Abstract: This invention relates to a mud, or, as it is commonly known in the West, "adobe", construction. The present invention relates to a method of constructing such a wall with interior wire reinforcements which are adapted to tie the foundation, the wall and a roof member, such as a roof truss, into an integral assembly. It includes a series of formed wire "trusses", or tie members, arranged in spaced relationship along the wall extending from a point within the foundation form to a height to include at least one member of the roof truss. Cooperating with the trusses are a pair of laterally spaced, longitudinally extending wire mesh members, the trusses and wire mesh being suitably tied together to form an integral structure. The wall is constructed either by pouring adobe mud into a form, or by plastering a thick adobe mud onto the wire mesh, which will extend through that material and lock itself into it in courses of about twelve inches high.

Abstract: A composite beam or girder fabricated from a section of an "I" shaped rolled structural steel beam and a reinforced concrete slab is formed. The bottom flange and the web of the girder are a section of the "I" beam, the top "top flange" is the concrete slab. The steel section is obtained by cutting the web of the "I" beam in a zig-zag fashion into two similar sections, each having a flange and a sawtooth shaped web. Effective interconnection of the steel section and the reinforced concrete slab is achieved by anchor rods snugly fit into holes provided in the top part of the web.

Abstract: A modular building structure is assembled from a number of modular elements which form floors, walls, pillars and beams, each modular element comprising an internally reinforced block having external eyes or loops integral with the internal reinforcement and interlinked by linking elements which engage in superimposed eyes or loops of adjoining modular elements to tension the respective internal reinforcements and brace the modular elements together to form a rigid structure.

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 centralopening--and also a set of relatively small openings disposed peripherally thereabout; and various multi-planar structural systems embodying this kind of panel design.

Abstract: An improved swimming pool or like arrangement is readily constructed within an excavation by erecting a modular frame lattice about the pool, and affixing removable concrete pouring form sheets to the frame. Concrete pool walls are then simply poured within the forms, the initially oversized earthen excavation back-filled, and the original pool surface apron secured to the lattice frame elements.The pool fabrication method and apparatus of the instant invention employs a straight-forward sequence of frame and pouring form erection without requiring skilled labor for any of precisely dimensional excavation, concrete wall formation, repeated levelings, or the like. Moreover, the completed pool has internal mechanical integrity, and is relatively impervious to displacements of the surrounding back-fill attributable to freezing, thaw, or the like.