Matrix frame/panel skin building structure
OwnerRobert J. Simmonsinventor
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A matrix frame system for carrying skin structure on the outside of the frame in a plural-story building. The system features plural stand-off mounts anchored to such a frame at regular, spaced, row-and-column locations located near connection nodes between columns and beams in the frame. Each mount includes an outwardly looking, mount-defining face which occupies an upright matrix support plane, which plane is spaced outwardly of, and at a defined angle to, the adjacent outside “plane” of the associated building frame. Also included in the system are plural, generally planar (including “angular planar”) matrix frame panels each having plural perimetral corners disposed adjacent different mount-defining faces in a different stand-off mounts, with pluralities of such corners of different and adjacent panels meeting at, and disposed adjacent, different, single, common mount-defining faces in different single stand-off mounts. Each frame panel has at least one pair of perimetral corners attached respectively to two different ones of the mount-defining faces. The concept of planarity for the frame panels, as used herein, applies not only to uni-planar panels, but also to angularly configured (angular planar) panels, such as corner panels, which are formed from a pair of individually planar sections.
Matrix frame surface structure for the outside of the structural frame in a plural-story building, where that structural frame also has an inside, and includes upright columns interconnected with generally horizontal beams at connection nodes distributed in a known row-and-column pattern disposed toward the outside of the structural frame, and with such columns and beams generally defining upright outside frame planes for the frame, said matrix frame surface structure, said surface structure, when disposed in operative condition on such a structural frame, comprising
2 The surface structure of claim 1, wherein said defined angle has a value of substantially zero degrees.
A surface-structure system for attachment as an installation to the components in the frame of a plural-story building, said system comprising
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.