US 10,767,379 B1Granted

Method of seating a floor panel

AssigneeACSM, Inc.

InventorsBret Robert McLeod, Patrick Merrick Judson

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Abstract

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a floor panel seating assembly. The floor panel seating assembly can include adjustable, removable brackets or guides for guiding cross-members and joists of floor panels into their desired positions on a support structure. Also disclosed herein are embodiments of a method of seating a floor panel. The method can include providing one or more adjustable, removable bracket or guide, adjusting the guide(s) to accommodate the width of a wall of the support structure and/or the sizes of the cross-members or joists of the floor panel, mounting the guide(s) to the support structure, and lowering a floor panel into position on the support structure using the guide(s).

Claims17

Dependent claims

A method of positioning at least one floor panel during construction of a building, the method comprising:

providing a first assembled floor panel including a plurality of joists extending between a first pair of sides and a pair of cross-members extending between a second pair of sides;
locating a desired first floor panel position on a support structure for a floor panel, said support structure including an upper support surface;
mounting a first bracket in a desired bracket position to the support structure, such that said first bracket defines a first portion and a second portion defining an opening for receiving one of the pair of cross-members of the first floor panel between said first portion and said second portion;
mounting a second bracket in a desired bracket position to the support structure, such that said second bracket defines a first segment and a second segment defining an opening for receiving one of the plurality of joists of the first floor panel between said first segment and said second segment;
positioning said first floor panel such that one of the pair of cross-members of the first floor panel is positioned between said first portion and said second portion of said first bracket and is supported by the upper support surface of the support structure, and such that one of the plurality of joists of the first floor panel is positioned between said first segment and said second segment of said second bracket;
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positioning the first floor panel relative to an assembled second floor panel, said second assembled floor panel including a plurality of joists extending between a first pair of sides and a pair of cross-members extending between a second pair of sides, at least one of said pair of cross-members of the second floor panel extending beyond an outermost of the plurality of joists of the second floor panel, further comprising positioning said second bracket adjacent to at least one of said at least one end of said pair of cross-members of the second floor panel and positioning said first floor panel such that a portion of one of the plurality of joists of the first floor panel is positioned adjacent to said at least one end of said pair of cross-members extending beyond an outermost of the plurality of joists of the second floor panel.

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A method of positioning at least one floor panel during construction of a building, the method comprising:

providing a first assembled floor panel including a plurality of joists extending between a first pair of sides and a pair of cross-members extending between a second pair of sides;
locating a desired first floor panel position on a support structure for a floor panel, said support structure including an upper support surface;
mounting a first bracket in a desired bracket position to the support structure, such that said first bracket defines a first portion and a second portion defining an opening for receiving one of the pair of cross-members of the first floor panel between said first portion and said second portion;
mounting a second bracket in a desired bracket position to the support structure, such that said second bracket defines a first segment and a second segment defining an opening for receiving either (1) one of the plurality of joists of the first floor panel between said first segment and said second segment or (2) the one of the plurality of cross-members of the first floor panel between said first segment and said second segment;
positioning said first floor panel such that one of the pair of cross-members of the first floor panel is positioned between said first portion and said second portion of said first bracket and either (1) one of the plurality of joists of the first floor panel is positioned between said first segment and said second segment of the second bracket or (2) the one of the plurality of cross-members is positioned between said first segment and said second segment of said second bracket positioning the first floor panel relative to an assembled second floor panel, said second assembled floor panel including a plurality of joists extending between a first pair of sides and a pair of cross-members extending between a second pair of sides, further comprising
positioning said second bracket adjacent to at least one of said pair of cross-members of the second floor panel and positioning said first floor panel such that a portion of one of the plurality of joists of the first floor panel is positioned adjacent to said at least one end of said pair of cross-members of the second floor panel;
and after positioning the first floor panel relative to the assembled second floor panel,
removing said first bracket and said second bracket from the support structure.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/707,418Filed 9 Dec 2019 · us provisional application
Priority: 12 Aug 2019
Granted: 8 Sep 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

E04B 1/10
Structures consisting primarily of load-supporting, block-shaped, or slab-shaped elements: the elements consisting of wood
E04G 21/1841
Adjusting tools; Templates: means for positioning building parts or elements
E04B 1/35
Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs: extraordinary…
E04B 2001/3572
Extraordinary methods of construction, e.g. lift-slab, jack-block: using templates or jigs to set out buildings or parts thereof

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Application62/885,479Us provisional application · filed 12 Aug 2019
Application62/937,672Us provisional application · filed 19 Nov 2019
US 10,767,379 B1This patent

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