Flooring Support Structure for Utility Containment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Factory-built building structures face challenges with exposed utility runs affecting cleanliness, maintenance, and aesthetics due to debris accumulation and dirt buildup around corners and material collections, necessitating an improved system to manage utility components effectively.
Innovation Solution
A flooring support structure assembly featuring a plate bordering the peripheral edge, a floor joist assembly positioned below the wall framing, and an outer structural support beam, allowing utility components to be contained within the wall structure and run through an open space, with the beam relocated inwardly to maintain structural integrity and cleanliness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If utility runs are diverted around floor structural systems in factory-built buildings, then utility components can be routed through the structure, but exposed utilities affect cleanliness, maintenance, and aesthetics due to debris accumulation and dirt buildup
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the utility runs from the exposed floor structure by routing them through the wall cavity space. The floor joists are positioned to create open space below the wall framing, allowing utility components to be contained within the wall structure rather than being exposed on the floor surface, thereby eliminating debris accumulation and dirt buildup in corners and material collections.
Solution Approach 2:
The utility components are nested within the wall cavity space. The floor joist assembly creates an open space that accommodates the utility runs inside the wall structure, effectively hiding the utilities within the building envelope rather than exposing them on the exterior or floor surface.
2Strength
If outer structural support beams are positioned at the periphery, then structural integrity is maintained, but utility components cannot be contained within the wall structure without external projections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves the utility runs from a two-dimensional floor surface configuration to a three-dimensional space within the wall cavity. By positioning floor joists to create vertical open space below the wall framing, the utilities are routed through the third dimension (vertically through the wall cavity) rather than horizontally on the floor, allowing containment within the wall structure while maintaining peripheral structural beams.
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AI summary
Disclosed is an assembly for a flooring support structure of a prefabricated or factory made building, comprising a plate configured to boarder a peripheral edge of the flooring support structure in perpendicular planar configuration to the flooring support structure and a floor joist assembly coupled between an outer structural support beam of the flooring support structure and the plate. The floor joist assembly is configured to position below a wall framing structure supported atop the flooring support structure and to provide an open space below the wall framing structure to enable utility components to be contained within and run down the wall structure and through the open space. The disclosed assembly further allows installation of waterproofing on the exterior of the building structure and enables an exterior finish to terminate above grade level for exterior drainage and superior waterproofing.