Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Inclined top cover
Reexamination Certificate
2001-07-20
2003-05-27
Friedman, Carl D. (Department: 3635)
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Inclined top cover
C052S093100, C052S637000, C052S643000, C052S648100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06568134
ABSTRACT:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
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REFERENCE TO A MICROFICHE
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In building a home, the design plans for what the home will look like are usually prepared by someone having architectural experience and engineering skills. The location where the home is to be erected is suitably prepared first by the establishment of an adequate and properly installed foundation, which is, of course, essential to all types of wood structures or for that matter, to any other structure. The home is erected in accordance with the architectural plans, usually by persons with some carpenter skills and experience.
The average layman usually does not have architectural experience or engineering skills to be able to design a home, and usually does not have the skills of an experienced carpenter to be able to erect a home. A home represents one of the most significant investments that one can make in his or her life time; therefore, it behooves one to assure that the design and erection of the home is professionally done to justify this significant investment.
One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a series of differently designed components, which have the same uniform height and which may be selectively arranged, positioned and aligned in side-by-side relationship for constructing a home.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a series of differently designed components, which are pre-engineered to meet national, state and local building standards in building a home for a life-time of trouble-free structural durability.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a componentized, 3-dimensional, self-aligning, self-engineering building system that will make it possible even for an average layperson, at least for one willing to attempt it, to lay out a design of a home that will meet his/her needs and that will be sufficiently appealing in accordance with his/her wishes as to the appearance the home should have.
A further object of the present invention is to provide separately designed components, in the manner described above, which may be made available through any local building supply company for ready selection by the individual homeowner-to-be or by a home building contractor in accordance with his/her requirements, and which may be easily loaded, carried away and positioned on a previously prepared site foundation without the necessity of using heavy equipment.
A still further object of the present invention is to provide separately designed components, in the manner described above, which may be aligned and connected in side-by-side relationship on a flat surface at the manufacturing site to form sections of a home that may be separately moved to a building site and aligned and assembled with other sections to form a home in accordance with the expectations and wishes of the homeowner-to-be.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention, therefore, is directed to a componentized, three dimensional, self-aligning, self-engineering building system for homes and similar constructions having a plurality of individual, separately installable components of predetermined width and of the same predetermined height, which are selectively arranged, positioned and secured to each other in side-by-side relationship along the perimeter of and also secured on a previously prepared flat supporting surface. Each component defines at least one load-bearing vertical wall section having a lower end adapted to engage and to be secured to the flat supporting surface, and an upper end; and an inclined roof truss section comprising a series of multiple polygon configurated reinforcements connected together in side-by-side relationships having a lower end joined to the upper end of the vertical wall section to form an integrally constructed connected unit, and having an upper end, and which defines on each side thereof a plane of intersection with the roof truss section of an adjacent component.
One of the plurality of components has an inclined roof truss section that is defined by two three-sided planes each intersecting the other along a corresponding side thereof at an angle that is less than 180 degrees, as measured from the upper side of the inclined roof truss section.
Another of the plurality of components has an inclined roof truss section that is defined by two three-sided planes each intersecting the other along a corresponding side thereof at an angle that is greater than 180 degrees, as measured from the upper side of the inclined roof truss section.
In the componentized three dimensional self-aligning, self-engineering building system, each component has multiple ribs, which are connected together in spaced, parallel relationship as a single unit. Each rib defines a vertical member of the load-bearing vertical wall section having a predetermined length and a lower end adapted to engage the flat supporting surface, and an upper end; and an inclined lower chord member having a predetermined length and an inclined upper chord member having a predetermined length and overlying the inclined lower chord member in paired relationship. The inclined lower and inclined upper chord members are connected at their respective lower ends to the upper end of the vertical member, and are connected at their respective upper ends to form part of the series of multiple polygon configurated reinforcements in the aforementioned inclined roof truss section.
One of the components has a left rib and a right rib connected together in parallel relationship. The left rib and the right rib each has a primary vertical member of the load-bearing vertical wall section having a predetermined length and a lower end adapted to engage the flat supporting surface, and an upper end; and a primary inclined lower chord member having a predetermined length and a primary inclined upper chord member having a predetermined length and overlying the primary inclined lower chord member in paired relationship. The primary inclined lower and primary inclined upper chords are connected at their respective lower ends to the upper end of the primary vertical member and are connected at their respective upper ends to form part of the series of multiple polygon configurated reinforcements in the inclined roof truss section. The left rib and the right rib each includes a plurality of secondary inclined lower chord members having predetermined lengths and a plurality of secondary inclined upper chord members having predetermined lengths. Each secondary inclined upper chord member overlies a respective secondary inclined lower chord member in paired relationship. The secondary inclined lower and the secondary inclined upper chord members are connected at their respective lower ends, respectively, to and spaced at intervals along and inclined outwardly from the primary inclined lower chord member and the primary inclined upper chord member, and are connected at their upper ends to form part of the series of multiple polygon configurated reinforcements in the inclined roof truss section. The secondary inclined lower chord members and the secondary inclined upper chord members in the aforementioned paired relationships of the left rib and the right rib each have different predetermined lengths than adjacent secondary inclined lower and upper chord members for the same rib.
In one of the components, each component has a left rib and a right rib connected together in parallel relationship. The left rib and the right rib each has a primary vertical member of the aforementioned load-bearing vertical wall section and has a predetermined length and a lower end adapted to engage the flat supporting surface, and an upper end; and a primary inclined lower chord member having a predetermined length and a primary inclined upper chord member having a predetermined length and overlying the primary inclined lower chord member in paired relationship and connected at their respective lower ends to the upper end of the primary vertical member and connected at thei
Dunn Malcolm G.
Friedman Carl D.
McDermott Kevin
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