Wall panels for prefabricated buildings and coupling joints and anchoring means therefor

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COMPANION BUILDING WALL PANELS AND COUPLING JOINT STRUCTURE DEMOUNTABLY CONNECTING THEM TOGETHER COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION; A PAIR OF JUXTAPOSED AND INTERCHANGEABLY SIMILAR RECTANGULAR WALL PANELS OF UNITARY CONSTRUCTION HAVING APPRECIABLE THICKNESS AND A PAIR OF VERTICAL TRANSVERSELY-EXTENDING EDGES OF APPRECIABLE WIDTH WITH ONE THEREOF OPPOSED TO A COMPLEMENTARY TRANSVERSELY-EXTENDING VERTICAL EDGE OF THE OTHER IN APPRECIABLY LATERALLY-SPACED RELATION, EACH OF SAID OPPOSED VERTICAL EDGES OF SAID JUXTAPOSED PANELS HAVING TWO LONGITUDINALLY-EXTENDING CHANNELS FORMED THEREIN FACING TOWARD THE OPPOSED COMPLEMENTARY VERTICAL EDGE OF THE OTHER PANEL WITH THE TWO CHANNELS IN EACH PANEL EDGE BEING SPACED APPRECIABLY TRANSVERSELY OF THE LATTER AND WITH THOSE IN ONE PANEL EDGE BEING SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED WITH THOSE IN THE OTHER PANEL EDGE TO FORM TWO OPPOSED PAIRS THEREOF, THE OPPOSED BOTTOMS OF THE CHANNELS IN EACH PAIR BEING LATERALLY SPACED APART A CERTAIN DISTANCE, EACH PANEL BEING OF UNITARY CONSTRUCTION HAVING TWO OUTER LATERALLY-EXTENDING FACING ZONES IN THE FORM OF A PAIR OF OUTSIDE SHEATHING SHEETS APPRECIABLY SPACED APART TRANSVERSELY BY INTERPOSED CORE MEANS PERMANENTLY FASTENED TO SAID SHEETS WITH A SIDE EDGE OF SAID CORE MEANS DEFINING THE CHANNELS VERTICAL EDGE AND WITH OPPOSED VERTICAL EDGES OF SAID SHEATHING SHEETS PROVIDING LATERALLY-EXTENDING TRNASVERSELY-SPACED SIDE FLANGES, THE INSIDE FACE OF EACH OF SAID SIDE FLANGES DEFINING THE OUTER SIDE FACE OF ONE OF THE TWO CHANNELS IN THE EDGE OF SAID CORE MEANS WITH SAID SIDE FLANGES OF ONE PANEL SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED WITH AND OPPOSED TO THOSE OF THE OTHER PANEL AND SPACED THEREFROM A LATERAL DISTANCE LESS THAN THE SPACING OF THE BOTTOMS OF THE CHANNELS OF EACH OPPOSED PAIR THEREOF; A PAIR OF RESILIENT MEANS WITH EACH SEATED IN ONE CHANNEL OF EACH OPPOSED PAIR THEREOF; AND A PAIR OF ELONGATED AND RELATIVELY NARROW, VERTICAL STIFF COUPLING BATTENS EACH OF UNITARY CONSTRUCTION AND A WIDTH GREATER THAN THE LATERAL SPACING BETWEEN SAID OPPOSED PANEL SIDE FLANGES AND THE LATERAL SPACING BETWEEN THE BOTTOM OF ONE OF THE CHANNELS OF EACH OPPOSED PAIR THEREOF AND THE RESILIENT MEANS SEATED IN THE OTHER OF THIS OPPOSED PAIR OF CHANNELS WHEN THE BATTEN IS ABSENT BUT LESS THAN THE LATERAL SPACING OF THE BOTTOMS OF EACH OPPOSED PAIR OF SAID CHANNELS WITH EACH STIFF BATTEN HAVING ITS SIDE EDGES RECEIVED IN AN OPPOSED PAIR OF SAID CHANNELS BEHIND THE ADJACENT PAIR OF OPPOSED SIDE FLANGES WITH SAID BATTENS EXTENDING LATERALLY IN PLANES GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE PLANES OF SAID LATERALLY-EXTENDING OUTSIDE SHEATHING SHEETS, ONE SIDE EDGE OF EACH BATTEN BEING ABUTTED AGAINST SAID RESILIENT MEANS IN ONE OF EACH OF THE OPPOSED PAIR OF CHANNELS WITH THE RESILIENT MEANS BEING HELD IN DISTORTED CONDITION THEREBY FORCING THE OTHER SIDE EDGE OF THIS BATTEN TO SNUG SEATING AGAINST THE BOTTOM OF THE OTHER OF THIS OPPOSED PAIR OF CHANNELS, THE INNER SIDE FACE OF THE CHANNEL OF EACH OPPOSED PAIR IN WHICH SAID RESILIENT MEANS IS SEATED AND THE BACK FACE OF THE SIDE EDGE OF SAID STIFF BATTEN RECEIVED IN THIS CHANNEL CONSTITUTING A PAIR OF OPPOSED FACES WITH ONE THEREOF BEING ARRANGED OBLIQUELY TO THE OTHER TO FACILITATE SWING OF THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID BATTEN INTO AND OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH THE OTHER CHANNEL OPPOSED THERETO, EACH STIFF BATTEN BEING REMOVABLE BY FORCING ITS ABUTTED SIDE EDGE BACK LATERALLY AGAINST THE RESILIENT MEANS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH TO FURTHER DISTORTION OF THE LATTER UNTIL THE OPPOSITE SIDE EDGE OF THIS BATTEN IS WITHDRAWN FROM THE CHANNEL IN WHICH IT IS SEATED AND FREED FROM BEING THE ADJACENT SIDE FLANGE FOR OUTWARD SWING PERMITTING LATERAL WITHDRAWAL OF THE OTHER SIDE EDGE.