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US 11,203,865 B2Granted
Beam and bolting construction system and method
AssigneeRedrider, LLC
InventorStephen Hanson
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Abstract
Beam segments made of a somewhat compressible material may be arranged with the top surface of each beam segment substantially in contact with the bottom surface of a next beam segment between a first beam segment and a last beam segment. A plurality of bolt bores extends between the top and bottom surfaces of each of the beam segments in substantial alignment through each of the beam segments. The bolt bores are spaced apart to receive corresponding bolt segments and tightening fasteners compressed between the first beam segment and the last beam segment. The beam segments may be compressed to form a combined beam structure that forms a building structure unit. The combined beam structure may be joined with other combined beam structures to form walls and floors for a building structure.
Claims30
A building structure comprising:
- a first combined beam structure comprising a first plurality of beam segments,
- a second combined beam structure comprising a second plurality of beam segments, and a third combined beam structure comprising a third plurality of beam segments, each of the first, second, and third plurality of beam segments comprising a first beam segment and a last beam segment, each of the beam segments in the first, second, and third plurality of beam segments having a rectangular cross-section including a planar top surface and a planar bottom surface extending between a pair of beam ends, and arranged with at least most of the top surface of each of the plurality of beam segments in direct contact with at least most of the bottom surface of a next one of the plurality of beam segments between the first beam segment and the last beam segment, where each beam segment includes a plurality of bolt bores extending between the top and bottom surfaces in substantial alignment through each of the first, second and third plurality of beam segments, where the bolt bores are formed in a spaced apart arrangement and configured to receive a corresponding plurality of bolt segments configured to receive a plurality of tightening fasteners for applying compression between the first beam segment and the last beam segment in each of the first, second and third plurality of beam segments;
- where the first, second and third plurality of beam segments are made of a material that is compressible to form an integrated structure when the tightening fasteners are tightened;
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- a first wall structure junction between the first combined beam structure and the second combined beam structure formed by a joint side of the first combined beam structure interlocking with a joint side of the second combined beam structure, where a staggered pattern formed on the joint side of the first combined beam structure interlocks with the staggered pattern formed on the joint side of the second combined beam structure;
- a floor mounted on a foundation, the floor comprising a plurality of floor holes aligned with corresponding bolt bores in the first plurality of beam segments and the second plurality of beam segments, where the bolt segments extend into the floor holes to affix the floor to the first combined beam structure or the second combined beam structure, where the floor comprises the third combined beam structure.
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A building structure comprising:
- a first combined beam structure and a second combined beam structure each comprising a plurality of beam segments including a first beam segment and a last beam segment, each of the plurality of beam segments having a rectangular cross-section including a planar top surface and a planar bottom surface extending between a pair of beam ends, and arranged with at least most of the top surface of each of the plurality of beam segments in direct contact with at least most of the bottom surface of a next one of the plurality of beam segments between the first beam segment and the last beam segment, where each beam segment includes a plurality of bolt bores extending between the top and bottom surfaces in substantial alignment through each of the plurality of beam segments, where the bolt bores are formed in a spaced apart arrangement and configured to receive a corresponding plurality of bolt segments configured to receive a plurality of tightening fasteners for applying compression between the first beam segment and the last beam segment;
- where the plurality of beam segments in each of the first and second combined beam structures are made of a material that is compressible to form an integrated structure when the tightening fasteners are tightened;
- a wall structure junction between the first combined beam structure and the second combined beam structure formed by a joint side of the first combined beam structure interlocking with the joint side of the second combined beam structure, where a staggered pattern formed on the joint side of the first combined beam structure interlocks with the staggered pattern formed on the joint side of the second combined beam structure;
- where the first combined beam structure forms a first wall, and the second combined beam structure forms a second wall;
- at least one additional combined beam structure comprising another plurality of beam segments configured to form at least one additional wall configured to form at least one additional wall structure junction with the first wall, the second wall or another wall, where the first wall, the second wall, and the at least one additional wall combine to form an enclosed interior;
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- a roof extending at least over all of the enclosed interior;
- where an access gap is provided at a top of each of the first wall, the second wall and the at least one additional wall and around one or more tightening fasteners such that after construction, each of the one or more tightening fasteners are accessible from an interior side of an uppermost one of the plurality of beam segments on each of the first wall, the second wall and the at least one additional wall to adjust a pressure applied by the tightening fasteners.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.