Method of fabricating building wall panels
AssigneeComposite Panel Systems, LLC
InventorsGerhard P. Schiffmann, Glenn P. Schiffmann
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Abstract
Wall panels and building walls, comprising inner and outer layers, and spaced reinforcing webs extending between the inner and outer layers. Optionally studs extend inwardly from the inner layer away from the outer layer with one of the stud legs on each stud being aligned with one of the reinforcing webs. or the building load delivered to an underlying footer varies less than 50% ser 10 foot length of the wall or height of the wall varies no more than 0.25 inch over a 40 foot length of the wall. The resulting wall panel can provide tough, water-proof, otherwise weather-proof, building systems and buildings.
Claims15
1-13. (canceled)
A structural outer wall in a building, comprising an upright fiber-reinforced polymeric structural building panel, said building panel overlying a footer, said building panel having a height extending between a top and a bottom of said building panel, a length, and a thickness, said structural building panel comprising:
- a first outer fiber-reinforced structural polymeric layer;
- (b) a second inner fiber-reinforced structural polymeric layer spaced from said first layer by a first distance;
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- (c) one or more structurally reinforcing webs, spaced from each other, and extending from said first fiber-reinforced polymeric layer to said second fiber-reinforced polymeric layer
- said structural building panel being subjected to an overlying building load, and delivering such overlying building load to the footer such that the delivered load generally varies by less than about 50 percent along any one 10 foot length of the footer.
A fiber-reinforced polymeric building panel, said building panel having a height extending between a top and a bottom of said building panel, a length, and a thickness, all defined when said building panel is in an upright use orientation, said building panel comprising:
- (a) a first outer fiber-reinforced polymeric layer;
- (b) a second inner fiber-reinforced structural polymeric layer spaced from said first layer by a first distance;
- (c) one or more reinforcing webs, spaced from each other, and extending from said first fiber-reinforced polymeric layer to said second fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, each said reinforcing web having a length defined along the height of said building panel, a width defined along the thickness of said building panel, and a thickness defined along the length of said building panel;
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- (d) a plurality of fiber-reinforced polymeric studs spaced from each other along the length of said building panel and extending along the height of said building panel, each said stud comprising first and second legs (128) extending away from said inner layer, to an end panel (130),
- a said one of said legs (128) having a thickness defined along the length of said building panel and having a first length aligned with the height of said building panel, and
- one of said reinforcing webs having a second length aligned with, and in a common imaginary plane with, the first length of said one of said legs (128).
22-28. (canceled)
A structural outer wall in a building, comprising an upright fiber-reinforced polymeric structural building panel, said building panel overlying a footer, said building panel having a height extending between a top and a bottom of said building panel, a length, and a thickness, said structural building panel comprising:
- (a) a first outer reinforced structural polymeric layer;
- (b) a second inner fiber-reinforced structural polymeric layer spaced from said first layer by a first distance, whereby one or more spaces exist between said inner and outer layers;
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- one or more structurally reinforcing webs, spaced from each other, and extending between said inner layer and said outer layer,
- said structural building panel, having a height variation corresponding to a height variation over a 40 foot length of said building panel, at the top of said building panel, of no more than about 0.25 inch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.