Patent ID: 8122672

Claim:
A full-length beam assembly for construction of a building framework, said building framework including a pair of spaced apart column assemblies each including a column member and a pair of laterally spaced apart side plates spanning said column member and projecting toward the other column assembly of said pair of column assemblies, said full-length beam assembly comprising: a beam member for extending between said column members of said pair of spaced apart column assemblies and for defining an end gap with each column member; said full-length beam assembly including an end portion at each opposite end thereof, and each end portion of said full-length beam assembly including a pair of opposite cover plates each extending along said end portion of said beam member, each pair of opposite cover plates including an upper cover plate and a lower cover plate, and one of said upper cover plates and said lower cover plates being configured and sized for receipt between a respective pair of projecting side plates of a respective column assembly of said pair of column assemblies, while another of said upper and lower cover plates is sized and configured to be wider than the spacing of a respective pair of projecting side plates, and said another cover plate confronting and being engageable with said projecting pair of side plates.