Patent ID: 9745769
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: E04B,E04H,F41H

Claim:
1. A method for on-site assembly of prefabricated, modular components to form a shelter and attachment of the shelter to a ground surface, said components including: three or more factory-preassembled, triangular side panels, each triangular side panel being of equal size and including a triangular panel frame, said triangular panel frame comprising: anchor means reversibly attachable to a lower end portion of each panel for securing one of the triangular side panels to the ground at a location selected for on-site assembly of the shelter, said anchor means including: (a) transporting the modular components to an assembly site; (b) designating the ground locations for each corner of the shelter at the assembly site; (c) selecting the side panels that are to be assembled to form the shelter; (d) attaching the corner anchor assembly to the ground at each of the designated corner locations by driving rebar down through the rebar apertures of the upper and lower plates of the corner anchor assemblies at outwardly diverging angles, pairs of the rebar apertures of the upper and lower plates being sufficiently out of registry to align the rebar inserted through the pairs of rebar apertures along said diverging angles; (e) at each designated corner location, adjusting the orientation of the first and second upper plates of the corner anchor assembly attached to the ground at that location so that the anchor rods of said plates are each properly aligned over the lower plate of said corner anchor assembly for insertion into the hollow lower ends of the selected side panels that are to be joined at said corner location, and, when so aligned, attaching said first and second upper plates with fasteners to said lower plate of said corner anchor assembly; (f) successively raising each of the selected side panels that will form the sides of the shelter sufficiently to permit insertion of the anchor rods into the hollow, lower ends of the side beam of said panels at each of the designated corner locations, adjusting the amount of each insertion until the base beams of the selected side panels are leveled, and, once leveled, locking the anchor rods within said side beams with the locking means; and (g) coupling a first side beam of each selected side panel to a second side beam of another, adjacent selected side panel with the coupling means by aligning the apertures of, and joining together with fasteners inserted through said apertures, the steel strappings of said first and second side beams, thereby forming a pyramid shelter or incomplete pyramid with each of the apexes of the selected side panels disposed at a common, pyramidal apex.