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US 4,205,497 AGranted
Building with a frame or skeleton structure
OwnerKlaus-Werner Schirminventor
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A building made of pre-fabricated parts, with a frame or skeleton structure, the pre-fabricated members being made of an aluminium or steel alloy and comprising substantially U-shaped base connector profile members for the connection of the skeleton structure to a foundation or a base plate, upright supporting pillars in the form of hollow profile members erected on the base connector profile members, girders supported by the supporting pillars and extending substantially parallel to the base connector profile members, connector elements and bolt fasteners for interconnecting these members, and suitable roofing, wall, door and window elements connected to the structure by fasteners or suitable attachment means. The various members may be dimensioned for various loads or span widths and/or are adapted to be reinforced so as to meet a wide range of requirements and specifications, in thus allowing one floor or multi-floor buildings to be erected. Various additional members serve for adaptation of the skeleton structure to a wide range of different building finishing or remodeling requirements.
A building with a frame or skeleton structure comprising a plurality of U-shaped base connector profile members arranged on foundations or a bottom plate, a plurality of upright supporting pillars of a hollow body design and of a substantially rectilinear cross-sectional configuration mounted on said base connector profile members and being of an outer width substantially corresponding to the spacing of inner wall surfaces of lateral webs of said base connector profile members, and a plurality of girders extending parallel of said base connector profile members and being connected to said supporting pillars by bolt connections, said building being characterized in that said girders (30, 30a, 30b, 30c) are arranged as hollow profile members of a substantially rectilinear cross-sectional configuration and having narrow walls (31, 33, 31a, 33a) for respectively defining upper and lower chords, and wide side walls (32, 34, 32a) at a mutual spacing substantially corresponding to the outer width of said supporting pillars (20, 20a) for adapting said girders (30, 30a, 30b, 30c) to higher loads, the wall thickness of the narrow walls (31, 33, 31a, 33a) serving as respectively upper and lower chords is adapted to be increased in maintaining constant the cross-sectional dimensions of the profile of said girders (30, 30a, 30b, 30c,), said girders being adapted for sliding push-on type engagement with end portions of said supporting pillars (20,20a) facing away from said foundations or said bottom plate (2) for connection to said supporting pillars by bolt connectors (5);
A building according to claim 23, characterized in that special beams (137) for supporting large sized ceilings are mounted to the supporting pillars (20) by means of angle connector profile members and bolt connectors, the beams being covered by panel members (136).
A building according to claim 23, characterized in that the end portions of the supporting pillars (20) facing the roof project above the roof girders (30, 30a) and are connected, by screw connectors (176), to beams (171) of a rafter roof (170) extending from the foot (160) of the roof to the ridge (161) thereof, the beams (171) adapted to be interconnected at the ridge (161) by fishplates (177) overlapping the wide sides of the beam end portions facing the ridge (161), or by tie beams (172) disposed in lower positions, these connections being made by screw bolts (173), and that profiled sheets (174) as back-up members for the roof covering (175) are connected to the beams (171) by screw bolts of the like.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.