US 12,404,673 B2
Frame arrangement for wood framed buildings
Kyle Tompane, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Kyle Tompane, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/394,720.
Application 17/394,720 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/394,737, filed on Aug. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/109,528, filed on Nov. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/109,525, filed on Nov. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0136229 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. E04B 1/26 (2006.01); E04B 2/70 (2006.01); E04B 5/12 (2006.01); E04B 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC E04B 5/12 (2013.01) [E04B 1/2612 (2013.01); E04B 2/70 (2013.01); E04B 7/022 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of constructing a frame of a wood frame building structure having a building length axis, the method enabling use of expeditiously fabricated modules, the method comprising:
fabricating wooden frame modules off-site from a construction site including floor modules, ceiling modules, and roof modules, wherein each said module comprises a module length axis, a module width axis, a bounded wood perimeter, and a plurality of ceiling joists, floor joists, or roof rafters oriented in parallel to each other and perpendicularly to the module length axis and coupled to and surrounded by the bounded wood perimeter of each of said floor module, ceiling module, and roof module;
building wall framing, wherein the step of building wall framing comprises building at least a portion of the building wall framing from rectangular wooden frame wall modules each including a bounded wood perimeter and having a longitudinal wall module axis and structural timbers arranged in parallel to each other and perpendicularly to the longitudinal wall module axis and coupled to and surrounded by the bounded wood perimeter;
assembling the frame of the wood frame building structure at the construction site by moving the wooden frame modules into place such that they abut one another, wherein the floor modules, the ceiling modules, and the roof modules are coupled to the building wall framing with respective said module length axes perpendicular to the building length axis, and with said ceiling joists, floor joists, and roof rafters parallel to the building length axis; and
wherein the floor joists of each of said floor modules and the roof rafters of each of said roof modules comprise upper joist boards and lower joist boards parallel to upper joist boards and lower joist boards of every other respective said floor module or roof module, wherein for each of said floor modules and each of said roof modules, a top edge of the upper joist boards is not coplanar to a top edge of the lower joist boards.