Method of constructing a building

• US 3,260,028 A
• Filed: 07/22/1963
• Issued: 07/12/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fraser R. Lee
• Original Assignee: Fraser R. Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Fraser R.
• Application Number:
  US04/296,661
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• US Class Current: 52/745.04
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/3404 supported by masts or tower-like structures
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/3516 characterised by erecting a vertical structure and then adding the floors from top to bottom

Claims

1. THE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A BUILDING WITH HOISTING EQUIPMENT INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF HOISTING MEMBERS, SAID METHOD COMPRISING THE STEPS OF CONSTRUCTING A CENTRAL SUBSTANTIALLY LARGE SINGLE CYLINDRICAL CORE IN UPSTANDING RELATIONSHIP FROM THE SUPPORTING GROUND AND WITH SAID CORE HAVING ACCESS MEANS TO THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING, CONSTRUCTING ADJACENT THE GROUND AND SUPPORTED THEREFROM A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR FLOORS RESPECTIVELY HAVING CENTRAL SUBSTANTIALLY CIRCULAR OPENINGS THROUGH WHICH SAID CORE EXTENDS, CONSTRUCTING TENSILE BANDS RESPECTIVELY AROUND SAID FLOORS;

BY THE USE OF SAID HOISTING EQUIPMENT RESPECTIVELY ATTACHED BETWEEN SAID FLOORS AND SAID CORE AND BY THE USE OF SAID CORE AS THE SUPPORT FROM THE GROUND AND SAID PLURALITY OF HOISTING MEMBERS ATTACHED TO EACH FLOOR, HOISTING SAID FLOORS SUCCESSIVELY TO POSITION SAID FLOOR IN VERTICALLY SPACED RELATIONSHIP AND WITH THE UPPER ONE BEING HOISTED FIRST TO A POSITION ADJACENT THE TOP OF SAID CORE AND THEN ON DOWN TO THE BOTTOM ONE TO A POSITION ADJACENT THE BOTTOM OF SAID CORE AND WITH THE POSITIONING OF SAID FLOORS BEING SUCH THAT THE DISTANCES BETWEEN ADJACENT FLOORS ARE LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID CYLINDRICAL CORE.