Building panels for and coupling joints therebetween in prefabricated buildings

Claim 1

COMPANION BUILDING PANELS DESIGNED FOR USE AS FLOOR, ROOF AND THE LIKE SUBASSEMBLY UNITS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A PLURALITY OF STRAIGHT-SIDED PANELS JOINED IN TANDEM, ONE TO THE NEXT, TO FORM A STRUCTURALLY CONTINUOUS BEAM SUPPORTED PRIMARILY AT THE EXTREME ENDS THEREOF, EACH PANEL HAVING OPPOSITE TRANSVERSE END EDGES WITH ONE OF THE LATTER OF ONE OF AN ADJACENT PAIR OF SAID PANELS ABUTTED AND JOINED TO ONE OF SAID END EDGES OF THE NEXT OF SAID PAIR IN A DISCONNECTABLE COUPLING JOINT, EACH PANEL INCLUDING VERTICALLY-SPACED TOP AND BOTTOM PLANAR SKIN ZONE MEANS AND INTERVENING CORE MEANS PERMANENTLY CONNECTED TOGETHER, THE TOP SKIN ZONE MEANS OF EACH OF SAID ADJACENT PAIR OF PANELS HAVING A LATERAL EDGE OPPOSED TO AND SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED WITH THE LATERAL EDGE OF THE SAME TOP SKIN ZONE MEANS OF THE ADJACENT ONE OF SAID PAIRED PANELS IN SAID DISCONNECTABLE COUPLING JOINT WITH THESE OPPOSED ZONE MEANS EDGES BEING ARRANGED IN LATERAL COMPRESSIVE STRESS TRANSFER RELATION RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, MEANS IN SAID COUPLING JOINT IMPERMANENTLY INTERLOCKING THE TRANSVERSE END EDGE OF ONE OF SAID PAIR OF PANELS DIRECTLY TO THE OTHER THEREOF AGAINST RELATIVE VERTICAL MOTION IN SHEAR, SAID INTERLOCKING MEANS BEING DEMOUNTABLE WITH RESPECT TO AT LEAST ONE OF SAID END EDGES BY LATERAL SEPARATION OF THE OPPOSED END EDGES TO PERMIT DISCONNECTION OF SAID PAIRED PANELS, THE BOTTOM SKIN ZONE MEANS OF EACH OF SAID PAIRED PANELS HAVING A LATERAL EDGE OPPOSED TO AND SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED WITH THE LATERAL EDGE OF THE SAME BOTTOM SKIN ZONE MEANS OF THE ADJACENT ONE OF SAID PAIRED PANELS IN SAID JOINT, AND SEPARATE ELONGATED DISCONNECTABLE CONNECTING MEANS EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY ALONG AND ADJACENT TO THE OPPOSED BOTTOM SKIN ZONE MEANS EDGES OF SAID PAIRED PANELS AND DISCONNECTABLY CONNECTING SAID LATTER OPPOSED EDGES DIRECTLY TO EACH OTHER AT AT LEAST A LARGE NUMBER OF CLOSELY SPACED POINTS IMPERMANENTLY TYING THEM DIRECTLY TOGETHER FOR DIRECT LATERAL TRANSFER THEREBETWEEN OF BENDING MOMENT STRESS IN TENSION.