Quick-set, full-moment-lock, assemblable and nondestructively disassemblable, column and beam frame system
View Patent ↗A floating, nondestructably disconnectable, discontinuous, full-moment nodal connection between the end of a beam and the side of a column including (a) a column having a side, (b) a column-mount node structure joined to that column side, (c) an elongate beam having an end, and (d) a beam-mount node structure joined to that beam end. The column-mount and beam-mount structures are floatingly, nondestructably disconnectably, and discontinuity-gravity-seated relative to one another, and as so seated, form an operative full-moment connection, via the node structures, between the column and beam, this connection being characterized by the fact that there is no uninterrupted material-occupying path or structure which flows structurally from the beam to the column through the node structures.
1. A full-moment, column/beam structural connection comprising
a column having a side,
column-mount interface structure welded to said side,
a beam having an end,
beam-mount interface structure welded to said end, and
a gravity-seated, nondestructably-disconnectable, discontinuous, full-moment structural connection established between said interface structures; wherein said column-mount interface structure possesses an outer bearing face which lies in a first plane that slopes downwardly and outwardly away from said side, and an upwardly tapered, wedge-shaped cleat which projects outwardly as an island from said face, said beam-mount interface structure possesses an inner bearing face which lies in a second plane that substantially parallels the first plane of the outer face in the column-mount interface structure, and an angular socket complementary to said cleat and formed in said inner face, and said connection is defined with said bearing faces confrontingly engaging one another, and with said cleat received complementarily within said socket.