Building system and components therefor

Abstract

A unitized building construction formed of a plurality of pultruded building components adhesively connected. The building components include a ground support foundation, a main perimeter sill beam that is attached to the support columns; structural, foam insulated floor, wall and roof panels; structural corner connectors; a structural one-piece coved “wind spoiler” soffit and fascia tie beam; and, a structural one piece ridge beam. The components are designed to be interconnected with adjacent parts as the building is assembled. These interconnecting parts are bonded together into place using high strength resin adhesives.

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PROVISIONAL APPLICATION[0001]The present invention was shown and described in a provisional application filed Jul. 16, 2010BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The need for low cost housing has been a primary concern for a number of years particularly in underdeveloped countries where costs, skilled labor and access to building materials present a considerable barrier to these programs. Various efforts have been made in the area of modular housing with a wide variety of levels of success. For example the following US patents are representative of the known prior art.[0003]U.S. Pat. No. 7,930,861 to Schiffmann et al shows a building system with walls, ceiling and a floor structure that is insulated with foam and made with pultruded materials.[0004]U.S. Pat. No. 6,901,710 to Cooper discloses a fiberglass reinforced, pultruded vault construction using prefabricated wall, ceiling and floor panels made from pultruded material that are bonded together with adhesive.[0005]U.S. Pat. No. 6,941,7...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]The present invention provides a low cost, efficient unibody building construction that uses no nails, no wood, no drywall, trusses or concrete slabs; a building that can be made in weeks, not months or years with little or no waste and construction debris. The building is a low maintenance, ecology friendly design with no toxic emissions that provides all the amenities of much higher cost building. The building system and components for the construction of residential housing, industrial and commercial buildings and other type structures are made with pultrusion technology. Pultrusion is a process of heating, pressing and pulling composite material using pultruded polymer compounds such as polyurethane and reinforced by fiberglass or the like. The reinforced material is pulled through a specifically custom shaped die to create building materials used in the building of the invention and in the process for making the same. The building is formed with a plurality of pultrusion components bonded together to form a unitized structure. The building materials used in the present system include a main perimeter sill beam that is attached to foundation support columns; structural, foam insulated floor, wall and roof panels; corner connectors; a structural one-piece coved “wind spoiler” soffit and fascia tie beam; and, a structural one piece ridge beam. The components are designed to be interconnected with adjacent, mating parts as the building is assembled. These interconnecting parts are bonded together into place using high strength resin adhesives.

[0012]Still another object is the provision of a low cost, low maintenance building that is easy to build and inexpensive to maintain.

Problems solved by technology

The need for low cost housing has been a primary concern for a number of years particularly in underdeveloped countries where costs, skilled labor and access to building materials present a considerable barrier to these programs.

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