Patent ID: 6722091
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: E04B,E04G,E04H,Y10T

Abstract:
A residential house having a floor and a roof, comprising, in combination:a) at least one wall panel, with the wall panel: i) having upper and lower edges, wherein the lower edges are at the floor of the residential house and wherein the upper edges are at the roof of the residential house, and wherein the wall panel has sufficient rigidity between the upper and lower edges to support a roof load and to further support a live roof load; ii) having a pair of end edges running between the upper and lower edges, with a distance between the end edges along the wall panel being greater than 19Â½ feet when the wall panel is in a nontensioned form and such that a length of said wall panel is greater than a height of the wall panel; iii) being one-piece; iv) being in a generally curved form and having a concave face and a convex face, with the concave face being oriented toward an interior of the residential house; v) having an outward tension, with the outward tension being from the concave face to the convex face; and vi) comprising a sheet of oriented strand board, wherein the oriented strand board is a wood product, wherein the oriented strand board is not particle board, wherein the oriented strand board is not flakeboard, wherein the oriented strand board comprises wood strands sliced from wood in a direction of a grain of the wood such that inherent tree strength is maintained in the oriented strand board, wherein the sheet of oriented strand board comprises a first face layer of wood strands, a second face layer of wood strands, and a core layer of wood strands between the first and second face layers, wherein the wood strands of the face layers are aligned in one direction, and wherein said one direction is a vertical direction running between the floor and the roof; b) a counter engaged to the wall panel to oppose the outward tension to fix the wall panel in the generally curved form; c) wherein the roof is on the wall panel so as to form the residential house; and d) wherein the residential house is studless.