Sub-rigid fast-form barrier system

Details Sub-rigid fast-form barrier system Sub-rigid fast-form barrier system

2000-09-19

2003-12-16

Friedman, Carl D. (Department: 3635)

Static structures (e.g., buildings)

Machine or implement

C052S749100, C052S749100, C052S481100, C052S508000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06662520

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
“Joining” is the art form that this invention advances; with the joining of standard building materials, for manufacturing mass produced, efficient, commercial barriers, as the main objective.
Relative to the application described herein, the inventor has a diversified background and experience in the industrial art of joining building materials.
The ratiocinative combinatory logic is rooted in the inventor's knowledge and thirty years of experience in working with concrete form design and application. Formwork must be assembled quickly in a rigid or sub-rigid composition, maintained in a pre-engineered and static fabrication during concrete placement and subsequently dismantled and stockpiled for future multiple uses.
While developing the ratiocinative interlocking barrier as a new concrete forming system, it became apparent that the post and beam type framing of this invention would offer an improved method for framing and sheathing houses or the like.
While modeling the fast-form barrier system for housing; walls, floors, and roof, other versatile applications became apparent. Through experimenting with variations of: elements; parameters; and cubic content for super-ordinate beam members, subordinate beam members, and facer members this system displayed wide versatility in many low-rise building applications.
In the past, the inventor has owned a fabrication shop established for the purpose of building utility trailers and the like. Through professional experience in the mechanical art of fabricating utility trailers, the invention claimed herein offers economical advances in trailer frame and bed applications.
While experimenting with various barriers, it became apparent that the modality of this system of applying variations of; elements, parameters, and cubic content offers a new way to build furniture, bridges, fences, platforms, docks, billboards, and many other barriers that those schooled in the art will easily recognize.
The super-ordinate beam members guide the systematic fabrication of barriers without the use of nails, screws, or other fastening devices.
When produced as scale models, the invention further offers a valuable addition to children's toys, to occupational therapy, and to play houses of all sizes. Such models may also be used for teaching those not skilled in the art of building low-rise structures (such as houses), concrete forms, trailers, fences, barricades, platforms, and other barrier construction.
TECHNICAL FIELD
The Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System embodies the specifics of numerous classes and subclasses including;
US Class 52/subclass 7, (moveable stage combined with a static structure) 14, 49, (moveable or removable closures), 81.2 (Frame in which a node of the structural network members is particularly designed to hold the members together and transmit forces), 143,256 (fences), 312 (supports), 403 (joints and connections), 425 (shaping mating parts for re-assembly in different positions), 459 (bridger strip covering two abutted panels), 470,474,479,729.4 (an I-beam comprising wood and metal), 731.3 (having interlocking feature), 737.1 (for load-bearing uprights), 745.05 (barrier construction), 745.06,745.08,745.09,745.19,764 (Structure wherein the facer retaining means includes a camming means), 768, 772, 775,781;
US Class 249/subclass 1,6,25,26,28,32,33,44,47,102,145,163,184,186,190,216, 219.1,219.2,428,
US Class 029/subclass 897 (structural member making),
US Class 256/subclass 24,73,
US Class 446/subclass 108,476,
US Class 280,
US Class 119/subclass 516,522,525,523,519,
US Class 108/subclass 59,
US Class 182,
US Class 108.
International classifications B32B, B32B7/00, B32B21/00, B32B33/00 E04B, E04G, E04H, E04B1/00, E04B2/00 E04B5/00, E04B7/00, E01D15/00, A63H33/00H, 04H, 06C, 010C.
DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ART
Prior art teaches variations including many devices, generally stamped or roll-formed metal gadgets, which attach to the main framing members for the purpose of securing floor joists, roof rafters, stair runners and such, and they require many fasteners to complete the frame and cover.
Prior art includes steel-framed buildings composed of vertical main steel columns laterally braced with an outer layer of horizontal side wall girts (ribs), supporting roof beams with perpendicular roof purlins which also act as ribs that receive generally lightweight metal sheets to complete an enclosure such as produced and marketed by Butler Building Systems, based in Kansas City. This system is layered, and each layer is attached with a plurality of pre-punched or pre-drilled holes that receive a plurality or removable bolts, screws, and fasteners.
Prior art includes open web joists with many variations of attachments.
Prior art includes many methods of attachment including nails, screws, bolts, clamps, welds, wedging, compound wedging, pinning and seating.
Systems of prior art teach a framing method of layering that consists of two or more layers of installed components in order to achieve a frame and cover with layers extending beyond the limits of the load gathering dominant beam member.
Prior art teaches engineering for axial loading, point loading, dead load, eccentric loading, distributed beam loading and many other engineering factors relevant to the competency of the invention described herein.
Prior art includes mortise and tenon joints that typified 19
th
century and earlier wood framing in buildings such as houses and barns. This basic post and beam type of framing featured heavy hewn wooden posts and beams mortised to receive perpendicular sub-members which had tenons formed on either end that fit the mortised openings in the main members. The mortise and tenon method was useful because the composite members did not need to be the same shape, as only the mortise and tenon joints were usually a standard size.
The following construction practices are derived from the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, Main Entry under title: Time-saver standards for Architectural design data, Sixth edition, Copyright 1982 by McGraw-Hill, Inc. printed in the United States of America and describes prior art forms.
a) Prior art includes “balloon frame construction” which employs smaller, lighter and more frequent standard sizes of sawn lumber implemented in the early 20
th
century as a result of mass production and the industrial age.
b) Prior art includes “platform frame construction” (also known as eastern framing) which employs conventional lumber framing, as well as modular components such as plywood, and is considered a “light wood framing” method.
c) Prior art includes “plank and beam” more commonly known as “post and beam” construction which historically incorporates heavy timbers as well as steel beams. This system teaches connections using heavy bolts or screws and, at times, utilizes steel plates at the connections that may be substituted with new seating gadgets requiring a plurality of nails bolts or screws.
Platform frame construction is a current conventional method of wood-frame construction in the United States. Those with knowledge of the art, and who understand and know it today would construct a sill on top of a foundation, which is usually bolted to the concrete or block foundation, with floor joists incorporated in a box frame on top of said sill and with floor joists and box frame being connected to one another plus the sill, historically using an abundance of 16D nails or a larger wire size such as 20D nails, with decking such as modular structural sheets on top of the floor joists, connected to said floor joists with an abundance of either nails or screws, and then a new sill, called a sole plate, is placed, and attached with nails or screws, on top of the first floor decking at the exterior edges, on top of which vertical studs are attached, with nails or screws, and then capped with a double top plate, which in turn is nailed to the vertical studs below, on top of which another floor may be framed in the same manner as the one below, with the top plate assuming the position of

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