US 12,352,037 B2
Self-storage facility, fabrication, and methodology
David Wayne Ledoux, Houston, TX (US); and Richard Waldon Stockton, Jr., Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to GS STORAGE HOLDINGS LLC, Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed by GS LICENSECO LLC, Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/129,898.
Application 17/129,898 is a continuation of application No. 16/368,837, filed on Mar. 28, 2019, granted, now 10,876,283.
Application 16/368,837 is a continuation of application No. 15/565,134, granted, now 10,280,608, issued on May 7, 2019, previously published as PCT/US2016/026406, filed on Apr. 7, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/144,284, filed on Apr. 7, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0108406 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. B65D 88/02 (2006.01); B65D 90/00 (2006.01); E04B 1/348 (2006.01)
CPC E04B 1/3483 (2013.01) [B65D 88/022 (2013.01); B65D 90/0006 (2013.01); E04B 2001/34892 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A self-storage facility, comprising:
at or above ground, a first set of standard commercial containers atop a substrate forming a first level of storage volume, the first set including plural side-by-side rows of standard commercial containers positioned end-to-end;
above ground, a second set of standard commercial containers, atop the first set, forming a second level of storage volume, the second set including plural side-by-side rows of standard commercial containers positioned end-to-end;
wherein each standard commercial container in the first set of standard commercial containers includes four upper corner castings;
wherein each standard commercial container in the second set of standard commercial containers includes four lower corner castings;
wherein each of the four lower corner castings of each standard commercial container in the second set of standard commercial containers is fastened to a respective one of the four upper corner casting of one or more of the standard commercial containers in the first set of standard commercial containers;
wherein the four lower corner castings of each standard commercial container in the second set of standard commercial containers and the four upper corning casting of the one or more of the standard commercial containers in the first set of standard commercial containers are the only components of the standard commercial containers that touch when in a fastened positioned;
wherein, when a first standard commercial container of the second set of standard commercial containers is stacked directly on a second standard commercial container of the first set of standard commercial containers, the four lower corner castings of the first standard commercial container are offset with respect to the four upper corner castings of the second standard commercial container such that respective vertical axes of the four lower corner castings of the first standard commercial container are offset with respect to respective vertical axes of the four upper corner castings of the second standard commercial container,
wherein each of the standard commercial containers in the first set and the second set of standard commercial containers has a first corrugated sidewall and a second corrugated sidewall;
wherein a plurality of the standard commercial containers in the first set and the second set of standard commercial containers each include at least one access aperture for access to an interior of a respective one of the standard commercial containers for non-residential-storage of materials therein, the at least one access aperture formed as a removal of a pre-existing first portion of at least one of the first corrugated sidewall or the second corrugated sidewall of the standard commercial container and a remainder of a second portion of the corrugated wall in the standard commercial container in which the aperture is formed;
wherein each respective standard commercial container in a majority of the standard commercial containers in the first set and the second set of standard commercial containers is compartmentalized from another of the standard commercial containers by at least one corrugated sidewall in the respective standard commercial container; and
at or above ground, a perimeter wall around the first set of standard commercial containers, the perimeter wall adjacent a respective side of at least two or more end-to-end standard commercial containers of the first set of standard commercial containers or a respective outward facing end of two or more side-by-side of the first set of standard commercial containers, and extending to a vertical height at least as high as a top of the second set of commercial containers.