Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – With lifting or handling means for primary component or... – Construction or component having means to engage hand or...
Patent
1991-01-22
1993-02-02
Scherbel, David A.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
With lifting or handling means for primary component or...
Construction or component having means to engage hand or...
52 792, 52 7913, 52396, 52461, 52747, E04B 910
Patent
active
051828863
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to building elements or panels, methods of building a wall or like structure therefrom, and to joint elements for placement between building or wall elements or panels to provide a seal therebetween. An example of the application of the invention is to prefabricated wall panels and methods of constructing and assembling same with joint means between them. The invention is applicable to industrial and commercial and residential buildings, free-standing walls such as garden walls, boundary walls, barrier walls or any other kind of wall whether for residential industrial or commercial purposes, and to other structures.
The construction of buildings using sectional or prefabricated components has been undertaken for many years throughout the world. In the United Kingdom, buildings employing prefabricated panels and structures have consistently failed, for various reasons, to meet the requirements made of them. As a result, there is now considerable resistance to their continued use. The reasons for these problems include ineffective sealing between adjacent edges of the panel, poor thermal insulation provided by the panel and a lack of choice of decorative finishes for the panel and an inability to match traditional materials such as brick, stone and timber in this regard.
The conventional way of constructing prefabricated building panels involves the use of reinforced concrete which is cast in moulds.
There is disclosed in GB 1169022 (Coal Industry) a method of building a wall or like structure, as defined in the pre-characterising portion of claim 1 hereof, together with a disclosure of a wall panel or element as defined in the pre-characterising portion of claim 9 hereof. The method and panel or element disclosed in this prior specification involves the use of an external jig in which building bricks are built up around a wire mesh having vertical and horizontal wires, the horizontal wires of the mesh passing between horizontal courses of the bricks, and the vertical wires passing vertically through the bricks, at least some of the bricks being slotted to receive the vertical wires. The assembled wall panel or element can then be lifted by means of a support tube extending through loops formed at the upper ends of the wires. The external jig is used for transport purposes, but is then detached when the wall panel or element is to be assembled with others, on site.
This prior proposal has certain useful features, but suffers from the disadvantage that the method of construction involving the embedding of wire mesh within the brick work, leads to undue complication and expense.
There is disclosed in WO 88/03204 (Loper) a prefabricated panel for building wall construction, in which a rigid supporting frame is covered on one face by masonry or ceramic cladding. The cladding is held to the supporting frame by a composite fastener system comprising individual supports extending outwardly from the frame so as to underlie the cladding to carry the dead weight thereof.
Resilient means adhesively secures the cladding to the support frame to resist live loading thereof, such as arises from the influence of wind around buildings. This prior proposal may well be suitable for mounting and supporting relatively lightweight and high area and high cost ceramic cladding, but provides little assistance with regard to the prefabrication of walls in which building elements such as bricks and the like need to be used and supported in a simple direct way applicable to factory construction using relatively unskilled labour.
There is disclosed in FIG. 10 of FRl, 310, 670 a joint assembly as defined in the pre-characterising portion of claim 13 hereof. In the joint assembly of this French patent there is provided a joint element at each side of the gap between the edges of the building elements. However, the only structure bridging across the gap between theses adjacent edges is the cap structure which is external to the building elements and is merely physically located by engagement of tooth elements with th
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Bateman Colin N.
Carter William G.
Clark Peter L.
National Research Development Corporation
Nguyen Kien
Scherbel David A.
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