Building, method and apparatus for the construction thereof

A method of erecting a building essentially from pre-fabricated elements comprising steel carrying and supporting sections and wall, ceiling, floor, roof and the like panel members, wherein the carrying and supporting sections are generally U-shaped in cross section and formed with at least one end flange extending generally outwardly from the end of at least one of the legs of said U-shaped sections, comprising:

• securing first ones of said sections having a single end flange, peripherally embracing the floor so that said single end flange of each extends upwardly from the floor;
• securing stiles to said single end flange of said first ones of said sections so as to extend upwardly from the floor, said stiles being formed by second ones of said sections having two legs each formed with an end flange extending generally outwardly from the end thereof;
• peripherally clampingly engaging wall panels between laterally spaced adjacent stiles for the former to be retained therebetween;
• securing anchor means to the upper portion of the stiles, said anchor means having a vertically extending upper portion;
• securing tie beams between upper portions of opposing stiles in engagement with the upper portion of the anchor means so as to hold the stiles mutually together, said tie beams comprising third ones of said sections having two legs each formed with an end flange extending generally outwardly from the end thereof, said legs extending downwardly;
• clampingly engaging wall plates to the upper margins of the wall panels so as to overlie the upper ends of the stiles with the upper portion of the anchor means extending through the wall plates, said wall plates being formed by fourth ones of said sections having two legs each formed with an end flange extending generally outwardly from the downwardly extending legs;
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• anchoring roof beams comprising fifth ones of said sections to the upper portion of the anchor means for supporting roof panels thereon, each of said fifth ones of said sections having two legs each formed with an end flange extending generally outwardly from the end thereof and said legs extending downwardly;
• the anchoring of the stiles with the wall plates and the roof carrying fifth ones of said sections being effected by driving home wedges inserted through holes in the upper ends of the anchor means extending at the top of the stiles, which anchor means are also inserted through fitting openings in the webs of roof support pieces having a U-shaped cross section resting with their webs on the wall plates, and wherein the roof carrying fifth ones of said sections are secured to the upright legs of the roof support pieces;
• the web portion of the roof support pieces supported on the wall plates has a lip or tongue cut out from it and bent downwardly, which lip or tongue is inserted into a fitting recess in the end portion of the web of a tie-beam, while the roof support piece is positioned on the anchor means extending from the stile by an opening in its web fitting said anchor means.

A building comprising:

• a floor peripherally embraced by first sections secured thereto, each first section being generally U-shaped in cross section and having at least one end flange extending generally upward from the floor;
• a plurality of horizontally spaced vertically extending stiles secured to the upwardly extendng flanges of the first sections, each stile comprising at least one second section having a generally U-shaped cross section with profiled legs and end flanges extending outwardly from the ends of said legs;
• wall panels secured to and extendng between adjacent vertically extending stiles;
• anchor means secured to the stiles and having a portion extending vertically upward for anchoring roof beams to the stiles;
• wall plates comprising beams generally U-shaped in cross section with end flanges at the ends of the legs of said U-shaped sections extending outwardly therefrom, said wall plates being secured to the upper portions of the stiles by the anchor means;
• tie-beams having generally U-shaped cross sections with end flanges extending outwardly from the ends of the legs of said U-shaped sections, said tie-beams extending between and coupling upper portions of opposing stiles;
• roof support pieces having generally U-shaped cross sections positioned with their web portions secured to and resting on the wall plates, with the legs of the roof support pieces extending substantially vertically upward, and
• roof beams having a generally U-shaped cross section with end flanges extending outwardly from the ends of the legs of said U-shaped sections, secured at their end portions to the legs of the roof support pieces;
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• roof panels secured to said roof beams.