Building system for manufactured homes
AssigneeStackhouse, Inc.
InventorsJanelle Leann Briggs, Ryan Timothy Egan, Randel Jacob
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Abstract
A multi-story building (200) is described for manufactured homes (212) such as container homes. The building (200) includes a ground floor (202), a number of intermediate floors (204), and a top floor (206). The building (200) includes a throughway (208) on the ground floor (202) that allows passage of a transportation vehicle (210) such as a flatbed truck carrying a manufactured home (212). The transportation vehicle (210) can use the throughway (208) to position the manufactured home (212) in alignment with a hoistway (214). A hoist mounted on the roof (216) can then be used to hoist the home (212) to a desired floor (204 or 206).
Claims12
A method for placing one or more manufactured homes in a residential environment, each of said manufactured homes having an internal living space built on a structural frame, having a frame bottom, where the structural frame allows the manufactured home to be lifted and moved, said manufactured home having at least one doorway, where a doorway bottom of said doorway is vertically offset from said frame bottom, said method comprising:
- providing a residential structure including a platform having an upper surface for providing access to one or more manufactured homes and a dock, disposed in said platform, for receiving a first manufactured home, said dock including dock structure defining a recess relative to the platform configured such that, when said first manufactured home including said frame bottom is disposed in said recess, said doorway bottom is no lower than said upper surface of said platform;
- transporting said manufactured home to said residential structure on a transportation vehicle;
- removing said manufactured home from said transportation vehicle;
- wherein said removing comprises lifting said manufactured home from said transportation vehicle to said platform of said residential structure:
- wherein said residential structure comprises a multistory building, and said lifting comprises operating a lifting device mounted on said residential structure to lift said manufactured home from said transportation vehicle to sa id platform:
- wherein said multi-story building comprises a centrally disposed hoistway, and said lifting comprises positioning said first transportation device under said hoistway, connecting said lifting device to said manufactured home, and operating said lifting device to lift said manufactured home through said hoistway;
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- positioning said manufactured home in said recess of said dock structure.
A method for installing manufactured homes comprising:
- providing a building structure including a plurality of vertically stacked floors, each floor comprising a plurality of manufactured home docks;
- operating a lifting device, mounted on said building structure, for lifting a manufactured home to a desired one of said vertically stacked floors;
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- providing a hoistway opening extending through at least a first floor of said floors, wherein said operating comprises passing one of said manufactured homes through the hoistway;
- wherein said hoistway opening has a plurality of guide flaps pivotably connected to edges of the hoistway opening, wherein the guide flaps pivot from a first position angled relative to said first floor and a second position parallel to said first floor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.