US 4,065,895 AGranted

Wood building construction

OwnerRichard S. Shank, Fred H. Hermansoninventors

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Abstract

The wood building construction is comprised of a panelized wall and/or floor construction which does not require any masonry foundation whatsoever. The vertically extending wall panels are connected to the floor panels in such a manner as to transmit forces acting on the perimeter wall to the floor system and are connected to each other in such a manner as to define a post construction having beam sockets for multiple floor and roof levels. Each vertically extending wall panel for a multi-level construction can extend continuously from the gravel support bed to the roof line to present an unbroken vertical line. The wall panels are constructed and arranged so that each joint is covered by trim and all openings are pretrimmed to allow in situ installation of doors and windows with a minimum of labor.

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Dependent claims

A wood building construction comprising a plurality of wood support plates adapted to be placed directly on a gravel support bed, a plurality of prefabricated rectilinear floor panels, each of said floor panels comprising a plurality of parallel spaced apart joists and a plurality of rectilinear deck boards disposed transversely of said joints and secured thereto with one end of each board only partially overlapping an outer one of said joists and the other end of each deck board extending beyond the other outer joist of said joists a distance equal to the spacing between said joists and secured to said outer one of the joists of an adjacent panel, the ends of said joists terminating inwardly from the side edges of said deck boards a distance equal to the width of said joists, a plurality of prefabricated vertically extending rectilinear wall panels mounted on said support plates in abutting relation to said floor panels, each of said wall panels having a plurality of parallel spaced apart studs secured to top and bottom plates, an end plate secured to the bottom plate of each wall panel in abutting relation to the ends of said joists and means securing said side edges of said deck board to said end plates to connect said wall panels and said floor panels together.

A wood building construction comprising support plate means adapted to be placed directly on a gravel support bed, a plurality of prefabricated rectilinear wood wall panels, each of said wall panels having a plurality of parallel spaced apart studs secured to top and bottom plates and external wood sheathing secured to said studs, each of said panels having at least one additional beam supporting stud secured to at least one side edge of each panel with the top end thereof being spaced from the top end of the panel by a distance equal to the thickness of a floor beam, means connecting two panels having said additional beam support stud on opposing edge surfaces to define a beam supporting pocket adjacent the top of said panels for a first floor level.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.