Sub-rigid fast-form barrier system

• US 6,662,520 B1
• Filed: 09/19/2000
• Issued: 12/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomas Page Nelson
• Original Assignee: Thomas Page Nelson
• Inventors: Nelson, Thomas Page
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thissell, Jennifer I.
• Application Number:
  US09/665,272
• Time in Patent Office: 1,183 Days
• Field of Search: 527/322, 527/313, 527/315, 526/561, 523/48, 527/62, 524/811, 527/291, 525/08
• US Class Current: 52/474
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/161 with vertical and horizontal slabs, both being partially cast in situ
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/763 with one continuous profile, the perpendicular one passing continuously through the first one
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/8635 with ties attached to the inner faces of the forms E04B2/8611 and E04B2/8623 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/8652 with ties located in the joints of the forms
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2002/7466 using hooks
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 11/12 of elements and beams which are mounted during erection of the shuttering to brace or couple the elementsE04G11/18 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 17/04 Connecting or fastening means for metallic forming or stiffening elements , e.g. for connecting metallic elements to non-metallic elements E04G17/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 9/02 Forming boards or similar elements E04G9/08, E04G9/10 take precedence

Abstract

The invention disclosed herein is remarkable in its simplicity and promises wide commercial application as the labor costs for construction become increasingly prohibitive. The extraordinary absence of nails, screws, bolts, welds or any other fastening device allows these barriers to compete with many conventional barrier systems, such as those employed for fencing, vehicular trailer beds, removable stages, and scale models or toys of all fabrications mentioned plus many more. In this age time is money and the erection speed this barrier system offers may well revolutionize conventional “post and beam” framing. The invention is specifically aimed at eccentric beam loading where barriers must be economically fabricated to withstand hurricane force winds, earthquake reactions, or liquid concrete pressure in a sub-rigid manner. The Fast-Form System will offer insurers building products that will protect their interests for any and all applications. When the barriers disclosed herein are utilized for concrete formwork, contractors will have a new option that embraces standard building products, with barrier fabrication accomplished in half the time of the systems that precede it.

Claims

1. A ratiocinative, interlocking, Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System, comprising:

a.) a plurality of manufactured, identical, elongated, ratiocinative, super-ordinate beams spaced in adjacent lateral segments, and

said beams, configured as double II-beams, each having a double web and a front (or top) and a back (or bottom) flange, and

said II-beams having an identical symmetrical series of machined openings, through each single I-beam, and

said openings aligning within said double II-beams,

b.) at least two elongated ratiocinative subordinate beams, passing through said super-ordinate beam openings, in a transverse series, said openings providing an interlock-able intersection for said subordinate beams; and

further

said openings are each identically preformed in an irregular pentagon shape therein providing “

breech and chambers”

for said subordinate beams,

said breech is calculated and designed for free transverse passage of subordinate beams, said breech portion of said openings assimilating and machined marginally bigger than the cross-sectional parameters of said subordinate beams; and

further

said chamber portion of said openings calculated and designed to cramp subordinate beams within, when said subordinate beams are forcefully, while systematically, inverted 90°

from said breech to said chamber, thereupon interlocked in said chambers, as said chambers are preformed, assimilating and machined, a dimension marginally smaller than the width of said elongated subordinate beams;

c.) at least one modular facer, secured firmly between said adjacent super-ordinate beams, said facers elongated butt edges butt against the webs of said adjacent super-ordinate beams, and

said facers, elongated face edges, arrest against the inside of said front/face flanges of adjacent super-ordinate beams, and

said front/face flanges separate and bridge adjoining modular facers;

d.) a plurality of said breech and chamber openings in said symmetrical series, said series of openings having a front/face chamber wall and a back chamber wall parallel with said front/face chamber wall, and further said front/face wall is located and machined, a dimension, from the inside surface of said front/face flange, said dimension assimilating while marginally less than the thickness of said modular facer;

e.) a compressed superjacent fit for said modular facer or facers, sheathed and systematically locked, between said front/face flange of said super-ordinate beam and the face edge of said subordinate beam, when said subordinate beam is systematically inverted 90°

, into said chamber, thereupon systematically interlocked and cramped into said back chamber wall, thereupon completing assembly of a Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System.

2. The ratiocinative, interlocking, barrier system of claim 1, whereupon ratiocinative combinatory logic may be employed to determine;

a.) the elements of said super-ordinate beams, said elements are selected from one of;

steel, aluminum, fiberglass, plywood, plastic,

b.) the parameters of said super-ordinate beam, and

c.) the cubic content of said super-ordinate beam.

3. A ratiocinative, interlocking, barrier system, according to claim 1, whereupon said super-ordinate beams are delineated and employed in said barrier system as single structural I-beams.

4. The barrier system of claim 1 whereupon the super-ordinate beams, with breech and chamber openings, are delineated as multiple structural I-beams manufactured and incorporated as double II-beams.

5. The ratiocinative, interlocking, barrier system of claim 1 whereupon super-ordinate beams may be extended by employing a box type splice appurtenance;

a.) said box splice appurtenance being ratiocinative to super-ordinate beam elements, parameters, and cubic content, and

b.) said box splice employing at least two, full or partial, breech and chamber openings in a series, identical to super-ordinate beam breech and chamber openings, and

c.) said box splice exterior parameters, assimilating the enclosure formed when manufacturing composite multiple beams,

d.) said box splice, when inserted in the top end of super-ordinate beam A, to a point, when at least one box splice breech and chamber opening aligns within the first breech and chamber opening in said super-ordinate beam A, being systematically interlocked within said top end of said super-ordinate beam A, and said box splice now acting as a male receptor receiving the bottom end of super-ordinate beam B,

said super-ordinate beam B sleeved over said box splice, interlocked within the top of super-ordinate beam A, until butting said top of said super-ordinate beam A, at which point a breech and chamber opening, or a partial breech and chamber opening, in said box splice aligns with the bottom breech and chamber openings in said bottom end of said super-ordinate beam B,

thereby allowing said super-ordinate beam B to become an extension of super-ordinate beam A when a subordinate beam is interlocked within the aligning breech and chamber openings of the box splice and super-ordinate beam B.

6. The barrier system of claim 1 wherein said subordinate beams remove-ably interlock with said super-ordinate beams.

7. The ratiocinative, interlocking, Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System, according to claim 1, whereupon ratiocinative combinatory logic may determine said subordinate beams to be any structural material selected from at least one of:

steel, aluminum, fiberglass, plywood, lumber, or plastic.

8. The ratiocinative, interlocking, Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System, according to claim 1, whereupon the series of breech and chambers openings may be machined in any super-ordinate beam that conforms to the essence of the invention.

9. A ratiocinative, interlocking, barrier system, according to claim 1, whereupon said series of breech and chambers openings in said super-ordinate beams may be machined in alternative forms, provided said forms conform to the essence of the invention.

10. A ratiocinative, interlocking, barrier system, according to claim 1, whereupon said barrier system is employed as a vertical interior or exterior wall for a multistory building.

11. A ratiocinative, interlocking, barrier system, according to claim 1, whereupon said barrier system, is employed as a vertical interior or exterior wall with said super-ordinate beams assembled horizontally with subordinate beams interlocked in a vertical position.

12. The ratiocinative, interlocking, Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System, according to claim 1, whereupon the barrier system is employed as a rigid system, with fasteners as needed.

13. A ratiocinative, interlocking, Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System, fabricated according to claim 1, whereupon said barriers are arranged and joined together as a scale model sub-rigid building that may be implemented as a toy house or the like.

14. A ratiocinative, interlocking, Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System, fabricated according to claim 1, whereupon barriers are employed as opposing barrier walls, for an enclosed concrete form system wherein:

a.) said super-ordinate double II-beams, are machined, with ratiocinative form-tie holes drilled through the center, and

said holes located along the seam where abutting flanges weld together;

b.) said super-ordinate beams are stationed opposite each other, along said opposing barrier walls, and therefore

ties may be installed and secured in order to hold said opposing barrier walls in a desired location during placement of liquid concrete.

15. A ratiocinative, interlocking, Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System, fabricated according to claim 1, wherein said barrier is employed as a fence with:

a.) said super-ordinate beams embedded in the earth as fence posts;

b.) the inclusion of the facer optional.

16. A ratiocinative, interlocking, Sub-Rigid Fast-Form Barrier System, fabricated according to claim 1, wherein said barrier is employed as a vehicular trailer bed, with standard;

axles, springs, and draw bar or fifth wheel, added.

17. The ratiocinative, interlocking, barrier system of claim 1 herein said elongated multiple super-ordinate beams are of increased beam depth;

said increased beam depth dimensioned, from the back of the breech and chamber opening to the back flange of the super-ordinate beam, a measurement that assimilates the parameters of infrastructure elements,

said elements may be in the form of drainpipes,

said elements may be in the form of water pipes,

said elements may be in the form of wiring for phones, computers, or electrical installations,

said elements may be in other forms.

18. An interlocking barrier system comprising:

superordinate beams configured as double II-beams with planar faces;

a plurality of irregular shaped openings in the beams, each of the openings having a front face and a back face chamber wall;

subordinate beams with planar faces, being inserted through the double II-beams, wherein a breech portion of each of the openings is greater than a cross-sectional parameter portion of each of the subordinate beams, the subordinate beams being manipulated to a horizontal interlocking position within the openings so that the planar faces of the subordinate beams are ninety degrees to the planar faces of the superordinate beams, and wherein each of the openings allows for cramping each of the subordinate beams therein.

19. The interlocking barrier system of claim 18, wherein the irregular shaped openings in the beams include:

irregular pentagon shapes.

20. An interlocking barrier system comprising:

superordinate beams having planar faces;

a plurality of irregular shaped openings in the beams, each of the openings having a front face and a back face chamber wall; and

subordinate beams having planar faces with a continuous rectangular cross-section along a longitudinal length of the subordinate beams passing through the openings, wherein a breech portion of each of the openings is greater than a cross-sectional parameter portion of each of the subordinate beams, the subordinate beams being manipulated to a horizontal interlocking position within the openings so that the planar faces of the subordinate beams are ninety degrees to the planar faces of the superordinate beams, and wherein each of the openings allows for cramping each of the subordinate beams therein.

21. The interlocking barrier system of claim 20, wherein the irregular shaped openings in the beams include:

irregular pentagon shapes.

22. The interlocking barrier system of claim 20 wherein the subordinate beams each include four planar faces perpendicular to one another, the four planar faces include two narrow width faces and two wide width faces that are wider than the two narrow width faces.

23. A method of forming an interlocking barrier system comprising the steps of:

vertically orienting a pair of superordinate beams apart from one another, the superordinate beams having a plurality of irregular shaped openings therethrough;

positioning subordinate beams at an angle through the irregular shaped openings in the pair of the of the superordinate beams, the subordinate beams each having planar faces with a continuous rectangular cross-section along a longitudinal length of the subordinate beams passing through the openings; and

manipulating the subordinate beams to horizontal interlocking positions within the openings.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the subordinate beams each include four planar faces perpendicular to one another, the four planar faces include two narrow width faces and two wide width faces that are wider than the two narrow faces.