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AssigneesDominic Joseph Masiello, Louise A. Masiello
InventorDominic J. Masiello
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A building constructed mainly of a series of modular units permanently united to each other. Various different forms of units are provided, and units of different forms may be arranged in various different relations to each other, to provide a choice of floor plans. Each unit is a rigid structure having a floor slab portion and one or more wall portions integrally connected to the floor slab portion and rising to the full height of the story, at least some of the wall portions of most of the units being offset laterally inwardly from the edges of the floor slab portion. When various units of the same story are assembled in side by side relation, the wall portion or portions of one unit cooperate with the wall portion or portions of one or more additional units to provide an enclosure constituting a room. The floor slab portions of the next higher story rest on the top edges of the wall portions of the story immediately below. A suitable roof structure is provided over the assembled units, and various special or supplementary units are used to provide stairs, hallways, or other special situations. Appropriate plumbing fixtures and kitchen appliances are preferably installed in the modular units at the factory where the units are made, in such a way that only a few connections need be completed at the building site when the units are assembled to make the habitable building structure, in order to put the plumbing and kitchen equipment into fully operational condition.
A habitable building structure comprising a series of separate living areas intended for occupancy by different persons, said living areas being formed at least mainly from a series of separate modular units assembled in side by side relation to each other, said modular units being of a plurality of different kinds, at least some of said modular units each having a rigid floor slab portion and a corridor wall portion rising from and formed integrally with the floor slab portion, adjacent modular units being assembled with their respective corridor wall portions in alignment with each other and with the respective side edges of the floor slab portions substantially engaging each other, the respective modular units extending from a composite corridor wall in a direction perpendicular to such corridor wall to an outer end arranged generally parallel to said corridor wall, at least some of said modular units having an approximately central wall portion rising from and formed integrally with the floor slab portion of that unit and extending from said corridor wall to said outer end in a position set materially inwardly from both lateral edges of that modular unit so that a substantial part of the floor area of that modular unit lies on each side of said central wall portion, each of said separate living areas being formed in part from that portion of one modular unit lying on one side of its central wall portion and that portion of an adjacent modular unit lying on the adjacent side of its central wall portion, a series of said modular units being assembled in a row on one side of a corridor, another series of modular units being assembled in a second row on the opposite side of the same corridor, the floor slab portions of certain of said modular units being extended in cantilever fashion beyond the respective corridor wall portions thereof to form portions of the floor of the corridor.
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