Restaurant and hotel combination
AssigneeQuaintance-Weaver Hotels, L.L.C.
InventorDennis W. Quaintance
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Abstract
A hotel-restaurant structure including a shared area formed by an overlapping corner portion common to the hotel and the restaurant. The overlapping portion is defined by a corner of the hotel structure that overlaps the restaurant structure and a corner of the restaurant structure that overlaps the hotel structure. The structure includes an access from the hotel structure through the overlapping portion into the restaurant structure such that the shared area comprises less than 50 percent of the floor area of the hotel structure and less than 50 percent of the restaurant structure.
Claims9
A hotel-restaurant structure comprising:
- (a) a shared area formed by an overlapping corner portion defined by a corner of the hotel structure that overlaps the restaurant structure and a corner of the restaurant structure that overlaps the hotel structure;
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- (b) an access from the hotel structure through the overlapping portion into the restaurant structure
- wherein the shared area comprises less than 50 percent of the floor area of the hotel structure and less than 50 percent of the floor area of the restaurant structure.
The structure of claim 2 wherein the hotel structure and the restaurant structure have separate non-intersecting rooflines and intersecting walls.
A restaurant and hotel combination having a shared volume, the shared volume defined by a floor area and a shared volume vertical height wherein the floor area is defined by:
- (a) first and second outer wall projections of said hotel which intersect within the restaurant structure;
- (b) first and second outer wall projections of said restaurant which intersect within the hotel structure;
- (c) wherein said shared volume vertical height equals the vertical wall height of the restaurant structure outer wall and
- (d) wherein the height of the restaurant outer wall is less than the height of the hotel outer walls.
A restaurant and hotel combination having a shared volume, comprising
- (a) a hotel structure having first and second outer walls intersecting first and second outer walls of an adjacent restaurant structure;
- (b) a shared volume defined by a floor area and a vertical height wherein the floor area is defined by:
- (i) first and second outer wall projections of said hotel which intersect at a point within the restaurant structure;
- (ii) first and second outer wall projections of said restaurant which intersect at a point within the hotel structure;
- (c) wherein said shared volume vertical height equals the vertical wall height of the restaurant structure outer wall and
- (d) wherein the height of the restaurant outer wall is less than the height of the hotel outer walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.