Retaining-wall for embankments

Application filed May 25,

To dll whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Charles Paet, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and 5 State of New York, have, in vented a certain new and useful Improvement in RetainingWalls for Embankments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of walls, 10 or abutments adapted for use in conjunction with embankments.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a form of wall designed to be constructed for retaining the edge of an em15 bankment of earth, gravel and the like when • required to accomplish certain classes of construction work, and which is especially adaptable of being built of cement, in order to save the expense, time and labor incident 20 to constructing such Avails of stone. The invention consists essentially of providing a series of pockets with orificed walls on one face of an upwardly disposed wall member with a base adapted to be embedded at the 25 edge of an embankment of earth, gravel and the like so that the wall will be anchored in the edge part of the embankment by its. material being received in the pockets as well as in the orifices.of the walls of the pockets.

30. A further object of the invention is to provide a retaining wall adapted to be constructed. so as to combine great strength and durability, and which is susceptible of being made in any suitable length and height.

A practical embodiment of the invention .- is represented in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, 40 the said invention being more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims , at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a fragmentary view, partly broken away, showing a detail 45 section of one form of retaining Avail embodying my .invention taken on the line l—I of Fig. 2 as well as showing the manner of its use for holding the edge of an embankment.

Fig. 2 is a_; fragmentary view, partly 50 broken aAvay, showing a front elevation of the wall.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view, partly broken away, showing a rear elevation of the wall, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view, partly

1918. Serial No. 236,484.

broken aivay, showing a perspective of part of my improved wall.

The retaining wall has a longitudinally disposed base, as 10, which may be of any desired width, length and thickness, and pro- 60 trading. downwardly from the underside lengthwise of the edges of the base may be two flanges, as 11 and 12. The base 10 with the flanges 11 and 12 are partially, or entirely embedded in the. earth or gravel at the 65 foot or edge of an embankment, as 13, when the Avail is erected, in order to properly anchor the base.

To support the required portion of the edge of the embankment I provide a wall 14 70 Avhich may be disposed vertically, or on an incline toward the embankment. This wall is arranged to extend preferably upwardly from the top of the base 10 over the flange 11, and this Avail may be of a length similar 75 to the length of the base, besides being of any desired height and thickness. The upper edge of the Avail may terminate with a flange or ledge 15 which overhangs one face of the wall m opposed relation to the em- 80 bankment, and this flange is. a great deal narrower in width than the base 10. The wall proper may also, as occasion requires, be reinforced in strength by constructing it Avith superimposed lengthwise protruding 85 portions, as 16 and 17, of different thicknesses, the thickest portion being adjacent to the base 10, as shown.

Projecting at spaced intervals from the face of the wall 14 as well as being disposed 90 in opposition to the embankment are a number of web or extended members 18. These web members may be of any suitable number, besides being of any desired thicknesses and widths so as to protrude the required dis- 95 tances from the Avail 14. The AA⁷eb members 18 are of heights whereby they extend vertically from the top of the base 10 to the overhanging ledge 15, and all of these members are constructed so that their free edges 100 correspondingly taper from the edge of the base 10 which is over the flange 12 to the narrow ledge 15.

Extending lengthwise of the wall 14 between the web members 18, projecting pref- 105 erably from the upper terminals of the protrading portions 16 and 17 of the wall are rows of longitudinally disposed ledges IS and 20. The ledges of the ioav 19 are in alinement, while the ledges of the row 20 are 110

1,349,166 also in alinefflent. These row§ of ledges are constructed so as to be preferably spaced equal distances between, the. base 10 and the top ledge 15 of the wall, and all of the 5 ledges may be of sizes so that their free edges terminate at the free edges of the vertical web members 18. By constructing the web members of the ledges to coact in this manner, recesses or pockets, as 21, are pro10 vided on one face of the wall 14 for. receiving the earth or gravel of the embankment, and serving to anchor the wall to the embankment on the underside of the free edge, of each of the ledges 19 and 20 is a depend15 ing flange 21^a.

The depending · flanges 21^a may be of widths so as to hang downwardly suitable distances from the ledges to form each ledge in somewhat a hook-shape for serving to 20 effectually grip.the material of the embankment. In each of the ledges 19 and 20 may be one or a number of spaced openings, as 22, 23, 24, and in each of the web members 18, between the base 10 and the ledge 19 may 25 be an opening 25, while in each web member between the ledges 19 and 20 may also be an opening 26. The openings 22, 23-, 24, 25, 26 may be of any desired shapes and ^; sizes, though I prefer to make these open30 ing substantially square in shape . and of sufficient sizes to allow the material of the embankment to pass therethrough when the material is delivered into the pockets 21 of the wall 14. The wall will thereby be 35^; effectually anchored in the embankment by making the pockets with orificed walls as well as by providing, the flanges 21^a on the ledges 19 and 20.

, In the foregoing description, I have em40 bodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the principle, or secrificing 45 any of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope thereof.