Patent ID: 8327596

Claim:
A structural building system comprising: a plurality of pultruded fiberglass reinforced structure components configured to be used as a structural frame member of a building, wherein each of the pultruded fiberglass reinforced structure components includes a central wall and four grooves running longitudinally along the length of the pultruded component with two opposing grooves on each side of the central wall; and a plurality of connectors, each connector configured to be mounted to one end of a first pultruded structural component and including a frictional mounting section that is couplable to a second pultruded structural component so as to connect the first and second structural components at right angles to each other; and wherein the connectors include first and second mounting arms separated by a gap, the first mounting arm includes a first finger and the second mounting arm includes a second finger, and wherein the connector is mounted to the central wall of the first pultruded structural component with the first mounting arm on a first side of the wall and the second mounting arm on a second side of the wall, and wherein the first finger is mounted within a first groove on the first side of the wall and the second finger is mounted within an opposing, second groove on the second side of the wall, wherein the mounting arms are asymmetric with respect to each other such that there are no fingers on the opposite side of each of the fingers.