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US 4,231,199 AGranted
Method and components for construction of building from concrete slabs
OwnerNicolas Q. Gomez, Raul Martininventors
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Abstract
A plurality of modular reinforced concrete panels of a generally uniform coacting design having overlapping edges are sequentially arranged in relation to each other upon a reinforced concrete slab to provide an efficient economical building structure. The building is thus constructed with unskilled labor in a relatively short period of time.
Claims25
A single story building which comprises:
- a plurality of load-bearing walls each consisting of a plurality of pre-cast concrete load-bearing wall panels;
- said wall panels having substantially identical horizontal cross-sections and having substantially thicker portions in their vertical edges than between said portions;
- a substantially horizontal concrete framework which continuously defines on its lower side longitudinally disposed channels receiving the upper edges of said wall panels of said plurality of walls;
- said wall panels being assembled in an overlapping relationship and alternately offset relative to the longitudinal horizontal centerline of said wall in which they are contained and overlapping with adjacent wall panels in the same wall whereby a vertical plane may be received in each said wall of the building whereby said wall panels are alternately spaced from said plane except at said vertical edge portions which are overlapping, said edge portions of all said wall panels being intersected by said plane;
- a substantially horizontal floor slab which continuously defines recesses in its upper side, said recesses being spaced vertically directly under and corresponding to said channels, said wall panels having their lower edges secured to said floor slab in said recesses and their upper edges secured to said framework in said channels;
- a roof secured on top of said concrete framework;
- said recesses and said channels for each corresponding wall comprised of wall panels secured therein continuously receiving said vertical plane for said corresponding wall;
- said roof and said framework being substantially entirely supported from said slab by said wall panels.
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A method of constructing a building comprising the steps of:
- casting a reinforced concrete floor slab having interior and exterior wall fastening means thereon;
- fastening exterior wall and interior wall forming panels thereto in a sequence where the panels in a first group are fastened spaced apart a distance sufficient to accommodate further panels of a second group in opposed, overlapped relations thereto;
- then fastening a second group comprising said opposed, overlapping panels to said slab;
- providing accessways in said exterior and interior walls;
- directly connecting said panels together along their upper edges by roof supporting beam members whereby each said beam member receives on its lower edge said upper edges of said panels of the corresponding directly underlying said wall;
- fastening roof forming panels to said beams in a sequence where a first group of said roof forming panels are fastened spaced apart a distance sufficient to accommodate a further group of roof forming panels in opposed overlapped relation thereto;
- then fastening said further group of opposed, overlapped roof forming panels to said beams.
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A single story building which comprises:
- a plurality of load-bearing walls each consisting of a plurality of precast concrete load-bearing wall panels of substantially uniform horizontal cross-section which have vertical edge portions which are thicker than the thickness of said wall panels between said edge portions;
- a substantially horizontal concrete framework which continuously defines on its lower sides longitudinally disposed means receiving the upper edges of said wall panels of said plurality of walls;
- said wall panels being assembled with said vertical edge portions in an overlapping relationship, said wall panels being alternately offset relative to longitudinal horizontal centerline of said wall in which they are contained and overlapping with adjacent wall panels in the same walls whereby a vertical plane may be received through each said wall of the building wherein said wall panels are alternately spaced from said plane except for said overlapping edge portions which all intersect said plane;
- a substantially horizontal floor slab which continuously defines receiving means on its upper side, said receiving means being spaced vertically under and corresponding to said longitudinally disposed means, said wall panels having their lower edges secured to said receiving means and their upper edges secured to said longitudinally disposed means;
- a roof secured on top of said concrete framework;
- said roof and said framework being substantially entirely supported from said slab by said wall panels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.