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US 5,020,287 AGranted
Structural building components incorporating integrated hyperbolic paraboloid elements
OwnerRay A. Woodsinventor
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Abstract
A family of structural building components formed from a plurality of integrated hyperbolic paraboloid elements which have a common midpoint, linear edges and allow for the prestressing of reinforcing elements along straight lines. The components can be reduced into independent modular parts and nesting units.
Claims1
A structural building element comprising:
- six hyperbolic paraboloid elements integrated in intersecting relation at a common midpoint for forming an octalith having eight vertices and twelve linear edges in which pairs of the linear edges intersect at six points.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.