US 12,345,038 B2
Innovation in modular structures
Kelly Wayne Pickering, Edgewater, CO (US); and William Walter Finch, Greenwood Village, CO (US)
Filed by Kelly Wayne Pickering, Edgewater, CO (US); and William Walter Finch, Greenwood Village, CO (US)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/982,214.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/276,837, filed on Nov. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0147866 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. E04B 1/34 (2006.01); E04B 1/348 (2006.01)
CPC E04B 1/34861 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of modular construction, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) establishing a rectangular point grid, the rectangular point grid having a plurality of grid points connected by a plurality of grid lines;
(b) designing a floor plan for a structure based on the rectangular point grid, wherein the designing step further comprises:
(b1) laying out at least one interior wall between a first grid point and a second grid point along a grid line between the first grid point and the second grid point of the rectangular point grid;
(b2) laying out a rut wall panel column coincident with the first grid point;
(b3) laying out a second wall panel column coincident with the second grid point, wherein the at least one interior wall abuts against the rut wall column and abuts against the second wall column;
(b4) laying out at least one exterior wall between a third grid point and a fourth grid point along a grid line between the third grid point and the fourth grid point of the rectangular point grid;
(b5) laying out a third wall panel column coincident with the third grid point;
(b6) laying out a fourth wall panel column coincident with the fourth grid point, wherein the at least one exterior wall abuts against the third wall column and abuts against the fourth wall column;
(b7) designing a plurality of components with which to construct the structure that conforms to the rectangular point grid, wherein the plurality of components have dimensions that am integer multiples of a length of a one of the plurality of grid lines; and
(b8) designing a plurality of floor panel border having a thickness equal to a floor panel thickness and a width equal to one half of a wall panel thickness wherein each of the plurality of floor panel borders have a different length such that an end of each of the plurality of floor panel borders when installed are coincident with a grid point or a midpoint of a grid line.