Prefabricated housing
AssigneeAlutiiq Manufacturing Contractors, LLC
InventorRobert L. Gilman
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Abstract
A prefabricated housing unit designed to be placed on top of ground bases 42. The housing unit 10 has a housing shell 13 having longitudinal and transverse lower edges and a foundation structure 12 incorporated into and underlying the housing shell 13. The foundation structure 12 of the present invention has longitudinal beams 14 that span the entire length of the housing shell edges, and transverse beams 16 that join with the longitudinal beams at the corners. The corner junction is a load bearing point, while the remainder of the longitudinal beams remain substantially unsupported above the ground between the load bearing points.
Claims16
A prefabricated housing unit, defining a load, comprising:
- a housing shell having longitudinal and transverse lower edges, said edges defining longitudinal and transverse lower resting portions;
- a flexurally rigid foundation structure incorporated into and underlying said housing shell including elongate longitudinal beams spanning said longitudinal edges, wherein said lower resting portions of said longitudinal edges bear on said longitudinal beams, and elongate transverse beams spanning said transverse edges, wherein said lower resting portions of said transverse edges bear on said transverse beams, wherein said longitudinal beams and said transverse beams cooperatively define a substantially rectangular perimeter of said housing shell, wherein ends of said longitudinal beams are joined to corresponding ends of said transverse beams in a horizontal plane to form a plurality of juncture portions, wherein each of said juncture portions defines a bearing point, each of said bearing points bearing an apportioned share of said housing unit load, said longitudinal beams being substantially unsupported above the ground along their lengths between the juncture portions.
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