Quick-set, full-moment-lock, assemblable and nondestructively disassemblable, column and beam frame system
US8745954B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 15, 2012 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 15, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T403/7123
- WIPO fieldCivil engineering
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A floating, nondestructably disconnectable, discontinuous, full-moment nodal connection between the end of a beam and the side of a column including (a) a column having a side, (b) a column-mount node structure joined to that column side, (c) an elongate beam having an end, and (d) a beam-mount node structure joined to that beam end. The column-mount and beam-mount structures are floatingly, nondestructably disconnectably, and discontinuity-gravity-seated relative to one another, and as so seated, form an operative full-moment connection, via the node structures, between the column and beam, this connection being characterized by the fact that there is no uninterrupted material-occupying path or structure which flows structurally from the beam to the column through the node structures.
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