Patent ID: 8782994

Claim:
A collar-form, nodal connection between an end of a beam and an elongate, orthogonal-cross-section column possessing sides that define an outside of the column, said connection, in operative condition, comprising column-mount node structure, including column-mount components, joined to and distributed around the outside of the column at a defined location along the column's length, collar-form beam-mount node structure gravity-seated on said column-mount structure in a manner forming therewith a full-moment connection between the column and the beam, including plural, orthogonally adjacent, cooperatively interactive, beam-mount components, one for each of the column's sides, each extending within a plane disposed adjacent a column side, and collectively circumsurrounding the column outwardly adjacent the column-mount node structure, one of said beam-mount components being associated with, and joined to, the mentioned beam end, and adjacent beam-mount components possessing adjacent lateral sides including substantially parallel, planar, load-compression faces that lie in planes which are disposed at angles of substantially 45-degrees relative to the planes in which the respective, associated beam-mount components lie, and for each pair of adjacent beam-mount-component lateral sides, operatively connected nut-and-bolt structure extending adjacent said lateral sides through the associated beam-mount components, appropriately tightened within the overall nodal connection to produce compression in said load-compression faces which is effective within the connection to promote column-circumsurrounding load delivery from the associated beam, through the associated, joined, beam-mount component, to the column.