Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Wall – ceiling – or floor designed for utilities – Load-bearing – prefabricated – abutting units with aligned...
Patent
1995-11-22
1998-01-13
Mai, Lanna
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Wall, ceiling, or floor designed for utilities
Load-bearing, prefabricated, abutting units with aligned...
523091, 52270, 52581, 525821, E04C 252
Patent
active
057066205
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to the provision of novel structural system and structural components therefor, their method of manufacture, and structures formed therefrom. More particularly, the invention relates to the provision of novel interlocking thermoplastic structural components which can be mass produced at low cost and which can be quickly and easily interlocked together to erect a wide range of structures which will require minimal maintenance and will be safe from termites, corrosion, rust or rot and will be highly resistant to the effects of weathering.
Further, the invention relates to the provision of such novel structural components which include hollow components adapted to accept concrete or other material therein to enable a structure erected therefrom to be anchored to a base and converted into a permanent and essentially indestructible structure which will withstand earthquakes, tornadoes and other natural phenomena. The invention also relates to the method of producing such components.
While the structural components of the invention can be used in the erection of a wide range of structures, it is of particular note that their existence now enables low cost durable or permanent housing to be provided for the masses throughout the word regardless of the climatic conditions.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
While the use of plastic to form wall panels or the like for use in building construction has been proposed, such panels have not had the necessary load bearing or other structural requirements to form practical structures which could be mass produced at low cost and quickly easily assembled to erect durable low cost structures and, in particular, low cost housing.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,992,839, for instance, discloses a plastic panel fabricated from separate panel members, preferably formed of polyvinyl chloride which snap together to form a thin wall panel. The panels in turn are formed to snap together to provide a wall structure. Such fabricated panels are inherently weak and lack the strength and load bearing capacity to form adequate structural components for use for instance in the forming of the walls and roof of a practical durable building.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,662,507 discloses the use of tongue and grooved individually prefabricated panels said to be preferably of plastic which are bonded or glued together and used particularly for the forming of basement walls. Such panels do not permit of high speed production and are not capable of being quickly and easily interlocked together in the erection of a house or other structure.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,557,091 discloses a hollow panel member having a width of about one and one-half inches (11/2") and a complicated interior formed by pultrusion, a process involving drawing long glass strands and a plastic binding material forcefully through a die under heat to form the glass strands into a compacted glass mat bound together by the plastic material. Such a process is prohibitively slow and expensive and the panels themselves do not provide acceptable or practical structures for forming the walls and roofing of a housing system such as contemplated by the present invention.
EP-A-O 320,745 discloses an arrangement of hollow interlocking structural components for a modular building which it is said may comprise extruded thermoplastic resin preferably reinforced with preferably about 30 per cent by weight glass fibers such as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,536,630. Such proposed components are, however,unsuitable for practical housing as they are rough, abrasive, brittle and are subject to fracture and weather deterioration.
Further, the presence of substantial concentrations of glass fibers in the resin renders such components extremely difficult to extrude and the fibers are destructive of the extruding dies. If the glass fibers are too large or too concentrated, it is simply not practical to extrude them at all.
According to GB 2,028,228A, there is described a method of coating a polycarbonate sheet with an adherent synthetic res
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Mai Lanna
Royal Building Systems (CDN) Limited
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