WO2008144723A2 - Installation de construction de bâtiment avec zones d'ensemble secondaire orientables - Google Patents

Installation de construction de bâtiment avec zones d'ensemble secondaire orientables Download PDF

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WO2008144723A2
WO2008144723A2 PCT/US2008/064347 US2008064347W WO2008144723A2 WO 2008144723 A2 WO2008144723 A2 WO 2008144723A2 US 2008064347 W US2008064347 W US 2008064347W WO 2008144723 A2 WO2008144723 A2 WO 2008144723A2
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/343—Structures characterised by movable, separable, or collapsible parts, e.g. for transport
    • E04B1/346—Rotary buildings; Buildings with rotary units, e.g. rooms
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04G—SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS
    • E04G21/00—Preparing, conveying, or working-up building materials or building elements in situ; Other devices or measures for constructional work
    • E04G21/14—Conveying or assembling building elements
    • E04G21/16—Tools or apparatus

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  • Prefabricated buildings such as commercial structures and residential homes, have become a popular alternative to "built-on-site" buildings.
  • Prefabricated buildings include manufactured buildings, wherein the building is built in a factory setting, and prefabricated buildings, wherein the components of the building are prefabricated and precut in a factory setting.
  • Some facilities are organized in an assembly line fashion to build the individual components for a prefabricated home, such as the panels and the framework. The components are precut at the factory and shipped via truck to the site of the home for assembly.
  • prefabricated building systems are only able to accommodate a single design or single model without having to significantly change the assembly line(s), which can be very expensive.
  • consumers who desire to invest in prefabricated homes are only provided with a limited number of design options set by the manufacturers and lack the ability to select their own custom, or mixed-model, designs.
  • the present invention relates to a facility for manufacturing non-roadable buildings.
  • the facility includes an enclosed area having a roof, a plurality of bays for positioning the non-roadable buildings therein, each of the plurality of bays configured to have one non-roadable building positioned therein, a plurality of movable manufacturing areas configured to manufacture elements for manufacturing and a lifting means positioned within the enclosed area and configured to move the elements for manufacturing of the non-roadable building through the facility, including movement of the elements from each of the plurality of movable manufacturing areas to each of the plurality of bays.
  • the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing non-roadable buildings.
  • the method includes the steps of providing an enclosed area having a roof, the enclosed area having a plurality or bays for positioning the non-roadable buildings therein, each of the plurality of bays configured to have one non- roadable building positioned therein, moving a plurality of manufacturing areas relative to the plurality of bays within the enclosed area such that each of the plurality of manufacturing areas is positioned adjacent each of the plurality of bays for a predetermined period of time, and assembling the non-roadable buildings, such that each of the non-roadable buildings is substantially complete, using lifting means positioned within the enclosed area to move elements for manufacturing of the non-roadable building through the enclosed area, including movement of the elements from each of the manufacturing area to each of the plurality of bays.
  • the present invention relates to an enclosed facility for manufacturing movable standard sized dwellings.
  • the facility includes a plurality of bays configured to have one movable standard sized dwelling manufactured and positioned therein, a plurality of movable subassembly areas, each of the subassembly areas configured to have a portion of the standard sized dwelling built therein and configured to move relative to the plurality of bays, lifting means to lift and move each of the plurality of subassembly areas to each of the plurality of bays, and an exit proximate each of the plurality of bays configured to allow the standard sized dwelling to exit each bay.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of the interior of a facility for manufacturing buildings according to one embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the exterior of the facility of Fig. 1; and [0011] Fig. 3 is an interior elevational view of a subassembly in the facility shown in
  • the present invention relates to facility 10 for manufacturing buildings.
  • the facility 10 includes a plurality of bays 12, a central area 14, which can include a plurality of subassembly areas 16a-f and lifting or hoisting device 18 to transport the subassemblies to each of the bays 12.
  • the facility can be positioned proximate to a housing or building development. This allows, if desired, a substantially complete non-roadable home or building to avoid public roadways and travel mainly on private or unrestricted roadways.
  • the building can be designed such that it is not required to meet state roadway restrictions and can have any suitable width, height or weight.
  • the non-roadable buildings can be transported along public roads for limited, authorized and/or monitored distances and that the facility can be positioned any suitable distance or proximity to a housing or building development.
  • the facility 10 is preferably an enclosed or partially enclosed building that can have environmental controls.
  • the facility can be generally circular with the bays on the perimeter and the subassembly area in the center area; however, these two areas can be reversed and the bays can be in the center area if desired.
  • the facility can have a roof, as in many conventional facilities or it can have no roof, a partial roof or as many or as few sides as desired and/or no or partial walls on a side. Additionally, the facility can be divided into multiple facilities or staging areas either within or without facility 10.
  • the facility 10 can be made from any suitable materials, such as metal, wood, fabric or any other material that would allow the workers and supplies located inside the facility to be protected from any one or more of the sun, wind, precipitation, other environmental elements, theft and/or any other undesirable consequences.
  • the facility has a plurality of building bays 12.
  • the bays are each sized and configured to allow at least a multi-storied (or a single storied) building 20 to be built therein.
  • each bay is substantially arcuate or wedged shaped or can be square or rectangular and sized and configured to allow a standard sized home to be positioned and/or built therein.
  • each bay is generally large enough to allow a building having a 60 foot by 40 foot configuration and enough room for personnel or equipment to move around each side of the home.
  • the bays are designed for any suitable building, one embodiment includes building a standard sized non-roadable home in each bay.
  • the standard sized homes are generally large single family homes have a square footage of about 1600 ft or larger; however, a standard sized home can be any home that is too large to be placed on a truck and transported over public roads.
  • each bay can be any suitable size and/or configuration and have any suitable size or configuration of buildings positioned and/or built therein, including various sized bays to accommodate various sized and configured buildings.
  • Each bay preferably has an exit door 22 or area that allows the building to be picked-up and transported away from the facility.
  • the exit doors or areas 22 of the bay can have any type of suitable door or no door.
  • the door can be a garage style door that can be closed to maintain a suitable or desired interior climate and/or protect the building from outside or exterior weather, theft or other undesirable elements.
  • the exit can be an opening with no door or covering sized and configured to allow the buildings to exit therethrough.
  • Each bay is generally separated by a wall or partition 24.
  • the walls or partition 24 prefereably extends partially through the facility and do not contact or abut the ceiling of the facility; however, wall 24 can extend to any suitable height, including to the ceiling, thus, completely separating the bays or, if desired, the bays can have no walls separating them.
  • Walls 24 can be formed of any suitable material and have any suitable thickness.
  • the walls can be relatively thin just separating each building bay or they can be thick enough to house a closet, restroom or other facility.
  • Each bay 12 can be separated from the central area 14, if desired using walls or partitions (not shown). As with the walls 24, the walls separating the bay from the central area can be full height, partial height, thin, thick, have storage or other facilities therein, or by constructed in any suitable manner and have any suitable size and configuration.
  • the facility includes a hoisting device 18 or a plurality of hoisting devices in each of the subassembly areas 16a-f.
  • the hoisting device 18 is an overhead hoist that can move longitudinally through the a specific subassembly area using rails 26 and 28; however, if desired, the rails can run in any direction and allow access to entire facility 10 or any portion or portions thereof.
  • the rails can be held overhead by columns, or any other suitable structure, including but not limited to the internal structure of the facility and/or specifically designed internal structure. This configuration of the rails allows the hook 30 to traverse the entire subassembly and access each of the plurality of bays and/or each of the subassembly areas. Additionally, the hoist 18 can traverse the subassemblies laterally using rail 32. Rail 32 preferably spans between rails 26 and 28, thus allowing hook 30 to move laterally within or over area 14 and move between the opposing bay areas.
  • hook 30 can move up and down relative to rail 32.
  • hook 32 can extend to the floor of the facility or substantially to rail 32. This allows the hoisting device to pick up material, a desirable structure, element or other device 35 and move it anywhere in the facility.
  • the hoisting device can be any suitable hoist or lifting device (e.g., an overhead crane, a gantry crane, a floor crane and a fork lift or any other suitable device) and can traverse any suitable area of the facility.
  • hoisting device can have any suitable configuration or construction, move at any suitable speed or in any suitable limited or unlimited areas around the facility.
  • the hoisting device 18 is motorized and in three dimensions.
  • hook 30 is driven by a motor or a plurality of motors that move the hook laterally and longitudinally relative to the subassembly areas and up and down relative the floor of the facility.
  • the hook can be operated by manual controls and an operator that moves the hook over or near a desired portion of the building or construction item and lowers the hook to pick up the item. The user or operator can them lift and move the item to the desired area of the facility and lower the item.
  • the hoisting device 18 can be fully automated using any suitable computer control system. It is necessary for the hoisting device to be motorized. The device can be manually operated if desired.
  • Central area 14 is generally divided into a plurality of areas 16a-f.
  • the each subassembly area is a wedge or slice of the circular area 14; however, both the circular area and each subassembly area can have any suitable configuration and each subassembly area can be the same or substantially the same size as each other subassembly area or the subassembly areas can have various sizes.
  • Each subassembly area is generally designed to build a specific portion of the non-roadable standard sized building. For example, specific areas can be used to build floors, walls, ceilings, foundations, or any other portion of a house or building desired.
  • Areas can be specifically used for internal finishing, such as, plumbing, electrical, drywall, painting, wood trim, etc.
  • the central area 14 is designed to rotate relative to the bays, as shown by arrow 36 in Fig. 1; however it is noted that the area 14 can rotate in any manner and direction desired. This allows each of the plurality of areas 16a-f to move adjacent each of the bays, such that a specific subassembly can be moved to each respective bay.
  • the central area can be designed to moved using any suitable means, such as a central axel, a large bearing, it can float or be lifted by air, move over grease or other slick material, or any combination thereof or in any other suitable manner.
  • the moving subassemblies do not necessarily need to be positioned in the central portion of the facility to the building bays and the subassemblies can be designed and configured to move in any direction and/or in any manner relative to the building bays desired. Operation
  • materials are brought to the facility 10 using a truck or other vehicle, which can enter the facility using one of the using any of the suitable bay exits or a dedicated exit, is desired.
  • the materials for each specific subassembly area are offloaded and the truck or vehicle moves through the facility offloading material until it exits the facility 10.
  • each subassembly area 16a-f the specific portion or portion of the house or building are built.
  • one subassembly area can build a floor assembly, another can build walls and another can build the ceilings.
  • Multiple of each portion or subassembly can be built and stored in the specific subassembly area, thus allow the workers to efficiently build subassemblies without each house being built from the ground up, as done in conventional stick building.
  • the roof subassembly area can build multiple roofs and store the roofs in the subassembly area or other suitable area or even in another area within or without the facility. Once a house in a bay is ready, a roof can be attached. Thus, multiple roofs can be built before the walls or floors of the building are built or attached to the building 10.
  • the floor or base of the facility is positioned within the facility.
  • the base is generally built such that it can withstand movement from the facility to a predetermined position adjacent the facility for final location.
  • the base can be formed from concrete, steel wood or any other suitable material.
  • the base is preferably built in the base subassembly area and once completed moved using the hoisting device to an open bay.
  • the base (or any other subassembly) can be built in a bay, rather than moved.
  • the base can be built as described in related U.S. Patent Applications discussed and incorporated by reference above. Thus allowing a specially designed vehicle to move the building. Please note that it is not necessary to move the building using a specially designed vehicle or as recited in the related applications.
  • the first floor wall subassembly area is moved or rotated adjacent a bay that is ready for this subassembly.
  • the subassembly portion can then be moved from their specific subassembly area using the hoisting device to a bay.
  • the walls are then attached to the floor.
  • the walls can be finished with trim and drywall either in the wall subassembly area, the bay, the predetermined site for the home or in any other suitable place.
  • the building is then built using the subassemblies until finished.
  • the building can be a one, two or more story building and can be any suitable building structure.
  • the building is a standard sized substantially complete non-roadable house, but the building can be any suitable structure.
  • the building is moved through the adjacent facility exit.
  • the building can be moved using any conventional moving means or devices.
  • the house can be moved using a dolly, a conveyor or any other structure.
  • the building can be moved to a predetermined final position.
  • the building can be moved using any suitable device, such as a truck or other device.
  • One suitable device is a two vehicle transporter described in the U.S. Patent Applications discussed above, the entire contents of which have already been incorporated by reference. Generally this vehicle can have each of its two vehicles straddle the building, engage the building, pick the building up and move the building to the desired location; however, the building can be designed in any suitable manner and is not necessarily transported with the two piece vehicle.
  • the bays can be sized and configured to allow the two piece vehicle to enter the facility and attach to the building in the bays, thus eliminating the need to have a device to move the building outside of the bays. This movement would be accomplished by the vehicle itself.

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La présente invention concerne une installation pour fabriquer des bâtiments qui ne peuvent pas être déplacés par la route. L'installation comprend une zone fermée ayant un toit, une pluralité de baies pour positionner les bâtiments qui ne peuvent pas être déplacés par la route, chacune de la pluralité de baies étant configurée pour avoir un bâtiment qui ne peut pas être déplacé par la route, positionné à l'intérieur, une pluralité de zones de construction mobiles configurées pour construire des éléments de construction et un dispositif de levage positionné dans la zone fermée et configuré pour déplacer les éléments de construction du bâtiment qui ne peuvent pas être déplacés par la route dans l'installation, comprenant le déplacement des éléments depuis chacune de la pluralité de zones de construction mobiles jusqu'à chacune de la pluralité de baies.
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