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OwnerSteven Traulsen, Robert McClellaninventors
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Prefabricated reinforced stackable concrete panels are provided for forming walls and roofs of multi-story buildings. Each panel has an embedded grid of vertical and horizontal steel rods secured together where they cross. The grid is anchored by brackets welded to a base plate along the bottom of each panel, and to another plate along the top. Leveling means (screw jack devices) are anchored to the top plate. At ground level the base plate of each prefabricated panel is welded to an elongated plate embedded in the concrete foundation. A second story is formed by stacking panels on a floor pan anchored to the leveling means of the first story panels, and a pour of concrete completes the inter-story floor, embedding the leveling means. Successive stories and roof panels may be added and anchored to the stories below in the same manner, creating an exceptionally strong structure of up to six to eight stories, firmly anchored to the foundation by the tying together of the reinforcing grids of the stacked panels. The interconnections of the reinforcement grids, the inter-story floors, roof and foundation create a steel skeleton analogous to the steel skeletons of modern construction of skyscrapers.
A panel having anchoring means for tying said grid of embedded reinforcing rods of a first such panel to the grid of embedded reinforcing rods of a like panel stacked upon the first such panel.
An improved panel wherein each panel has a top plate affixed atop said upper horizontal face, said top plate having an underside, and a bottom plate affixed under its bottom horizontal face, said bottom plate having an upper side, said panel comprising:
The combination of a first panel and a like panel connected in a stack to form a structural component of a multi-story building;
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