METHOD OF MULTI-LEVEL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

• US 3,724,157 A
• Filed: 04/16/1971
• Issued: 04/03/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oleg V. Miram
• Original Assignee: Oleg V. Miram
• Inventors: Miram, Oleg V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Murtagh, John E.
• Application Number:
  US05/134,623
• Time in Patent Office: 718 Days
• Field of Search: 52/745
• US Class Current: 52/745.03
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/04 the elements consisting of concrete, e.g. reinforced concrete, or other stone-like material
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/043 Connections specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/3538 the elements being a floor slab with hingedly-connected wall panels

Abstract

A method of constructing buildings of modules is disclosed in which the modules are formed of overhead and wall panels fabricated with means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof for distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of points spaced from each other along their edges, which edges are mechanically interconnected by removable hinge joinder means extending between the embedded means in adjacent panels when they are in selected juxtaposition. Means for raising the overhead panels to an elevated position including said removable hinge joinder means are described. Preferred means for forming the overhead and wall panels in the selected juxtaposition and preferred removable hinge joinder means are disclosed. Preferred methods and means for interconnecting vertically and horizontally adjacent modules into structural units of the final building structure before or after removal of said removable hinge joinder means are described.

Claims

1. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation, said method including the steps of:

a. fabricating an overhead panel having a plurality of edges and means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of locations spaced from each other along said edges thereof;

b. fabricating a wall panel having a plurality of edges and means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of locations spaced from each other along one of said plurality of edges thereof;

c. removably attaching hinge joinder means between said embedded means at said plurality of locations along said one edge of said wall panel and said embedded means at said plurality of locations along one of said plurality of edges of said overhead panel;

d. lifting said overhead panel by means of said hinge joinder means to a desired elevated position with said wall panel depending from said hinge joinder means;

e. placing said overhead panel and depending wall panel upon said foundation and permanently affixing said wall panel to said foundation; and

f. permanently affixing said overhead panel and said wall panel to each other and removing said hinge joinder means from said overhead panel and said wall panel.

2. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 1 wherein said overhead panel and said wall panel are fabricated in selected juxtaposition to each other and said step of removably attaching hinge joinder means between said overhead panel and said wall panel is carried out without change in said selected juxtaposition of said overhead and wall panels as fabricated.

3. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 1 wherein said step of fabricating said wall panel is carried out at a distance from the place at which said step of fabricating said overhead panel is carried out and said panels are subsequently moved into selected juxtaposition prior to removably attaching hinge joinder means between said embedded means along one edge of said one of said wall panel and said embedded means along one of said plurality of edges of said overhead panel.

4. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 1 wherein said step of removably attaching hinge joinder means between said embedded means on said overhead and wall panels includes the steps of removably attaching a first plurality of hinge members to said embedded means of said overhead panel each at a different one of said plurality of locations spaced from each other along an edge thereof;

removably attaching a second plurality of hinge members to said embedded means of said wall panel each at a different one of said plurality of locations spaced from each other along one of said plurality of edges thereof; and

then interconnecting each hinge member of said first plurality of hinge members with a different one of said hinge members of said second plurality of hinge members.

5. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 1 wherein the step of affixing said overhead and wall panels to each other and removing said hinge joinder means from said overhead and wall panels includes the step of substituting rigid bracket means for said hinge joinder means between said embedded means along said one edge of said wall panel and said embedded means along said one of said plurality of edges of said overhead panel.

6. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 1 wherein the step of fabricating said overhead panel includes the step of providing a tubular opening extending through said panel from one edge thereof to an opposite edge thereof and the step of permanently affixing said overhead panel and said wall panel to each other includes the step of passing a cable through said tubular opening and establishing permanent tensile stress in said cable.

7. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 1 wherein the step of fabricating said wall panel includes the step of providing a tubular opening through said wall panel from said one edge thereof to an opposite edge thereof, and said step of permanently affixing said wall panel to said foundation includes the steps of passing a cable through said tubular opening, affixing it to said foundation and establishing permanent tensile stress in said cable.

8. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation, said method including the steps of:

a. fabricating a first overhead panel having a plurality of edges and means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of locations spaced from each other along the edges thereof;

b. fabricating a first wall panel having a plurality of edges and means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of locations spaced from each other along one of said plurality of edges thereof;

c. removably attaching hinge joinder means between said embedded means at said plurality of locations along said one edge of said wall panel and said embedded means at said plurality of locations along one of said plurality of edges of said overhead panel;

d. fabricating a second overhead panel having a plurality of edges and means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of locations spaced from each other along said edges thereof;

e. fabricating a second wall Panel having a plurality of edges and means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of locations spaced from each other along one of said plurality of edges thereof;

f. removably attaching hinge joinder means between said embedded means at said plurality of locations along said one edge of said second wall panel and said embedded means at said plurality of locations along one of said plurality of edges of said second overhead panel;

g. lifting said first overhead panel by means of said hinge joinder means to an elevated position of sufficient height to allow said first wall panel to depend freely from said hinge joinder means;

h. transporting said first overhead panel and depending wall panel to a desired position over said foundation and lowering said depending wall panel into supportive contact with said foundation;

i. lifting said second overhead panel by means of said hinge joinder means to an elevated position of sufficient height to allow said second wall panel to depend freely from said hinge joinder means;

j. transporting said second overhead panel and depending wall panel to a desired position over said foundation adjacent said first overhead panel and lowering said second depending wall panel into supportive contact with said foundation;

k. removably attaching said hinge joinder means along a further edge of said second overhead panel to said hinge joinder means along said edge of said first wall panel;

l. permanently affixing said first and second wall panels to said foundation; and

m. permanently affixing said first and second over-head panels to said first wall panel.

9. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 8 wherein said step of permanently affixing said first and second overhead panels to each other and to said first wall panel includes the step of substituting a rigid bracket means for said removable hinge joinder means between said first and second overhead panels and said first wall panel.

10. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 8 wherein the step of fabricating said first overhead panel and the step of fabricating said second overhead panel each include the step of providing a tubular opening extending through said panels from one edge thereof to an opposite edge thereof, said tubular openings in each of said overhead panels being adapted to be aligned when said overhead panels are in their final position on said foundation;

and the step of permanently affixing said first and second overhead panels to each other and to said first wall panel includes the steps of passing a cable through said aligned tubular openings in said first and second overhead panels, pouring grout into the joint between said first and second overhead panels and said first wall panel; and

establishing permanent tensile stress in said cable after said grout has hardened.

11. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 8 wherein the step of permanently affixing said first and second overhead panels to each other and to said first wall panel includes the step of removing said hinge joinder means and substituting therefor a resilient bracket means extending between said first and second overhead panels and structural means extending upwardly from said first wall panel between said first and second overhead panels and then pouring a layer of grout into the joint between said first and second overhead panels and said first wall panel.

12. The method of fabricating a building structure on a foundation in accordance with claim 10 including the steps of fabricating a third overhead panel having a plurality of edges and means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of locations spaced from each other along said edges thereof;

fabricating A third wall panel having a plurality of edges and means embedded therein having no portion extending beyond the boundaries thereof distributing the weight thereof to a plurality of locations spaced from each other along one of said plurality of edges thereof;

removably attaching hinge joinder means between said embedded means at said plurality of locations along said one edge of said wall panel and said embedded means at said plurality of locations along one of said plurality of edges of said overhead panel;

lifting said third overhead panel by means of said hinge joinder means to an elevated position of sufficient height to allow said third wall panel to depend freely from said hinge joinder means above said first and second overhead panels in their final position on said foundation;

transporting said overhead panel and depending third wall panel to a desired location over said first and second overhead panels with said third wall panel aligned with said first wall panel and lowering said depending third wall panel into supportive contact with said layer of grout in said joint between said first and second overhead panels and first wall panel; and

permanently affixing said lower end of said wall panel to said first and second overhead panels and said first wall panel by pouring a second layer of grout into the joint between said first and second overhead panels and said first and third wall panels.