Air-inflated building structure

Claim 1

IN AN AIR-SUPPORTED BUILDING STRUCTURE, A RIGID FOUNDATION, A PLURALITY OF ADJOINING FLEXIBLE SHEETS, A PLURALITY OF MEANS UNITING SAID SHEETS TO EACH OTHER AND TO SAID FOUNDATION TO FORM A CONTINUOUS COVERTURE OVER SAID FOUNDATION, SAID PLURALITY OF UNITING MEANS COMPRISING FIRST JUNCTURE DEVICES OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO ADJACENT EDGES ON SAID ADJOINING SHEETS AND INCLUDING A HEM EXTENDING ALONG EACH SAID ADJACENT EDGE DEFINING BY THE INNER SURFACES OF OVERLYING PARTS THEREOF A CONTINUOUS SLOT HAVING A MULTIPLICITY OF SPACED SLITS IN THE FOLD EDGE THEREOF, ELONGATED BAR ELEMENTS HAVING CONNECTOR ELEMENTS EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL PORTIONS THEREOF, SAID BAR ELEMENTS RESIDING IN SAID CONTINUOUS SLOTS WHEREBY SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENTS PROJECT THROUGH SAID SLITS, LACING MEANS BINDING CONTIGUOUS CONNECTOR ELEMENTS PROJECTING FROM SAID ADJACENT EDGES, SECOND JUNCTURE DEVICES OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO NON-ADJACENT SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED EDGES ON SAID SHEETS AND TO SAID FOUNDATION, AND INCLUDING A HEM EXTENDING ALONG EACH OF SAID NON-ADJACENT EDGES DEFINING BY THE INNER SURFACES OF OVERLYING PARTS THEREOF AN ELONGATED SLOT ALONG EACH OF SAID NON-ADJACENT EDGE, A RIGID, HOLLOW CHANNEL MEMBER EMBEDDED IN AN UPPER SURFACE OF SAID FOUNDATION AND COMPRISING PARALLEL SEGMENTS DEFINING A UNIFORM PASSAGE BETWEEN THEM LEADING INTO SAID CHANNEL AND OPENING AT THE UPPER SURFACE OF THE FOUNDATION, A MULTIPLICITY OF DOWEL ELEMENTS ARRANGED END-TO-END IN SAID ELONGATED SLOTS