Patent ID: 8776453
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: E04C,E04H,Y02A

Abstract:
1. An enclosed storm shelter made from steel components having two end walls, two side walls, and a roof, wherein one end wall includes a door frame, a reinforced door, and two rectangular panels of differing dimensions, wherein each panel exhibits a top edge and a bottom edge and two parallel side edges when configured vertically as end wall components with said side edges longer than said top and bottom edges; wherein said two side walls include a number of rectangular panels having two long sides and two short sides vertically disposed such that the short sides of each panel provide a portion of the bottom edge and top edge of said storm shelter; wherein said roof includes the same number of rectangular panels and having substantially the same dimensions as the rectangular panels present in each of said two side walls, wherein said roof panels are horizontally disposed such that the edges of the short sides of said roof panels are aligned perpendicularly with each top edge short side of the panels present within said side walls; and wherein each of said short side edges of each roof panel is connected to each top edge short side edge of each side wall panel through a single angled connector having a length substantially the same as that of both the edge of each short side of each roof panel and the top edge of each short side of each side wall panel; wherein said storm shelter is provided in modular form in relation to each set of side wall and roof panels connected to said single angled connectors.