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US 4,280,307 AGranted
Pre-engineered construction system utilizing prefabricated members
OwnerAlphonso Griffininventor
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An improved construction system disclosed herein comprises a plurality of pre-engineered panalized or sectionalized building elements and units designed and prefabricated to include all of the basic services such as wiring, plumbing, ductwork, and the like, and materials in the form of framing structures with finished walls, flooring and ceilings adopted for ease of transport, assembly, disassembly and reassembly in accordance with flexible erection and construction processes. Each prefabricated panel or unit includes as an integral part of its structure a mechanical interconnection and interlocking means for fixedly joining each with one or more other panels along one or more preselected edge regions thereof. The interconnecting and interlocking mechanisms include a combination of architecturally sound arrangements of one or more connector plates, supporting and positioning blocks, girders or bearing plates and the like. These architecturally sound interconnecting and interlocking devices are pre-engineered and designed such that they are adaptable to meet the building code requirements of the specific community where the building is to be located. Each panel or unit is completed by having its exposed surfaces finished, and with the required utility service lines, such as wiring, plumbing, heating and the like, fashioned within the interior of the panels for mechanical, electrical and the like interconnections therebetween to provide a completely integrating utility service system when subsequently connected to incoming commercial utility supplies.
A building structure having a plurality of panels of prefabricated engineered architectural configurations assembled and erected in accordance with a preselected arrangement with one another to form a integral structure of ridgedly secured panels in fixed spaced relationship with one another wherein said plurality of assembled panels may be readily disassembled and reassembled, the combination, comprising:
A building structure as defined in claim 28 wherein arrangements of said wall or floor panels further define modular structures within said building for enclosing and physically supporting plumbing pipes for a waste disposal system and being connectable to conventional sewage disposal outlets, said arrangement consists of a wall panel having an air vented pipe contained and supported therein, said air vented pipe having a terminal end thereof for physically mating with other sections of said disposal system, a floor panel arrangement having at least one section of waste disposal piping contained and supported therein, said piping having at one end thereof an opening which terminates flush with a surface of said floor panel and a T-shaped configuration at the other end thereof for receiving said terminal end of piping within said wall panel and for connection to an outlet to a conventional sewage disposal system.
A building structure having a plurality of prefabricated panels assembled and erected in a preselected floor arrangement to form a structure wherein said plurality of assembled panels may be disassembled and reassembled to accommodate and expansion or reduction in the size of configuration arrangement of the building structure without disrupting or destroying the structural integrity of the structure the combination, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.