 1, it will be noted that one door 57 is hinged at 58, to one end wall 54, while the other door 59, is hinged at 60 to one side wall 55, so that when the doors are swung shut they will meet on the vertical corner 56.

By means of this arrangement of corneropening entrance to and exit from the garage through a very narrow alley can be readily eflected.

Having described my invention, I claim,-

1. In a sheet-metal building the combination with a corrugated wall structure with lateral flanges at the upper edge between the corrugations, of a corrugated roof having flat portions between its corrugations which flat portions extend over the lateral flanges on the upper edges of the wall structure and fastening devices passin through the flat portions of the roof an the said lateral flanges of the wall structure for holding the roof down. I

2. In a sheet-metal building the combination with a corrugated wall structure with lateral flanges at the upper edge between ing flat portions between which flat portions extend over the lateral flanges on the upper edges of the wall structure, a in strip'above the wall structure said strip aving a row of spaced apartinner lugs and a row of spaced apart outer lugs to enter the corrugations in the roof structure and fastening devices passing through the fiat portions of the roof and engagmg the lateral flanges on the wall structure to hold the roof down with its corrugstions registering with the said lugs.

3.. a sheet-metal building the combina- .z wall structure with tion with a corrug of a corrugated roof hav- I its corrugations said strip having upwardly-extending outer lateral flanges at the upper ed e between the corrugations, of a corrugate roof having flat portions between its corrugations which flat portions extend over the lateral flanges on the upper edges of the wall structure, a lug strip above the wall structure lugs at the other side,the inner lugs being higher than the outer lugs and said in- .jecting upwardly therefrom, corrugated roof sheets extending over the lug-strip and cave channel with the corrugations receiving the lugs of the lug-strip and fasteni'ngs for holding the roof-sheets down on the lugstrip and cave-channel.

5. Ina sheet metal building the combination with a series of sheet-metal wall sections, of a channel-bar secured along the inner side and upper ends of said wall-sections, at door-head on the outer side of the wall and secured against the latter and to the channehbar, an cave-channel seated on top of the door head, a lug-strip on the eavechannel and corrugated roof-sections pronests jecting over the lug-strip and the eave-channel. V

6. In a sheet-metal building the combination with a series of sheet-metal wall sections, of a vertical door-jamb having a groove in its inner side,the wall-section adjacent to the jamb having a flange on its edge which enters said gamb-groove and-a an eave-ehannel seated on the wall structureand of. sufficient width to straddle the corrugations and the lateral edge-flanges on the wall structure, a lug-strip seated on the cave-channel and having a series of acedapart lugs to enter the corrugations 1n the roof structure, fastening means extending through the lug-strip and passing down through the cave channel in vertical planes between the corrugations on the wall structure and other fastening devices extending through the roof structure the cave-channel and the flanges on the wall end.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

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