Building panel and building construction

Abstract

Abstract A BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PANEL IS MOLDED AND FORMED PRIMARILY OF RELATIVELY LIGHT WEIGHT MATERIAL, HAVING A PLANAR FIRST PORTION OF UNIFORM THICKNESS AND A SECOND OR BEAM PORTION ALONG THE LATERAL EDGE OF THE FIRST PORTION, THE BEAM BEING THICKER THAN AND OFFSET AT ONE SIDE FROM THE FIRST PORTION AND ALSO HAVING A NOTCH IN LATERAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE FIRST PORTION TO RECEIVE AN EDGE OF AN ABUTTING PANEL. THE BEAM IS PROVIDED WITH PRIMARY REINFORCING RODS EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY THEREWITH, WHILE SECONDARY REINFORCING, SUCH AS WIRE MESH IS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE FIRST PORTION AND EXTENDS LATERALLY INTO THE BEAM. THE WALLS AND/OR ROOF AND/OR FLOOR OF A BUILDING MAY BE CONSTRUCTED FROM SUCH PANELS, WITH THE LONGITUDINAL END OR FIRST PORTION OF ONE PANEL BEING RECEIVED IN THE NOTCH OF THE BEAM OF AN ADJACENT PANEL. THE WALL PANELS MAY BE NOTCHED AT THE UPPER ENDS TO RECEIVE THE BEAMS OF THE ROOF PANELS, WHILE NARROWER, RECTANGULAR PANELS MAY BE UTILIZED IN WALLS OR IN THE ROOF, WITH AN I-CHANNEL CONNECTING THE EDGE OF SUCH A NARROW PANEL WITH THE EDGE OF A FIRST PORTION OF ONE OF THE ABOVE PANELS. AT A CORNER OF THE BUILDING WALL, THE FIRST PORTION OF ONE PANEL MAY FIT INTO THE NOTCH IN A BEAM OF A PANEL OF THE ADJACENT WALL, WHILE SPECIAL PANELS WHOSE BEAMS HAVE A PLANAR END SURFACE, I.E. WITHOUT THE NOTCH, MAY ABUT A FIRST PORTION OF AN ADJACENT WALL PANEL AT THE CORNER.

Inventors

• 👤 Gordon L Marcott

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