Miniature house construction
OwnerRobert J. Misterkainventor
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Abstract
An L-shaped member which provides a support for the exterior wall sections and the ground flooring in the construction of miniature homes. The member is secured to the top of the foundation pieces and includes a base portion joined to an upstanding shoulder portion. The bottom of an exterior wall section is joined to the base portion and the bottom of the ground flooring is secured to the top of the shoulder portion about the periphery of the flooring. The member provides the correct elevational relationship of the ground flooring to a door in a wall.
Claims1
An improvement in the construction of a miniature home comprising ground flooring having a top surface, an underside and outer edges and an exterior side wall section having front, back and bottom surfaces, the improvement comprising:
- means for simultaneously supporting said flooring and said exterior side wall section in perpendicular relationship to each other, said supporting means comprising an L-shaped member having a top ledge portion, a bottom ledge portion and a vertical section interconnecting said top and bottom ledge portions with said top ledge portion terminating in said vertical section and said bottom ledge portion laterally extending from the bottom of said vertical section for a distance at least equal to the width of said exterior wall section, whereby said flooring is supported on said underside adjacent said outer edges on said top ledge portion and said exterior wall section is supported along said bottom surface on said bottom ledge portion, the bottommost member of said exterior wall section being a single unit and the remaining portion of said exterior wall section being formed of multiple units of said single unit and wherein said ground flooring is supported on said top ledge portion so that said top surface of said ground flooring is so-planar with the upper surface of said single unit when said exterior wall section is supported on said bottom ledge portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.