Octahedral building truss

• US 3,354,591 A
• Filed: 12/07/1964
• Issued: 11/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Buckminster Fuller Richard
• Original Assignee: Buckminster Fuller Richard
• Inventors: BUCKMINSTER FULLER RICHARD
• Application Number:
  US04/416,228
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• US Class Current: 52/81.2
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/19 Three-dimensional framework structures
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/1927 of essentially circular cross section
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/1936 Winged profiles, e.g. with a L-, T-, U- or X-shaped cross section
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/1978 Frameworks assembled from preformed subframes, e.g. pyramids
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/1987 triangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/199 Details of roofs, floors or walls supported by the framework
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/1996 Tensile-integrity structures, i.e. structures comprising compression struts connected through flexible tension members, e.g. cables

Claims

1. A TRUSS STRUCTURE COMPRISING A NETWORK OF TENSION MEMBERS AND COMPRESSION MEMBERS;

THE TENSION MEMBERS BEING JOINED IN THREE OPPOSED PAIRS OF JUNCTIONS, THE JUNCTIONS OF THE TENSION MEMBERS FORMING VERTICES LYING IN PLANES DEFINING AN OCTAHEDRON, SAID TENSION MEMBERS OF ADJACENT OCTAHEDRA BEING CONNECTED, WITH THE CONNECTIONS THEREBETWEEN DEFINING A COMMON PLANE OF SAID ADJACENT OCTAHEDRA, AND SAID COMPRESSION MEMBERS EXTENDING BETWEEN EACH OF SAID THREE OPPOSED PAIRS OF JUNCTIONS OF SAID TENSION MEMBERS OF EACH OCTAHEDRON.