Exterior wall
AssigneeNational Gypsum Company
InventorJoseph W. Schneller
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Abstract
A building exterior wall having an exterior surface of a concrete-stucco formed in place over panels which have a polystyrene bead board core and thin concrete facings reinforced with a fiberglass open-weave mesh.
Claims10
An exterior wall comprising an exterior surface of a thin, continuous concrete-stucco formed in place over a base consisting essentially of laminated, concrete-faced, plastic-foam-core panels, said panels consisting essentially of a relatively thick plastic foam core with substantially identical thin, fabric reinforced concrete facings of about 1/64 inch thickness on each face of the panel, said panels being affixed relative to a building framework.
An exterior wall as defined in claim 8 wherein said concrete-stucco exterior surface is about 1/32 to 1/4 inch thick and comprises portland cement, sand and a latex emulsion.
An exterior wall as defined in claim 9 wherein said polystyrene bead board core is about 1/2 inch to 3 inches thick, said concrete facings of said panel are about 0.016 inch thick and said fiberglass open-weave mesh is about 0.012 inch thick.
An exterior wall comprising an exterior surface of a thin, continuous concrete-stucco formed in place over a base consisting essentially of laminated concrete-faced, plastic-foam-core panels, said panels consisting essentially of a relatively thick plastic foam core with a thin, fabric-reinforced concrete facing of about 1/64 inch thickness on at least one face of said panel, said formed-in-place stucco exterior surface being adhered to said thin, fabric-reinforced concrete facing on one face of said panel, said panels being affixed relative to a building framework.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.