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WO1993011328A1 - Module d'habitation portable normalisee - Google Patents

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WO1993011328A1
WO1993011328A1 PCT/US1991/008938 US9108938W WO9311328A1 WO 1993011328 A1 WO1993011328 A1 WO 1993011328A1 US 9108938 W US9108938 W US 9108938W WO 9311328 A1 WO9311328 A1 WO 9311328A1
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Robert S. Allison
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/348—Structures composed of units comprising at least considerable parts of two sides of a room, e.g. box-like or cell-like units closed or in skeleton form
    • E04B1/34815—Elements not integrated in a skeleton
    • E04B1/3483—Elements not integrated in a skeleton the supporting structure consisting of metal
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/348—Structures composed of units comprising at least considerable parts of two sides of a room, e.g. box-like or cell-like units closed or in skeleton form
    • E04B1/34815—Elements not integrated in a skeleton
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
    • E04H1/00—Buildings or groups of buildings for dwelling or office purposes; General layout, e.g. modular co-ordination or staggered storeys
    • E04H1/12—Small buildings or other erections for limited occupation, erected in the open air or arranged in buildings, e.g. kiosks, waiting shelters for bus stops or for filling stations, roofs for railway platforms, watchmen's huts or dressing cubicles
    • E04H1/1205—Small buildings erected in the open air
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
    • E04H1/00—Buildings or groups of buildings for dwelling or office purposes; General layout, e.g. modular co-ordination or staggered storeys
    • E04H1/12—Small buildings or other erections for limited occupation, erected in the open air or arranged in buildings, e.g. kiosks, waiting shelters for bus stops or for filling stations, roofs for railway platforms, watchmen's huts or dressing cubicles
    • E04H2001/1283—Small buildings of the ISO containers type

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  • This invention relates to housing units which may be lifted, stacked, and transported from place to place.
  • Mobile home units are well known in this country and elsewhere in the world. For the most part these units are on a permanently attached frame with wheels and axles and are transported along the highways by being pulled behind a prime mover of some sort, e.g., a truck tractor. In more recent times one or more home units are transported from the manu ⁇ facturer to a site where the home unit is placed on a suit ⁇ able foundation. Such units are lifted from the ground at the manufacturing location, to a highway truck and from the highway truck to the ground at the eventual home site. These housing units are capable of being transported by ship but are not capable of being stacked as are cargo containers. In my copending patent application Serial No. filed there is disclosed a housing unit sup ⁇ ported in a frame having a horizontal base and two vertical end structures, the entire structure being transportable and stackable.
  • This invention relates to a transportable enclosed housing unit having a horizontal base support and floor ele ⁇ ment, two horizontally long front and back vertical walls and two short vertical end walls joined to form four vertical corners and a sloping roof; a rigid vertical- beam attached to said housing unit at each corner; said beam having at each end thereof a fitting with a plurality of lifting eyes; all of the fittings defining three pairs of parallel planes which enclose a right prismatic space with every part of the housing unit lying inside the planes.
  • end structures are separate from, or integral parts of, the housing unit.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the housing unit of this invention with separate rectangular end structures attached to the ends of the housing unit;
  • FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the end structure of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a front elevational view of the end struc ⁇ ture of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of the end structure of FIGS. 2 and 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a housing unit of this invention with built-in end structure
  • FIG. 6 is a cross sectional view taken at 6—6 of FIG. 5;
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the housing unit of this invention with an individual pole beam attached at each corner;
  • FIG. 8 is a cross sectional view taken at 8—8 of FIG. 7; and FIG. 9 is an enlarged perspective view of an ISO fitting with ovals, for use at the ends of the corner pole structures of FIGS. 1-9.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a housing structure 10 which, in essence is a housing unit 11 with an end structure 12 attached to each of the ends of the housing unit 11.
  • the housing unit 11 may be a portable home unit (i.e. a mobile home without the wheeled chassis) or other structure for residence, for storage, for office space, or the like, with all interior walls, appliances, etc. installed.
  • This inven ⁇ tion does not relate to the housing unit design or its struc ⁇ ture except as it is modified by end structures 12 to make it transportable.
  • the requirements that make the housing unit transportable are those of overall dimensions which are spec ⁇ ified for cargo units that are transportable by truck, ship, or airplane. In general, the housing unit is transportable by truck, by ship, and even by airplane.
  • the size regula ⁇ tions for ship freight are set forth by the International Standards Organization as ISO 668-1979 (E) for freight con ⁇ tainers 20 feet, 30 feet, or 40 feet long.
  • E International Standards Organization
  • the largest size is most suitable for a housing unit and is approximately 40 feet long, 8 feet wide and 9 feet high. These dimensions are ones which are preferred for the overall dimensions of the housing structure of this invention.
  • End structures 12 are rectangular, sufficiently tall vertically to exceed the height of housing unit 11 and suf ⁇ ficiently strong to be supports for another housing struc ⁇ ture which may be stacked above.
  • the entire structure of housing unit 11 and two end structures 12 occupy the same prismatic space as a marine cargo container of the standard ISO dimensions.
  • At each of the eight corners of that pris ⁇ matic space is an arrangement of lifting eyes 20, preferably ISO corner fittings as shown in FIG. 9 having three oval eyes on three contiguous planes of the fitting. These eyes may be achined, torch burned, or otherwise built into the end structures 12.
  • end structures 12 are detachably attached to housing unit 11, as by bolting; and in FIG. 5 end structures 25 are built into the housing unit 24.
  • end structures 12 comprise a rectangular arrangement of structural beams r preferably steel or aluminum, but may be wood, plastic, a composite fiberglass, or a combination of such materials.
  • Preferably end structures 12 are welded structures of steel beams, such as I-beams, L-*beams, H-beams, channel beams, box beams, or the like.
  • Cross bracing or corner gusset plates are optional additions.
  • the finished structure 12 is shown in FIGS. 2-4 with drilled bolt holes 42 in lower horizontal beam 17 and the two vertical front and back beams 19 to accommodate bolts or lag screens 41 for fastening end structures 12 to the corner studs in house"unit 11.
  • corner studs may be- ecessary to make corner studs larger than is usually the case for a mobile home so as to accommodate bolts or screws 41 while retaining maximum strength in housing unit to resist the stresses of lifting and moving housing unit 11 as it is transported from place to place or stacked.
  • the four corners of the end structures 12 contain lifting eyes 20 to fit the lifting means available on the transportation system.
  • these lifting eyes 20 are made to meet ISO specifications (ISO-1161) which are oval eyes that cooperate with oval twist pins that provide quick, secure locking and unlocking by twisting the pin when engaged with the eye.
  • ISO-1161 ISO specifications
  • These ISO oval eyes 20 are used in ship lifting operations, in securing the cargo to a truck container chassis trailer, in employing jacks for lifting, and in securing one housing unit 11 to another contiguous housing unit 11.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 there is shown a housing unit 24 having end structures 25 built into the housing unit 11 such that when completed, the outer dimensions of housing unit 11 and end structures 12 of FIG. 1 are identical to those of housing unit 24 and end structures 25 of FIG. 5.
  • End struc ⁇ tures 25 are, as described above for end structures 12, made of structural beams of metal, wood, plastic, composites, or the like. The difference is that end structures 25 are not detachable from housing unit 24 and are therefore shown to be totally enclosed and may be covered by siding like the remainder of the housing unit 24.
  • Housing unit 24 has a bottom and floor member 27, front and back walls 28, end walls 29, sloping roof 30, and is built like any other modular residence as shown in FIG. 6.
  • the housing unit structure of FIG. 6 is descriptive of housing unit 11 as well as housing unit 24.
  • This structure includes floor joists 31, vertical studs 32, outside siding 33, insulation layers (not shown), inside walls 34, flooring 35, rafters 36, ceiling joists 37, reinforcing braces 38, ceiling 39, and roofing 43.
  • a port for a lifting jack which may be located adjacent the lower portion of an end wall, e.g., 29. This feature is shown in my co- pending patent application Serial No. filed
  • the purpose of such lifting may be to provide space to place a roller under the housing unit so as to roll the unit off the chassis truck trailer at the destina ⁇ tion of the housing unit.
  • End structure 12 as shown in FIGS. 2-4 is particularly important in this invention since it may be used to convert nontransportable construction units like 11, whether or not used for residential purposes, storage purposes, business office purposes, into standardized transportable units. Of course, the unit must be of such dimensions that it will, when modified by end structures 12 be of standardized size for transportation.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 there is shown another embodiment of the housing unit of this invention.
  • four individual vertical beams 45 are employed, one at each vertical corner of the unit. It is not important as to whether the beam 45 is wood, metal, plastic, or a combination of two or more components so long as the beam is rigid and capable of being a load supporting structure, e.g., capable of supporting at least one-quarter of the weight of the housing unit.
  • a typical structure is shown in FIG. 8 wherein a corner stud 44 (one 4 x 4 or two 2 x 4's) is combined with a steel L-beam structure 45 by a plurality of lag bolts 47. Siding panels 48 are attached to vertical studs by nailing, bolting, or gluing.
  • fitting 46 meeting ISO standards, and having the gen ⁇ eral characteristics shown in FIG. 9.
  • oval eyes 49H horizontal top or bottom face
  • 49V vertical faces at front, back, or end
  • Fitting 46 is preferably welded to the ends of steel L-beam 45.
  • the positioning of fittings 46 and corner beams 45 is critical in that the faces of all eight fittings 46 define three pairs of parallel planes intersecting with each other • to form an enclosed right prismatic space (or a parallelopi- pedic space) which includes all parts of the housing unit inside of those intersecting planes.
  • two or more housing units may be stacked on top of each other for transportation. In such stacking, only fittings 46 of adjoining housing units touch each other.

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Module d'habitation fermé et transportable (11), comprenant, à ses deux extrémités, des structures porteuses rectangulaires (12), un toit incliné (30), des murs avant et arrière (28), des murs extrêmes (29), un plancher (27) et des oeillets de levage (26); lesdits oeillets de levage sont situés aux angles de chaque module de manière que ledit module puisse être verticalement empilé sur ue autre pour être transporté.
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EP1004724A2 (fr) * 1998-11-27 2000-05-31 Chris James Usine de fabrication
US9347222B2 (en) 2014-07-18 2016-05-24 Herve Bottin Welded roof for modular building units
US9556612B2 (en) 2014-07-18 2017-01-31 Williams Scotsman, Inc. Floor assembly for modular building units
US9631365B2 (en) 2014-07-18 2017-04-25 Williams Scotsman, Inc. Interlocking wall panels for modular building units
US12291858B2 (en) 2024-01-30 2025-05-06 Topk USA LLC Modular assembly including multiple modules

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US3792558A (en) * 1970-03-02 1974-02-19 J Berce Three - dimensional modular transportable structures
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US3792558A (en) * 1970-03-02 1974-02-19 J Berce Three - dimensional modular transportable structures
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US4854094A (en) * 1987-11-23 1989-08-08 Clark Phillip C Method for converting one or more steel shipping containers into a habitable building at a building site and the product thereof

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1004724A2 (fr) * 1998-11-27 2000-05-31 Chris James Usine de fabrication
EP1004724A3 (fr) * 1998-11-27 2001-05-30 Chris James Usine de fabrication
US9347222B2 (en) 2014-07-18 2016-05-24 Herve Bottin Welded roof for modular building units
US9556612B2 (en) 2014-07-18 2017-01-31 Williams Scotsman, Inc. Floor assembly for modular building units
US9631365B2 (en) 2014-07-18 2017-04-25 Williams Scotsman, Inc. Interlocking wall panels for modular building units
US12291858B2 (en) 2024-01-30 2025-05-06 Topk USA LLC Modular assembly including multiple modules

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