Patent ID: 7941985

Claim:
A solely gravity-established, full-moment, column/beam nodal connection in a building frame comprising an upright, elongate column having spaced planar faces and pairs of adjacent corners disposed on opposite, lateral sides of each face, plural, elongate standoffs joined to, and extending one each outwardly from each of, said corners at a selected, common elevation located along the length of said column, each pair of adjacent standoffs that extend from a pair of adjacent column corners defining a downwardly and inwardly tapered female reception bearing-interface socket, a halo collar including, for each said female reception bearing-interface socket, a matchingly downwardly and inwardly, male-tapered bearing-interface structure which is designed to bottom out in a full-moment-connection manner with the associated female reception bearing-interface structure, said collar being joined to said column through a bottomed-out, full-moment-connection condition existing between said interface structures, and an elongate beam having an end joined to said collar at a location disposed adjacent one of said faces and intermediate one of said pairs of corners, and extending from the collar outwardly away from said column.