Patent ID: 6981686
Filing Date: 2006-01-03
Classification: E02D,E04G

Abstract:
1. A support/enclosure wall system comprising: a plurality of elongate rib members separably attachable to each other for defining a framework; said rib members each having a plurality of wall members, said wall members including at least a pair of convergingly related side walls and a pair of convergingly related end walls, said wall members having bolt-receiving openings therethrough; a plurality of threaded fastener bolt members dimensioned to extend through said bolt-receiving openings to secure one of said rib members to another of said rib members; a first one of said rib members being secured to a second one of said rib members with one of said convergingly related side walls of said first rib member disposed in abutting relationship with a first one of said convergingly related end walls of said second rib; a third one of said rib members being secured to said second one of said rib members with one of said convergingly related side walls of said third rib member disposed in abutting relationship with the one of said convergingly related end walls of said second rib remote from said first one of said end walls thereof; said first and second rib members being secured together by a first one of said fastener bolt members extending through one of said bolt-receiving openings in said first rib member and one of said bolt-receiving openings in said second rib member; said second and third rib members being secured together by a second one of said fastener bolt members extending through one of said bolt-receiving openings in said second rib member and one of said bolt-receiving openings in said third rib member; a plurality of structural outer skin members formed of stiffly flexible sheet material, each skin member having a plurality of elongate, hanger bolt-receiving openings therethrough arranged in a regular pattern; a plurality of threaded hanger bolt members each having a body portion dimensioned to extend through said hanger bolt-receiving openings in said outer skin members and through said bolt-receiving openings in said rib members, and a head portion configured to pass entirely through said hanger bolt-receiving openings when said head portion and said hanger bolt-receiving opening are aligned in a first angular orientation relative to each other and, in a second angular orientation relative to each other, to abut against a portion of the surface of said skin members adjacent said hanger bolt-receiving openings to preclude passage of said head portion through said hanger bolt-receiving opening; a first one of said outer skin members being fastened to said first rib member by means of a first one of said hanger bolt members extending through a first one of said hanger bolt-receiving openings in said first outer skin member and through at least one of said bolt-receiving openings in said first rib member, said first one of said outer skin members further being fastened to said third rib member by means of a second one of said hanger bolt members extending through a second one of said hanger bolt-receiving openings in said first outer skin member and through one of said bolt-receiving openings in said third rib member; a second one of said outer skin members being fastened to said third rib member by means of said second one of said hanger bolt members further passing through a first one of said hanger bolt-receiving openings in said second outer skin member.