Foldable assembly of like size and shape structural members, foldable for handling packaging, shipping, and storage, and unfolded and utilized as principal members of structures

Claim 1

A foldable assembly of like size and shape structural members, foldable for handling, packaging, shipping, and storage, and unfolded and utilized, with each member being in compression, as roof trusses arranged in a vertical plane, comprising: a. seven structural members of equal overall width, thickness, and length, the length being measured along the longitudinal centerline, wherein: five of the seven structural members, which are the intermediate members, having their opposite end surfaces formed in a 60 degree bias, whereby one longitudinal edge surface of each of the seven structural members is longer than the other opposite longitudinal edge surface, thereby creating opposite trapezoidal side surfaces, and each of the five structural members having two spaced holes positioned on the longitudinal centerline, and each of the holes is respectively equally spaced inwardly from the nearest biased opposite end surface; and two of the seven structural members, which are the respective end members of the foldable assembly, having only one end surface formed on a 60 degree bias, and the opposite end surface being formed at ninety degrees, and each of the two structural members having at least one hole positioned on the longitudinal centerline, and spaced inwardly from the end surface formed on a 60 degree bias, at the same distance each of the two spaced holes on the five structural members are spaced from the end surfaces formed on a 60 degree bias; and b. fastener assemblies passing through respective aligned holes of respective interconnecting groups of three of the structural members, and being secured; whereby two of the three structural members are positioned in one plane, and the remaining one of the three structural members is positioned in an adjacent parallel plane, resulting in the seven structural members being connected together within the two adjacent parallel planes using the fastener assemblies; and thereafter the seven structural members are pivoted together, in one direction, into a side by side convenient non use compacted storage, handling, and transporting, configuration, and pivoted apart, in the opposite direction, into an end for end useful expanded structural configuration, wherein oppositely positioned end surfaces, formed on a 60 degree bias, are in an abutting relationship.