Collar-form, full-moment structural connection with angular, confronting, load-transfer, corner facets
AssigneeConXtech, Inc.
InventorRobert J. Simmons
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AssigneeConXtech, Inc.
InventorRobert J. Simmons
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A collar-form, nodal connection between the ends of beams and the outside of a column including (a) column-mount node components, joined to and distributed around the outside of the column at a defined location along its length, (b) planar beam-mount node components connected to beam ends and arranged in a collar form circumsurrounding the column-mount node components, with adjacent beam-mount node components possessing adjacent lateral sides including confronting load-compression faces that lie in planes which are disposed at angles of substantially 45-degrees relative to the respective planes of their associated beam-mount components, and (c) for each pair of adjacent beam-mount-component lateral sides, operatively connected nut-and-bolt structure extending through the associated beam-mount components' lateral sides, appropriately tightened within the overall nodal connection to produce compression in confrontingly adjacent load-compression faces which is effective within the connection to promote column-circumsurrounding load delivery from the beams through the connection to the column.
A collar-form, nodal connection between the end of a beam and the outside of an elongate, orthogonal-cross-section column possessing sides, said connection, in operative condition, comprising
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