US2142692A

US2142692A - Frame building construction

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Publication number: US2142692A
Application number: US183103A
Authority: US
Inventors: Herman J Kuppers
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1938-01-03
Filing date: 1938-01-03
Publication date: 1939-01-03
Anticipated expiration: 1956-01-03

Description

.Fam 3, 1939. -1 KUPPERS N l2,142,692

FRAME BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Filed Jan. s, 1958 Patented Jan. 3, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT' OFFICE 4 Claims.

This invention relates to a type of light building construction, particularly suited for summer cottages, housing and store structures in warm climates, rural and farm buildings and temporary structures of various kinds.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved form of light, frame-building construction that is quite substantial and durable both in form and appearance while being inexpensive to erect and requiring little technical skill in its assembly.

A specific embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional detail showing the form and relation of the principal elements of the structure.

Fig. 2 is a perspective viewl of a smallstore building embodying the structural features of this invention.

Fig. 3 is an inside perspective view of a portion of the same.

Fig. 4 is a sectional detail on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

In erecting a building according to this invention, the first step is to excavate a shallow trench defining the outer margins or external wall aline- 4ment of the building.

The next step is to set up a series of posts defining the external contour of the building, including corner posts A and intermediate posts Al as the wall structure of the building calls for, the number and arrangement of such posts being determined by the architectural design of the building and their spacing being determined by the nature of the sheet material that makes up the wall panels.

These posts may be rough or dressed tree boles or processed timber and are creosoted and set into the ground in individual post holes below the bottom of the trench to a sufficient depth to be held permanently erect, this depth being deter' mined by the nature of the soil in which they are placed. If natural tree boles are used, they should be dressed flat onthe innerface Iy and P erected so this face is plumb and in planar alinement with the corresponding faces of all the posts included in the same wall, so that the sheeting B which will be afterward applied thereto will be supported in a true vertical plane.

The tops of the posts are next trimmed so that they all lie in the same horizontal' plane and are notched on their inner faces at this end, as at 2, to receive a. horizontal Stringer C by means of which the tops of the posts are rigidly connected together and the inner face 3 of this strlnger is flush with the inside faces of the posts. Resting on this Stringer and extending over the tops of the posts and appropriately secured to both, as by nailing, is a header beam D upon which the rafters F are carried. These rafters are notched 5 to t and rest upon this header beam and are extended in the usual manner outwardly beyond this header. beam to provide overhanging eaves accordingto the desired architectural design.

Also resting on the header beam D are the ceil- 10 ing joists or beams or truss elements 4 that may be required for rigidity according to the size' of the building, and for relieving the posts from side thrust.

`After the rafters'F have been applied, the floor 15 stringere E are fastened .to the posts A at approv priate elevation to determine the oor level and their outer faces are held spaced away from the inner faces of the posts by temporary blocking that is removed when the wall sheeting is applied. 20

After the skeleton frame and roof sheeting G have been applied, a shallow concrete wall H is poured in an appropriate mold erected in the trench in which the posts A are set up. This wall is of greater thickness than the posts and so arranged as to rigidly embrace andltie together all u of the supporting posts of the frame structure.

The top of this wall is horizontal at 5 throughout that portion which lies inwardly of the inner face of the posts A and is sloped downwardly and outwardly at 6 so as to provide drainage for rainwater, away from the lower edge of the sheeting B.

The concrete of the foundation wall H is flushed to the bottom of the Stringer E and the wall extends inwardly suiiiciently far to support a concrete slab I, or a wood floor structure that might be substituted for'that slab.

The wall sheeting B may be wooden boards, or composition substitutes for wooden boards, and 4r is nailed or bolted to the stringers C and E and appropriately tted to the rafters F and roof sheeting G and extends down to the concrete wall .between the post A and the Stringer strip E.

In making the concrete foundation wall in the form of a sill beam lying below and adjacent the surface of the ground and extending the posts into the ground a considerable distance below this sill beam, it is possible to make a substantial structure with a minimum of concrete and at the same time rmly anchor the same to the ground so ,that it has a high resistance to disturbance by wind pressure or erosion of the ground surface about the building. The floor slab I also contributes its weight to anchcring the building.

In some instances it may be desirable to omit the digging of the trench for the concrete wall H. which is above-mentioned as the first step, until after the framework has been erected and the wall sheeting B and floor stringer E have been applied, since this procedure will avoid having the trench interfere with access to the building during these preliminary operations. When 'the foundation wall H is being laid, provision is also made for chimney K, or the like, which the design of the building calls for.

If the wall is made of a single layer of vertical boards or strips. the outside Joints are covered by' finishing strips 1. The interior of the walls may be trimmed with finishing strips I and l.

I claim:

1. A building construction, comprising a series of posts set upright in individual post holes in the ground, and a sill beam of concrete connecting and embracing said posts and having its bottom surface spaced a considerable distance above the bottoms of the posts.

2. A building construction, comprising a series of posts set upright in individual post holes m the ground, and a sill beam of concrete connecting and embracing said posts in the form of a shallow foundation wall embedded in the ground with its bottom located at considerable distance above the bottoms of the posts.

3. A building construction, comprising a series of posts set upright in 'individual post holes in the ground to define the outline of. a building, and a sill beam of concrete connecting and embracing said posts in the form of a shallow foundation wall extending marginally about said outline and being embedded in the ground with its bottom located at considerable distance above the bottoms of the posts.4

4. The method of building construction which comprises setting into the ground a series of building frame posts to a depth sufllcient to hold said posts individuallyl erect, connecting upper portions of said posts by structural framing, and then pouring a concrete foundation wall so ais to embed therein the lower portions of said posts and with its bottom located a considerable distance above the bottoms of said posts.

. HERMAN J. KUPPERS.