Wood building construction

Claim 1

A CLUSTER OF TRIANGULAR PANELS FOR USE IN A GEODESIC DOME-LIKE STRUCTURE CONSTITUTED BY A PLURALITY OF TRIANGULAR PLANE SURFACES, EACH SAID TRIANGULAR PANEL BEING COMPOSED OF THREE FRAME ELEMENTS OF WOOD FORMING THE SIDES OF A TRIANGLE, EACH FRAME ELEMENT HAVING AN END EXTENDING TO AND FORMING AN APEX OF THE TRIANGLE AND ANOTHER END ABUTTING THE INSIDE EDGE OF AN ADJACENT FRAME ELEMENT WHICH EXTENDS TO AND FORMS AN APEX OF THE TRIANGLE; A FIRST BRACE MEMBER OF WOOD DISPOSED ON A LINE EXTENDING FROM THE MID-POINT OF ONE SIDE TO THE OPPOSITE APEX, SAID BRACE MEMBER TERMINATING SHORT OF SAID APEX AND SECURED TO A SECOND BRACE MEMBER OF WOOD PERPENDICULAR TO SAID FIRST BRACE MEMBER; AND A COVERING OF PLYWOOD SECURED TO ONE SIDE OF SAID TRIANGLE OF FRAME ELEMENTS; THE OUTSIDE EDGES OF SAID FRAME ELEMENTS BEING BEVELED AT ANGLES SUCH THAT WHEN SAID PANEL FORMS PART OF A GEODESIC DOME, PLANES CONTAINING SAID BEVELED EDGES PASS APPROXIMATELY THROUGH THE CENTER OF SAID DOMELIKE STRUCTURE; AND SAID CLUSTER OF PANELS COMPRISES A PLURALITY OF SAID TRIANGULAR PANELS, THE APICES OF SAID PANELS MEETING AT A POINT, SAID INDIVIDUAL PANELS BEING DISPOSED IN THE CLUSTER IN THE SAME SENSE AS ARE THE APEX FORMING FRAME ELEMENTS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE ABUTTING FRAME ELEMENTS IN THE INDIVIDUAL PANELS, WHEREBY TO PROVIDE A PINWHEEL-LIKE ARRANGEMENT ABOUT SAID POINT.