Concrete cooling tower

Claim 1

A COOOLING TOWER COMPRISING A FRAME STRUCTURE FORMED OF A PLURALITY OF HORIZONTALLY SPACED VERTICAL COLUMNS OF PREFABRICATED CONCRETE ELEMENTS STACKED IN LAYERS, EACH OF THE CONCRETE ELEMENTS BEING MONOLITHIC AND HAVING A VERTICAL COLUMN-FORMING PORTION WITH AT LEAST ONE HORIZONTAL BEAM EXTENDING AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE COLUMNFORMING PORTION AND WITHIN THE SAME PLANE AT THE COLUMNFORMING PORTION, THE HORIZONTAL BEAM BEING OF A LENGTH SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO ONE HALF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ADJACENT HORIZONTALLY SPACED VERTICAL COLUMNS AND HAVING ITS END CONNECTED TO THE END OF A HORIZONTAL BEAM OF AN ADJACENT SAID VERTICAL COLUMN, THE ELEMENTS IN ONE LAYER OF ONE COLUMN BEING AT THE SAME LEVEL AS CORRESPONDING ELEMENTS AT THE CORRESPONDING LAYER IN OTHER COLUMNS AND HAVING THEIR HORIZONTAL PORTIONS PARALLEL TO THE HORIZONTAL PORTIONS OF ELEMENTS IN THE SAME LAYER IN OTHER COLUMNS, ALL THE HORIZONTAL BEAM PARTS OF THE ELEMENTS IN ON LAYER EXTENDING IN A DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE DIRECTION IN WHICH ALL OF THE HORIZONTAL BEAM PARTS OF THE CONCRETE ELEMENTS IN LAYERS JUST ABOVE AND JUST BELOW SAID ONE LAYER EXTEND, THE VERTICAL COLUMN-FORMING PORTIONS OF SAID ELEMENTS BEING OF A LENGTH ABOUT EQUAL TO THE DISTANCE BETWEEN CORRESPONDING REGIONS OF THE HORIZONTAL PORTIONS OF VERTICALLY ADJACENT LAYERS.