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Foldable building units

A technology of buildings and components, applied in the direction of building construction, construction, folding panels, etc., can solve the problems of difficult prefabrication, high cost of crane use, difficult planning, etc., and achieve the effect of easy prefabrication, great flexibility and speed up

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-07-11
BLU HOMES INC
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They require a lot of work on the building site, a lot of time for finishing on the building site, they are difficult to prefabricate, they cannot be unfolded and finished precisely on the building site, and they need to be used for unloading and unfolding on the building site the crane
Cranes can be costly to use, difficult to plan for, and not even suitable for a large percentage of construction sites, thus precluding these construction sites for a large number of prefabricated collapsible building units and generally requiring the use of individual building site owners or developers traditional structure

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[0049] The following is a description of exemplary embodiments of the present invention.

[0050] Although the teachings of the present invention are applicable to a variety of structures having different weights, sizes, shapes, and materials for a variety of different applications, for purposes of the following description, the present invention is presented throughout in terms of prefabricated collapsible building units illustrate.

[0051] The foldable buildings (and, more generally, the foldable building units) of the present invention can be prefabricated, with the foldable buildings being unfolded at the building site in a substantially finished state. That is, they require no or significantly reduced incorporation of other building profiles such as siding, floor and roof profiles; or other than small, non-structural finishes in areas requiring folding motion In addition to adding interior finishing materials and exterior finishing materials. However, the prefabricatio...

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Abstract

Prefabricated foldable building units are described that have one or more of the following advantages. They are more easily prefabricated, more easily transported to building sites without requiring special permits, unloadable and unfoldable at the building sites without using cranes (they can be unloaded using ground-level lifting rigs and unfolded using, for example, a cable mechanism), allow precise and fast completion at the building site, and allow significant reduction in the scope of work to be completed on-site, where costs and scheduling are far less manageable. Further, methods for unloading and unfolding foldable building units are described that obviate the need for one or more cranes that can be expensive and project-complicating, thereby opening up a significant percentage of building sites for placement of prefabricated foldable building units.

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[0001] related application [0002] This application claims U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 245,162, filed September 23, 2009, U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 371,524, filed August 6, 2010, U.S. Provisional Application No. 6, filed August 6, 2010 .61 / 371,540, the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 371,513, filed August 6, 2010. The entire teachings of the aforementioned applications are incorporated by reference in this application. Background technique [0003] Architectural structures, especially residential buildings, are usually constructed on site using stages of construction processes that require the transportation of the required materials and specially skilled labor to the job site. The inherent cost inefficiency of this approach is well known in the art. [0004] Accordingly, various alternative approaches have been described in order to provide affordable housing. Some of these alternatives include prefabricating building sections at a central...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): E04B1/344
CPCE05D3/06E05Y2201/11E04B1/3442E05Y2800/12
Inventor D·R·米朝德
Owner BLU HOMES INC
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