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PIERS.
SECTION 22. All piers shall be built of good bard,
well burnt brick laid in cement mortar, except that piers
fronting on a street may be built of stone. Isolated
brick 'piers shall not exoaed in height ten times their least
dimenBionv Stone posts or piers for the support of ,posts
or columns shall not be used in the interior of any building.
No marble or granite column shall be used for the support of a
wall over one story high.
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SECTION 33* Every building hereafter erected or altered
to be used as a ,theatre with a seating capacity of over'1,000,
as a sobool, jail, public station, hospital, asylum, institution
for the oars or treatment of persons, the height of which exceeds
two stores, as a hotel or lodging house the height of which
exceeds four stories, and every other building over ",five stories
or seventy feet in height shall be of fireproof construption;
that is to say:
They shall be constructed with walld of brick,
stone, Portland cement concrete, iron or steel, in which wood
beams or lintels shall not be placed, and in which the floors
and roofs shall be constructed with rolled wrought iron or steel
beams, with the spaces between the beams filled with brick,
hollow tile, hard-burnt clay, pores terra cotta, Portland cement
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concrete, plain or reinforced with metal, or any combination
of these, or the entire construction may be of reinforced Port-
land 'cement concrete. In each and all oases the strength and
metp.od of construction shall conform to the requirements of
this Code. No woodwork or other inflammable material shall be
used in any of the partitions, furringB or ceilings in any such
fireproof buildings, excepting, however, that when the height
of the building does not exceed eight stories nor more than
one hundred feet,, the doors and winjows and their frames and trimiV,
the casings, the interior finish when filled solidly at the back
with fireproof material, and the floor boards and sleepers
directly thereunder, may be of wood, but the space between the
sleepers shall be"-solidly filled with fireproof materials ex-
tending up to the' under-side of the floor boards. When the height
of a fireproof building "oeeds eight stories, or more than one
hundred reet, the floor surface shall be of stone, cement, tiling
or similar incombustible material, and all outside window frames
and sash shall be of metal, excepting those on street fronts.
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SKELETON'*PCONSTRUOTHD BUILDHIGS.
SEOTION 36. Where columns are used to support iron or
steel girders carrying inclosure walls, the said columns
shall be of rolled steel, and on their exposed surfaces be
constructed to resist fire by having a easing of brick-
work not less than 1/1'inches in thi knees on the outside
surfaces, rot lose than two inches In thickness on the inside
surfaces beyond greatest projection, and, all bonded into the
briolmork,,,,of the inclosure walls. Between the said Inolosing
briokwoir'k and the columns, there shall be a space of not lose
than two inches, which space shall be filled solidly *1-
liquid
cement grout as the courses of brickwork are laid. Cast iron
columns shall not be used in any building over six stories
high and protected by eight inches brick and two inches grout
cutaAdo and four inches,'AAaide.
The exposed sides of the wrought-iron or steel
girders shall be similarly covered with brickwork not less than
four inches in thickness on the outer surfaces and tied and
bonded, but the extreme outer edge of the flanges of beams
or plates or angles connected to the beams may project to within
two inches of the outside surface of the brick easing. The inside
surfaces of girders may be similarly covered with brickwork,
or if projecting Inside of the wall they shall be protected by
terra cotta, oonoret'e or other fireproof material not les# than
two inches in thic"s. Girders fcr the support of the inclosure
walls shall be placed at the floor line of each story.
INUASIVG INTERIOR COLUMNS.
SECTION 38. All cast-iron, wrought-iron or rolledooteel
columns, including the lugs and brackets on same, used for
vertical supports in the interior of any fireproof building,
or used to support any fireproof floor shall be entirely pro-
teoted with not less than two inches of hard-burned brickwork,
terra cotta, concrete or other fireproof material, without any
air spare next to the metal, securely applied, but no plaster of
pario. or lime mortar shall be used for this purpose, nor shall
any plaster whether or not on metal lathing, be considered a
part of the covering required.
No single blodk or unit of insulating material
used for column covering shall have a greater,,vortioal dimension
than six inches when placed in position, not shall the shells
and webs of hollow tile or terra cotta blocks be less than one
inch in thickness, and these blocks shall be laid up with Port-
land cement mortar, and the said blo#*,o, be','ouitablV tied or
anchored together.
The extreme outer edges of lu#a, brackets and
similar supporting metal may project to within seven-oighths of
an Inch of the ourfaoe of the fireproofing. The fireproof ooveritig
shall start upon the fireproof floors and continuously extend to
the fireproof ceilings or under-side of girders above, , and be
entirely Independent of any ornamental base or capita].
No pipes, wirers or conduit of any kind shall be
incased in the fireproofing surrounding any column, girder or
1�/'�7beam of steel or iron, but shall be placed outside of such fire-
proofing. 1,
Where the fireproof protection of columns to
exposed to damage from the trucking or handling of merohandiso�
such fireproof protection shall be jacketed on the outside of a
height not less than four feet from tzie floor with sheet metal,
or with vertical strips of hardwood.-.
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HOT-A.TR FURNAORS.
SJOT11011 45. All brl,(;k hok,-air :rurnaoea oball have two
oovatm, vilth nn air space or at least four Inchea between tbalm;
tea iinner, movor of tba hi apt-mir bamber abmll be o4thor a,, biriok
arob or two ooursaa wr,, brick laid
on Ala rm1zed iron Or
oupported an Iron "Ibarej t7 is 'the top off, t1w
furnarui, almll be marlm of briek or matal stipparted rym Iron bgrs,
amd t3o oonstruoted as to be perfeetly tip
ghts and shall Tm not
jest� Van twelve inolion below any ombuatible oeiling or ifl oor
beam
,a. The wimlle, of the false ear almll be ball't hallow in the
following manT.,iorl One Inner arml ot.'Jo vn&lls,'; eaob illour inobes
In thi emso projP,)erly banded tog
,,o.,wV*rs with an/441,,T& spao/o 'of Yint
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esm than thres indhos between tkiem,.. Fa nacem as ell bo buIlt at
least twelve inotims frant all �womdwork.
A1,1 portibl.,in 1dart-6
laftlf")t two feet fromm arly Waled or oombustible partition or coiling#
and such partitioruu emnd oeiling ar ark all be properly protootAM by
a metal abield when the dr'jLjt&noe Lifi 1"so ttian three foot. Wood
f loorm, under all portable ftmnmoma alumill Im proteoted 'by tbrago
ooixi�ia os of briokworkp, Prell laid In mortimr, on F,,alvallized Zbeet,
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irom" h a xiiiddlio emarse "to be laid cromovise$ %nd with Ventilating
ep"*a o within or between the bricks of immid voidClIa aomtef*
4, iiaa, P, brickwork, shall, extend, at least, two feet bey6h,,d tho', f1xrmoo
F 'he asli Pan./,
The'oold-sir boxwe axui plp0 of ll*1 a bo -4 it
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furmeas shrxll "be made of metal, ri,d07P1 r ather inamustitle"
M-Aterial. Thecae oold-ftir boxfmo area pipau stmll be at' solUts17
free from, dampere or o)tkxier abstruetione# unleas part of the eir-
mil%tion is ttxke.Y,,,i from the 111,141ift, mit in a return Syst-amp In, wbiohi
oftile ehmpnro ira, t1x,,:A outmide supply, will he permitted.
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,*u, virmm or duota outering
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REGISTERS.
SE+C"TIO 46. xtegisters
,rr�yr ��w boated over a 'brick fuxnaeze shall
be supported by a brick shaft guilt up from the cove*of the hot-
air o bey*; said abaft shall be lined with a metal pipe, and
all good beams shall: be trimmed array not less than four inobe-s
from it. ire 'a register is plaoed in any woodwork ire e n*4t a
with metal pipe or duot, the end of said pipe or duot shall be
flanged over toe woodwork under and around it, and shall be safely
and properly conneoted to the register, and the register box
shall be oovered wit.. asbestos as provided for hot-air pipes
herein-
All register boxes shall be made of tin plate
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or galvanized iron with a flange on the top to fit the groove
in the open frame, the register to rest upon the same; there
shall be an open spaoe of two inches on all aides of the register
}pox, ,extending from the underside of the border to and through
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the oeiling below. The said opening shall be fitted with a ti 'it
tin or galvanized iron oas ng, the upper end of whioh shall be
turned under the frame.
When a register box is plaoed in the floor over
s Po table f'urnaoe, the open apace on all sides of tWlj register
box shall not be lens than three] inches,.
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When only one register is conneoted with a
furnaoe, said register shall have no valve or slats, and ire
two or more registers are oonneeted with a,furnace, at least one
of them shall have no valve &r slats.
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HOT*4IR FLUES, PIPES AND VENT DUOTS.
SECTION 47. Horizontal hot-air pipes shall be plaood
six (6/' inches below the floor beam or ceiling; if the floor
beams or ceiling are plastered and protected by metal shield,
then the distance shall not be less tnan three inches.
All pipes or conductors to be used for the
transmission of warm or heated air for beating purposes within,
between, or along tne walls, ceilings or floors of any building
shall be constructed as follows:
When a double pipe is used, It shall be constructed
of two sheets of tin or otner suitable metal securely fastened to-
gether so as to leave an open air space of not less than one-half
inch between said sheets of metal; Hot-air pipes in closets shall
be double with a space of one inch between them. 4
Hot-air pipes may be constructed of I.C. Bright
tin,,, or galvanized iron, and shall have approved looked-jolpt
or slip joint riveted. These pipes shall be covered with two
thicknesses ten �10j pound asbestos paper, pasted on and thoroughly
secured before being placed in position, and none of these pipes
shall be covered wits plaster or other material until same have
been inspected and approved by the Building Inspector, or one
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of his Deputies.
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SKYLIGHTS, FLOOR LIGHTS AND ROOFS.
SECTION 68. The term "skylight" shall be taY40A to mean.
and include flat, hipped, lantern, monitor, turret, dome,
vertical or pitched saw-toothed constructions, and all. other
Ggvers placed over openings on roofs for the admission of litht.
All skylights placed on or in any building shall have the frames
constructed of metal, and except as otherwise provided, in this
Code, over elevators, stairs, dumbwaiter shafts and theater
stage roofs, shall be glazed with wire glass not less than one-
quarter inch thick, or with glass protected with wire screens
4` not leas than No.12 galvanized wire, not more than one-inoh
mesh and securely fastened six inches above the glass.
All openings in floors for transmission of
light to floors below shall be covered over with floor lights
constructed of metal frames acid bars, the glass in no case to be
less than tiree-quarters of an inch in thickness. If any glass
in tree same measure more than sixteen square inches, the glass
shall be provided with strong wire netting either within or under
the same.
Every building, and the tops and sides of every
dormer window thereon, within the fire limits, shall be covered
and roofed with tile, slate, tin, gravel composition, or such
other incombustible roofing as the Building Inspector may 0
authorize. Nothing in this section shall be construed as pro-
hibiting the repairing of any shingle roof, providing such
repairs do not exceed twenty-five per oent of the cost of a new
roof.
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FIREPROOPOSHUTTERS AND DOORS
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SECTION 67. Every building, execpt private dwelling-
houses and oburones, shall have fireproof doors, blinds or
abutters on every exterior window and opening above the first
story thereof, excepting on the front openings of buildings
fronting on streets which are more than fifty (50) feet in
width, or where no other buildings are within fifty (50) feet
of such openings. These door openings shall be Of standard
construction, that is, constructed of pine or other soft wood
of two or three tiiicknesses (depending on size) of matched boards,
olinoh-railed at right angles, or placed diagonally with taoh
other , and securely covered with tin, on both sides and edges,
with folded lapped joints, the nails for fastening the same
being driven inside the lap; the hinges and bolts, or latches,
shall be secured or fastened to the door or shutter by wrought-
iron bolts passing through the door or shutter, and secured by
nuts and Washers on the opposite side after the same has been
covered with tin, and such doors or shutter shall be hung upon
a wrought-iron frame, independent of the woodwork of the windows
and doors, or to wrought-iron hinges securely fastened in the
masonry. All windows and other openings, excepting doors on
the exposed side, as mentioned above, shall be metal frames ?'
and sash, the Bash to be glazed with wire glass not less than
one-quarter of an inch in thickness, and each pane measuring
not more than seven hundred and twenty (720) square inohea,
The construction of these frames to be approved by tne Building
Ins,peo for. METAL WINDOW PR AMES AND SASH AND WIRED GLASS.
On any opening where the window frame and #ash
are of metal, and the sash are glazed with wire glass not less
than one-quarter (114) of an inch in thickness, and each pane
measuring not more than seven hundred and twenty (720) square
inches, the same shall be deemed an equivalent of and a substitute
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for fireproof shutters.
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SHUTTERS AR RANGED TO BE OPENED FROM THE OUTSIDE.
All abutters opening on fire escapes, and
at least one row, vertically, in every three vertioa ows
on the frost window openings above the first story of any
buil.din, , shall be uo arranged that they can be readily opened
from the outside by firemen.
ROLLING METAL SHUTTERS.
No rolling iron or steel shutters shall be
hereafter placed above the first story of any building, ancl:.w
when used on tn.e first story they shall he counter-balanced
so that said rolling shutters may be ;readily opened by the fire-
men.
FIREPROOF 'SHUTTERS ADD DOOR S TO BE CLOSED AT NIGHT,
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All occupants of buildings shall close all exterior
and interior fireproof shutters, doors and blinds at the close
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114ur by co t fy that the .1)ov ,: rir4d •s`or g�,IzAg Ordinance a
duly prese�,ited �,kknd &Y,4 adopted by the Board ff' Comm„µrun's •s
of the City of Fort, Worth at a, session of acrid Board bold Thursday
December 19th,791,2.
APPROVED
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