Modular building system
OwnerGerd Philippiinventor
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Abstract
A modular building system wherein two profiled tubular members are connected to each other by two first cores which are slidably received in one of two elongated channels of one of the members, by two second cores which are received in the two channels at one end of the other member, by two non-circular posts which extend into sockets of first cores, through one wall of the one member and into sockets of the second cores when the one end of the other member is placed against the outer side of the one wall of the one member. First pins are used to secure the first cores to the one member and to the posts in their sockets, second pins are used to secure the second cores to the respective posts, and threaded fasteners are used to secure the second cores to the other member and/or to the posts.
Claims23
A structural framework comprising first and second elongated tubular members each having a first wall, second and third walls flanking the first wall and at least substantially normal thereto, a first longitudinal internal channel adjacent a first portion of the first wall and the second wall, and a second longitudinal internal channel adjacent a second portion of the first wall and the third wall, said channels having identical cross-sectional outlines and one of said first and second members having an end face adjacent the third wall of the other of said first and second members;
- two first cores snugly and longitudinally movably received in the second channel of said first member, said cores having first sockets aligned with passages in the third wall of said first member;
- two second cores snugly and longitudinally movably received in the first and second channels of said second member adjacent said end face, said second cores having second sockets each aligned with one of said first sockets;
- two coupling posts each having an at least partially circular cross-sectional outline and each extending into one of said first sockets, through one of said passages and into one of said second sockets;
- first and second pins each extending through a hole in the first wall of said first member and through a hole of one of said first cores and engaging the respective post;
- and means for connecting said second cores with the respective posts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.