Manufactured home frame
AssigneeFairmont Homes, Inc.
InventorsThomas R. Brandt, James F. Shea
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Abstract
A floor frame for a transportable manufactured home includes spaced apart perimeter frame members having a vertical wall and two horizontal walls extending therefrom. A plurality of floor joists extend between the spaced apart perimeter frame members and have notched ends configured to each receive a portion of one perimeter frame member. An arrangement for coupling a transport structure to the floor frame is also disclosed.
Claims19
A floor frame structure for a manufactured home, the floor frame structure comprising
- a perimeter frame having a pair of spaced apart side frame members and a pair of end frame members interconnecting the side frame members, each of the side frame members having a C-shaped cross section defined by a vertical wall, a top wall extending from a top region of the vertical wall, and a bottom wall extending from a bottom region of the vertical wall,
- a plurality of floor joists spanning between the side frame members, each floor joist having a pair of ends, each end being formed to include a notch, the notches receiving a portion of the top wall and a portion of the vertical wall of the associated side frame members and,
- a brace coupled to an end of one of the floor joists.
A transportable manufactured home module, the transportable manufactured home module comprising
- a floor frame having a metal perimeter frame with a plurality of transport-structure connection areas and a plurality of wooden boards coupled to an underside of the metal perimeter frame in aligned end-to-end relation, a plurality of gaps being defined between ends of the plurality of wooden boards, the plurality of connection areas being accessible through the plurality of gaps, and
- a transport structure detachably coupleable to the plurality of connection areas of the metal perimeter frame,
- wherein the transport structure comprises a transport frame and a set of wheels coupled to the transport frame.
A floor frame structure for a transportable manufactured home module, the floor frame structure having a perimeter, the frame structure comprising:
- a plurality of spaced apart perimeter beams;
- a first and second board mounted to a downwardly facing bottom surface of one of the perimeter beams, the first and second boards being aligned in end-to-end relation and spaced apart to define a gap therebetween;
- a wheel support removably mounted to a portion of the downwardly facing bottom surface that is exposed in the gap of the selected one perimeter beam between the first and second boards, and
- wherein the wheel support comprises a transport frame and a set of wheels coupled to the transport frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.