US 11,987,441 B2
Self-storage facility, fabrication, and methodology
David Wayne Ledoux, Houston, TX (US); and Richard Waldon Stockton, Jr., Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to GS LICENSECO LLC, Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed by GS LICENSECO LLC, Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/479,843.
Application 17/479,843 is a continuation of application No. 16/346,288, granted, now 11,130,625, previously published as PCT/US2017/059397, filed on Oct. 31, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/415,508, filed on Nov. 1, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0144538 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. B65D 88/02 (2006.01); B65D 88/00 (2006.01); B65D 90/00 (2006.01); E04B 1/348 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 88/022 (2013.01) [B65D 88/005 (2013.01); B65D 88/027 (2013.01); B65D 90/0006 (2013.01); B65D 90/008 (2013.01); E04B 2001/34892 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage facility, comprising:
a plurality of standard commercial shipping containers located at a single facility, wherein each standard commercial shipping container in the plurality of standard commercial shipping containers includes a first corrugated sidewall, a second corrugated sidewall, at least one dividing wall within an interior of the respective standard commercial shipping container, thereby defining the interior into a plurality of storage volumes, and is located in a predetermined position, the plurality of standard commercial shipping containers including a plurality of outer boundary standard commercial shipping containers surrounding a plurality of internally-positioned standard commercial shipping containers, the internally-positioned standard commercial shipping containers providing load bearing support to multiple levels of stacked standard commercial shipping containers;
a plurality of hallways permitting storage access to the interior of each respective standard commercial shipping container in the plurality of standard commercial shipping containers while the respective standard commercial shipping container remains in its respective predetermined position where the respective standard commercial shipping container either physically supports, or is supported by, another standard commercial shipping container in the plurality of standard commercial shipping containers;
a climate controlled enclosure comprising a skin and providing a volume around the plurality of standard commercial shipping containers; and
wherein the climate controlled enclosure further comprises a ceiling above and positioned to shield an uppermost level of the plurality of standard commercial shipping containers from outdoor environmental exposure.