Enclosure Component Compression Seal Systems

Pending Publication Date: 2022-07-14
BUILD IP LLC
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The present invention is about sealing systems for foldable, transportable building structures. The invention focuses on abutting regions of building structure enclosure components to prevent the ingress of rain water, noise, and outside air into the interior of the structure. The invention includes sealing systems that use two enclosure component sealing structures, which are pressed together when the building structure is manufactured or when it is transported to its final location and fully unfolded. The sealing systems use a hollow seal chamber with an elongate base, two seal walls, and two seal surfaces that extend at an angle from the seal walls. The sealing systems also include an elongate seal closure for abutting regions of the building structure enclosure components. The technical effects of the invention include improved sealing of the exterior edges and abutting portions of the building structure enclosure components, which helps to prevent water and air from entering the interior of the structure.

Problems solved by technology

Such modular housing often exceeds in size normally-permitted legal limits for road transport.
Thus, in many cases transporting a modular house from factory to site requires oversize load permits, which may impose restrictions on when transport can be undertaken and what routes can be utilized.
All of these requirements and restrictions inevitably increase the cost of the modular housing.

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[0030]An embodiment of the foldable, transportable structure 150 in which the inventions disclosed herein can be implemented is depicted in FIGS. 1 through 5. When fully unfolded, as exemplified by FIG. 1, structure 150 has a rectangular shape made of three types of generally planar and rectangular enclosure components 155, the three types of enclosure components 155 consisting of a wall component 200, a floor component 300, and a roof component 400. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the perimeter of structure 150 is defined by first longitudinal edge 106, first transverse edge 108, second longitudinal edge 116 and second transverse edge 110. For convenience, a direction parallel to first longitudinal edge 106 and second longitudinal edge 116 may be referred to as the “longitudinal” direction, a direction parallel to first transverse edge 108 and second transverse edge 110 may be referred to as the “transverse” direction; and a direction parallel to the vertical direction in FIG. 1 may be ...

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Abstract

A sealing system with a first seal plate having an interior face and an opposed exterior face. The interior face is adapted to be secured to an enclosure component, and the exterior face defines a seal slot. The first seal plate is adapted to mate with a second seal plate. A resilient compression seal is positioned in the seal slot, and has a base and first and second seal walls joined to and extending away from the base in a diverging relationship. First and second arcuate buttresses are joined respectively to the first and second seal walls distal from the base, and first and second planar seal surfaces are joined to ends of the first and second arcuate buttresses distal from the seal walls, with the first and second seal surfaces extending away from the arcuate buttresses in a converging relationship. First and second closure ends of a seal closure are joined to ends of the seal surfaces distal from the arcuate buttresses. The base, seal walls, arcuate buttresses, seal surfaces and seal closure define a hollow seal chamber.

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CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation application of PCT Patent Application No. PCT / US21 / 056415, filed Oct. 25, 2021 and a continuation-in-part application of U.S. Nonprovisional patent application Ser. No. 17 / 504,883, filed Oct. 19, 2021, each of which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 63 / 136,268 filed Jan. 12, 2021, U.S. Provisional Application No. 63 / 181,447, filed Apr. 29, 2021, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 63 / 196,400 filed Jun. 3, 2021; and this application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 63 / 136,268 filed Jan. 12, 2021, U.S. Provisional Application No. 63 / 181,447, filed Apr. 29, 2021, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 63 / 196,400 filed Jun. 3, 2021.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONField of the Invention[0002]The inventions herein relate to structures, such as dwellings and other buildings for residential occupancy, commercial occupancy and / or material storage, and to components for such s...

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IPC IPC(8): E04C2/52E04C2/40E04B1/68E04C2/20
CPCE04C2/526E04C2/40E04C2002/004E04C2/205E04B1/6813E04B1/34321E04B1/6179E04B2001/6195E04C2/292E04C2/48
InventorTIRAMANI, PAOLOTIRAMANI, GALIANODENMAN, KYLE
OwnerBUILD IP LLC