Spline type joint between composite panels

• US 3,239,986 A
• Filed: 04/08/1963
• Issued: 03/15/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gordon C. Russell
• Original Assignee: Gordon C. Russell
• Inventors: Russell, Gordon C.
• Application Number:
  US04/271,282
• Time in Patent Office: 1,072 Days
• US Class Current: 52/584.1
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/6116 by locking means on lateral surfaces

Claims

1. A BUILDING PANEL JOINT WHICH COMPRISES:

(A) TWO BUILDING PANELS, EACH OF SAID PANELS HAVING SIDES AND A RIGID CHANNEL AT ITS ENDS, EACH OF SAID CHANNELS HAVING A BASE SPACED FROM SAID PANEL END RECESSED FROM SAID SIDES AND HAVING A CENTRALLY LOCATED GROOVE FORMED THEREIN EXTENDING THE LENGTH OF SAID BASE, A PLURALITY OF DEPRESSED REGIONS BEING PROVIDED IN EACH SAID GROOVE TO RECEIVE EYE BOLTS, SAID BASE OF EACH SAID CHANNEL UPON ONE SAID PANEL ABUTTING A SAID BASE ON ANOTHER PANEL IN AN END TO END RELATIONSHIP SO THAT SAID GROOVES IN SAID BASES ARE OPPOSITE TO ONE ANOTHER IN MATCHED RELATIONSHIPS;

(B) A RIGID MEMBER LOCATED WITHIN SAID MATCHED GROOVES BETWEEN SAID ENDS OF SAID BUILDING PANELS, SAID RIGID MEMBER FITTING CLOSELY WITHIN SAID GROOVES;

AND (C) A PLURALITY OF CLIP MEANS DISPOSED ACROSS SAID ABUTTED BASES IN CONTACT THEREWITH AND CONNECTING SAID CHANNELS SO AS TO PREVENT SAID CHANNELS FROM BEING MOVED AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER.