Patent ID: 6837016
Filing Date: 2005-01-04
Classification: E04B,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A self-stabilizing, moment-resistant, collar-form, elongate-column/elongate-beam interconnect structure for use in a building comprising a collar-form column-attachable (CA) member including plural, laterally outwardly facing, sloping, interconnection bearing faces, and a collar-form beam-end-attachable (BA) member including plural, laterally inwardly facing, sloping, interconnection bearing faces which substantially parallel said outwardly facing bearing faces, said CA and BA members being constructed for seated interconnection in a maimer whereby gravity causes their respective bearing faces to seat self-seekingly and complementarily relative to one another in confronting, bearing-face opposition, thereby to establish nominal, three-dimensional, lateral positional and moment-resistant stability between the two members without the requirement for any other interconnecting structure.