Foundation and floor construction means

An assembling and dis-assembling and re-assembling adjustable support usable with a large number of like supports for supporting a structural grid of a building floor in a level position the irregular un-level surface of the earth, the adjustable support comprising:

• two rod elements, each having a continuous thread with one end tapered, each of which screws directly into the earth so as to intersect at a position above the surface of the earth whereat a structural grid of a building floor is desirably supported;
• and
• a clamping assemblage having two hinged plates each of which plates mounts a threaded nut that serves as follower to a respective one of the intersecting two threaded rod elements;
• wherein adjustment of the two intersecting threaded rod elements and the clamping assemblage threadingly engaging both supports and locates a structure, said assemblage serving to adjust and affix said structure, and having a capacity to be employed at any point along either of said two rod elements.

A dual purpose system for framing a structural foundation, and then, subsequently with at least some of the same parts, providing floor joists for a floor that rests upon the foundation, the dual purpose foundation framing and floor joist system comprising:

• a multiplicity of thin-walled structural framing members c-shaped in section, having a face and two of an identical flange, each said flange with a stiffening lip utilized both in construction of a foundation and, later, as a joist to a floor, each thin-walled structural framing member suitably strong to physically define a surface for any in situ concrete and to subsequently serve as a permanent floor joist, without modification, each thin-walled structural framing member having a pair of holes through its face near each end;
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• collocation and connection means for locating and connecting the thin-walled structural framing members as framing members in their use in construction of a foundation, the collocation and connection means having
• a connecting cap that inserts within an end of the thin-walled structural framing member by a dimensional fit of said connecting cap into an area bounded between an inner surface of each said stiffening lip, and an inner surface of said face, the connecting cap affixing the thin-walled structural framing member by one or more of a projected stud element, said stud element projecting at a height corresponding to the thickness of said face, which mates one or more of said holes within said face, the connecting cap achieving engagement and release of connection with the thin-walled structural framing member by elastic flexural deformation, the connecting cap providing a virtually flush outer surface of said face in the vicinity of said connection for providing consistent surface areas in the vicinity of and away from said connection to define said surface for any in-situ concrete;
• wherein a secure attachment of the thin-walled structural framing member is accomplished.

A method of constructing upon the earth a unified foundation and a floor, the construction method comprising:

• laying out and assembling and supporting level above the surface of the earth upon temporary stake supports a permanent structural grid, all by simple assembly of regular geometric parts;
• hanging between the supported structural grid and the earth (i) a plurality of permanent support posts, and, at the periphery of the structural grid, (ii) a plurality of pairs of spaced-parallel substantially planar panels each of which panel pairs define between them a concrete form for a portion of a foundation wall;
• and then
• pouring in-situ concrete at the base of the hanging permanent support posts, and also into the foundation wall portion forms so as to form a foundation and so as to permanently affix the structural grid upon the foundation;
• wherein, at the conclusion of the pouring of in-situ concrete, a level structural grid that is suitable to support a floor is left supported above the surface of the earth on, and affixed to, both permanent support posts, and also a permanent concrete foundation.

A unified foundation and floor that, at a one instant of time during its construction, comprises:

• a multiplicity of temporary stake supports defining an imaginary level surface above the surface of the earth;
• a permanent structural grid laid out and simply assembled from regular geometric parts and supported level above the surface of the earth upon the multiplicity of temporary stake supports;
• a multiplicity of permanent support posts hanging between the supported structural grid and the earth;
• a multiplicity of pairs of spaced-parallel substantially planar panels, located at the periphery of the structural grid and affixed thereto for hanging between the structural grid and the earth, each of which panel pair define between them a concrete form for a portion of a foundation wall;
• wherein in-situ concrete is able to be poured into the foundation wall portion forms so as to form a foundation and at the base of the permanent support posts, then, at the conclusion of the pouring of in-situ concrete, a level structural grid that is suitable to support a floor is left supported above the surface of the earth on, and affixed to, both the permanent support posts, and also a permanent concrete foundation.