Patent ID: 6098347
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
A metal-framed geodesic structure comprising:a polyhedral base having five wall edges and five access-construction edges with lengths of the wall edges and lengths of the access-construction edges being equal to lengths of sides of a ten-sided polyhedron having a predetermined size;the access-construction edges being interspersed separately between alternate wall edges of the polyhedral base and ends of wall edges intersect ends of access-construction edges;the polyhedral base having a structural center that is equidistant from intersections of ends of the wall edges and ends of the access-construction sections;five base wall sections that are metal-framed with sheet metal having sheet-metal attachment extensions;the base wall sections being generally rectangular with lengths approximately equal to lengths of the wall edges of the polyhedral base and positioned uprightly with bottom edges proximate the wall edges of the polyhedral base;five pentagonally pyramidal frames with pentagonal bases and having triangular sections that are metal-framed with sheet metal having sheet-metal attachment extensions;the pentagonally pyramidal frames having base sides with lengths approximately equal to the lengths of the base wall sections;the pentagonally pyramidal frames having base-wall sides oriented horizontally and positioned proximate top edges of the base wall sections of the polyhedral base with top corners of the pentagonally pyramidal frames slanted inwardly towards the structural center of the polyhedral base;the pentagonally pyramidal frames having bottom-slope sides oriented upwardly and outwardly from the base wall section sides and having top-slope sides oriented upwardly and inwardly from top ends of the bottom-slope sides;the pentagonally pyramidal frames having pyramidal apexes;five hexagonally pyramidal frames with hexagonal bases and having triangular sections that are metal-framed with sheet metal having sheet-metal attachment extensions;the hexagonally pyramidal frames having base sides with lengths approximately equal to the lengths of the base wall sections and the pentagonal pyramidal frames;the hexagonally pyramidal frames having pyramidal axes coaxial with pyramidal apexes that are extended outwardly and upwardly from intersections of the pyramidal axes with the structural center of the polyhedral base;the hexagonally pyramidal frames being positioned in a contiguous ring of hexagonally pyramidal frames;the hexagonally pyramidal frames having top-slope sides proximate top-slope sides of adjacent hexagonally pyramidal frames in the contiguous ring of hexagonally pyramidal frames;the hexagonally pyramidal frames having bottom-slope sides proximate the top-slope sides of the pentagonally pyramidal frames;the hexagonally pyramidal frames having base sides oriented horizontally proximate top sides of access-construction sections vertically above the access-construction edges of the polyhedral base;the hexagonally pyramidal frames having apex-support sides; anda pentagonally pyramidal apex frame having apex-base sides proximate the apex-support sides of the hexagonally pyramidal frames.