STRUCTURAL SYSTEM

• US 3,722,153 A
• Filed: 05/04/1970
• Issued: 03/27/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stephen C Baer
• Original Assignee: Stephen C Baer
• Inventors: Baer, Stephen C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Abbott, Frank L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Raduazo, Henry E.
• Application Number:
  US05/034,163
• Time in Patent Office: 1,058 Days
• Field of Search: 52/81,80,79 135/1
• US Class Current: 52/81.2
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/32 Arched structures; Vaulted structures; Folded structures E04B1/345 takes precedence; vaulted roofs E04B7/08
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/3247 Nodes
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/327 comprised of a number of panels or blocs connected together forming a self-supporting structure
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/3294 with a faceted surface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 52/10 Polyhedron
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/347 Polyhedral

Abstract

A structural system in which the structural members are interconnected so that they are parallel to the lines of the star of the faces of an icosahedron. The system includes structural members parallel to the lines of the star of the vertices of an icosahedron and also includes structural members parallel to the lines of the star of the midpoints of the edges of an icosahedron.

Claims

1. A structural system comprising a plurality of interconnected elongate structural members, said members joined to each other to form a plurality of vertices, the angular relationship of the joined members at the vertices being such that at least one member is parallel to one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through the midpoints of opposite faces of an icosahedron;

at least one member is parallel to one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through each of the opposite vertices of an icosahedron; and

including additional elongate structural elements each of which is parallel to at least one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through the midpoints of opposite edges of an icosahedron.

2. The structural system of claim 1 in which the primary structural members comprise elongate structural members joined to each other so that each is parallel to at least one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through the midpoints of opposite faces of an icosahedron.

3. The structural system of claim 1 in which the primary structural members comprise elongate structural members joined to each other so that each is parallel to at least one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through each of the opposite vertices of an icosahedron.

4. The structural system of claim 1 in which the primary structural members comprise elongate structural members joined to each other so that each is parallel to at least one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through the midpoints of opposite edges of an icosahedron.

5. The structural system of claim 1 in which the structural element members comprise the edges of solid polyhedra.

6. The structural system of claim 2 in which the structural element members comprise the edges of solid polyhedra.

7. The structural system of claim 3 in which the structural element members comprise the edges of solid polyhedra.

8. The structural system of claim 4 in which the structural element members comprise the edges of solid polyhedra.

9. The structural system of claim 1 and including a plurality of connectors, the connectors adapted for joining the elongate structural members along the star angles formed by the diametral lines through the edge midpoints of an icosahedron, the diametral lines through the face midpoints of an icosahedron, and the diametral lines through the vertices of an icosahedron.

10. A structural system comprising a plurality of planar structural members interconnected at the edges thereof to form a structural surface, the edges of each of the joined planar members being such that at least one edge of a first member is parallel to one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through the midpoints of opposite faces of an icosahedron;

at least one edge of a second member is parallel to one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through each of the opposite vertices of an icosahedron; and

including additional planar structural members each of which has one edge parallel to at least one of the lines of the star formed by diametral lines through the midpoints of opposite edges of an icosahedron.