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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181417 | Acoustical sound proofing material and methods for manufacturing same An improved acoustical damping wall (ceiling or floor) or door material comprises a laminar structure having as an integral part thereof one or more layers of viscoelastic material which also functions as a glue and one or more constraining layers, such as metal, ce... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7185471 | Method for making a wooden beam, wooden beam and structure for constructing a building Method of manufacturing a wooden beam includes arranging first and second elongated members parallel to one another and at a predetermined distance from one another, arranging the at least two crosspieces on the first and second elongated members, arranging third an... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181891 | Acoustical sound proofing material and methods for manufacturing same An improved acoustical damping wall (ceiling or floor) or door material comprises a laminar structure having as an integral part thereof one or more layers of viscoelastic material which also functions as a glue and one or more constraining layers, such as metal, ce... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7083364 | Retaining wall system with interlocked wall-building units A retaining wall structure built of wall-building units such as sand/soil bags or hardenable building units such as clay bricks has interconnecting members placed between adjacent courses of units to attach the adjacent courses to one another. The interconnecting me... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077988 | Corrugated fiberboard panels for use in the construction of walls, ceilings and floors A corrugated wooden fiberboard panel system provides a new structural member for use in the construction of building walls, ceilings, and floors as a substitute for conventional framing members, such as studs and joists. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6470632 | Modified A-frame building and truss for same A modified A-frame shell building 10 with a cementitious foundation having a pair of upstanding opposing stub walls 16, 18 that engage and support a plurality of trusses 50 disposed in spaced-apart relation for supporting a roof 58. Each truss comprises a... | 10/29/2002 |
| 5655347 | Biarch-framing member for arched structures A biarch consists of two coplanar arches, curved in the same direction and radially spaced with cross ties having shear rigidity in planes perpendicular to the cross section areal center curve of the arch pair. End ties resist relative tangential arch dis... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5317856 | Composite structure of wood and reinforced concrete, a composite girder and a dome shaped load bearing structure including such composite structure The composite structures are composed of wooden members such as girders of laminated wooden boards and members of reinforced concrete such as a plate of reinforced concrete which form for instance a composite load supporting structure designed as pedestri... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5159792 | Roof truss building A building having a plurality of spaced apart concrete pilasters vertically disposed in the ground and having their tops in a common horizontal plane carry thereon a similar plurality of roof truss members which are generally vertically disposed on the pi... | 11/03/1992 |
| 4965973 | Devices for load carrying structures To improve the utilization of the volume of the material in the middle of the cross-section of load carrying construction, for example, laminated wooden beams, and to increase the stiffness and bending strength, combinations of structural components, such... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4891927 | Joint for connecting wooden beams to each other, and the use of the joint in roof truss structures A joint in which wooden beams are made up of beam members, located side by side in the longitudinal direction of the beams, and in which beam joint elements, provided with nails, are fitted on the inner surfaces of the beam members in such a way that they... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4862653 | Building for particulate material A building that includes a plurality of spaced apart pilasters vertically disposed, that are raised above ground level to a given elevation wherein the top of the pilasters lie in a common horizontal plane. A barrier wall is erected on the inside of the p... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4854104 | Roof truss assembly A wooden truss member including a vertically disposed column section and an upwardly pitched roof beam section angularly disposed from the top of the column section to form a corner therebetween, each section including a hollow frame that is covered by si... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4782641 | Scissors truss connector plates A scissors truss comprises elongated structural wooden members establishing pairs of top chords and bottom chords connected at opposite ends thereof to establish a top apex joint, a bottom apex joint and heel joints at opposite ends of the truss. At least... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4677806 | Wooden building system with flange interlock and beams for use in the system A joint for use in building construction which is dependent upon beams made of wood, metal or related materials. The beams may be box beams or I-beams. In each case, the beams are made up of webs and flanges. The flanges may be of wood and of various diff... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4656792 | Truss building system A building system utilizes a combined roof/wall truss construction where each truss is made in a single U-shaped unit having spaced-apart wall truss subsystems interconnected with a roof truss subsystem. The trusses then are set up with the lowermost ends... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4441287 | Framed building construction Building construction comprising a plurality of pairs of upstanding posts each post of each pair being mounted in opposed relation to the other post of the pair, said posts supporting a roof structure comprising a set of parallel beams, wherein each beam ... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4393637 | Wood roof truss construction A wood roof truss construction comprising, in combination, a pair of redundant superpositioned load support systems, namely a tied-arch system and a wood bowstring truss system. The wood truss system comprises an arch, a web system depending from said arc... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4372093 | Truss of lattice type The present invention relates to a truss of the lattice type. The truss comprises an upper and lower chord of wood and a continuous web of steel in a zig zag configuration arranged between the chords to form inclined struts. The bent portions of the web a... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4317316 | Truss The specification discloses a truss having first and second wall columns and first and second roof elements. Knee braces connect the wall columns intermediate their ends with the roof portions intermediate their ends. A center cord spans the roof sections... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4275537 | Tension members Prestressed composite tension members comprise an assembly which includes compression and tension portions which are loaded longitudinally along or symmetrical with the center of gravity of the compression portion and prestressed causing both the tension ... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4274241 | Metal reinforced wood truss and tie means Wood trusses used in building construction which have reinforced chord members. The reinforcing is made of sheet metal steel strips which have nail-like teeth punched from their surface, which are pressed into the wood chord members along their entire len... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4249355 | Modified dovetail joint A modified dovetail joint interconnects a plywood web to a chord. The chord carries two grooves extending inwardly from the surface of the chord intersected by the web. The two grooves merge into a single, wider groove adjacent the surface of the chord, a... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4223053 | Truss core panels Truss core panels comprising face sheets and a core, formed of adjoining tubes having an equilateral triangular cross-sectional shape, are disclosed. The face sheets are formed of either a homogeneous material (e.g., a metal, such as aluminum or titanium)... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4173857 | Double-layered wooden arch truss A double-layered wooden arch truss to be used for frameworks of wooden roofs and characterized in that the wooden arch truss is double-layered with an upper arch member formed of layered wooden plate material and a lower arch member formed identically to ... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4092992 | Laminated arch members and method of constructing them Large hollow curved beams and arches are inexpensively produced by curving individual shallow components, such as channels, that are then tiered to form a large laminated member. Smaller beams or arches can be made by tiering the components, curving them ... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4001999 | Wood truss structure with eccentric end support A wood truss or joist structure, including a top chord member and diagonal members joining the top chord member adjacent the ends of the latter, the top chord member having support surfaces inwardly offset from the intersection of the center lines of the ... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3991535 | Pressed-in dovetail type joint The joint comprises a pair of parallel tongues of uniform thickness on an edge of one member which are pressed into grooves of uniform width in another member. The grooves are inclined from top to bottom relative to each other, bending the tongues out of ... | 11/16/1976 |