Wall structures

Claim 1

IN A BUILDING STRUCTURE: A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY SPACED FLOORS, A FRAMEWORK, MEANS SUSPENDING THE FRAMEWORK OUTWARDLY OF SAID FLOORS IN SPACED RELATION THERETO, SAID FRAMEWORK INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY EXTENDING, HORIZONTALLY SPACED MULLIONS AND A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY SPACED HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING TRANSOMS SUPPORTED BETWEEN SAID SPACED MULLIONS TO DEFINE A PLURALITY OF RECTANGULAR SPACES, EACH MULLION INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY ALIGNED MEMBERS SUBSTANTIALLY I-SHAPED IN CROSSSECTION IN END TO END CONTIGUOUS RELATIONSHIP, EACH I-SHAPED MEMBER INCLUDING A WEB EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID FLOORS AND A PAIR OF PARALLEL FLANGES CONNECTED TO THE WEB AND CONSTITUTING INNER AND OUTER FLANGES, EACH MULLION FURTHER INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY ALIGNED CHANNEL MEMBERS IN END TO END CONTIGUOUS RELATIONSHIP, EACH INCLUDING A WEB PORTION AND LEG PORTIONS INTEGRAL THEREWITH, THE LEG PORTIONS HAVING ENDS REMOTE FROM SAID WEB PORTIONS CONNECTED TO THE ENDS OF THE OUTER FLANGES OF THE I-SHAPED MEMBERS, THE CONTIGUOUS ENDS OF THE I-SHAPED MEMBERS BEING VERTICALLY OFFSET FROM THE CONTIGUOUS ENDS OF THE CHANNEL SHAPED MEMBERS, SAID WEB PORTIONS AND LEG PORTIONS OF THE CHANNEL MEMBERS FORMING WITH THE OUTER FLANGES OF THE I-SHAPED MEMBERS A SUBSTANTIALLY CONTINUOUS VERTICALLY EXTENDING HOLLOW SPACE THROUGHOUT THE EXTENT OF SAID MULLIONS, SAID FRAMEWORK FURTHER INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY SPACED BRACKETS FIXED TO THE WEBS AND FLANGES OF RESPECTIVE MULLIONS, SAID BRACKETS BEING DISPOSED IN OPPOSED PAIRS BETWEEN HORIZONTALLY ADJACENT MULLIONS, EACH BRACKET INCLUDING A HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED BOTTOM WEB AND AN UPSTANDING PERIPHERAL FLANGE INTEGRAL THEREWITH, EACH PAIR OF BRACKETS SUPPORTING AN ASSOCIATED HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING TRANSOM THEREBETWEEN, AND MEANS SECURING THE ENDSA OF EACH OF SAID TRANSOMS TO THE RESPECTIVE BRACKETS, IN SPACED RELATION FROM THE WEBS OF THE ASSOCIATED I-SHAPED MEMBER, SAID MEANS INCLUDING STRUCTURE PERMITTING LINEAR EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION OF SAID TRANSOMS BETWEEN SAID HORIZONTALLY SPACED MULLIONS.