Abstract: A poured concrete building deck structure of the type having corrugated sheet metal form deck wherein the edges along sides parallel to the corrugations of the major form deck at the edges of the deck and edges of internal openings through the deck are formed by a corrugated sheet metal form having corrugations at about 90.degree. to the major portion of the corrugated sheet metal form deck, the ends of the deck around all sides of the building or around all sides of the internal opening being spaced a distance from the desired building line or opening and an edge bracket fastened to the outer ends of the sheet metal forms extending outwardly to the desired relationship to the building line or opening and providing a means to retain poured concrete.

Abstract: A cantilevered cross truss construction provides a load supporting structure through the interlocking of the trusses, said trusses having continuous top and bottom chord members, the bottom chord of one of which is adapted to be cut in the field, said cut truss can be positioned over the other truss forming a superior load supporting truss construction.

Abstract: A kiosk has a central base enclosing an electric motor drivingly connected to an umbrella-like cover supported over the central base for upward and downward movement. A closed counter encloses the central base with a walk space between the counter and the central base and a door in the counter permitting entry to the walk space. The umbrella-like cover is movable by the motor to an elevated position in which the kiosk can be used and a lower position in which it lies over and partially encloses the counter and prevents opening of the door in the counter. A key switch on the outer surface of the counter permits raising of the umbrella-like cover and lowering of the cover as required by the user.

Abstract: A universal structural support system for a pitched roof includes a front fascia gutter assembly, a setback beam assembly and an I-beam assembly, each of which comprises a first portion that is pitch-adjustable with the selected slope of the roof and relative to a second portion positionally fixed with respect to the underlying ground surface and to which the first portion is at least hingedly connected.

Abstract: A prefabricated log building has walls formed by horizontally extending, vertically stacked log courses joined by tongue and groove joints. The walls are joined at corners by mortise and tenon joints. Each tenon is partially defined by a portion of a tongue on an associated log and extends into a mortise partially defined by a portion of another tongue on another log. The tongue and groove joints cooperate with the mortise and tenon joints to form weathertight barriers which extend through the building corners. Joists supported by the upper log course of an associated wall extend in cantilever position beyond the wall and support rafters. Filler logs connected in tongue and groove relation to the upper log course extend between the joists. A soffit carried by the joists may cooperate with a tongue on the upper log course or with tongues on the filler logs to form a weathertight eave structure.

Abstract: A pedestal house with a cantilevered crossed truss construction forming the floor and wall supporting structure thereof has several pairs of crossed horizontally disposed truss members, each truss member has vertically spaced top and bottom cord members and interconnecting web members, one of each pair of truss members being of a greater height than the other so that one truss member of each pair passes through an opening in the other at right angles thereto. Members are located longitudinally of said other truss member of each pair so as to increase the height thereof to that of the higher truss member of the pair. This invention is distinguishable from others by reason of the pedestal house and the crossed truss members thereof forming a central area from which the ends of the truss members extend in cantilever form to form a wide stable support structure for the house on the pedestal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hinged eave assembly for a sectional or modular structure that enables the eave of the structure to be positioned over the roof for transport, thereby reducing the effective width of the structure to conform with State highway laws. Structurally a plurality of elongated metal hinges are utilized to hingedly mount the eave to the roof at certain spaced intervals along the area where the roof joins the upper portion of an underlying wall structure. One end of the metal hinge is split or cut longitudinally so as to form a pair of legs, one leg being bent with respect to the other to form an angle therebetween for receiving the eave. The two legs are secured to the eave while the end of the hinge opposite the legs is secured directly to the roof of the structure.

Abstract: A facade for enclosing data processing apparatus or similar equipment. The facade is designed to be a free-standing unit, enclosing completely a multiple-component data processing assemblage. However, the facade can also be utilized in conjunction with external structural members, such as existing walls, to enclose the assemblage. The facade is easily assembled and disassembled by available field personnel, but has sufficient structural integrity to provide protection for the enclosed equipment assemblage and to prevent casual entry into the interior. In addition, the facade has sufficient apertures to permit disapation of heat generated by the high circuit element density utilized in the modern data processing apparatus. The facade is arranged to permit easy access by the maintenance personnel to the interior of the facade.

Abstract: A building structure supported by four central vertical columns fixed to the ground at vertices of a rectangle whose dimensions are much smaller than the dimensions of a floor of the eventual building. Segments of the columns constitute spreaders in upper and lower sets of trusses, each set including two pairs of trusses, the trusses of one pair being parallel to one another and perpendicular to the trusses of the other pair, and the upper and lower sets being vertically aligned. The chords of each truss extend outwardly from the columns, and the outer ends of the chords of the upper trusses are connected to the outer ends of corresponding chords of the lower trusses by generally vertical structural members by which to support, in cooperation with the columns, one or more floors of the structure above the bottom floor.

Abstract: A cantilivered cross truss construction provides a load supporting structure through the interlocking of the trusses one within the other to form a superior load supporting truss construction.

Abstract: A metallic beam, reinforced and prestressed by a cable means, to form a composite structure, the cable means extending longitudinal, along the beam's tensioned part, continuously, to both sides of the beam's section of maximum positive design moment, or its section of maximum negative design moment, or both.A metallic rigid frame, reinforced and prestressed by a cable means, to form a composite structure, the cable means extending longitudinal, along the frame's knee and, continuously, to both sides of it, along the tensioned part of the frame.In all cases, the forces of the cable means are transferred to the beam or frame by at least three anchor means, attached to the beam or frame, respectively, and gripping the cable means.At least one interior anchor means is either in the form of a sleeve, swaged to the cable means, or a cable clamp; or a sleeve into which wedges have been driven; or a socket filled with a solidified material, such as zinc.

Abstract: A building unit which comprises a column adapted to be fitted to a foundation and supporting a plurality of identical, doubly-curved umbrella, hyperbolic paraboloid shells inverted so that their top edges form a plane figure, and a continuous, horizontal member integrated with said edges.

Abstract: Building parapets and sidewalls are reinforced independent of the floor thereof by interconnecting opposed parapets or walls with adjustable interconnectors comprising anchor plates, cables and turnbuckles. The connection ties the parapets or walls together against separation and outward destructive movement under the influence of earthquake force conditions.

Abstract: A roof construction for a single level building having a relatively large central area and peripherally arranged living and storage quarters. The roof construction includes sets of trusses each of which includes at least two generally triangular trusses. The trusses of each such set include a pair of legs angularly inclined relative to each other and a third leg longer than either leg of the pair and connected to the other two legs. The trusses are supported on a pair of vertical supports such that one of the pair of legs rests horizontally upon such vertical supports and the other leg of the pair extends upwardly in cantilevered relation above the central area of the building. The third and longest leg of each truss extends downwardly forming an acute angle with the horizontal and providing a support surface for a roof covering.

Abstract: A bay window unit is adapted to cover an opening in a building wall. An overhanging roof decking structure has a vertical first mounting portion at its inner end adapted to be fixedly secured to a fixed header in the building wall, a second mounting portion at its outer end, and a downwardly facing third mounting portion disposed intermediate the first and second mounting portions. A generally horizontally extending bracket member has its inner end secured to an exterior vertical surface of a fixed sill in the building wall. A frame of an exterior window assembly is disposed at the outer ends of the roof decking structure and the bracket member. A frame header is fixedly secured to the second mounting portion, and a frame sill rests on and is fixedly secured to the outer end of the bracket member.

Abstract: An awning assembly for use with mobile homes which can accommodate a wide variety of terrains. The assembly includes a plurality of anchored adjustable support posts connected to a plurality of panel joining ribs by captive lock nut assemblies. The nut assemblies permit adjustment of the support elements. The frame structural elements are preferably aluminum extrusions, and the awning panels are of the thermal barrier type having a sandwich-like construction.

Abstract: The station, including access stairs and elevator systems are supported by a single vertical girder to reduce the space requirement for the station in a crowded inner city. Various components of the station may be prefabricated and then joined together at the site to standardize and reduce construction costs, and to reduce construction interference at the station site.

Abstract: A bisectional architectural structure, suitable for residential, commercial or megastructural use, divides interfloor space into separate functional zones, and systematically orients major floor levels according to the axii of two separate structural grid systems which bisect each other in every dimension. As an apartment building or the like, it may comprise a plurality of vertical modules arranged one on top of the other about a common vertical utility core. Each module includes four floors which are accessible from the utility core by a corkscrew-shaped walkway surrounding the utility core. The utility core is provided with at least two elevators, a first of which has a plurality of door openings for servicing each floor. One or more additional elevators in the core have one door per vertical module.The bisectional architectural structure is supported by a plurality of columns arranged at the intersecting points of a number of square grids in a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A multi-floor building of the kind in which floors are suspended from a central support has a support core with a plurality of vertically spaced and horizontally aligned openings for individual floor support beams. The building floors are built at ground level and lifted to the desired height on the support core. Floor support beams are inserted through horizontally aligned openings in the support core between the floor. The floor is then set on the support beams to support the floor at that level directly from the core and independently of all the other floors of the building.The system uses jack rod support beams on top of the support core. Jack rods are connected down from the jack rod support beams, and lifting jacks jack up the jack rods to lift each floor to the desired level.A conveyor beam lifts each support beam to a position in which the support beam can be inserted through the openings. A removable winch carried on the floor pulls the support beam through the openings in the side walls.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fabrication process of a metallic structure made of sheets welded one onto the other and enclosing an internal space. A scaffolding is erected in this internal space and comprises a vertical tower and collapsible passageways extending radially from said tower. When the structure is substantially terminated, the passageways are collapsed and the scaffolding is withdrawn from said space through an aperture provided at the upper part of the structure.

Abstract: A tree house kit includes a number of identical frames for attachment around a tree trunk. The array of frames supports floor panels and may also support wall and roof panels all made from templates provided in the kit to form a complete enclosure around the tree trunk. Each frame includes a self-leveling, telescoping floor panel supporting section which may be adjusted so that the array of frames can be installed on irregular tree trunks and trunks with different diameters, yet still maintain the floor in a level condition. Each frame may also include wall and roof panel supporting sections which mate with the floor supporting section and which also adapt themselves to irregularities in the tree trunk.

Abstract: A window greenhouse prefabricated from a plurality of sections of extruded material and panels of predetermined lengths and sizes that may be assembled and mounted in an existing window opening on the window frame for which it was designed.

Abstract: A structure comprising a plurality of self-supporting frame parts. Each frame part comprises interconnected vertical and horizontal strips. The elements composing the strips are all bound together by pull ropes. The frame parts are aligned and bound together with tension wires so that the aligned vertical strips form bearing walls and the aligned horizontal strips form ceilings. The lowermost aligned horizontal strips may form the foundation floor of the structure.

Abstract: A bisectional architectural structure, suitable for residential, commercial or megastructural use, divides interfloor space into separate functional zones, and systematically orients major floor levels according to the axii of two separate structural grid systems which bisect each other in every dimension. As an apartment building or the like, it may comprise a plurality of vertical modules arranged one on top of the other about a common vertical utility core. Each module includes four floors which are accessible from the utility core by a corkscrew-shaped walkway surrounding the utility core. The utility core is provided with at least two elevators, a first of which has a plurality of door openings for servicing each floor. One or more additional elevators in the core have one door per verticle module.The bisectional architectural structure is supported by a plurality of columns arranged at the intersecting points of a number of square grids in a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A reinforced concrete floor is constructed from a continuous slab defining a major and planar supporting surface. The continuous slab is folded at at least one beam defining path across its planar supporting surface and preferably includes a right angle grid of such folds with downward peripheral folds at the slab edges and downward V-sectioned folds to interrupt the major and planar supporting surface. By maintaining a constant vertical slab thickness and keeping the angle of the folds between 30.degree. and 60.degree. with respect to the major supporting surface, it is possible to nest and even construct a continuous stack of floors having identical overlying structural members and dimensions, such as the structurally and dimensionally repetitive overlying floors of a high-rise building.

Abstract: A vented metal umbrella kit comprising a pair of substantially diametrically divided, prefabricated canopy half-sections, each half-section of which is prefabricated of a plurality of elongated sheet metal channel members tapered from end to end and secured in relatively side to side, interstraddling, fan-like relative disposition, a vertical support structure having a support arm adjustably secured at one end and a support disc removably attachable to the outer end of the support arm, means securing the umbrella half-sections in depending relation about the support disc, and a cone member of greater diameter than the support disc removably securable over the support disc and the attached end portions of the canopy half-sections assembled thereto.

Abstract: There is described a collapsible building formed by at least one unit comprising at least one level, in which the floor and the ceiling of a unit are hinged together by means of braces, the ends of which on the one hand to upturned floor edges and on the other hand, to downturned ceiling edges, so as to be swingable in a vertical plane.

Abstract: The invention comprises a housing unit including at least a pair of elongated footing members spaced-apart and parallel, extending in one direction of the proposed building. A plurality of spaced-apart load supporting beam members are supported directly on said footings, the beam members extending parallel to each other and at right angles to the footings. The beam members extend in cantilever fashion beyond the edges of the footings and define the longitudinal edges of the housing unit to be supported. Longitudinal beams extend in cantilever fashion at right angles to the first beams to define lateral edges of the housing unit.

Abstract: A preformed structural panel comprises a generally rectangular precast slab having sufficient thickness for load-carrying capability, and a joining arrangement extending across the slab and spaced from opposed sides thereof. About one-half of the joining arrangement is a tapered solid region and the remainder of the joining arrangement is a complementarily tapered void region. The solid joining region is capable of interfitting tightly within the void region of a similar structural panel, and the void region is capable of receiving the solid region of the other panel in tightly interfitting relationship, so that the structural panel when thus interfitted is positively prevented from angular displacement with respect to such other panel.The invention also contemplates unique building structures constructed from such panels.

Abstract: A concrete floor is constructed at least partially about a supporting hollow core tower. The hollow core tower, which preferably includes a rectangular section, closely conforms to the border of the floor at the elevational outside section where the floor is fastened. The floor at its edge, immediate the tower sides, is provided with beam defining folds preferably bent down at an angle in the range of 30.degree. to 60.degree. from the major plane of the floor. At least one beam at each tower and at least two non-linearly aligned beams at each floor are nested at the floor-tower interface, typically below the major supporting surface of the floor. The tower sidewall at the floor is transpierced and threaded to receive a tension support member angularly depending downwardly and outwardly from the inside of the tower to the outside of the tower. Likewise and in registry with apertures transpierced in the tower, the beam at the tower inside includes apertures extending angularly downward.

Abstract: At least one hollow core tower (preferably of a rectangular construction) is constructed from a foundation to a preselected floor supporting height. The tower is preferably joined at the top and slotted vertically along at least one sidewall from the base of the tower to a partial height of the tower. Preferably the tower is slotted along opposed sidewalls to form opposed C-shaped sections confronting one another at the slots. After at least the lowest and ground adjacent portion of the tower is constructed, floors are built about the tower at or near ground level. The floors include a section extending into or across the tower at the slot or slots which preferably includes a cantilevered or spanning horizontal floor strengthening beam. Typically, the floors are constructed and stacked one on another at their ground level with the bottom floor built first and lowest, and the top floor or roof built last and highest at the top of the ground supported stack.

Abstract: The building construction is an assembly of any desired number of like individual block-like components which are in the main of wood, each externally and/or internally sheathed with a skin, preferably of plyboard or the like; and each unit affords at least one occupancy space, such as a livingroom, bedroom, kitchen, office, etc. Said blocks each have the outline in a transverse upright plane of an equilateral parallelogram, more specifically as shown herein an oblique-angled parallelogram or rhombus which is disposed with its major diagonal in a horizontal plane. Such blocks are rigidly connected or stably pivoted together at their ends and/or sides, as by bolted steel bracket plate units, in end-to-end and/or side-by-side relation at the apices or major or minor diagonals thereof, being in any desired rectilinear end or side array, or in a laterally staggered arrangement.

Abstract: A pre-fabricated unit, usable singly or with others in constructing a building, has a roof section and a floor section interconnected by central end columns, the roof and floor sections both being rectangular, each being formed with transverse beams across its ends and longitudinal corrugations between the beams. When two units are superimposed, the floor section beams of the upper one bear on the roof section beams of the lower, the corrugations of the two sections interfitting with some clearance and forming longitudinal roof and floor ducts for service lines and conduits which communicate with transverse ducts formed between the beams and corrugations of the roof section.

Abstract: The modular building system of this invention relates generally, but not exclusively, to habitations. The system comprises at least two individual room or space modules which are individually secured to their foundations and at least one additional individual room or space module which structurally spans between and interconnects at least two of the aforementioned foundation secured modules.In the preferred embodiment of this invention, the enclosing shells of the modules are comprised of a plurality of prefabricated sections, the shapes of which are derived from the geometry of a spherical square. A great variety of floor plan arrangements can be realized within the scope of the invention by interconnecting individual room or space modules, either laterally or vertically into various groupings, any one of which comprises one particular building.

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.

Abstract: The present prefabricated structural element is especially adapted for the formation of balconies or other cantilevered structures. To this end a floor slab section or main section is joined to a balcony or cantilevered section by reinforcing steel elements which are connected to or in both sections and which bridge a gap between the sections. The gap width between the sections is preferably narrower than the top width of a supporting member, such as a wall or header, so that the gap may be filled with poured-in-place concrete once the element is properly placed in the desired position on top of the header or other supporting structure.

Abstract: A plurality of laterally spaced, generally parallel, cantilever arch frame assemblies formed by interlock T-shaped vertical column members have inwardly and outwardly directed integral, projecting arms at their upper ends. A horizontal beam member is cantilever mounted to one of the arms and a semi-arch member fixed at its base to the ground outwardly of the column has its upper end mounted to the other arm. Roof panels are fixed at opposed edges to respective horizontal beam members by slidably coupling the roof panel to the beam member by interengaging male and female connectors which are respectively integral therewith. Sidewall panels slidably engage integral connectors on the sides of the vertical column member in similar fashion. Corner beams pinned at their ends to the vertical columns are interconnected through female and male connectors with confronting edges of the roof panel and sidewall panel.

Abstract: A dwelling for humans comprising a preferably prebuilt housing enclosure which maximizes living space approximately at the eye level of a person seated therewithin. The enclosure is supported above the ground in cradle-like support means which are partially buried and have cradle portions protruding above the ground. The enclosure may be trucked to an installation site since it includes at least one dimension within maximum size limitations for loads to be transported on public highways.