US723426A - Combination building. - Google Patents

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No. 723,426. PA'IBNTBD MAR. 24, 190s.

I..'B.VALK.

COMBINATION BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, 1901.

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No. 723,426. PATENTBD MAR. 24, 1903.A

L. B. VALK. COMBINATION BUILDING.

AAPPLIOATION FILED NOV. 4, 1901.

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PATENTED MAR. 24, 1903.

L. B. VALK.

COMBINATION BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, 1901.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAURENCE BOLTON VALK, OF1 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINATION BUILDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,426, dated March 24, 1903.

I Application iiled November 4, i901. Serial No. 81,045. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LAURENCE BOLTON VALK, ofthe city of Los Angeles, in the cou nty of Los Angeles, in the State of California, haveY invented a certain new or Improved Combination Edifice Adapted for-Use for Ecclesiastical orv Religious and Scholastic Purposes, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description or specication, reference being had to the annexed sheets of drawings and to the letters marked thereon.

My said invention, which relates to a new or improved combination of structures to be used for ecclesiastical or religious purposes and for educational purposes, consists of an edifice which is seated and divided into aislesV and with or without transept-s after the manner of a church and which constitutes the nave or front part of the edifice, and another edifice which constitutes the apse or rear part of the building, the two edifices being cornbined into one structure andvhaving between them a platform extending completely across the edifice which can be used for the several offices or practices of ecclesiastical or religious ceremonial as well as for the Vperformance of any religious rites upon, while when not in such use the said platform is adaptedfor being used as one fioor, upon which are arranged the tables or desks and seats for' speaker or teachers and others who address an audience or attend to or carry on educational dnties in respect of the pupils or studentswho occupy the class-rooms, which are arranged in circular form, occupyingthe circular part of the apse or segmentally-formed rear part of the edifice, and these class-rooms so arranged constitute an essential feature of my present invention. The platform is pro vided with a rood-screen and sliding panels, as hereinafter described.

It is to be understood that the arrangement hereinbefore described may be applied both to a ground-floor and to a basement, as well as to galleries, of an edific econstructed and arranged according to this inventionand that this invention includes all such modifications or variations as are or may be comprised within the limits or scope of my present invention.

Upon the annexed drawings, Figure l is a ground plan of an edifice constructed accord- Fig. 2 is a gallery plan of the'sai'd edifice. gitudinal section of the same.

Upon the annexed drawings the nave of the building'is marked A, and the rear chamber or apse is marked B, while the parts marked B B' are transepts; but these constitute no essential part of my invention and maybe dispensed with. Across the space where the nave A and the apse B meet there is a platform C, and, this platform C is com- Inon to both the nave A and apse B, and this platform C, in combination with the nave A and apse B and extending completely across the edifice, is an essential feature of my present invention. The purpose for placing the platform C in the position where the nave A and apse B meet is twofold-namely, to enable a speaker when addressing an audience in` the nave A to; place himself in such position on the platform C that he can address an audience in thenave A Wholly by placing himself in such position as to correspond to -the position marked E' in Figs. 1 and 2 and when requiring to address an'audience in the apse B only he can locate himself on that part of the platform C nearer to and facing the audience inthe apse B on the opposite side ofthe rood-screen, (marked D.)

rlhe segmental'part of the apse B is constructed with several class-rooms E E E, &c., which are arranged in a radial relationship to each other and so that they all focus toward the speaker on the apse focus position of the platform C,so that not only is the speakers voice distinctly heard in all the classrooms E El E, but the occupants of any or all ot' the class-rooms can equally behold the speaker. This arrangement or construction of the class-rooms constitutes an essential feature of my present invention.

Another essential feature of my present invention consists in constructing the roodscreen D with vertically-sliding panels F F between the columns, so that these panels may be kept closed when either the nave A or the apse B are to be `used separately, or these panels F F may be Opened when the nave and apse are to be used jointly-that is to say, as a single andience-chamber-and in which case the length of the platform C euables a speaker to occupy a lateral position IOO on the platform A-such, for example, as the position marked Gin Figs. l and 2-and when such position is taken up by a speaker the speakers voice is audible throughout the nave A and apse B thus combined and opened into one or a single chamber.

It is to be understood that the arrangement and construction hereinbefore described and shown upon Fig. l of the drawings is equally applicable to the gallery plan shown at Fig. 2 of the drawings and that the arrangement is such that the entire building may be similax-ly used when the door of each gallery-level is made removable and replaceable.

Having now described the nature of my said invention and the best system, mode, or manner I am at present acquainted with for carrying the same into practical eect, I desire to observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and originahand therefore claim as the invention to ber secured to me by Letters Patent, is as follows:

l. A structure or edifice consisting of the combination of a nave and apse provided with a platform extending completely across the edifice at the junction of the Vnave and apse,

common to both the nave and apse, and the rood-screen, also extending completely across the platform in the manner and for the purposes substantially as hereinbefore described.

2. A structure or edifice consisting of the combination ofa nave and apse provided with a platform extending completely across the edice at the junction of the nave and apse, common to both the nave and apse, and so arranged that in connection with a roodscreen, also extending entirely across the platform, the nave and apse may be used as separated audience-chambers or as one audiencechamber, 'the circular or segmental part of the apse being provided with class-roomsfarranged radially,su bstantially as hereinbefore described.

I n testimony whereof I, the said LAURENCE B. VALK, have hereunto set my hand and seal, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 11th day of October, A. D. 1901.

LAURENCE BOLTON VALK. `[L. 8.]

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