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US 4,056,906 AGranted
Building framework for timber house of log-cabin appearance
AssigneeArca Holding S.A.
InventorCarry Allon Elfstrom
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Abstract
A building constructed in log-cabin style has outer walls formed from superposed wooden boards which, on adjacent walls meeting at a corner joint, are relatively offset by half the height of a board. Each board terminates at the joint in a tongue of reduced height and thickness lying flat against a side of a reduced neck of an associated junction block, also of wood, whose enlarged head partly overlies the tongues of two boards of the orthogonally adjoining wall. The tongues and associated blocks may be positively interlinked by mating ribs and grooves, a dove-tail fit or other surface formations; they could also be held together by nails and/or glue. Aligned pairs of boards of the same wall can be held together by similar blocks offset from them by half their height.
Claims16
A building framework comprising:
- two mutually orthogonal walls meeting at a corner, one of said walls comprising a set of coplanar superposed first boards forming a first outer wall surface, the other of said walls comprising a set of coplanar superposed second boards forming a second outer wall surface, all said first and second boards being of the same height, said second boards being vertically offset by half said height from said first boards;
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- first and second junction blocks with projecting heads substantially as high as said boards and with reduced necks not more than half as high as said boards, said first and second junction blocks being alternately superposed by their necks at said corner on the levels of said first and second boards, respectively, said first boards having tongues disposed alongside the necks of said first junction blocks and held in position by the heads of said second junction blocks, said second boards having tongues disposed alongside the necks of said second junction blocks and held in position by the heads of said first junction blocks, said tongues being narrower than said boards and recessed from said outer wall surfaces, said heads and said boards adjoining one another along beveled flanks.
A building framework comprising:
- two mutually orthogonal walls meeting at a corner, one of said walls comprising a set of coplanar superposed first boards forming a first outer wall surface, the other of said walls comprising a set of coplanar superposed second boards forming a second outer wall surface, all said first and second boards being of the same height, said second boards being vertically offset by half said height from said first boards;
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- first and second junction blocks with projecting heads substantially as high as said boards and with reduced necks not more than half as high as said boards, said first and second junction blocks being alternately superposed by their necks at said corner on the levels of said first and second boards, respectively, said first boards having tongues disposed alongside the necks of said first junction blocks and held in position by the heads of said second junction blocks, said second boards having tongues disposed alongside the necks of said second junction blocks and held in position by the heads of said first junction blocks, said junction blocks being provided with inward extensions substantially as high as said boards and laterally enlarged on the sides opposite said tongues, said extensions of said first and second junction blocks adjoining one another along beveled flanks.
A building framework comprising:
- two mutually orthogonal walls meeting at a corner, one of said walls comprising a set of coplanar superposed first boards forming a first outer wall surface, the other of said walls comprising a set of coplanar superposed second boards forming a second outer wall surface, all said first and second boards being of the same height, said second boards being vertically offset by half said height from said first boards;
- first and second junction blocks with projecting heads substantially as high as said boards and with reduced necks not more than half as high as said boards, said first and second junction blocks being alternately superposed by their necks at said corner on the levels of said first and second boards, respectively, said first boards having tongues disposed alongside the necks of said first junction blocks and held in position by the heads of said second junction blocks, said second boards having tongues disposed alongside the necks of said second junction blocks and held in position by the heads of said first junction blocks, said one of said walls having a pair of additional boards aligned with a pair of said first boards at a location remote from said corner, said pairs of first and additional boards having adjoining ends provided with tongues of reduced height framing a four-sided aperture;
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- an intermediate block at said location having a neck received in said aperture, a head overlying said framing tongues on said first outer wall surface and an inward extension overlying said framing tongues from within.
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A method of erecting a building framework with two mutually orthogonal walls meeting at a corner, comprising the steps of:
- preassembling a set of boards with respective junction blocks each having a projecting head of substantially the height of said boards and a reduced neck of substantially half said height, each board having a tongue not higher than said neck coming to rest against the neck of the respective junction block;
- forming a stack of said junction blocks with the latter alternately facing in mutually perpendicular directions, with superposition of the necks of said junction blocks in a column and with formation of a vertical clearance between the head of each junction block and the necks of the perpendicularly facing adjoining blocks, said clearance accommodating the tongue of the board respectively preassembled with each junction block;
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- interfitting the boards preassembled with said perpendicularly facing junction blocks in coplanar superposed relationship to form said mutually orthogonal walls.
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