US20040200178A1 - Matrix frame/panel skin building structure - Google Patents
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- This invention pertains to a matrix frame system, and more particularly to a matrix frame surface structure, or surface-structure system, which may be employed to define the outside surface of a plural-story building.
- the system of this invention is designed to carry and support the outside surface-skin features of a plural-story building, which features can include anything there desired, such as a selected finishing material, windows, various architectural details, etc.
- the present invention takes directed aim at these construction matters of current interest and concern. It proposes an extremely simple, remarkably accurate, and very quickly implementable system, referred to as the above-mentioned matrix frame system, for building and securing a surface-support framework structure to the main column and beam frame structure of a plural-story building. Though many specific materials might be chosen for implementing this system, the current preferred implementation involves making the various components of the system out of an appropriate steel material—one which will collaborate quite well with the usual steel materials that are employed in main building frames.
- the system of the invention is modular in nature, and includes prefabricatable, modularity-based frame panels, in appropriate modularly inter-relatable and compatible sizes which, during installation, are initially hung by gravity (hang-mounted) on appropriately configured stand-off mounts.
- These mounts are arranged in a kind of row-and-column, and modularity-based, fashion, or pattern, to the main frame in a plural-story building, and are disposed at locations which are closely adjacent, preferably, the nodal sites of interconnection that exist between upright columns and horizontally extending beams in that frame.
- the stand-off mounts furnish outwardly facing and generally planar faces which are referred to herein as mount-defining faces that are intended to lie accurately within what is referred to as an upright matrix support plane.
- This matrix support plane preferably substantially parallels, and is spaced outwardly from, a confrontingly adjacent, associated outside plane of an underlying main building frame, referred to herein as a defined, upright, outside plane for that main frame.
- this defined plane is that which is occupied by the outwardly facing surfaces of the columns in a building's main frame.
- the matrix frame panels which are modular in nature, as was suggested above, are designed nominally to hang by gravity initially on the stand-off mounts, with the rear sides of these panels essentially co-aligning with the just above mentioned matrix support plane.
- the present invention provides basically three-orthogonal-axis adjustability at the points of interconnection between (a) matrix frame panels, and the mentioned stand-off mounts and (b) the stand-off mounts and a main building frame.
- the stand-off mounts are created in such a fashion that, through manipulation of nut-and-bolt connections in relation to short, elongate slot-like holes, or apertures, their mount-defining faces can be shifted laterally inwardly and outwardly through an appropriate range relative to a main building frame.
- the mentioned mount-defining faces become coplanar throughout the system adjacent each main structural-frame “outside plane”, and thus function with matrix frame panels to telegraph proper coplanarity and appropriate positioning for all matrix frame panels.
- FIG. 1 is a fragmentary isometric view of one orthogonal corner portion of a plural-story main building frame, illustrating a preferred and best mode embodiment of the invention mounted in place on this frame.
- FIG. 1 provides a kind of overall view of major componentry in the system of this invention, showing what were referred to above as stand-off mounts, and also showing two different categories of matrix frame panels. One of these frame panels is shown in an outwardly exploded condition relative both to the remainder of the system of the invention, and to the fragmentarily shown building frame.
- FIG. 2 is a larger scale, isometric and fragmentary view illustrating details of a stand-off mount constructed in accordance with the present invention. This figure also shows, disposed in an unattached condition and spaced laterally outwardly from the illustrated stand-off mount, one of the perimetral corners, as well as a small portion, of a generally planar, rectangular matrix frame panel which forms part of the system of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a fragmentary elevation, drawn on about the same drawing scale as that which is employed in FIG. 1, further illustrating essentially the same arrangement which is pictured in FIG. 1, but from another point of view.
- FIG. 4 is an enlarged, fragmentary detail generally illustrating the area encircled by the single-headed arrow marked 4 in FIG. 3.
- FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view, on a larger scale than that which is employed in FIG. 4, taken generally from the left side of FIG. 4 and looking to the right, illustrating a matrix frame panel in four different conditions relative to a stand-off mount. Solid lines are employed to show three of these conditions, and dashed lines are employed to show the fourth condition. Two of the solid-line conditions shows states of attachment between a pair of vertically aligned and “stacked” matrix frame panels and a stand-off mount. The other solid-line condition illustrates the lower matrix frame panel disconnected relative to the pictured stand-off mount, and positioned to be installed with lateral, inwardly directed motion.
- FIG. 5 also shows how nut-and-bolt assemblies, or sets, can be handled/manipulated entirely from the inside of a plural-story main building frame, so as to permit full installation of the surface structure of the present invention from the inside of that frame.
- FIG. 6 presents an isometric view of an isolated example of one of the two different types of matrix frame panels that are illustrated in FIG. 1, and specifically a frame panel which is uni-planar.
- FIG. 7 is an isometric view, on about the same scale which is employed in FIG. 6, illustrating an isolated view of the other, second type of matrix frame panel which is shown in FIG. 1.
- This other type or panel is corner-angular, and includes two intersecting sections each of which is uni-planar.
- Frame 10 includes a plurality of laterally spaced, upright, generally square-cross section, tubular columns 14 which, through horizontal I-beams 16 , are interconnected, at obviously apparent connection nodes, such as nodes 17 , herein essentially at, or closely adjacent, the horizontal planes which define the interfaces between vertically-next-adjacent floor levels in frame 10 .
- I-beams and columns are specifically interconnected through outwardly projecting flanges or tabs, provided in pairs of angle-iron-like components 18 (see particularly FIGS. 2 and 5) which have inner flanges that are secured, as by welding, to the outside faces of the mentioned columns.
- the outwardly projecting tabs in components 18 are designated 18 a
- the flanges just mentioned which are welded to faces in the columns are designated 18 b .
- Outwardly projecting tabs 18 a each includes a vertically arranged column of plural spaced throughbores, such as those shown at 18 c (see FIG. 5).
- Frame 10 has inner and outer sides which are shown, respectively, at 10 A, 10 B (see FIGS. 1-3, inclusive).
- An interesting and significant feature of the invention which will become more fully apparent as the description which is now under way continues, is that the system of the present invention can be installed on the outside of a frame, such as on the outside of frame 10 , entirely from the inner side of a frame, such as from inner side 10 A of frame 10 .
- attachment to a frame of the entire surface structure system of the present invention can be accomplished through the employment of simply manipulable nut-and-bolt sets, and can be performed quickly and competently by relatively modestly skilled labor.
- Another notable feature is that, as will also become apparent, little detailed assembly instruction to workers is required to augment the very intuitive nature of the system. In a sense, the system components, and how they “go together”, speak for themselves.
- this system includes two principal categories of components.
- One of these categories takes the form of a plurality of specially configured stand-off mounts 26
- the other takes the form of a plurality of differently configured frame panels, such as the two different kinds of frame panels shown at 28 , 30 in the drawings. More in detail will be said about these frame panels shortly, but generally speaking, frame panels 28 are uni-planar and rectilinear, and panels 30 , which are also referred to herein as being rectilinear, are angular in nature to define right-angled, outside corners in the system of the invention. Inside corner panels, not specifically illustrated herein, are similar in construction. All frame panels function as armatures for supporting other, “outside-exposed” building surface structure.
- each includes an upright spine 26 a which is appropriately through-machined to provide a vertical and linear array of slightly horizontally elongate (slot-like) holes, or apertures, 26 b which accommodate anchoring, through briefly previously mentioned nut-and-bolt sets 22 as shown, to the appropriate pairs of previously mentioned, appropriately spaced, confronting component tabs 18 a .
- These particular tabs 18 a extend outwardly away from the outer side of frame 10 .
- Joined, as by welding, to the outer upright edges of spines 26 a are generally planar mounting plates 26 c , each of which includes what is referred to herein as a planar mount-defining face 26 d .
- each of plates 26 c Extending through each of plates 26 c are pairs of keyhole apertures 26 e which are laterally spaced as shown (see FIG. 2). Looking for a moment especially at FIG. 5 in the drawings, the outwardly facing faces of previously mentioned columns 14 lie, depending upon where they are located in frame 10 , in a common plane 32 , referred to herein as a frame plane.
- Frame plane 32 as pictured in FIG. 5, is vertical, and is substantially normal to the plane of FIG. 5.
- surface structure system 12 is principally shown, but only fragmentarily so, mounted adjacent a portion of frame plane 32 .
- mount-defining faces 26 d when the mounts are properly anchored in place, lie coextensive with a plane 34 which is referred to herein as a defined upright matrix support plane.
- Plane 34 herein, is somewhat, though not very much, spaced outwardly relative to plane 32 , and is substantially parallel to that plane. Another way of expressing this is to say that planes 32 , 34 are disposed substantially at an angle of O-degrees relative to one another.
- slot-like apertures 26 b together with appropriate adjustments made in nut-and-bolt sets 22 , permit a limited amount of inward and outward lateral adjustment of mounts 26 so as to enable proper positioning of mount-defining faces 26 d (to lie co-extensive with plane 34 ).
- proper “planar positioning” of mount-defining faces 26 d tends to telegraph proper planar positioning for all of these frame panels.
- each panel 28 is generally planar and rectangular, and includes upper and lower, elongate, beam components such as those shown at 28 a , 28 b , respectively.
- Component 28 a is referred to as an overhead principal beam component, and component 28 b as a base beam component.
- These two beam components are vertically spaced apart as illustrated herein, and are disposed with their long axes substantially parallel to one another.
- matrix frame panels like panels 28 , which are designed to support and carry the outermost skin structure in a building, can be designed with a number of different specific configurations and in different sizes to accomplish this. For example, panels very much like panels 28 may be created which do not have a construction that is designed to accommodate, for example, a window.
- Overhead beams components 28 a are square and tubular in cross section, and base beam components 28 b take the form of upwardly facing, generally U-shaped channels.
- each of mounts 26 herein that is in this preferred embodiment of the invention, is mounted on (anchored to) frame 10 essentially on the outer side of this frame, closely adjacent each one of the nodes 17 of interconnection between columns 14 and I-beams 16 .
- the stand-off mounts of this invention are distributed, therefore, in a kind of modularity-characterized, or modularity-based, row-and-column arrangement, or pattern which is rectilinear in pattern, and which is distributed, effectively, regularly over those outside surface areas of frame 10 which are intended to have components in system 12 attached.
- the specific pattern of modularity employed is a matter of choice, and can be selected to suit different particular installations.
- the various frame panels such as the two kinds of panels which have been mentioned already herein, are also modularity-characterized.
- they are characterized in the sense that they are sized and shaped perimetrally so that what is referred to herein as their perimetral corners (there are four of them), also called mounting sites, each comes into close-facing contiguity with four different stand-off mounts, and more specifically, with respect to four different mount-defining faces 26 d in the four different stand-off mounts within structure 12 .
- FIGS. 1 and 3 in the drawings.
- FIGS. 1 and 3 As can be seen also especially well in FIGS.
- next-adjacent frame panels whether horizontally adjacent, or vertically adjacent in a stack, are closely spaced with respect to one another, effectively to form what might be thought of as a tiled continuum throughout structure 12 disposed over the outside surfaces of frame 10 .
- four perimetral corners of four different frame panels meet adjacent a single, common mount-defining face in a single stand-off mount. This cluster of four such meeting corners is referred to herein as a modularity cluster.
- nut-and-bolt sets 23 appropriately attached to what effectively are the rearwardly facing walls of the tubular overhead principal beam components, such as components 28 a , are paired nut-and-bolt sets 23 (previously mentioned). This can be seen especially well for one of these sets (two positions shown) in FIG. 5.
- the heads of the bolts in these sets are disposed inside components 28 a , where they are welded, or otherwise suitably affixed, against the possibility of movement, such as rotation about the long axes of the shanks in the bolts. A weld which accomplishes this is shown generally at 38 in FIG. 5.
- Nut-and-bolt sets 23 are also referred to herein as attachment structures.
- the matrix frame panels are installed simply by manipulating them, generally as is indicated by curved arrow 40 in FIG. 5, laterally inwardly each toward a pair of stand-off mounts so as to cause the partially screwed on nuts in sets 23 to pass through the upper large area regions of keyhole apertures 26 e which are appropriately sized for this purpose.
- a frame panel is then simply lowered slightly under the influence of gravity to become seated in place and effectively hung (hang-mounted) on a pair of mounts 26 .
- FIG. 5 As will apparent from looking at FIG. 5, and was mentioned earlier, this very same lower frame panel is shown in two conditions/positions in solid lines in FIG. 5, the right hand position being one displaying the panel frame not yet in a mounted condition, and the left hand one showing this frame panel in a mounted and secured condition for the panel.
- FIG. 2 wherein at 41 a tri-orthogonal-axial relative positional adjustability capability is illustrated, this illustration is intended to point out yet another significant feature of the present invention. This feature is that, effectively, within a plane 43 which substantially parallels previously mentioned planes 32 , 34 , and which plane ( 43 ) is substantially normal to the in-and-out positional adjustability represented in FIG.
- each matrix frame panel of the uni-planar variety is effectively fully adjustable in a limited range relative to the three, usual orthogonal axes, so as to enable the ending configuration of an installed surface structure 12 to be accurately and precisely disposed relative to the outer side of a plural-story building frame, such as frame 10 . It should also be apparent from the description so far given that all mounting and positional adjustments which have been described so far can be performed completely from the inside of frame 10 .
- FIGS. 2 , 5 - 7 , inclusive Further associated with overhead beam components 28 a are two pairs of previously mentioned nut-and-bolt sets 24 , each of which pairs is disposed closely adjacent opposite lateral ends of a beam component 28 a .
- the threaded shanks in the bolts in these sets shown at 24 a in FIGS. 2 , 5 - 7 , inclusive, thus project upwardly above the upper surfaces of beam components 28 a .
- These upwardly projecting bolt shanks are also referred herein as prong elements.
- Shanks 24 a have long axes, one of which is shown at 24 c in FIG. 5.
- the nuts, such as nuts 24 b , in nut-and-bolt sets 24 are screwed down onto these projecting shanks.
- nuts are also referred to herein circumsurround structure, and individual nuts 24 b are also referred to as nut-like components.
- the heads of the bolts in sets 24 are located within the interior of beam components 28 a , and are therein welded against relative motion.
- bolt-head welds similar to those previously described are also employed at these locations.
- base beam components 28 b Provided within base beam components 28 b are two vertical pass-through apertures shown herein at 42 which, within each given frame panel, lie essentially along previously mentioned axis 24 c . These apertures, together with nut-and-bolt sets 24 , collectively constitute what are referred to herein as interconnect structures.
- prong elements 24 a extending upwardly from beam components 28 a in place, and apertures 42 located as just described, then, with respect to a pair of vertically next-adjacent, stacked frame panels 28 , the prong elements that project upwardly from the lower one of such two frame panels extend into the apertures 42 in the overhead frame panel to effect a kind of positive stack-position registry between next-adjacent, vertically stacked panels.
- the nuts in nut-and-bolt sets 24 can be adjusted by turning nuts 24 b on threaded shanks (prong elements) 24 a to define a positive vertical spacing accurately between vertically next-adjacent frame panels.
- Additional compatible nuts such as the additional nut 24 b shown in FIGS. 2 and 5- 7 , inclusive, placed within the upwardly facing channel of each base beam component 28 b , can be tightened downwardly toward the lower nut 24 b to complete the process of securing each matrix frame panel in place.
- Projecting prong elements 24 a can also very handily function as so-called “pick bolts” that can be grasped by appropriate load-handling devices to raise and position the associated frame panels for assembly by workers.
- frame panels such as frame panels 28 (see the dashed-line image) can be lowered easily from overhead, as indicated by arrow 45 in FIG. 5, to “drop” directly down into appropriate facing proximity to the mount-defining faces in the stand-off mounts.
- a worker from inside frame 10 can “insert” and tighten a bolt to affix such a lowered panel in place.
- This capability of the system of the present invention is extremely advantageous in many building situations.
- frame panel 30 as shown in FIG. 7, this frame panel is specifically designed herein to be used as an outside, right-angle corner frame panel, as seen in FIG. 1. From the clearly discernable construction of panel 30 illustrated in FIG. 7, this pictured construction will make evident to those skilled in the art how an inside corner panel, somewhat like panel 30 , may be constructed. Other corner-panel configurations are, of course, possible.
- panel 30 includes an overhead principal beam component 30 a which is right-angular in nature, and a base beam component 30 b which is also right angular in nature.
- these overhead and base beam components are generally similar to the correspondingly relatively positioned, previously described beam components 28 a , 28 b , respectively.
- Uprights, such as those shown at 30 c extend vertically between, and interconnect, components 30 a , 30 b .
- Beam component 30 a has associated with it previously described nut-and-bolt sets 23 , 24
- beam component 30 b has associated with it previously described apertures 42 .
- the matrix frame surface structure of the invention is thus now fully described. It features positionally adjustable, modularly distributed stand-off mounts that anchor to the outside of a main building frame, and modularly-characterized frame panels which are hangable by gravity on the mounts, and positionally adjustable in principally two orthogonally related directions relative to the stand-off mounts. Nut-and-bolt sets are employed to secure the matrix frame system components in place, and these are fully accessible to permit assembly and installation of the system easily from the inside of a building frame. Only wrenches and modestly skilled labor are required for installation, and the system components, in a sense, intuitively self-instruct workers how to position and secure them. Uni-planar frame panels can readily be installed on the blind side of a building frame.
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- This case claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 60/461,316, filed Apr. 8, 2003, by the same inventor named in the present Regular U.S. Patent Application, for “Matrix Frame/Panel Skin Building Structure”. The entirety of that provisional case is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
- This invention pertains to a matrix frame system, and more particularly to a matrix frame surface structure, or surface-structure system, which may be employed to define the outside surface of a plural-story building. The system of this invention is designed to carry and support the outside surface-skin features of a plural-story building, which features can include anything there desired, such as a selected finishing material, windows, various architectural details, etc.
- Advances in various large-building construction techniques, and in related materials and associated joinery used in such structures, along with significant improvements in the realm of harnessing the accuracy and speed capabilities of digital computers, further coupled with the rising costs of employing large teams of on-site skilled laborers, unite to fuel a strong focus on simplifying and speeding the assembly of plural-story buildings.
- The present invention takes directed aim at these construction matters of current interest and concern. It proposes an extremely simple, remarkably accurate, and very quickly implementable system, referred to as the above-mentioned matrix frame system, for building and securing a surface-support framework structure to the main column and beam frame structure of a plural-story building. Though many specific materials might be chosen for implementing this system, the current preferred implementation involves making the various components of the system out of an appropriate steel material—one which will collaborate quite well with the usual steel materials that are employed in main building frames.
- The system of the invention is modular in nature, and includes prefabricatable, modularity-based frame panels, in appropriate modularly inter-relatable and compatible sizes which, during installation, are initially hung by gravity (hang-mounted) on appropriately configured stand-off mounts. These mounts are arranged in a kind of row-and-column, and modularity-based, fashion, or pattern, to the main frame in a plural-story building, and are disposed at locations which are closely adjacent, preferably, the nodal sites of interconnection that exist between upright columns and horizontally extending beams in that frame. The stand-off mounts furnish outwardly facing and generally planar faces which are referred to herein as mount-defining faces that are intended to lie accurately within what is referred to as an upright matrix support plane. This matrix support plane preferably substantially parallels, and is spaced outwardly from, a confrontingly adjacent, associated outside plane of an underlying main building frame, referred to herein as a defined, upright, outside plane for that main frame. Typically this defined plane is that which is occupied by the outwardly facing surfaces of the columns in a building's main frame.
- The matrix frame panels, which are modular in nature, as was suggested above, are designed nominally to hang by gravity initially on the stand-off mounts, with the rear sides of these panels essentially co-aligning with the just above mentioned matrix support plane.
- Essentially, only extremely modest and simple tools are needed to attach the stand-off mounts to a building frame, and to assemble the matrix frame panels with and to the stand-off mounts. Such attachment and assembly is accomplished by simple nut-and-bolt connections that can easily be established utilizing, effectively, just wrenches, and employing relatively unskilled labor. The assembly process promoted by this invention is very speedy in nature. Appropriate, and very quickly attainable, preferably planar alignment of matrix frame panels outwardly of the main frame in a building can be accomplished by the fact that the present invention provides basically three-orthogonal-axis adjustability at the points of interconnection between (a) matrix frame panels, and the mentioned stand-off mounts and (b) the stand-off mounts and a main building frame. Very specifically, the stand-off mounts are created in such a fashion that, through manipulation of nut-and-bolt connections in relation to short, elongate slot-like holes, or apertures, their mount-defining faces can be shifted laterally inwardly and outwardly through an appropriate range relative to a main building frame. As will be seen, the specific structures that are provided to establish final securement of matrix frame panels in place on the stand-off mounts, and to stabilize vertically next-adjacent panels, also utilizing relatively simple nut-and-bolt connections, accommodate a limited amount of up-and-down and side-to-side selective orthogonal adjustment. When the stand-off mounts are all properly positioned on a main building frame, the mentioned mount-defining faces become coplanar throughout the system adjacent each main structural-frame “outside plane”, and thus function with matrix frame panels to telegraph proper coplanarity and appropriate positioning for all matrix frame panels.
- These and other features and advantages which are attained and offered by the present invention will become more fully apparent as the description which now follows is read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
- FIG. 1 is a fragmentary isometric view of one orthogonal corner portion of a plural-story main building frame, illustrating a preferred and best mode embodiment of the invention mounted in place on this frame. Specifically, FIG. 1 provides a kind of overall view of major componentry in the system of this invention, showing what were referred to above as stand-off mounts, and also showing two different categories of matrix frame panels. One of these frame panels is shown in an outwardly exploded condition relative both to the remainder of the system of the invention, and to the fragmentarily shown building frame.
- FIG. 2 is a larger scale, isometric and fragmentary view illustrating details of a stand-off mount constructed in accordance with the present invention. This figure also shows, disposed in an unattached condition and spaced laterally outwardly from the illustrated stand-off mount, one of the perimetral corners, as well as a small portion, of a generally planar, rectangular matrix frame panel which forms part of the system of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a fragmentary elevation, drawn on about the same drawing scale as that which is employed in FIG. 1, further illustrating essentially the same arrangement which is pictured in FIG. 1, but from another point of view.
- FIG. 4 is an enlarged, fragmentary detail generally illustrating the area encircled by the single-headed arrow marked4 in FIG. 3.
- FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view, on a larger scale than that which is employed in FIG. 4, taken generally from the left side of FIG. 4 and looking to the right, illustrating a matrix frame panel in four different conditions relative to a stand-off mount. Solid lines are employed to show three of these conditions, and dashed lines are employed to show the fourth condition. Two of the solid-line conditions shows states of attachment between a pair of vertically aligned and “stacked” matrix frame panels and a stand-off mount. The other solid-line condition illustrates the lower matrix frame panel disconnected relative to the pictured stand-off mount, and positioned to be installed with lateral, inwardly directed motion. The small, fragmentary showing (upper part of the drawing figure) of the dashed-line condition illustrates how, with respect to the same kind of frame panel as is shown in solid lines, what is known as “blind-wall”, or “blind-side”, assembly can take place in the region of a main structural frame which is very closely adjacent a neighboring building. FIG. 5 also shows how nut-and-bolt assemblies, or sets, can be handled/manipulated entirely from the inside of a plural-story main building frame, so as to permit full installation of the surface structure of the present invention from the inside of that frame.
- FIG. 6 presents an isometric view of an isolated example of one of the two different types of matrix frame panels that are illustrated in FIG. 1, and specifically a frame panel which is uni-planar.
- FIG. 7 is an isometric view, on about the same scale which is employed in FIG. 6, illustrating an isolated view of the other, second type of matrix frame panel which is shown in FIG. 1. This other type or panel is corner-angular, and includes two intersecting sections each of which is uni-planar.
- Turning now to the drawings, and referring first of all to FIGS. 1-5, inclusive, indicated generally at10 is a plural-story frame in a building, to which frame is attached a matrix frame surface structure, or system, 12 which is constructed in accordance with a preferred and best-mode embodiment of the present invention.
Frame 10 includes a plurality of laterally spaced, upright, generally square-cross section,tubular columns 14 which, through horizontal I-beams 16, are interconnected, at obviously apparent connection nodes, such asnodes 17, herein essentially at, or closely adjacent, the horizontal planes which define the interfaces between vertically-next-adjacent floor levels inframe 10. - These I-beams and columns are specifically interconnected through outwardly projecting flanges or tabs, provided in pairs of angle-iron-like components18 (see particularly FIGS. 2 and 5) which have inner flanges that are secured, as by welding, to the outside faces of the mentioned columns. The outwardly projecting tabs in
components 18 are designated 18 a, and the flanges just mentioned which are welded to faces in the columns are designated 18 b. Outwardly projectingtabs 18 a each includes a vertically arranged column of plural spaced throughbores, such as those shown at 18 c (see FIG. 5). As can be seen, it is through specific pairs of properly laterally spaced projectingtabs 18 a,—the ones which extend from one column toward an adjacent column—that I-beams 16 are anchored to thecolumns 14 by nut-and-bolt sets, such as those shown at 20 (see particularly FIG. 2). - Touching on a particular point here now with respect to this first specific mention of a nut-and-bolt set (20), as will become apparent, different collections of nut-and-bolt sets play an advantageous role in the assembly and convenient uniting of pieces and parts in the system of this invention. Just-mentioned nut-and-
bolt sets 20 do not form part of this collection, but three other nut-and-bolt sets -
Frame 10 has inner and outer sides which are shown, respectively, at 10A, 10B (see FIGS. 1-3, inclusive). An interesting and significant feature of the invention, which will become more fully apparent as the description which is now under way continues, is that the system of the present invention can be installed on the outside of a frame, such as on the outside offrame 10, entirely from the inner side of a frame, such as frominner side 10A offrame 10. It is also an interesting and significant feature of the invention that attachment to a frame of the entire surface structure system of the present invention can be accomplished through the employment of simply manipulable nut-and-bolt sets, and can be performed quickly and competently by relatively modestly skilled labor. Another notable feature is that, as will also become apparent, little detailed assembly instruction to workers is required to augment the very intuitive nature of the system. In a sense, the system components, and how they “go together”, speak for themselves. - Turning attention now to the construction of structure, or system,12, this system includes two principal categories of components. One of these categories takes the form of a plurality of specially configured stand-
off mounts 26, and the other takes the form of a plurality of differently configured frame panels, such as the two different kinds of frame panels shown at 28, 30 in the drawings. More in detail will be said about these frame panels shortly, but generally speaking,frame panels 28 are uni-planar and rectilinear, andpanels 30, which are also referred to herein as being rectilinear, are angular in nature to define right-angled, outside corners in the system of the invention. Inside corner panels, not specifically illustrated herein, are similar in construction. All frame panels function as armatures for supporting other, “outside-exposed” building surface structure. - Considering the construction of stand-off
mounts 26, and looking most especially at FIG. 2, each includes anupright spine 26 a which is appropriately through-machined to provide a vertical and linear array of slightly horizontally elongate (slot-like) holes, or apertures, 26 b which accommodate anchoring, through briefly previously mentioned nut-and-bolt sets 22 as shown, to the appropriate pairs of previously mentioned, appropriately spaced, confrontingcomponent tabs 18 a. Theseparticular tabs 18 a extend outwardly away from the outer side offrame 10. Joined, as by welding, to the outer upright edges ofspines 26 a are generallyplanar mounting plates 26 c, each of which includes what is referred to herein as a planar mount-definingface 26 d. Extending through each ofplates 26 c are pairs ofkeyhole apertures 26 e which are laterally spaced as shown (see FIG. 2). Looking for a moment especially at FIG. 5 in the drawings, the outwardly facing faces of previously mentionedcolumns 14 lie, depending upon where they are located inframe 10, in acommon plane 32, referred to herein as a frame plane.Frame plane 32, as pictured in FIG. 5, is vertical, and is substantially normal to the plane of FIG. 5. In the drawing figures herein,surface structure system 12 is principally shown, but only fragmentarily so, mounted adjacent a portion offrame plane 32. - Continuing with what is shown probably best in FIG. 5, mount-defining
faces 26 d, when the mounts are properly anchored in place, lie coextensive with aplane 34 which is referred to herein as a defined upright matrix support plane.Plane 34 herein, is somewhat, though not very much, spaced outwardly relative to plane 32, and is substantially parallel to that plane. Another way of expressing this is to say thatplanes - As is pictured by a short, horizontal, double-headed
arrow 36 in FIG. 5, slot-like apertures 26 b, together with appropriate adjustments made in nut-and-bolt sets 22, permit a limited amount of inward and outward lateral adjustment ofmounts 26 so as to enable proper positioning of mount-definingfaces 26 d (to lie co-extensive with plane 34). As will be appreciated, proper “planar positioning” of mount-definingfaces 26 d, once the installation of the matrix frame panels begins, tends to telegraph proper planar positioning for all of these frame panels. - Turning attention now to frame
panels frame panel 28, eachpanel 28 is generally planar and rectangular, and includes upper and lower, elongate, beam components such as those shown at 28 a, 28 b, respectively.Component 28 a is referred to as an overhead principal beam component, andcomponent 28 b as a base beam component. These two beam components, as can be seen, are vertically spaced apart as illustrated herein, and are disposed with their long axes substantially parallel to one another. - Extending appropriately vertically between, and interconnecting,
beam components panel 28, window openings, such as those shown at 28 e. - In general terms, it should be understood that matrix frame panels, like
panels 28, which are designed to support and carry the outermost skin structure in a building, can be designed with a number of different specific configurations and in different sizes to accomplish this. For example, panels very much likepanels 28 may be created which do not have a construction that is designed to accommodate, for example, a window. -
Overhead beams components 28 a are square and tubular in cross section, andbase beam components 28 b take the form of upwardly facing, generally U-shaped channels. - Before continuing with additional details relating to the frame panels, to their interconnections with one another, and to their connections with the stand-off mounts in
structure 12, one thing to note is that each ofmounts 26 herein, that is in this preferred embodiment of the invention, is mounted on (anchored to)frame 10 essentially on the outer side of this frame, closely adjacent each one of thenodes 17 of interconnection betweencolumns 14 and I-beams 16. Very particularly, the stand-off mounts of this invention are distributed, therefore, in a kind of modularity-characterized, or modularity-based, row-and-column arrangement, or pattern which is rectilinear in pattern, and which is distributed, effectively, regularly over those outside surface areas offrame 10 which are intended to have components insystem 12 attached. The specific pattern of modularity employed is a matter of choice, and can be selected to suit different particular installations. - In relation to this row-and-column, modularity-characterized distribution of
mounts 26, the various frame panels, such as the two kinds of panels which have been mentioned already herein, are also modularity-characterized. In particular, they are characterized in the sense that they are sized and shaped perimetrally so that what is referred to herein as their perimetral corners (there are four of them), also called mounting sites, each comes into close-facing contiguity with four different stand-off mounts, and more specifically, with respect to four different mount-definingfaces 26 d in the four different stand-off mounts withinstructure 12. This is very clearly evident from, especially, FIGS. 1 and 3 in the drawings. As can be seen also especially well in FIGS. 1 and 3, next-adjacent frame panels, whether horizontally adjacent, or vertically adjacent in a stack, are closely spaced with respect to one another, effectively to form what might be thought of as a tiled continuum throughoutstructure 12 disposed over the outside surfaces offrame 10. Generally speaking, four perimetral corners of four different frame panels meet adjacent a single, common mount-defining face in a single stand-off mount. This cluster of four such meeting corners is referred to herein as a modularity cluster. - Continuing now with further details that have yet to be described, and including references now to all of the drawing figures, appropriately attached to what effectively are the rearwardly facing walls of the tubular overhead principal beam components, such as
components 28 a, are paired nut-and-bolt sets 23 (previously mentioned). This can be seen especially well for one of these sets (two positions shown) in FIG. 5. Preferably also, the heads of the bolts in these sets are disposed insidecomponents 28 a, where they are welded, or otherwise suitably affixed, against the possibility of movement, such as rotation about the long axes of the shanks in the bolts. A weld which accomplishes this is shown generally at 38 in FIG. 5. Nut-and-bolt sets 23 are also referred to herein as attachment structures. - This particular arrangement, with the bolt heads in nut-and-bolt sets23 disposed and stabilized against motion inside of
beam components 28 a, is the preferred arrangement wherepanels 28 are to be installed by moving them laterally towardframe 10. Where, however, they are to be installed on the blind side of a frame, it is desirable that the nuts in these sets be anchored to the insides ofbeam components 28 a so that, initially, there is no nut-and-bolt structure projecting from the rear sides ofcomponents 28 a. More will be said about this shortly. - With these nut-and-bolt sets23 thus in place (bolt heads inside
components 28 a), and with the nuts in the sets turned a short distance onto the threaded, outwardly extending shanks in the bolts in these sets (see especially FIG. 5), the matrix frame panels are installed simply by manipulating them, generally as is indicated bycurved arrow 40 in FIG. 5, laterally inwardly each toward a pair of stand-off mounts so as to cause the partially screwed on nuts insets 23 to pass through the upper large area regions ofkeyhole apertures 26 e which are appropriately sized for this purpose. A frame panel is then simply lowered slightly under the influence of gravity to become seated in place and effectively hung (hang-mounted) on a pair ofmounts 26. When it comes time to secure the frame panels rigidly in place, among other securing activities which are performed and which will be described shortly, the nuts in nut-and-bolt sets 23 are tightened to drawoverhead beam components 28 a snugly against the respective confronting mount-definingfaces 26 d in mounts 26. This is a condition which is shown in the lower one of the three solid-line conditions pictured for aframe panel 28 in FIG. 5. - As will apparent from looking at FIG. 5, and was mentioned earlier, this very same lower frame panel is shown in two conditions/positions in solid lines in FIG. 5, the right hand position being one displaying the panel frame not yet in a mounted condition, and the left hand one showing this frame panel in a mounted and secured condition for the panel. With reference made just for a moment to FIG. 2, wherein at41 a tri-orthogonal-axial relative positional adjustability capability is illustrated, this illustration is intended to point out yet another significant feature of the present invention. This feature is that, effectively, within a
plane 43 which substantially parallels previously mentionedplanes arrow 36, there is sufficient lateral clearance provided between the shanks of the bolts in nut-and-bolt sets 23 and the surrounding walls of a keyhole aperture, such asapertures 26 e, inmounts 26, to permit each frame panel, at least one which is of a variety likeframe panel 28, to be adjusted upwardly-and-downwardly, and from side-to-side so as to be easily adjustable into an appropriate final position in a fully assembledstructure 12. Thus, and as is made clearly evident by the orthogonal-axis presentation shown at 41 in FIG. 2, each matrix frame panel of the uni-planar variety is effectively fully adjustable in a limited range relative to the three, usual orthogonal axes, so as to enable the ending configuration of an installedsurface structure 12 to be accurately and precisely disposed relative to the outer side of a plural-story building frame, such asframe 10. It should also be apparent from the description so far given that all mounting and positional adjustments which have been described so far can be performed completely from the inside offrame 10. - Further associated with
overhead beam components 28 a are two pairs of previously mentioned nut-and-bolt sets 24, each of which pairs is disposed closely adjacent opposite lateral ends of abeam component 28 a. The threaded shanks in the bolts in these sets, shown at 24 a in FIGS. 2, 5-7, inclusive, thus project upwardly above the upper surfaces ofbeam components 28 a. These upwardly projecting bolt shanks are also referred herein as prong elements.Shanks 24 a have long axes, one of which is shown at 24 c in FIG. 5. The nuts, such asnuts 24 b, in nut-and-bolt sets 24 are screwed down onto these projecting shanks. These nuts are also referred to herein circumsurround structure, andindividual nuts 24 b are also referred to as nut-like components. Preferably, the heads of the bolts insets 24 are located within the interior ofbeam components 28 a, and are therein welded against relative motion. For this purpose, bolt-head welds similar to those previously described are also employed at these locations. - Provided within
base beam components 28 b are two vertical pass-through apertures shown herein at 42 which, within each given frame panel, lie essentially along previously mentionedaxis 24 c. These apertures, together with nut-and-bolt sets 24, collectively constitute what are referred to herein as interconnect structures. - With
prong elements 24 a extending upwardly frombeam components 28 a in place, andapertures 42 located as just described, then, with respect to a pair of vertically next-adjacent, stackedframe panels 28, the prong elements that project upwardly from the lower one of such two frame panels extend into theapertures 42 in the overhead frame panel to effect a kind of positive stack-position registry between next-adjacent, vertically stacked panels. The nuts in nut-and-bolt sets 24 can be adjusted by turningnuts 24 b on threaded shanks (prong elements) 24 a to define a positive vertical spacing accurately between vertically next-adjacent frame panels. Additional compatible nuts, such as theadditional nut 24 b shown in FIGS. 2 and 5-7, inclusive, placed within the upwardly facing channel of eachbase beam component 28 b, can be tightened downwardly toward thelower nut 24 b to complete the process of securing each matrix frame panel in place. - Projecting
prong elements 24 a can also very handily function as so-called “pick bolts” that can be grasped by appropriate load-handling devices to raise and position the associated frame panels for assembly by workers. - Focusing attention on FIG. 5 to explain further herein a special construction opportunity which is afforded by the present invention, the fragmentary portions of
frame 10 andsystem 12 which appear in this figure, coupled with the upper, dashed-line image of aframe panel 28, are intended to illustrate, among other things, what was mentioned earlier herein as the capability of the present invention to be used remarkably successfully on the blind side of a building. - In particular, and as has also been previously mentioned, such a blind side is one which is very close to a next-door building, and in FIG. 5, such a close, next-door building is shown fragmentarily at44. What can clearly be seen here is that, even in this kind of a “close quarters” situation, the fact that the components of
system 12 can be completely installed from the inside offrame 10 allows easily for the relatively simple installing and finishing of the outside of a plural-story building. With the dispositions of nut-and-bolt sets 23 being organized in the arrangement briefly outlined above where the nuts are within the insides ofbeam components 28 a, initially there are no bolt projections from these beam components. As a consequence, frame panels, such as frame panels 28 (see the dashed-line image), can be lowered easily from overhead, as indicated byarrow 45 in FIG. 5, to “drop” directly down into appropriate facing proximity to the mount-defining faces in the stand-off mounts. With a panel so lowered and aligned properly, a worker frominside frame 10 can “insert” and tighten a bolt to affix such a lowered panel in place. This capability of the system of the present invention is extremely advantageous in many building situations. - It should be appreciated that while the frame panels in
system 12, as illustrated herein, are presented simply in their “core, armature” forms, i.e., without any attached, final outside finishing materials, such finishing materials will typically have been affixed to these panels before panel installation. - Turning now to frame
panel 30 as shown in FIG. 7, this frame panel is specifically designed herein to be used as an outside, right-angle corner frame panel, as seen in FIG. 1. From the clearly discernable construction ofpanel 30 illustrated in FIG. 7, this pictured construction will make evident to those skilled in the art how an inside corner panel, somewhat likepanel 30, may be constructed. Other corner-panel configurations are, of course, possible. - Thus
panel 30 includes an overheadprincipal beam component 30 a which is right-angular in nature, and abase beam component 30 b which is also right angular in nature. In other respects than “angularity”, these overhead and base beam components are generally similar to the correspondingly relatively positioned, previously describedbeam components components Beam component 30 a has associated with it previously described nut-and-bolt sets 23, 24, andbeam component 30 b has associated with it previously describedapertures 42. - The matrix frame surface structure of the invention is thus now fully described. It features positionally adjustable, modularly distributed stand-off mounts that anchor to the outside of a main building frame, and modularly-characterized frame panels which are hangable by gravity on the mounts, and positionally adjustable in principally two orthogonally related directions relative to the stand-off mounts. Nut-and-bolt sets are employed to secure the matrix frame system components in place, and these are fully accessible to permit assembly and installation of the system easily from the inside of a building frame. Only wrenches and modestly skilled labor are required for installation, and the system components, in a sense, intuitively self-instruct workers how to position and secure them. Uni-planar frame panels can readily be installed on the blind side of a building frame.
- With connectors, such as angle-
iron components 18, properly positionally attached to a main building frame, accurate placement of the matrix system components is assured. The system components readily lend themselves to off-site shop fabrication, and great precision, ensuring ease of proper system assembly, can be enhanced if computers are employed in the making of these components. The system lends itself to such computer-enhanced making. - Clearly to be understood is that the specific configurations of the system components illustrated herein can take on a number of different configurations.
- Thus, while a preferred and best-mode embodiment of the invention has been illustrated and described herein, it is appreciated that variations and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.
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