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US 4,587,787 AGranted
Building system
OwnerThomas G. Kinginventor
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Abstract
A building system includes an assembly of vertical beams and base rails which are clad with panels. The beams are hollow section metal members having tongues at their extremities for seating in cutouts formed in the base rails. The panels for use with the beams comprise rectangular sheets which have slits for mating with overlapping panels in an edge to edge and overlapping relationship. The building system enables a structure to be readily built in modular form.
Claims3
A building system comprising:
- at least two structural elements each including a vertically elongated hollow member constructed and arranged to be anchored alternately on a base plate and a hollow body, by including at least one axial projection constructed and arranged for direct engagement with a corresponding formation on the base plate or hollow body for rigidly securing the structural element to the base plate or hollow body;
- means for displacing at least one of said at least one projection on each said structural element into a seating position in which said hollow members are locked to said base plate or hollow body;
- and
- a pressed sheet metal cladding panel having an outer periphery, this panel being constructed and arranged to be joined with at least one like panel in a lapped edge-over-edge relationship, by including:
- a recessed peripheral zone bordering at least one edge portion of the outer periphery of such panel, and
- a slit extending across said one edge portion, said slit being sized and positioned to receive a correspondingly recessed one edge portion of such like panel;
- said cladding panel being constructed and arranged to be attached to at least two of said structural elements
- said cladding panel being rectangular;
- said recessed peripheral zone extending about all of said outer periphery of the cladding panel including both side edges and both end edges thereof;
- said one edge of said cladding panel being an end edge;
- said slit being disposed to coincide with an imaginary linear projection of the medial margin of said peripheral zone along a respectively adjoining said side edge of said cladding panel;
- said at least one projection one each said vertically elongated hollow member comprising four tongues arranged in a rectangular pattern, these tongues being constructed and arranged to be seated in four openings correspondingly formed in said base plate or hollow body;
- and
- said displacing means comprising wedge-shaped body means constructed and arranged to mount to said base plate or hollow body while wedgingly bearing against two of said four tongues.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.