Truss type panel structures

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MODULAR TRUSS-PANEL STRUCTURE COMPRISING FACTORY FABRICATED PITCHED ROOF AND CEILING PANELS, AND MEANS INCLUDING STRUTS AND GUSSETS CONNECTABLE ON SITE TO SAID PANELS FOR SECURING THE SAME TOGETHER, EACH OF SAID PANELS COMPRISING SPACED LONGITUDINAL CHORDS, SPACED STIFFENERS EXTENDED BETWEEN AND SECURED TO SAID CHORDS, AND A FACING SHEET SECURED TO SAID CHORDS AND TO SAID STIFFENER MEMBERS, ONE OF SAID CHORDS FOR EACH OF SAID PANELS HAVING A PLURALITY OF PANEL COUPLING BOLTS SECURED THERETO AND SPACED ALONG THE LENGTH THEREOF AND EXTENDED THEREFROM LATERALLY OUTWARDLY OF THE PANEL, AND THE OTHER OF SAID CHORDS FOR EACH OF SAID PANELS HAVING SPACED APERTURES FOR RECEIVING AND PASSING THERETHROUGH THE BOLTS OF A LIKE PANEL DISPOSED ADJACENT THERETO AND ON MODULE THEREWITH, SAID GUSSETS BEING DISPOSED RESPECTIVELY AT THE EAVES FORMED BY SAID ROOF AND CEILING PANELS, EACH OF SAID GUSSETS HAVING AT LEAST TWO DIMPLED OPENINGS FOR RESPECTIVELY RECEIVING THE PANEL COUPLING BOLTS OF A PAIR OF ADJACENTLY DISPOSED ROOF PANELS AND A PAIR OF ADJACENTLY DISPOSED CEILING PANELS, SAID GUSSET BEING DISPOSED BETWEEN THE ADJACENTLY DISPOSED CHORDS OF SAID ADJACENTLY DISPOSED PANELS, SAID ADJACENTLY DISPOSED BOLTED AND APERTURED CHORDS HAVING DIMPLED OPENINGS, EACH OF SAID PANEL COUPLING BOLTS HAVING FLAT TAPERED HEADS SEATED IN THE DIMPLED SIDEWALL OF ITS CHORD, THE DIMPLED SIDEWALL OF ONE OF SAID GUSSET OPENINGS BEING SEATED RESPECTIVELY ON AND WITHIN THE DIMPLED SIDEWALLS OF THE ADJACENTLY DISPOSED ROOF PANEL CHORDS AND HAVING ONE OF SAID PANEL COUPLING BOLTS EXTENDED THERETHROUGH, A PAIR OF DIMPLED HEAT INSULATION WASHERS DISPOSED ON THE OTHER OF SAID PANEL COUPLING BOLTS AND SEATED RESPECTIVELY ON THE DIMPLED SIDEWALLS OF THE ADJACENTLY DISPOSED CEILING PANEL CHORDS, THE DIMPLED SIDEWALL OF THE OTHER OF SAID GUSSET OPENINGS BEING SEATED ON AND BETWEEN SAID HEAT INSULATION WASHERS AND HAVING THE OTHER OF SAID PANEL COUPLING BOLTS EXTENDED THERETHROUGH.