There is a need to provide buildings in temporary locations. For example, such temporary buildings can be used for repair locations, medical locations, and the other uses.
Many attempts have been made to address homelessness with temporary buildings.
The difficulties of such buildings include set up and take down, as well as transportation.
The inventor recognized the need for a modular, rapidly deployable, mobile building.
In an embodiment, the building can be used as a mobile shop for the automotive and diesel industry. Embodiments use shipping containers or “Conex boxes” for the base, modified to have a pop up roof and floor.
Embodiments describe use of a custom cone, configured to have a floor and roof, and to connect to another adjoining custom cone to form a double wide building in between the custom cones, having a floor and a roof.
These buildings can be used for any purpose.
In the Drawings:
The figures show aspects of the invention, and specially:
The present application describes a modular and deployable building. An embodiment forms the building using a metal shipping container formed of structural metal, e.g, corrugated metal. These shipping containers are often called intermodal containers, or “conex boxes”.
The building side is formed of a single 40 foot Conex 200 having a floor section 210 which is hinged to a bottom section of the box 209. That is, the floor 210 can hinge relative to the front section 231.
There is also a roof section, 220, which hinges at the 2 sections 222 at the top of the front portion 231 and 223. The hinged roof section can hinge in two different parts, to have a first part 220 that folds flat on top of the top surface 251, see
Note both also that there are multiple different openings 205, 206 in one side of the Conex, that is facing towards the floor 210, so that the floor covers the area adjoining the openings 205, 206. The end surface 240 and rear surface 250 are all solid, thus forming solid walls on all the surfaces except the surfaces with openings 205, 206.
In operation, the unit is assembled in the completely opposite direction, first the floor 210 is folded up. Then, the roof and vertical wall are both unfolded 220 and 230, into the position shown in
To disassemble, the floor folds up against the front of the building at the entrance to each section. The roof folds down into the top of the Conex in a Z pattern. See for example 120 which shows how the roof is hinged on the hinge 121 to fold down.
In embodiments, the vertical roof wall and the roof are both articulated using hydraulic rams.
In an embodiment, the Conex box as modified to form openings in one side, and hinged floor in that one side, and two hinged roof parts to another side, is unfolded as in
The rear part 100 of the structure phone shown in
Each end of the building can have HD curtains that enclose the section. Alternatively, this can use folding steel doors.
Since the system is modular, additional units can be added side to side, to change the desired length, can stack on top of each other to provide additional height, e.g. for taller vehicles, and added also to change the building width.
In other embodiments, the system is used to form a building out of multiple different modular parts.
The utilities assembly 520 holds a pre-wired and plumbed system for air, water, telecom, HVAC, and power set up. A number of doors and walls 525, 530 can be used on the rear side of the device. There can also be a fold down floor system, as described herein.
The doorframes such as 505 are each formed by structures of a set size. Each of the door openings in each of the boxes are identical, so that the doorframes such as 505 can be used with any size box. Each doorframe includes a front piece 506, and a rear piece 507 that attaches to the door opening. 2 side pieces 508 and 509 form side support for the doorframes. These doorframe pieces connect together for example using bolting, and enable connecting any of the doors into the doorframe.
The door options, shown in further detail in
The utility adapter 520 includes quick disconnects that match and mate with every combination of buildings described herein. The attachment points for the utility device include attachment points 521 and 522. In an embodiment, the attachment devices are freestanding, so they include structural parts 550, 551 forming legs that hold the utility adapter upright where the upper connection bar 549 stays in place relative to connection parts on the main building box 500. In particular, the connection part 521 mates to a corresponding connection part 523 on the main building and the connection part 522 mates to a corresponding connection part 524 on the main building.
In addition, there are additional structural parts such as 552 that is located to correspond with a wall 553 between the openings 554555 in the main building 500. These further facilitate the freestanding nature of the utility adapter 520.
The boxes bolt together at their connection points in order to form a modular building of any desired size. Each of the boxes such as 500, 610 are open at their end walls. 500 is open at the area 620, and hence can mate with corresponding opening 621 in the side of box 610. Box 600, and all the other boxes all also have corresponding sidewall openings at their sides, thus allowing the boxes to be placed together to make a longer building.
In addition, the boxes can face one another, with their sidewall openings 622 facing to the sidewall opening 623 of the box 500, to make a wider building.
All the sidewall openings and all the end wall openings are of the same size. This enables putting any of the modular wall/door panels into any of the openings, and attaching any opening of any box of any size to any other opening of any box of any size, to form has structure of any desired size and shape.
In addition, each of the boxes includes a roof section of a size that matches to the box itself. The 40 foot box 500 includes a 40 foot roof section 510, connected to the roof adapter 515. In a similar way, the 20 foot box 600 includes a 20 foot roof section 601, and the 10 foot box 610 includes a 10 foot roof section 611. Each of the boxes have door openings which match with any other box, so that any box can be used for any sized box with any other box.
Another embodiment of a floor is shown in
The above describes using the system for automotive purposes, however it could also be used for medical purposes such as a temporary medical building or vaccination station, or an Office, Restroom, Power Pack—Generator, Air Compressor, Hydraulics, and/Or Oil Room. It can be used for other Shop Uses: such as a Mobile PM Shop, a Mobile Shop, a Mobile Paint Booth, or a Mobile Equipment Wash.
The previous description of the disclosed exemplary embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these exemplary embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
This application claims priority from Provisional application No. 63/200,815, filed Mar. 30, 2021, the entire contents of which are herewith incorporated by reference.
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63200815 | Mar 2021 | US |