Abstract: The disclosure relates to a house which has the external appearance of a conventional bungalow but which can be converted between a single family home and a two family home. The house has two living units including respective living areas which are disposed side by side and separated by a demising wall. The living areas include kitchens disposed in contiguous relationship on opposite sides of the wall and the wall includes a section between the kitchens which is closed when a two family home is required but which can be opened to permit access between the kitchens when the structure is to serve as a single family home. The kitchens then combine into a single enlarged kitchen and provide access between the two living units.

Abstract: A storage facility preferably for palletized loads includes an elongate aisle along which a pallet-carrying vehicle is adapted to move. A plurality of multi-level pallet storage bays are located side-by-side along the aisle and extend laterally from the aisle for use in storing palletized loads. The levels of each storage bay are vertically aligned and are separated from each other by pallet-supporting floor sections; each bay being separated from its adjacent bay by a set of laterally spaced-apart vertically extending support members. Floor sections located between adjacent sets of vertically extending support members are removable for creating at least one laterally extending sub-aisle in communication with the elongate aisle, and the lateral spacing between at least two of the support members in a set of support members adjacent a sub-aisle provides an opening into the subaisle sufficiently large to permit removal of a pallet therethrough.

Abstract: A housing construction comprising a first unit enclosing at least a kitchen, living/dining/bath and sleeping zones, a second unit enclosing at least a kitchen, storage, and laundry facilities with high heat, noise and or pollutant producing characteristics connected by or separated by a confluence of passageways lying between the first the first and second units to connect these units or alternatively to separate these units by forming sealed passageways between other parts of the housing construction to thus permit exchange of or exclusion of warm or cold air, restrict noise, direct or control traffic, and/or provide increased security as required to produce more security comfort and convenience for the occupants and house guests in the most economical and efficient manner.

Abstract: A lawn crypt (10) comprises a rectangular array of chambers (22). Each chamber (22) is defined by opposing side panels (34, 46) and opposing end panels (52, 64). A top panel (70) serves to close the chamber and is supported by the side panels (34, 46) and the end panels (52, 64). Each chamber (22) is divided into an upper vault (102) and a lower vault (104) by a horizontal divider (100). The side, end and top panels are fabricated of reinforced concrete such that the crypt (10) can carry the substantial burden of heavy mechanized equipment. By using heavy equipment the operations of opening and closing grave sites can be done with a minimal amount of labor and time.

Abstract: A residential building, particularly a residential building having a timber skeleton, is described, which has walls that extend at right angles to each other and are arranged in accordance with a square-field grid plan having a grid line spacing A.

Abstract: A kit of components a structure consists of a basic element (3) consisting, in the form of a hollow structural section like a cellular space with a rectangular cross-section, of two parallel side walls (1a) and of a floor slab (1b) and roof slab (1c), leaving two openings (3b), of a two-part folding door (6) that can be set into one of the two opening to constitute a front element, that can be fitted against each vertical side of the opening, and that consists at least partly of light-permeable material, each part of which has at least two wings that can be swung around axes parallel to the vertical front side, whereby the folding door (6) does not when it is open and folded back toward the two vertical front sides extend into the interior of the cellular space.

Abstract: A pole shell building having a plurality of floors is provided and consists of a plurality of pole shell columns, each column affixed at bottom to a concrete slab, a plurality of support plates, each plate affixed to top of each column, a plurality of trusses, each truss supported at short spans between two support plates and a plurality of beams each beam supported at long spans between two support plates and a concrete slab supported by the trusses and beams.

Abstract: A dwelling in which the utilities are built around a small core room with a bath arranged to either side of the core room and a kitchen arranged adjacent one bath so that all sewer lines may extend from the various facilities to a main single sewer line in the core. The core also provides for a water heater, air conditioning equipment, as well as water lines to the various facilities.

Abstract: A prefabricated monolithic reinforced concrete floor system is disclosed and claimed. Open web trusses are provided along a longitudinal dimension of a floor frame with rectangular tubular beams secured therebetween. Reinforcing elements are secured along upper surfaces of the open web trusses and the tubular beams where a floor is utilized and a reinforcing mesh material is draped thereover. Reinforcing clips may be received about the peripheral reinforcing elements to further reinforce edges of the floor. The concrete slab is produced in situ about the frame and totally encapsulates the reinforcing elements present while a lower surface of the slab is coterminous with an upper surface of the open web trusses and the tubular beams.

Abstract: A manufacturing system in which the automatic control of the system and the automatic control of a process management are organically coupled, thereby to sharply reduce the number of workers to be engaged in the manufacture. In order to establish both the versatility necessary for multiple type of treatment and the high efficiency necessary for large-quantity treatments, the arrangement of respective treatment sections is made the job-shop-type, and the construction of treating devices themselves included in the treatment sections is made the flow-shop-type, to achieve the consecutive automation. In order to also automate the management of the process, a stocker in which unfinished products are put is situated in a specified place of the system such as the central part thereof, while the process is put forward in such a manner that a conveyor machine controlled by a control unit having a computer reciprocates between the stocker and the groups of treatment sections.

Abstract: A method for constructing a multistory building comprising: constructing finished modules having a concrete base and vertical sidewalls; placing a first series of such modules at a single horizontal level such that at least one sidewall of each such module is spaced by a distance of from about 2 to about 12 inches from and is parallel to the sidewall of another such module; pouring and hardening concrete to fill at least a portion of the space between such sidewalls from the base to the top of such sidewalls to form supporting concrete walls; placing another additional series of such modules on the tops of the supporting concrete walls in the spaced relationship previously described and filling the spaces to form additional supporting concrete walls; and repeating the procedure previously described until the desired number of levels of modules is obtained.

Abstract: A fixture core including plumbing for a building in which all of the fixtures are either permanently or temporarily supported from the side walls of the core and the core is transported on a shipping pallet which served as a template for the erection of the core and the fixtures and is removable when the core reaches the job site so that the fixture core may be removed from the pallet, if desired, and supported directly upon the floor or slab of a building in which the core is to be installed.

Abstract: Dormer construction comprising a dormer having two parallel spaced apart side walls having no openings therein consisting of a frame with sheet material both nailed and glued thereto on both sides thereof whereby the parallel spaced apart side walls form beam structures. The dormer is substantially rectangular and has lift members at the four corners thereof for lifting it into position in a house and includes a flashing on the exterior thereof along an opening in a roof in which the dormer is to be positioned for facilitating weather proofing between the dormer and the roof.The method of constructing such a dormer and lifting it into position in an opening cut in the roof of a house having spaced apart exterior bearing walls whereby the spaced apart parallel dormer walls act as beams to support the dormer from the bearing walls of the house.

Abstract: A prefabricated statically self-contained cube skeleton unit system is provided comprising two standard square or rectangular ceiling/floor component frames supported on four L-shaped corner wall frames, each supported on the lower frame at three points and each supporting the upper frame also at three points, both of these constituting a standard skeleton unit which can be stacked in vertical direction into a two or more storey cube skeleton with the use of one standard square or rectangular ceiling/floor component between lower and upper cube skeleton storey and which, by attaching one statically self-containing cube skeleton to the other, allows for developing a multi-room clustered structure of unlimited size in horizontal directions of one or more storeys. The vertical openings in the cube skeleton allow for the use of statically non-bearing fill-in walls which can be exchanged, removed and re-erected.

Abstract: A multi-unit dwelling having individual living units therein which have main living areas protected from noise and visual pollution and which are arranged to afford maximum privacy to each living unit. The multi-unit dwelling includes a plurality of contiguous living units arranged to form a courtyard enclosed on at least three sides there between which is protected from noise and visual pollution by the plurality living units. Each of the living units includes a court side exposed to said courtyard and a service side exposed to vehicle access and the associated noise and visual pollution associated with vehicles. Each living unit includes a living area and a bedroom area disposed on the court side of the living unit and a bathroom, a utility room, storage areas, a garage, and a main private entrance way disposed on said service side of said living unit.

Abstract: A shelter truss comprising a unitary trapezoidal skeletal component, a plurality of which when connected forms a completely framed superstructure of a building, ready to accept exterior covering, wiring, plumbing, insulation, flooring, interior walls, ceilings and the like. No additional structural framework is required, except interior room division. The building shape in a vertical plane is complete when the component is erected.

Abstract: A coordinated building layout which includes a restaurant and artist work/exhibit area is disclosed. The cooperation between the restaurant area and the artist work/exhibit area results in maximum efficiency and space utilization. The present system enables accommodation of a wide variety of art disciplines, including the performing arts, while contributing to enjoyment of the arts by the dining patrons of the restaurant.

Abstract: A free-standing masonry wall having radial arms (illustrated and described herein by way of example as four in number) is constructed to a desired height (herein, two stories). The wall may be concrete blocks filled with concrete or poured concrete. A concrete slab may be laid extending perpendicular to each arm of the wall. Interior floors, ceilings and exterior room walls are erected and roof joists are supported by stud extensions of the masonry wall and the exterior and interior walls. The roof preferably slopes outward-downward from an apex directly above the top edge of the masonry wall. Economies in constructions and efficient use of land area are accomplished. Privacy of dwelling units, earthquake protection, fire hazard protection and heat and sound insulation are enhanced.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for erecting a mobile home on a preexisting elongated rectangular lot. The home is comprised of four elongated rectangular sections which are erected on the lot so that each pair of sections forms an elongated rectangular dual section, one of the dual sections being erected on the lot so that it abuts the other dual section along about one-half the linear extent thereof thus forming a pair of diagonally opposed generally square areal spaces on the lot eliminating the boxy appearance of conventional mobile home layouts.

Abstract: A precast monolithic concrete building module includes a vertical wall, a horizontal roof and a pair of roof supporting legs spaced from the wall. A plurality of ribs project outwardly from the wall and also from the lower surface of the roof. In one embodiment, generally T-shaped metal studs each have a portion cast into an associated rib and a portion providing a mounting surface for wall and ceiling covering materials. The studs project outwardly from the ribs so that wiring passageways can be placed through them without having to drill through concrete. In other embodiments, wooden studs have attached fasteners which have a portion cast into the rib to secure the stud to the rib. The wall between the studs is thin so that window and door openings can easily be made by breaking out portions of the wall. Special sealing ridges project upwardly from the roof for use in sealing pairs of adjacent modules of a building. The form for casting the module includes roof, wall and leg forming portions.

Abstract: A composition comprising a granular inorganic oxidic material other than glass powder and 1 to 30 weight percent, based on the weight of said material, of glass powder, especially a composition additionally containing a hardenable thermo- or cold-setting phenolic resin, which composition does not disintegrate at high temperatures and retains compressive strength.

Abstract: A light-weight modular building component of conventional concrete, formed by a unitary or composite rectangular panel having transversely therethrough at least a large central opening--and also a set of relatively small openings disposed peripherally thereabout; and various multi-planar structural systems embodying this kind of panel design.

Abstract: Apparatus for selected audio-visual reproduction upon check actuation that consists of a viewing carrel providing comfort and privacy, and having in combination therewith, television playback apparatus, program selection control and money validator for enabling playback of a selected program. The television reproducing apparatus includes a video tape playback system functioning in coaction with a color television receiver as controlled by the money validator and playback selection control.

Abstract: A store arrangement including a combination, self-service and service establishment having a central portion with a display structure and a service counter. Shopping aisles are located on substantially all sides of the central portion to provide access to the central portion from substantially all points in the store. The central portion is configured to provide services for the patron as well as check-out items purchased.

Abstract: A tripling or more in the production rate of precast concrete building units utilizing reusable mold forms is achieved by casting the units vertically on a wheeled base between separable vertical mold forms. The partially cured poured concrete unit is horizontally transported on the wheeled base from between the separated molds to complete the curing independently thereof, the forms being immediately serviceable with another wheeled base for molding another unit.A building is erected on a concrete slab foundation using a plurality of precast concrete units in the form of L-shaped walls positioned as corner structure and spaced intermediate exterior wall elements and as interior partitions and roof supports.

Abstract: A demountable modular construction unit forming a walk-through display area. The wall and ceiling portions are connected by a cantilever member to eliminate vertical ceiling supports along the front and end peripheral boundaries. The modular units can be combined together in back-to-back or face-to-face or end-to-end relationships to form different combinations of display areas. The individual units are detachable into their component parts.

Abstract: An aircraft hangar construction which includes a plurality of horizontally extending transverse roof frame members; a vertical supporting member supporting the central portion of each of the transverse roof frame members and contacting the lower side thereof; horizontally extending roof frame members secured to the opposite ends of each of the transverse roof frame members and extending in substantially the same plane as the transverse roof frame members; and at least two vertical supporting members supporting each of the last-mentioned roof frame members at locations spaced inwardly therealong from the opposite ends thereof and collectively defining the spaced planes of opposed parallel sides of the hangar.

Abstract: A system devised for constructing a building from a plurality of parts which can be mass-produced at a factory and readily assembled at a construction site. This building construction system includes a plurality of vertical supports and a plurality of corresponding horizontal supports which can be rigidly connected to the vertical supports. A plurality of frame members are provided, each of which can be freely suspended in a position defined by at least one vertical support and at least one horizontal support. The frame members are held in position between such supports without being fixedly attached to the supports.

Abstract: A building cluster is provided with each building consisting of a stressed skin floor unit, stressed skin roof units and wall panels separating the two, at least some of the wall panels being connected to the roof and floor units by shear resisting brackets. A waterproof covering is provided for each building and the buildings have sufficient excess strength so that wall panels may be removed to allow a great degree of choice in the number and disposition of wall panels which maximize user choice in the disposition of doors and openings from one building into another in the cluster.

Abstract: A method and means by which buildings, particularly residential buildings, can be prefabricated of cut-to-size metal wall framing and roof member elements for erection upon a prepared foundation at the site, the building framework thus erected being adapted to structural completion by a process involving scratch cement-plaster coating the outsides of expanded sheet metal enclosing the rib-work of the walls and the underside of roofing rib framework assembly, and thereafter pump-spraying a cementacious mixture between the voids of such rib-work against the opposite side of the scratch-coated expanded sheet metal to provide a substantially monolithic steel-reinforced basic building structure.

Abstract: A townhouse unit built with the ground floor level at the approximate grade line in the front and being generally three stories in height is disclosed, appearing to be about two stories in height at the front and featuring, for example, two standard entrance doors (for individuals) in the front, each door leading to a different floor level, one being a formal main entrance door, leading to the main or middle level and opening into a spacious, two-level formal entrance area of substantially the same width throughout, with an interconnecting, fully exposed, decorative stair treatment, and the other door being a fully exposed, service or convenience door, opening into a generally, centrally located service or convenience entrance corridor at the ground floor level.

Abstract: The invention concerns prefabricated buildings built up of transportable prefabricated room elements each being a cell-like structure having four faces and comprising a floor panel, load-bearing columns attached thereto, and a roof or ceiling supported by the columns. In one construction in which the columns are provided at corners of the floor panel, one corner is void of a column so that when the room elements are mounted face to face, with the column-less corners meeting, an unobstructed floor area results. In another construction, a column is omitted at an intermediate point in the length of one face. The room elements are constructed at a factory, and a temporary support is inserted at each location at which a column is omitted. The room elements are transported from the factory to the building site and there assembled face to face into storeys of a building in which the room elements of each upper storey are supported on the columns and temporary supports of the room elements of the next lower storey.

Abstract: Prefabricated, modular structures, adapted for the erection of buildings in general, including a three-dimensional and a flat element which may be brought close to each other and such that the said three-dimensional element, having the shape of a rectangular trihedron consists of a slab of prolonged rectangular shape of convenient dimensions, from one of the shorter sides of which slab there extends a vertical wall of appropriate height, whereas from one of the longer sides of the same slab there extends a second vertical wall, brought close to one of the ends of the aforesaid wall, such second vertical wall having a lesser length than that of the slab so as to delimit on one side an opening.

Abstract: Storage apparatus for small vehicles and the like such as bicycles and motorcycles and the like including at least one storage unit having a roof, end members and rigid channel means for joining and supporting said roof and end members over a supporting surface, and for joining one of the units to another storage unit, side closure, wall, or the like. The rigid channel includes a recessed portion to drain rain water from the unit or units and secures interior divider panels which separate the interior of one unit from the interior of another and also segregate the interior of each unit into discrete storage areas.

Abstract: Three dimensional pre-fabricated self-supporting elements, each being one-quarter portion of a room, are formed with a floor section, a ceiling section and at least two interposed wall sections.These elements are integrally pre-formed with stiffening structural ribs or ribs shaped to provide support means for differently shaped pieces of furniture; with door and window apertures; with channel passages, pipe fittings and the like for receiving pipes and electrical wiring for utilities; and interengaging fitting means formed integrally on the outside of those floor, ceiling, and wall sections to fasten together the elements forming a room, or a number of rooms together to form residences of one or more floors.

Abstract: A structure of lightweight plastic material has a plurality of doors. Each of the doors is selectively openable, closable and lockable. A plurality of movably mounted partitions are provided in the structure for dividing the structure into a plurality of compartments. The structure is affixed to a supporting surface. A plurality of rails are provided in the structure in spaced parallel relation on the floor of the structure. Each of the rails is movably mounted at one end, so that it is selectively adjustable in inclination with the floor. Each of the rails accommodates a bike.

Abstract: This invention relates to prefabricated buildings and comprises a central unit having a peripheral section therearound to form a main residential part. This peripheral part is defined by an assembly of juxtaposed roofing and facing trusses; the roofing trusses rest on said central unit and also on the facing trusses which themselves rest on a peripheral support wall. The facing trusses are of triangular section and have an inclined outer wall extending downwardly and beyond the said peripheral support wall.

Abstract: A burial facility comprising a rigid burial housing enclosing multiple burial crypts, burial services compartmentation, walk ways and facility maintenance spaces, said housing having a major portion thereof below ground level and a portion thereof above ground level, a frusto-pyramidal earthen mound covering and concealing the portion of said housing above ground level, and a downwardly sloping entryway extending through one side of said frusto-pyramidal earthen mound and communicating through an opening in one side of said housing with the interior thereof.

Abstract: A building constructed mainly of a series of modular units permanently united to each other. Various different forms of units are provided, and units of different forms may be arranged in various different relations to each other, to provide a choice of floor plans. Each unit is a rigid structure having a floor slab portion and one or more wall portions integrally connected to the floor slab portion and rising to the full height of the story, at least some of the wall portions of most of the units being offset laterally inwardly from the edges of the floor slab portion. When various units of the same story are assembled in side by side relation, the wall portion or portions of one unit cooperate with the wall portion or portions of one or more additional units to provide an enclosure constituting a room. The floor slab portions of the next higher story rest on the top edges of the wall portions of the story immediately below.