Panel structure

• US 3,196,763 A
• Filed: 10/05/1960
• Issued: 07/27/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frederick N. Rushton
• Original Assignee: Frederick N. Rushton
• Inventors: Rushton, Frederick N.
• Application Number:
  US04/060,642
• Time in Patent Office: 1,756 Days
• US Class Current: 404/21
• CPC Class Codes: E04C 2/32 formed of corrugated or otherwise indented sheet-like material; composed of such layers with or without layers of flat sheet-like material
• CPC Class Codes: E04C 2/427 Expanded metal or other monolithic gratings

Claims

1. A RESILIENT STRUCTURAL FLOOR PANEL, COMPRISING A TRUSS PAN OF SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR SHAPE HAVING A WEB, SAID WEB INCLUDING A CONTINUOUS FIRST FLANGE INTEGRAL WITH SAID PAN AND POSITIONED SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF SAID PAN AND A SECOND FLANGE AS A CONTINUATION OF SAID FIRST EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY THEREFROM, SAID PAN HAVING PARALLEL SPACED ROWS OF RIGHT FRUSTOCONICAL SHAPED CUP PEDESTALS HAVING THEIR BOTTOMS FLAT AND TERMINATING IN A COMMON PLANE WITH SAID SECOND HORIZONTAL FLANGE, SAID SPACED ROWS OF CUP PEDESTALS EXTENDING ACROSS SAID PAN AND BEING ARRANGED PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR TO OPPOSITE PAIRS OF SIDES, RESPECTIVELY, OF SAID TRUSS PAN, A TREAD PLATE COVERING SAID PAN AND WEB ARRANGED COEXTENSIVELY WITH SAID SECOND FLANGE OF SAID WEB, SAID TREAD PLATE THEREBY HAVING A MARGIN AROUND THE PERIPHERY THEREOF CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF THE THICKNESS