Self-supporting building structure
OwnerWalter Frellerinventor
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Abstract
A generally pyramidal structure is formed by a plurality of sloping sides with adjacent sides abutting along a ridge joint which intersects a common vertex. The pyramid is truncated, thereby creating an opening transverse to one ridge joint and extending through the two adjacent sloping sides. The opening typically is closed by a vertical structural element. This pyramidal building design can be applied to structures of different sizes from small collapsible shelters, as substitutes for tents, to permanent buildings having multiple stories and/or adjoined units. The basic embodiment of this design has four oblique quadrilateral panels which form triangular openings along opposite ridges.
Claims18
A building structure comprising a plurality of sloping sides adjoining one another in the form of a pyramid with adjacent sloping sides joined along a ridge that extends downward from a vertex, said pyramid being truncated along at least one of said ridges below said vertex, thereby forming a first opening which extends through said ridge and two adjacent sloping sides joined at the one ridge, said building structure comprising first, second, third and fourth quadrilateral panels with each one having first, second, third and fourth edges in which the first and third edges oppose each other and the second and fourth edges oppose each other, wherein:
- the second edge of the first quadrilateral panel abuts the second edge of the second quadrilateral panel;
- the first edge of the second quadrilateral panel abuts the first edge of the third quadrilateral panel;
- the second edge of the third quadrilateral panel abuts the second edge of the fourth quadrilateral panel;
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- the first edge of the fourth quadrilateral panel abuts the first edge of the first quadrilateral panel.
A building structure comprising:
- first, second, third and fourth quadrilateral panels with each one having first, second, third and fourth edges in which the first and third edges oppose each other and the second and fourth edges oppose each other;
- wherein:
- the second edge of the first quadrilateral panel adjoins the second edge of the second quadrilateral panel;
- the first edge of the second quadrilateral panel adjoins the first edge of the third quadrilateral panel;
- the second edge of the third quadrilateral panel adjoins the second edge of the fourth quadrilateral panel;
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- the first edge of the fourth quadrilateral panel adjoins the first edge of the first quadrilateral panel.
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