U.S. patent application number 09/951597 was filed with the patent office on 2003-05-29 for inner accessible commutering enterprise structure interfaced with one or more workplace, vehicle or home commutering stations.
Invention is credited to Brown, John G..
Application Number | 20030097806 09/951597 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 24448781 |
Filed Date | 2003-05-29 |
United States Patent
Application |
20030097806 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Brown, John G. |
May 29, 2003 |
Inner accessible commutering enterprise structure interfaced with
one or more workplace, vehicle or home commutering stations
Abstract
An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure is
interfaced with one or more workplace, vehicle or home commutering
centers, providing extended battery life for wireless devices with
enhanced commutering capabilities for using the enhanced power of
commutering devices within the inner accessible commutering
enterprise structure. An enterprise interlaced integrated fiber,
broadband fiber, electronic, and electrical power network
comprising an enterprise communications and computing network of
conductors, electronic, electrical and mechanical devices,
components, appliances, and equipment is accommodated in the
interstitial spaces of the ceilings, walls, partitions, columns,
and floors of the wired and wireless inner accessible commutering
enterprise structure.
Inventors: |
Brown, John G.; (Harvard,
IL) |
Correspondence
Address: |
John G. Brown
20205 State Line Road
Harvard
IL
60033
US
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Family ID: |
24448781 |
Appl. No.: |
09/951597 |
Filed: |
September 13, 2001 |
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09951597 |
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08611377 |
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Current U.S.
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52/220.1 ;
52/263 |
Current CPC
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E04B 5/04 20130101; E04C
2/521 20130101; H04W 74/00 20130101; E04B 5/48 20130101; E04B 5/026
20130101; E04B 5/043 20130101; Y02D 70/26 20180101; E04F 17/08
20130101; Y02D 30/70 20200801; Y02D 70/168 20180101; H04W 52/0209
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52/220.1 ;
52/263 |
International
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E04C 002/52 |
Claims
1. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure,
characterized in that inner accessible enterprise communications,
computing, power, and related enterprise commutering network
devices are disposed within accessible interstitial spaces of
ceilings, walls, floors, partitions, and columns behind accessible
membrane barriers; in that said network devices comprise interlaced
integrated fiber, broadband fiber, electronic, and electrical power
conductors for voice, data, video, power, and parallel computing
networking disposed within said accessible interstitial spaces on
opposing sides of an unpenetrated, discretely shaped, fire
structural primary core barrier; and in that said network within
said accessible interstitial spaces is accessed by wired and
wireless means by devices within occupied spaces of said inner
accessible commutering enterprise structure on opposing sides of
said accessible membrane barriers.
2. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 1, characterized in that said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices comprise said conductors and one or
more elements selected from the group consisting of electronic
devices, electrical devices, power devices, computational devices,
communications devices, mechanical devices, components, appliances,
and equipment disposed in said accessible interstitial spaces on
opposing sides of said fire structural primary core barrier.
3. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 1, characterized in that interstitial accommodation
matrices are disposed in said accessible interstitial spaces
between said fire structural primary core barrier and said
accessible membrane barriers; and in that said interstitial
accommodation matrices permit free access and passage of conductors
from one interstitial accommodation matrix in adjacent ceiling,
walls, partitions, columns and floor to another interstitial
accommodation matrix on one side of said fire structural primary
core barrier without penetrating said fire structural primary core
barrier.
4. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 3, characterized in that said accessible membrane barriers
comprise a plurality of removable and replaceable
modular-accessible-matrix-units disposed on opposing sides of said
unpenetrated fire structural primary core barrier for accessing
said accessible interstitial spaces.
5. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 4, characterized in that a plurality of
modular-accessible-matrix sites comprises said accessible
interstitial spaces behind said modular-accessible-matrix-units; in
that said interstitial accommodation matrices accommodate said
inner accessible enterprise communications, computing, power, and
related enterprise commutering network devices; and in that
wireless and wired connectivity of said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices is provided through said
modular-accessible-matrix sites.
6. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 3, characterized in that a plurality of said inner
accessible enterprise communications, computing, power, and related
enterprise commutering network devices is accommodated in said
interstitial accommodation matrices; and in that said inner
accessible enterprise communications, computing, power, and related
enterprise commutering network devices are connected by said wired
and wireless means to computational, communication, and power
devices located in said occupied spaces outside said accessible
membrane barriers.
7. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 6, characterized in that said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices comprise a plurality of voice and
digital personal mobile digital commutering devices with displays
having integrally interfaced transceivers for communicating by
infrared, radio frequency, wireless, wired, and a combination of
wired and wireless means over microdistances with integrally
interfaced transceivers in two or more of said inner accessible
enterprise communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices within said occupied spaces.
8. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 7, characterized in that said integrally interfaced
transceivers are disposed in said accessible interstitial spaces
and said occupied spaces on opposing sides of said accessible
membrane barriers of enterprise workplace commuter stations,
supplementary vehicle commuter stations, and supplementary home
commuter stations.
9. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 8, characterized in that a plurality of said integrally
interfaced transceivers is disposed within a plurality of wireless
voice, handheld, wrist, pocket, headset, notebook, and laptop
mobile digital commutering devices; in that said mobile digital
commutering devices communicate wirelessly over microdistances with
said integrally interfaced transceivers in said inner accessible
enterprise communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices located within said occupied spaces and
said accessible interstitial spaces of said enterprise workplace
commuter stations, supplementary vehicle commuter stations, and
supplementary home commuter stations; and in that communication
over said microdistances minimizes battery use of said mobile
digital commutering devicess and maximizes computational and
communication quality of said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices.
10. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
system according to claim 1, characterized in that said fire
structural primary core barrier forms a plurality of interstitial
conductor passage channels on said opposing sides of said fire
structural primary core barrier; in that said fire structural
primary core barrier comprises a structural barrier slab forming an
array of non-combustible top upwardly disposed structural channel
joist units and bottom downwardly disposed structural channel joist
units; in that said structural barrier slab is disposed within a
structural floor/ceiling system; in that said interstitial
conductor passage channels are formed between upwardly disposed top
flanges and are formed between downwardly disposed bottom flanges
of said structural barrier slab; in that said top flanges are
coplanar; in that said bottom flanges are coplanar; in that said
top flanges and said bottom flanges are arranged back to back,
aligned and offset; in that top channels and bottom channels are
arranged back to back; in that said structural barrier slab
encapsulates three or more sides of each of said top channels and
said bottom channels; in that said fire structural primary core
barrier forms a common unpenetrated barrier; in that a plurality of
structural composite girders is disposed longitudinally, supporting
transversely disposed composite beams; in that each said girder has
a top flange, a web, and an extended bottom flange; in that said
top flange and said web are encapsulated in a time/temperature,
fire-ratable covering selected from the group consisting of
intumescent coatings and cementitious coatings; in that said
extended bottom flange is encapsulated in concrete; in that
structural accessible interstitial girder conductor passages are
disposed on opposing sides of said web; in that a plurality of
conductors and fiber, broadband fiber, electronic, and electrical
power backbones are disposed within said girder conductor passages
on said opposing sides of said web; in that said web has a
plurality of apertures; and in that said conductors in each said
girder conductor passage communicate with transversely disposed
conductors in said transverse interstitial passages and with
conductors longitudinally and transversely disposed in said
interstitial conductor passage channels; in that said inner
accessible enterprise communications, computing, power, and related
enterprise commutering network devices, conductors, components,
appliances, and equipment are accommodated within said
upward-facing top interstitial conductor passage channels and said
downward-facing bottom interstitial conductor passage channels; and
in that a floor accessible membrane barrier is supported over said
top structural channel joist units by a plurality of support means
disposed over said top flanges. (THIRD Embodiment--FIGS. 68-79,
38-67, 80-86--Preferred Embodiment FIGS. 68 and 72)
11. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 10, characterized in that a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier is suspended below said fire structural primary core
barrier and below said supporting girders and beams by a plurality
of support means disposed below said fire structural primary core
barrier; in that one or more longitudinal and transverse
interstitial passages is formed between said ceiling accessible
membrane barrier and said fire structural primary core barrier; and
in that said inner accessible enterprise communications, computing,
power, and related enterprise commutering network devices are
disposed within said longitudinal and transverse interstitial
passages between said ceiling accessible membrane barrier and said
fire structural primary core barrier.
12. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 10, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier is supported over said fire structural primary core barrier
by said support means selected from the group consisting of arrays
of plinths, touch fasteners, elastomeric, foam, and fluid tubular
load-bearing supports.
13. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 10, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises an array of removable, reconfigurable, and
recyclable modular-accessible-matrix-units; and in that said floor
accessible membrane barrier forms a fully accessible, secondary
fire barrier to protect said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices disposed behind said floor accessible
membrane barrier.
14. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 10, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises a plurality of modular-accessible-matrix units
comprising one or more materials selected from the group consisting
of ceramic, vitreous, wood, rubber, plastic, elastomeric, stone,
concrete, polymer concrete, cementitious concrete, metal, fiber
cement, mineral cement, and composites thereof.
15. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 1, characterized in that said fire structural primary core
barrier comprises a structural barrier slab forming an array of
non-combustible, accessible structural channel slab units having
linear channel passages; in that said fire structural primary core
barrier forms a common unpenetrated barrier; in that said
structural barrier slab and said linear channel passages are
disposed on one or more of said opposing sides of said fire
structural primary core barrier within a structural floor/ceiling
system; in that a floor accessible membrane barrier is supported
over said structural slab units and over a plurality of composite
steel and concrete beams; in that said composite steel and concrete
beams frame into and are supported by a plurality of transversely
disposed composite steel and concrete girders having bottom flanges
encapsulated in concrete; in that one or more interstitial passages
is formed between said floor accessible membrane barrier and said
structural channel slab units having said linear channel passages;
in that said fire structural primary core barrier is disposed over
and between said composite steel and concrete beams and girders; in
that said interstitial passages are formed within longitudinal
channels disposed on one or more of said opposing sides of said
fire structural primary core barrier supported between said
plurality of composite steel and concrete beams and said plurality
of composite steel and concrete girders; and in that said inner
accessible enterprise communications, computing, power, and related
enterprise commutering network devices are disposed within
interstitial accommodation matrices within said longitudinal
channels above said structural channel slab units. (FIRST
Embodiment--FIGS. 17-22, 1-16--Preferred Embodiment FIG. 17)
16. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 15, characterized in that a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier is suspended below said fire structural primary core
barrier and below said supporting girders and beams by a plurality
of support means disposed below said fire structural primary core
barrier; in that one or more longitudinal and transverse
interstitial passages is formed between said ceiling accessible
membrane barrier and said fire structural primary core barrier; and
in that said inner accessible enterprise communications, computing,
power, and related enterprise commutering network devices are
disposed within said longitudinal and transverse interstitial
passages between said ceiling accessible membrane barrier and said
fire structural primary core barrier.
17. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 15, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier is supported over said fire structural primary core barrier
by support means selected from the group consisting of arrays of
plinths, touch fasteners, elastomeric, foam, and fluid tubular
load-bearing supports.
18. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 15, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises an array of removable, reconfigurable, and
recyclable modular-accessible-matrix-units; and in that said floor
accessible membrane barrier forms a fully accessible, secondary
fire barrier to protect said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices and conductors, components, appliances,
and equipment disposed behind said floor accessible membrane
barrier.
19. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 15, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises a plurality of modular-accessible-matrix units
comprising one or more materials selected from the group consisting
of ceramic, vitreous, wood, rubber, plastic, elastomeric, stone,
concrete, polymer concrete, cementitious concrete, metal, fiber
cement, mineral cement, and composites thereof.
20. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 1, characterized in that said fire structural primary core
barrier comprises a structural folded barrier slab forming an array
of non-combustible structural folded slab units; in that said fire
structural primary core barrier forms a common unpenetrated
barrier; in that said structural folded barrier slab is disposed
within a structural floor/ceiling system; in that said structural
folded slab units have top flanges and bottom flanges; in that said
structural folded slab units form an array of longitudinal top
channels and an array of longitudinal bottom channels located
between top and bottom webs and top and bottom flanges of said fire
structural primary core barrier; in that a floor accessible
membrane barrier is supported over said structural folded slab
units by a plurality of support means disposed over said top
flanges and over a plurality of composite steel and concrete beams;
in that said composite steel and concrete beams frame into and are
supported by a plurality of transversely disposed composite steel
and concrete girders having bottom flanges encapsulated in
concrete; in that one or more interstitial passages is formed
between said floor accessible membrane barrier and said top
flanges; in that said interstitial passages are formed within said
longitudinal top and bottom channels in said structural folded slab
units; and in that said inner accessible enterprise communications,
computing, power, and related enterprise commutering network
devices are disposed within interstitial accommodation matrices
within said longitudinal top and bottom channels of said structural
folded slab units. (SECOND Embodiment--FIGS. 32-37,
23-31--Preferred Embodiment FIG. 31)
21. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 20, characterized in that a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier is suspended below said fire structural primary core
barrier and below said supporting girders and beams by a plurality
of support means disposed below said fire structural primary core
barrier; in that one or more longitudinal and transverse
interstitial passages is formed between said ceiling accessible
membrane barrier and said fire structural primary core barrier; and
in that said inner accessible enterprise communications, computing,
power, and related enterprise commutering network devices are
disposed within said longitudinal and transverse interstitial
passages between said ceiling accessible membrane barrier and said
fire structural primary core barrier.
22. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 20, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier is supported over said fire structural primary core barrier
by said support means selected from the group consisting of arrays
of plinths, touch fasteners, elastomeric, foam, and fluid tubular
load-bearing supports.
23. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 20, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises an array of removable, reconfigurable, and
recyclable modular-accessible-matrix-units; and in that said floor
accessible membrane barrier forms a fully accessible, secondary
fire barrier to protect said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices and conductors, components, appliances,
and equipment disposed behind said floor accessible membrane
barrier.
24. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 20, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises a plurality of modular-accessible-matrix units
comprising one or more materials selected from the group consisting
of ceramic, vitreous, wood, rubber, plastic, elastomeric, stone,
concrete, polymer concrete, cementitious concrete, metal, fiber
cement, mineral cement, and composites thereof.
25. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 1, characterized in that said fire structural primary core
barrier comprises a structural barrier slab forming an array of
accessible, non-combustible structural trussed joist units; in that
said fire structural primary core barrier forms a common
unpenetrated barrier; in that a top structural barrier slab and
said structural trussed joist units are disposed within a
structural floor/ceiling system; in that said structural trussed
joist units have top structural slab flanges and bottom structural
trussed flanges; in that said top structural slab flanges of said
structural trussed joist units form an array of longitudinal top
channels joined by open trussed webs to an array of longitudinal
and transverse open bottom channels; in that a floor accessible
membrane barrier is supported over said structural trussed joist
units by a plurality of support means disposed over said top
structural slab flanges and over a plurality of composite steel and
concrete beams; in that said composite steel and concrete beams
frame into and are supported by a plurality of transversely
disposed composite steel and concrete girders having extended
bottom flanges encapsulated in concrete; in that one or more
interstitial passages is formed between said floor accessible
membrane barrier and said top structural slab flanges; in that said
conductors are disposed within said interstitial passages; in that
longitudinal interstitial passages are formed within said
longitudinal top channels; and in that said inner accessible
enterprise communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices are disposed within interstitial
accommodation matrices within said longitudinal interstitial
passages. (FOURTH Embodiment--FIGS. 90-93--Preferred Embodiment
FIG. 93)
26. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 25, characterized in that said structural trussed joist
units have longitudinal bottom chords with cross-tie bridging
forming waffle panels by means of coplanar transverse bottom chords
disposed at intervals to form a waffle pattern; and in that said
waffle pattern is selected from the group consisting of square and
rectangular in plan view. (FOURTH Embodiment--FIGS.
94-99--Preferred Embodiment FIGS. 96 and 99)
27. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 1, characterized in that said fire structural primary core
barrier comprises a structural barrier slab forming an array of
accessible, non-combustible structural concrete trussed units; in
that said fire structural primary core barrier forms a common
unpenetrated barrier; in that a top structural barrier slab and
said structural concrete trussed units are disposed within a
structural floor/ceiling system; in that said structural concrete
trussed units have top structural slab flanges and bottom
structural slab flanges; in that said top structural slab flanges
of said structural concrete trussed units form alternating arrays
of open webs and solid concrete webs joining said bottom structural
slab flanges; in that a floor accessible membrane barrier is
supported over said structural concrete trussed units by a
plurality of support means disposed over said top structural slab
flanges and over a plurality of composite steel and concrete beams;
in that said composite steel and concrete beams frame into and are
supported by a plurality of transversely disposed composite steel
and concrete girders having extended bottom flanges encapsulated in
concrete; in that one or more interstitial passages is formed
between said floor accessible membrane barrier and said top
structural slab flanges; in that said conductors are disposed
within said interstitial passages; in that longitudinal
interstitial passages are formed within said longitudinal top
channels; and in that said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices are disposed within interstitial
accommodation matrices within said longitudinal interstitial
passages. (FIFTH Embodiment--FIGS. 10-120--Preferred Embodiment
FIGS. 113-118)
28. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 27, characterized in that an array of longitudinal top
channels and bottom channels are formed in said top structural
flanges and in said bottom structural flanges. (FIGS. 102, 106, and
110)
29. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 25, characterized in that a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier is suspended below said fire structural primary core
barrier and below said supporting girders and beams by a plurality
of support means disposed below said fire structural primary core
barrier; in that one or more longitudinal and transverse
interstitial passages is formed between said ceiling accessible
membrane barrier and said fire structural primary core barrier; and
in that said inner accessible enterprise communications, computing,
power, and related enterprise commutering network devices are
disposed within said longitudinal and transverse interstitial
passages between said ceiling accessible membrane barrier and said
fire structural primary core barrier.
30. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 25, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier is supported over said fire structural primary core barrier
by said support means selected from the group consisting of arrays
of plinths, touch fasteners, elastomeric, foam, and fluid tubular
load-bearing supports.
31. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 25, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises an array of removable, reconfigurable, and
recyclable modular-accessible-matrix-units; and in that said floor
accessible membrane barrier forms a fully accessible, secondary
fire barrier to protect said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices and conductors, components, appliances,
and equipment disposed behind said floor accessible membrane
barrier.
32. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 25, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises a plurality of modular-accessible-matrix units
comprising one or more materials selected from the group consisting
of ceramic, vitreous, wood, rubber, plastic, elastomeric, stone,
concrete, polymer concrete, cementitious concrete, metal, fiber
cement, mineral cement, and composites thereof.
33. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 1, characterized in that said fire structural primary core
barrier comprises an array of two or more non-combustible
accessible structural slabs; in that said fire structural primary
core barrier forms a common unpenetrated barrier; in that one or
more secondary core barriers comprises an array of non-combustible,
penetrated, accessible structural slabs forming hollow core units;
in that a plurality of coplanar, adjacent structural linear hollow
passages are disposed between said fire structural primary core
barrier and said one or more secondary core barriers; in that said
structural linear hollow passages have access apertures in said one
or more secondary core barriers infilled with fire-rated, linear
access plugs; in that said conductors and computational,
communication, and power devices are disposed within interstitial
passages in said structural linear hollow passages; in that said
fire structural primary core barrier and said one or more secondary
core barriers are disposed within a structural floor/ceiling
system; in that said structural slabs forming said hollow core
units have top structural slabs forming top flanges and bottom
structural slabs forming bottom flanges; in that said top and
bottom structural slabs are structurally joined by concrete webs to
form an array of coplanar top and bottom longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrices within said fire structural primary core
barrier; in that a floor accessible membrane barrier is supported
over said top structural slabs by a plurality of support means
disposed over said top structural slabs and over a plurality of
composite steel and concrete beams; in that said composite steel
and concrete beams frame into and are supported by a plurality of
transversely disposed composite steel and concrete girders having
extended bottom flanges encapsulated in concrete; in that one or
more interstitial passages is formed between said floor accessible
membrane barrier and said top structural slabs; in that said
conductors and said inner accessible enterprise communications,
computing, power, and related enterprise commutering network
devices are located within interstitial passages above, below, and
behind said secondary core barrier having said fire-rated linear
access plugs; in that longitudinal interstitial passages are formed
within said top longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices;
and in that longitudinal interstitial passages are formed within
said bottom longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices.
(SIXTH Embodiment FIGS. 126-139, 121-125--Preferred Embodiment
FIGS. 130-139)
34. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 33, characterized in that a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier is suspended below said fire structural primary core
barrier and below said supporting girders and beams by a plurality
of support means disposed below said fire structural primary core
barrier; in that one or more longitudinal and transverse
interstitial passages is formed between said ceiling accessible
membrane barrier and said fire structural primary core barrier; and
in that said inner accessible enterprise communications, computing,
power, and related enterprise commutering network devices are
disposed within said longitudinal and transverse interstitial
passages between said ceiling accessible membrane barrier and said
fire structural primary core barrier.
35. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 33, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier is supported over said fire structural primary core barrier
by said support means selected from the group consisting of arrays
of plinths, touch fasteners, elastomeric, foam, and fluid tubular
load-bearing supports.
36. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 33, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises an array of removable, reconfigurable, and
recyclable modular-accessible-matrix-units; and in that said floor
accessible membrane barrier forms a fully accessible, secondary
fire barrier to protect said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices and conductors, components, appliances,
and equipment disposed behind said floor accessible membrane
barrier.
37. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 33, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises a plurality of modular-accessible-matrix units
comprising one or more materials selected from the group consisting
of ceramic, vitreous, wood, rubber, plastic, elastomeric, stone,
concrete, polymer concrete, cementitious concrete, metal, fiber
cement, mineral cement, and composites thereof.
38. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 1, characterized in that said fire structural primary core
barrier comprises an array of non-combustible precast structural
concrete hollow core units with integral longitudinal access
apertures and transverse passage apertures; in that said precast
structural concrete hollow core units have a plurality of
spaced-apart linear tubular voids unpenetrated from one flange to
form said fire structural primary core barrier; in that an opposing
flange forms an accessible penetrated secondary core barrier with
said integral longitudinal access apertures; in that said
space-apart linear tubular voids are disposed between said fire
structural primary core barrier and said secondary core barrier; in
that said fire structural primary core barrier and said secondary
core barrier are disposed within a structural floor/ceiling system;
in that said precast structural concrete hollow core units have top
flanges and bottom flanges; in that said precast structural
concrete hollow core units are structurally joined on opposing
sides by grout-filled linear vee-shaped joints for joining precast
units to form an array of coplanar spaced-apart linear tubular
voids having longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices
within said precast structural concrete hollow core units having
said integral longitudinal access apertures and said transverse
passage apertures; in that a floor accessible membrane barrier is
supported over said precast structural concrete hollow core units
by a plurality of support means disposed over said precast
structural concrete hollow core units and over a plurality of
composite steel and concrete beams; in that said precast structural
concrete hollow core units with said integral longitudinal access
apertures and transverse passage apertures frame into and are
supported by flanges and extended flanges of a plurality of
transversely disposed composite steel and concrete girders having
extended bottom flanges encapsulated in concrete; in that one or
more interstitial passages is formed between said floor accessible
membrane barrier and top of said precast structural concrete hollow
core units having said integral longitudinal access apertures and
transverse passage apertures; in that said conductors and said
computational, communication, and power devices are located within
interstitial passages in said spaced-apart linear tubular voids
having said transverse passage apertures; and in that said
accessible enterprise communications, computing, and power network
is disposed within a floor interstitial accommodation matrix and
said spaced-apart linear tubular voids. (SEVENTH Embodiment--FIGS.
140-160--Preferred Embodiment FIG. 155)
39. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 38, characterized in that a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier is suspended below said fire structural primary core
barrier and below said supporting girders and beams by a plurality
of support means disposed below said fire structural primary core
barrier; in that one or more longitudinal and transverse
interstitial passages is formed between said ceiling accessible
membrane barrier and said fire structural primary core barrier; and
in that said inner accessible enterprise communications, computing,
power, and related enterprise commutering network devices are
disposed within said longitudinal and transverse interstitial
passages between said ceiling accessible membrane barrier and said
fire structural primary core barrier.
40. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 38, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier is supported over said fire structural primary core barrier
by said support means selected from the group consisting of arrays
of plinths, touch fasteners, elastomeric, foam, and fluid tubular
load-bearing supports.
41. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 38, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises an array of removable, reconfigurable, and
recyclable modular-accessible-matrix-units; and in that said floor
accessible membrane barrier forms a fully accessible, secondary
fire barrier to protect said inner accessible enterprise
communications, computing, power, and related enterprise
commutering network devices and conductors, components, appliances,
and equipment disposed behind said floor accessible membrane
barrier.
42. An inner accessible commutering enterprise structure according
to claim 38, characterized in that said floor accessible membrane
barrier comprises a plurality of modular-accessible-matrix units
comprising one or more materials selected from the group consisting
of ceramic, vitreous, wood, rubber, plastic, elastomeric, stone,
concrete, polymer concrete, cementitious concrete, metal, fiber
cement, mineral cement, and composites thereof.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The background of this invention must be viewed from two
standpoints. The first is the growing environmental problem
generated by the discarding of obsolete computers ranging from
personal computers to workstations to mainframes at the rate of
more than 10 million per year. According to a Carnegie-Mellon
University study, if computers continue to be discarded at this
rate by individuals, companies, institutions and government, there
will be 150 million computers deposited in the nation's landfills
by the year 2005. The second is the growing environmental problem
generated by the discarding of cast-off buildings and building
components to the nation's landfills. Thus, both conditions are
reaching the crisis point in that they greatly increase the burden
of handling solid wastes generated by the population at a time when
communities are having difficulty finding places to dispose of the
day-to-day wastes generated by households and businesses across the
country and, indeed, around the world. This is a global problem,
not just a local or national problem.
[0002] Thus, the need arises for buildings which are continually
renewable and for computers, appliances, equipment, and
mechanical/electrical systems which are evolutionarily
technologically upgradable.
[0003] This invention has its origin in landfill, quality of life,
environmental stewardship challenges, and optimum, constructive
utilization of finite strategic resources, and in hand-held
communicators of the Buck Rogers and Star Trek imaginings.
Buildings can be made physically to last centuries as opposed to
decades provided we think anew and act anew to conceive, design,
engineer and building our enterprises to accommodate the inevitable
evolutionary unfolding change of the future expressed in
technological advances in electronic devices, appliances, equipment
and components and in mechanical/electrical equipment. Because
buildings were not conceived, designed, engineered or built to
accommodate evolutionary unfolding change, hundreds of recent
technological innovations, in the last 120 years or so, have
largely contributed to making buildings obsolete, such as the
following, to mention a few of the most prominent technological
advances:
[0004] Inside plumbing--water and waste
[0005] Electrical motor power and lighting
[0006] Automobile
[0007] Telephone
[0008] Television
[0009] Computers and integrated circuits
[0010] Refrigeration and airconditioning
[0011] Gas- and oil-fired heating
[0012] All of these fortuitous inventions could have been readily
accommodated within the past 120 years had there been available the
100 percent accessible interstitial accommodation matrices of
ceilings, walls, partitions, columns and floors through the
accessible membrane barriers of my invention.
[0013] Inadequate constructive thinking has also caused inadequacy
of conception and commitment to quality of life, causing premature
discarding of buildings to landfill by failing to plan for building
recycling or disassembly. Admittedly, irrational and illogical
zoning, land use, and building codes, along with ecological and
environmental ignorance and selfish thinking have contributed to
the creation of many of mankind's environmental crises in landfill,
insufficient and finite strategic resources, global warming, and
destruction of the built-in natural protective barriers, such as,
the earth's rain forests, water resources, and the ozone layer.
[0014] The teachings of this invention specifically address certain
of the major environmental strategic resource challenges.
[0015] As technological advances have been made over the past 120
years, conventional buildings have been conceived as structural
systems into which we place people, equipment and machines to
produce products or services or to live. My invention provides
interstitial accommodation matrices and an evolutionary interactive
enterprise computer and network matrix wherein people,
transceivers, transducers, electronic devices, storage devices, and
machines interface and interact to produce those products and
services, with an interstitial multinetgridometry matrix
synergistically serving the primary purpose of creating the
enterprise and the evolutionary accommodation purpose of enabling
the depth and breadth of the structural system to accommodate an
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry which
permits every floor, wall, partition, column or ceiling within the
enterprise to be an active part of the computer and network
matrix.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0016] In the light of the physical vehicular traffic gridlock,
communications gridlock, and computer gridlock occurring at the end
of the 20th Century at a time of great innovation, creativity,
technological advances, and competitiveness among industrialized
nations and emerging nations, and in the light of the nation's
running out of landfill options, necessity demands thinking anew,
acting anew.
[0017] The first steps in thinking anew and acting anew are to
conceive, design, engineer, build and use the capabilities of a
Pentium-based Laptop Mobile Commuter or a Pentium-based Pro or
greater workstation connected to a power grid and local area
network which merges, in our perception as well as in actuality,
the COMMUNICATION and the COMPUTER capabilities into a single
integrated whole--a COMMUTER. The Interstitial Space Commuter of my
invention is disposed in the interactive interstitial space as
function dictates at any modular-accessible-matrix site or modular
accessible node site. The Occupied Space Commuter of my invention
comprises a Personal Mobile Commuter in miniaturized form to fit in
the palm of the hand (60 mm.times.100 mm.times.10-15 mm thick), a
lightweight Laptop Mobile Commuter, a Desk Top Commuter, and a Work
Station Commuter. The use of an advanced generation of interactive
Commuter with integrated interactive video would be a move towards
reducing traffic gridlock by making interactive Commuters a
preferred alternate choice to travel in many instances.
[0018] The inevitable should be recognized that outside of
specialized and sophisticated applications of computer-aided
design, computer-aided manufacturing, scientific work,
manufacturing, guidance systems, avionics, and the like, computers,
as used by the vast majority of people in unspecialized and
unsophisticated functions of word processing, spreadsheet, business
graphics, marketing and recordkeeping in sales, and general office
applications which do very little "computing", are more useful as
communications appliances with computing capabilities when loaded
with the right software for the operating system, forming a
Commuter appliance of choice and convenience for reducing in part
vehicular gridlock, communications gridlock, and computer gridlock.
The telephone and computer, in the vast majority of uses, are
invariably becoming one appliance in hardware, software and use.
The "computer telephony" functions of e-mail or voice mail,
facsimile messaging, scanning, copying, printing, filing retrieval,
networking, and the like, under powerful WINDOWS 95, a trademark of
Microsoft, or higher operating system and other operating systems
will cause and have caused the emergence of a common appliance--the
Commuter--in various sizes, forms, and functions.
[0019] A few minutes, a few hours, a few days, a few weeks, or at
most a few months from now, some solution, some component, device,
appliance, equipment, processor, microchip or board which were
thought to be viable will become outdated. The global dynamic,
creative, inventive, entrepreneurial, competitive spirit will cause
and has caused users to devise new strategies requiring the
updating of some component, device, appliance, equipment,
processor, microchip or board or their reconfiguring out of a
competitive necessity and changed circumstances, which is the
mother and father of my invention.
[0020] To grow and prosper, to compete, to exist, to survive, and
to stay in the game, you have to flexibly accommodate the future
while accommodating both the present and the past, which thereby
makes necessary my invention.
[0021] My invention is about accommodating change, about
accommodating evolutionary unfolding change, and about
accommodating the certainty of evolutionary change within the
enterprise occupied spaces and the interstitial accommodation
matrices.
[0022] My invention comprises an innovative structural interstitial
architectural matrix, an innovative structural interstitial
accommodation matrix, innovative ceiling, wall, partition, column
and floor interstitial accommodation matrices for naturally
accommodating this minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day
change within the enterprise's occupied spaces and within the
enterprise's interactive interstitial spaces.
[0023] My invention is a structural architectural and building
system creating a structural interstitial architectural matrix
encapsulating the occupied space to form an enterprise
architectural system comprising the following:
[0024] (1) An interstitial accommodation matrix within the
structural interstitial architectural matrix having a core barrier
and accommodating conductors, components, devices, appliances, and
equipment within the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix.
[0025] (2) Floor longitudinal and transverse interstitial
accommodation matrices above the primary core barrier, which
interstitial accommodation matrices accommodate conductors,
components, devices, appliances and equipment.
[0026] (3) Ceiling longitudinal and transverse interstitial
accommodation matrices below the primary core barrier, which
interstitial accommodation matrices accommodate conductors,
components, devices, appliances and equipment.
[0027] (4) A floor accessible membrane barrier of removable,
reconfigurable and recyclable floor modular-accessible-matrix-units
disposed over channel structural interstitial accommodation
matrices comprising the primary core barrier to provide a flat
working surface over the channels and grooves forming the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix while providing 100
percent accessibility and at least one secondary fire-ratable
accessible protective barrier to the interstitial accommodation
matrices.
[0028] (5) A ceiling accessible membrane barrier of removable,
reconfigurable, recyclable and preferably hinged ceiling
modular-accessible-matrix-units disposed below the primary core
barrier to provide an optional acoustical absorptive layer or
sound-reflective barrier, forming modular accessible node sites and
sites for accommodating lighting fixtures, sound speakers,
controls, sensors, detectors, sprinkler heads, and the like while
providing 100 percent accessibility and at least one secondary
fire-ratable accessible protective barrier to protect the
conductors, components, devices, appliances and equipment disposed
within the structural longitudinal and transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix. The ceiling accessible membrane barrier may
be supported on any type of conventional lay-in grid or on the
proprietary lay-in grid of my U.S. Pat. No. 5,205,091. A preferred
embodiment of this invention is to have the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier downwardly hinged, characteristic of the
disclosure of this invention or to have at least 25 percent of the
units downwardly hinged.
[0029] (6) A wall accessible membrane barrier of removable,
reconfigurable, and recyclable wall modular-accessible-matrix-units
disposed over at least one side of the vertical structural
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix integrally fastened
to the wall primary core barrier to provide a finished vertical
surface on opposing sides of the wall primary core barrier while
providing 100 percent accessibility to the wall interstitial
accommodation matrix while providing at least one secondary
fire-ratable accessible protective barrier to protect the
conductors, components, devices, appliances and equipment disposed
within the interstitial accommodation matrices.
[0030] (7) A partition accessible membrane barrier of removable,
reconfigurable, and recyclable partition
modular-accessible-matrix-units disposed over both sides of the
vertical structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix
integrally fastened to the partition primary core barrier to
provide a finished vertical surface on opposing sides of the
partition primary core barrier while providing 100 percent
accessibility to the partition interstitial accommodation matrix
while providing at least one secondary fire-ratable accessible
protective barrier to protect the conductors, components, devices,
appliances and equipment disposed within the interstitial
accommodation matrices.
[0031] (8) A column accessible membrane barrier of removable,
reconfigurable, and recyclable column
modular-accessible-matrix-units disposed over two or more sides of
the vertical structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation
matrix integrally fastened to the column primary core barrier to
provide a finished vertical surface on opposing sides of the column
primary core barrier while providing 100 percent accessibility to
the column interstitial accommodation matrix while providing at
least one secondary fire-ratable accessible protective barrier to
protect the conductors, components, devices, appliances and
equipment disposed within the interstitial accommodation
matrices.
[0032] (9) Occupied spaces encapsulated by at least two of the
accessible ceiling, wall, partition, column and floor interstitial
accommodation matrices of this invention.
[0033] (10) Occupied spaces encapsulated by two or more fire
primary core barriers having interstitial accommodation matrices
disposed on opposing sides of the fire primary core barriers.
[0034] (11) Occupied spaces encapsulated by two or more accessible
membrane barriers which provide at least one secondary fire-ratable
accessible protective barriers to protect the conductors,
components, devices, appliances and equipment disposed within the
interstitial accommodation matrices.
[0035] (12) The Interstitial Space Commuter disposed within the
interstitial accommodation matrix Permits the enterprise alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry to be interactively
controlled by any of the Occupied Space Commuters.
[0036] (13) Every tile, plank, strip or panel forming the
accessible membrane barrier of my invention is a
modular-accessible-matrix site or a modular accessible node site
for an Interstitial Space Commuter disposed within a ceiling, wall,
partition, column or floor interstitial accommodation matrix, while
also providing access to the interstitial multinetgridometry matrix
disposed within the enterprise's interstitial structural,
architectural and accommodation matrices disposed on opposing sides
of the primary core barrier.
[0037] Disposing the accessible membrane barrier by the teachings
of my invention over every ceiling, wall, partition, column and
floor surface of the enterprise provides the enterprise with an
evolutionary migration path for
[0038] (1) 100 percent accessibility to the interstitial
architectural matrix of every ceiling, wall, partition, column and
floor and the structural interstitial accommodation matrix of the
enterprise without penetration of the primary core barrier by
unimpeded communication between the ceiling, wall, partition,
column and floor interstitial accommodation matrix
[0039] (2) 100 percent migration path to relocate, recycle,
reconfigure every modular-accessible-tile, strip, plank or panel
into a new or relocated or reconfigured or recycled modular
accessible node site
[0040] (3) 100 percent evolutionary migration path for
relocatability, recyclability, and reconfigurability for modular
scalable upgrading of Commuter switches, routers, bridges, servers,
microchips, boards, devices, appliances, and equipment disposed in
the ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor interstitial
accommodation matrix or the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix or within the enterprise's occupied space.
[0041] (4) 100 percent evolutionary migration path for
relocatability, recyclability, and reconfigurability for modular
scalable upgrading of Interstitial Space Commuters, Bridge Router
Interstitial Space Commuters, Occupied Space Commuters, Bridge
Router Occupied Space Commuters, numerical control equipment, and
numerical control machinery.
[0042] In my invention, every modular-accessible-matrix site and
modular accessible node site may be configured, reconfigured,
relocated, recycled or abandoned so that the enterprise's users can
interact, wired or wirelessly, with any modular-accessible-matrix
site or modular accessible node site by any one or all of the
following means.
[0043] In the known art, conventional computers have increasingly
enhanced communications capabilities by such devices as fax/modems
and conventional networks.
[0044] My invention emphasizes the symbiotic relationship existing
between the equipment in the interactive interstitial spaces and
the people and equipment in the occupied spaces. Thus, people
within the enterprise interact with each other, wired or
wirelessly, by using Interstitial Space Commuters and the Bridge
Router Interstitial Space Commuters and by being coupled to the
Interstitial Space Commuters through the modular-accessible-matrix
sites or modular accessible node sites. Generally, all
modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node sites
are interconnected with each other through the conductors, devices,
components, appliances and equipment disposed within the
interstitial accommodation matrices.
[0045] By the teachings of my invention, moving most, if not all,
Commuter, communications, and computer components from the desktop
and minitower in the occupied space into the interactive
interstitial space requires the accommodation of the individual
components in racks within the interstitial accommodation matrix.
One of the principal objects of my invention is to eliminate the
"spaghetti" into and out of the individual Desk Top Commuter or the
individual Work Station Commuter. A minimum of 3 to 6 conductors is
currently used to support the current individual Desk Top Computer
or the individual Workstation Computer and peripherals required in
industry, commerce, educational and financial institutions, and
government. Of course, some workstations require many more
conductors for specialized applications.
[0046] By the teachings of my invention, every
modular-accessible-matrix site and modular accessible node site can
be designed, engineered, and configured to have minimal Commuter
capabilities interconnected with all other modular accessible node
sites in the enterprise or at the very least to every Interstitial
Space Commuter at the team-based local area network sites. For
example:
[0047] (1) Every team-based Commuter, modular-accessible-matrix
site, modular accessible node site, local area network site, and
every enterprise Commuter network site provides multiplatform
backup to every other Commuter modular accessible node site as well
as to any of the Commuter networking as described in this
disclosure.
[0048] (2) Every team-based Commuter modular-accessible-matrix
site, modular accessible node site, local area network site, and
every enterprise Commuter network can be interconnected to provide
super Commuter capabilities for super Commuter parallel processing
tailored on a priority need basis during off-peak hours or during
peak daytime Commutering by all personnel in the enterprise, as
further described in the Disclosure Of This Invention.
[0049] By the teachings of my invention, the Interstitial Space
Commuter is disposed within the interactive interstitial space
which is separated from the occupied space by the accessible
membrane barrier. The Interstitial Space Commuter is functionally
positioned at multiple functionally selected
modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node sites
determined by the enterprise users' changing wants and needs.
[0050] By the teachings of my invention, the interface between the
occupied space and the interactive interstitial space is the
accessible membrane barrier which allows the building users to
initially select the modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular
accessible node sides and then later to reconfigure, relocate,
recycle or upgrade any or all of the accessible membrane barriers
or the components within the interactive interstitial space to
accommodate evolutionary unfolding change within the occupied
space, the interactive interstitial space or the accessible
membrane barrier.
[0051] Within the teachings of my invention, the Interstitial Space
Commuter is an integration of at least the following Commuter
components at all selected modular-accessible-matrix sites and
modular accessible node sites, comprising one or more combinations
of the following:
[0052] (1) Interstitial Space Commuter devices, such as, printed
circuit boards, cards, microprocessors, microchips, and the
like
[0053] (2) Bridge Router Interstitial Space Commuters
[0054] (3) Interstitial servers
[0055] (4) Interstitial switches
[0056] (5) Interstitial hubs
[0057] (6) Interstitial routers
[0058] (7) Interstitial bridges
[0059] (8) Interstitial mass storage
[0060] (9) Interstitial sensors
[0061] (10) Interstitial controls
[0062] (11) Interstitial starters
[0063] (12) Interstitial printers
[0064] (13) Interstitial evolutionary appliances
[0065] Within the teachings of my invention, the Occupied Space
Commuter comprises the following:
[0066] (1) Personal Mobile Commuter
[0067] (2) Laptop Mobile Commuter
[0068] (3) Desk Top Commuter
[0069] (4) Work Station Commuter
[0070] (5) Desk Top Video Commuter Conferencing
[0071] (6) Work Station Video Commuter Conferencing with document
viewing and transmission
[0072] (9) Conference Room Video Commuter Conferencing
[0073] (10) Numerical Control Video Commuter Conferencing
[0074] (11) Vehicle Commuter
[0075] (12) Transportation Commuter
[0076] (13) Campus Commuter
[0077] (14) Home Commuter
[0078] (15) Bridge Router Occupied Space Commuter
[0079] Within the teachings of my invention, the Occupied Space
Commuter located within the occupied space of the enterprise also
comprises the following wired or wireless access Commuter devices
for communicating with the interactive Interstitial Space Commuter
through the selected modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular
accessible node sites:
[0080] (1) Telephone
[0081] (2) Keyboard and flat screen monitor
[0082] (3) Keyboard with transceiver/transducer and flat screen
monitor
[0083] (4) Mouse and flat screen monitor
[0084] (5) Mouse with transceiver/transducer and flat screen
monitor
[0085] (6) Mouse digitizer and flat screen monitor
[0086] (7) Mouse digitizer with transceiver/transducer and flat
screen monitor
[0087] (8) Touch screen
[0088] (9) Touch screen with transceiver/transducer
[0089] Any one of the above devices may be designed, engineered,
and manufactured to interactively communicate with the Interstitial
Space Commuter, Bridge Router Interstitial Space Commuter, Occupied
Space Commuter, and Bridge Router Occupied Space Commuter.
[0090] My invention is about thinking anew and viewing anew the
commonality of what communications, computers, architecture, and
structure have been and what they have become or are about to
become when viewed from a 21st Century perspective of being a
synthesized whole inherently having a oneness and community of
purpose and functioning, as follows:
[0091] (1) First, broadening and merging the definition of
computers and communications into their commonality of being
Commuters, appliances so highly functional in communication that
their vast computational power is servant to elevated levels as
Commuter devices as alternatives to travel.
[0092] (2) Second, broadening and merging the definition of
architecture, structure, and Commuter by producing an occupied
space encapsulated with removable, reconfigurable, and recyclable
accessible membrane barrier to accommodate in interfacing Occupied
Space Commuters in the occupied space with Interstitial Space
Commuters in the interactive interstitial space. Thus, the
Commuters are the architecture of the enterprise as much as the
architecture of the enterprise is the Commuters for interactive
interfacing and facilitation of communications, work, production,
and the arts.
[0093] In analyzing the total life cycle cost over the 50-year life
of an enterprise, the greatest cost is not that of building the
building. Of the total life cycle cost of an enterprise, from 92 to
96 percent is assignable to paying for salaries and equipment
costs, while only 8 to 4 percent is assignable to the building
first cost, maintenance, and operating costs. Thus, people and
advanced Commuters, machines and equipment are the greatest
expense. In a preferred embodiment of my invention, individual
workers are coupled by broadband fiber optic cable or by
superconductors with their neighbors or team members through their
Interstitial Space Commuters, Bridge Router Interstitial Space
Commuters, Occupied Space Commuters and Bridge Router Occupied
Space Commuters, which have 100 percent accessibility for
upgrading, recycling, reconfiguring, and relocating to accommodate
the certainty of evolutionary unfolding change. In the alternative,
within the teachings of my invention, team members may be linked by
a central server and bridges or routers within the interstitial
space.
[0094] By the team-based Commuter linkage of my invention, each
modular-accessible-matrix site and/or modular accessible node site
provides removable, reconfigurable, and recyclable modular
accessible nodes to permit any user at any time to establish new
communication links by relocating the modular-accessible-matrix
sites and modular accessible nodes connected to the Interstitial
Space Commuter and Bridge Router Interstitial Space Commuter
disposed within the ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor
interstitial accommodation matrices which provide the enabling
means for accommodating networks, local area networks, webs,
competing generic webs and networks, whether public, private or
spontaneously created by the users, file servers, switches,
bridges, and routers. A hierarchy of networks is established,
beginning with the team network and expanding into local area
networks, the enterprise network, campus network, and regional
network.
[0095] By such devices as automated telecommunications
cross-connect switching and software, wired or wireless automated
management of the conductors, devices, and equipment within the
interactive interstitial spaces may be controlled and reconfigured
from the occupied spaces by the various Occupied Space Commuters
communicating with the Interstitial Space Commuters and Bridge
Router Interstitial Space Commuters within the teachings of my
invention.
[0096] A hand-held Personal Mobile Commuter or a Laptop Mobile
Commuter or a Desk Top Commuter or a Work Station Commuter
interacts either wirelessly or wired through removable,
reconfigurable and recyclable Commuter modular-accessible-matrix
sites and modular accessible node sites, wired removable,
reconfigurable and recyclable Commuter modular-accessible-matrix
sites and modular accessible node sites, and combination wireless
and wired removable, reconfigurable and recyclable Commuter
modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node sites
located in the ceiling, wall, partition, column and floor
accessible membrane barriers throughout the occupied spaces of the
enterprise.
[0097] The Personal Mobile Commuter, with the equivalent power I
claim within the teachings of my invention, becomes possible by
placing the equivalent of the Laptop Mobile Commuter disclosed
herein, being an advanced Laptop Mobile Commuter and modem for
wireless or wired interaction over microdistances through
modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular accessible node sites
with the Interstitial Space Commuter, in the interactive
interstitial space at any selected modular-accessible-matrix site
or modular accessible node site with power supplied not by
batteries but by connectivity to the power grid. Designing the
Personal Mobile Commuter, approximately 50 mm by 100 mm (2 inches
by 4 inches) in size, to be an advanced micro range (2 meters to 8
meters-5 to 25 feet) mobile phone that interactively communicates
with the Interstitial Space Commuter within the interactive
interstitial space through the selected modular-accessible-matrix
site or modular accessible node site, wired or wirelessly, by an
international cooperatively selected spectrum frequency for
interactive communication over such a micro range. The beneficial
usefulness of my invention of micro-ranged Personal Mobile
Commuters is greatly enhanced by also placing this equivalent of a
Laptop Mobile Commuter as the Interstitial Space Commuter at each
selected modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node
site within the enterprise and at supplementary stations within the
vehicle, truck, home, campus, hotel, restaurant, commercial
airline, and the like, wherein the use of the equivalent power and
capabilities of, for example, a Laptop Mobile Commuter is
accessible at each of these supplementary stations as well as
behind each selected modular-accessible-matrix site and modular
accessible node site within the enterprise.
[0098] Within the teachings of my invention, the Personal Mobile
Commuter hardware and software may be marketed as a basic multiple
Interstitial Space Commuter, including one or more units for the
selected modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular accessible node
sites at the user's workplace, one unit for the user's vehicle, and
one or more units for the user's home, any one of which is
interactively controllable by the Personal Mobile Commuter without
the weight, size, and amp/volt battery requirements of the example
of the equivalent of an advanced Laptop Mobile Commuter, powered by
being connected to the power grid while allowing mobility of the
wireless Personal Mobile Commuter to communicate with the
Interstitial Space Commuter at the supplementary stations.
[0099] The mobility of the Personal Mobile Commuter as a glorified
interactive wireless phone interfaced over a very short distance
with the selected modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular
accessible node sites in the workplace or at the supplementary
stations comprising the Vehicle Commuter Station, the
Transportation Commuter Station, the Campus Commuter Stations, and
the Home Commuter Station, materially reduces by several magnitudes
the battery requirements of mobile interactive computing and
communications based on the power of at least an advanced 586
Pentium processor.
[0100] Within the teachings of my invention, it is obvious that the
Personal Mobile Commuter may be engineered as either an analog or a
digital device for use at an internationally agreed to frequency of
the spectrum.
[0101] By the teachings of my invention, communication from the
occupied space to the interactive interstitial space through
modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node sites
may be achieved at any frequency in the spectrum. The practical
preferred frequency for communication from the Occupied Space
Commuters and Interstitial Space Commuters is from 59 Ghz and
above. These frequencies at the higher end of the spectrum are
preferred because of their availability, being far less used than
the overcrowded lower frequencies of, for example, less than 1 Ghz
to 28 Ghz, the frequencies used for television, cellular phones,
direct-broadcast satellite television, and network connections for
iridium satellite phones. The disadvantages of the higher
frequencies, such as, the absorption of signals by oxygen and
consequent limiting of transmissions to a few hundred meters
(feet), do not affect the communication between the Occupied Space
Commuters and the Interstitial Space Commuters. Moreover, at these
higher frequencies, narrow, focused beams can be generated which
can be aimed precisely at a targeted receiver in the Interstitial
Space Commuter in the ceiling, walls or floors.
[0102] The Laptop Mobile Commuter of the teachings of my invention
is, for example, generally an advanced Laptop Commuter based on a
586 Pentium or greater processor with an integral modem for
wireless communication with the office, corporate headquarters,
manufacturing, warehousing, vehicle, and home stations.
[0103] The focused transmission microdistances between the Personal
Mobile Commuter and the modular accessible node site may be
1 1 to 2 meters Office desktop to suspended ceiling interstitial (3
to 6 feet) accommodation matrix 1 to 5 meters Office wall or
ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix (3 to 16 feet) 1 to 10
meters Exterior spaces and larger buildings, small manufacturing (3
to 30 feet) plants, and warehouses 1 to 25 meters (For special
situations justifying greater ranges within (3 to 80 feet)
high-(ceilinged warehouses, manufacturing facilities and homes 1 to
50 meters (with only one modular accessible node site and for (3 to
160 feet) (campuses or enterprises where modular accessible node
sites 1 to 100 meters (are not, say, on a spacing of 2 to 5 meters
(6 to 16 feet) (3 to 300 feet) as (is most likely in offices, etc.,
with reduced battery life (between charges at the greater
distances
[0104] while providing totally untethered robust roving
communications throughout the enterprise and the supplementary
stations in the vehicle, campus, and home, and between the
enterprise, vehicle, campus and home. It is fundamental that
greater transmission distances in general increase the size and
weight of the batteries and reduce the battery life.
[0105] The Campus Commuter Station would function at a college or
university, an institution, an industrial or manufacturing complex,
a local, state and national government department or agency, a
commercial enterprise, such as, a shopping center, and the like, by
having the equivalent of modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular
accessible node sites and Interstitial Space Commuters or Bridge
Router Interstitial Space Commuters installed on the exterior of
the building, tower, light standards, trees, or the like.
[0106] A Vehicle Commuter Station would function in a sedan, sports
car, van, light truck, and the like. A Transportation Commuter
Station would function in a medium size delivery truck, a large
size delivery truck, a heavy-duty large truck, an 18-wheel
semi-trailer, a bus, a passenger train, a freight train, an
airplane, and the like.
[0107] There are material benefits from the teaching of my
invention of placing the substantial capabilities of a 586
Pentium-based Laptop Mobile Commuter at each selected
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site or
at the supplementary stations and using a focused minimum
microdistance between the Personal Mobile Commuter and the
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site, to
varying degrees, such as:
[0108] Materially reducing volt/amp requirements and thereby
extending battery life
[0109] Materially reducing the weight and size of the Commuter
[0110] Materially maximizing quality of transmission without having
to use multiple channels or reduction in number of channels
[0111] Increasing security
[0112] Eliminating an overloaded spectrum at the lower
frequencies
[0113] Providing minimum potential health risks to people in
contact with the overloaded spectrum or in proximity thereto
[0114] The enterprise would have a multitude of
modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node sites
of any type disposed in the floor, wall, partition, column and
ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix or disposed within a
desktop or workstation, equipment or machine for use in office,
institutional, military, educational, warehouse, manufacturing,
transportation, communication, and commercial enterprises. The
spacing between modular accessible node sites most often would be 2
to 5 meters (6 to 16 feet) in offices and like situations requiring
the advanced interactive computing and communications capabilities
of the 21st Century through Commuters.
[0115] All modular accessible node sites within the floor, wall,
partition, column and ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix of
the enterprise, upon selection of a modular accessible node site,
would be interconnected into 2 or 3 dimensional matrices of
diagonally interfaced and interconnected reconfigurable
connectivity pathways forming an enterprise network providing the
following:
2 Local area networks International networks Campus networks
Wireless communications Regional networks Satellite communications
National networks Information highway connectivity Modem networks
Equipment - connected and wireless Facsimile networks Machinery -
connected and wireless World Wide Web networks Superconductor
networks
[0116] Within the teachings of my invention, the connectivity
pathways within the interstitial space may be configured in
two-dimensional grids, three-dimensional grids, diagonal crosswise
two-dimensional grids, diagonal crosswise three-dimensional grids,
two-dimensional star grids, three-dimensional star grids,
two-dimensional ring grids, three-dimensional ring grids, and the
like. The various grid configurations may be self-contained. The
grid configurations may be disposed in layers, which layers may be
interconnected to form grids of greater vertical depth. The grid
configurations may also be linked and interconnected horizontally.
The grid configurations may, of course, permit the linking of the
enterprise to other enterprises--local, regional, national, and
global.
[0117] In all applications, modular-accessible-matrix sites and
modular accessible node sites external to the enterprise may be
augmented by supplementary stations, such as the Vehicle Commuter
Station, Transportation Commuter Station, Campus Commuter Station,
and Home Commuter Station, each having a processor with the power
and capability equal to or exceeding that of a Pentium or a PowerPC
processor to provide the substantive processing, RAM and storage
capabilities necessary to provide the optimum user friendliness of
fully functional Personal Mobile Commuters sustained by multiple
Occupied Space Commuters or Bridge Router Interstitial Space
Commuters disposed within the interstitial accommodation matrices
connected to the power grid, all subject to interactive
communication by the Personal Mobile Commuter or Laptop Mobile
Commuter.
[0118] Since a principal objective of this invention is to extend
the life of existing buildings and to efficiently maintain
structures and subcomponents, the modular accessible nodes and
modular-accessible-matrix- -units in the ceiling, wall, partition,
column, and floor accessible membrane barriers on opposing sides of
a primary core barrier forming a fire barrier provide accessibility
and upgradability of Interstitial Space Commuters and other
electronic systems, electrical, and mechanical systems over
generations, rather than decades to materially reduce finite
landfill sites and materially reduce travel gridlock by making Desk
Top Video Commuter Conferencing, Work Station Video Commuter
Conferencing, Conference Room Video Commuter Conferencing, and
Numerical Control Video Commuter Conferencing a preferred mode for
interactive communication.
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
[0119] To more simply and directly convey in part what my invention
is about, I have developed the following terms to better explain
and better define and better communicate my invention:
[0120] (1) Enterprise: The Enterprise comprises any type of
workplace--office, manufacturing or assembly plant or scientific,
governmental, educational or cultural institution--having a
plurality of modular accessible node sites, comprising one or more
spaces or rooms forming a building or a plurality of spaces or
rooms on one or more levels; a building or part of a building, two
or more buildings or a national or international network of
buildings linked together.
[0121] In my invention, the Enterprise is comprised of spaces
occupied by users, equipment, machinery and furnishings for
working, recreation, communications, interaction and living and is
encapsulated with interstitial accommodation matrices in two or
more surfaces.
[0122] By broadening and defining what the Enterprise is, new ideas
are brought about for accommodating evolutionary change with a
synthesis of Commuters, Personal Mobile Commuters,
multinetgridometry, interstitial accommodation matrices, structural
interstitial accommodation matrices, and interstitial architectural
matrices.
[0123] The Enterprise is comprised of interstitial space, occupied
space, and supplementary stations.
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS FOR INTERSTITIAL SPACE
[0124] (2) Interstitial Architectural Matrix: Creating the
enterprise by encapsulating occupied spaces within the enterprise
with interstitial accommodation matrices enabling the structural
floor/ceiling slab system and structural wall, partition and column
system to accommodate an Alterable Distributed Architectural
Multinetgridometry, defined in .paragraph. (6) below, which permits
every structural load-bearing or non-load-bearing ceiling, wall,
partition, column or floor within the enterprise to be an
interstitial accommodation matrix accommodating Commuter
networks.
[0125] (3) Interstitial Accommodation Matrix: Creating interstitial
spaces within each ceiling, wall, partition, column and floor
encapsulating an occupied space, whereby the interstitial spaces
are 100 percent accessible from the occupied space and are open to
each other to permit conductors to pass from ceiling to wall to
partition to column to floor without obstruction--there are a
number of additional natural variations of this concept.
Interstitial areas are encapsulated and defined by the subsystems
comprised of plinths, channels, low .DELTA.t channels, flexible
foam, and the like, allowing the enterprise by its building to
accommodate evolutionary unfolding technological change to allow
the enterprise users to interact intelligently at higher levels
with the people, robots, equipment, and machines in the occupied
spaces of the enterprise since the interstitial accommodation
matrix converts the entire enterprise into an alterable,
upgradable, and reconfigurable interactive Commuter network.
[0126] (4) Structural Interstitial Accommodation Matrix: Signifies
an interstitial accommodation matrix located within the breadth and
depth of the structure within the ceilings and floors.
[0127] (5) Multinetgridometry for Multiple Network Grid
Geometry
[0128] (6) Alterable Distributed Architectural Multinetgridometry:
A wall, partition, column or floor/ceiling system which is used
throughout an enterprise, comprising the following:
[0129] A primary core barrier, having two opposed
Modular-Accessible-Unit faces spaced apart from the primary core
barrier to form an alterable Interstitial Accommodation Matrix
disposed on one or more opposed sides of the primary core barrier,
forming an Interstitial Accommodation Matrix between the opposed
outer face of the primary core barrier and inner faces of the
Modular-Accessible-Units
[0130] The primary core barrier being a non-penetrated privacy and
support barrier for creating an enterprise space having an
Interstitial Accommodation Matrix for accommodating one or more
network systems or a backbone network system or an enterprise
Commuter system accessed electronically from within the occupied
enterprise spaces by those having the proper access codes required
to activate and configure the system in conformance with the
programmed artificial intelligence of the system
[0131] Also definable as an Enterprise Alterable Distributed
Architectural Multinetgridometry
[0132] (7) Commuter: The Commuter of this invention merges
COMMUNICATIONS and COMPUTER into a common appliance for accessing
the computer and communications functions of an enterprise
architectural system disposed within the interstitial accommodation
matrix of a structural architectural and building system of this
invention, disposed behind the accessible membrane barrier of
modular-accessible-matrix-units of the ceiling, wall, partition,
column and floor of the enterprise.
[0133] (8) Interstitial Space Commuter: A Commuting device similar
to a Laptop Mobile Commuter with a modem, based on a 586 Pentium
processor or greater operating at a clock speed of 75 MHz or
greater, and enhanced with components to provide the functions of
micro resident switching, hub, bridging or routing capabilities at
each modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site
to work with the enterprise 2-D or 3-D interlaced architecture of
the enterprise conductor matrix and to allow functioning through
any selected modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible
node sites--having a transceiver/transducer modem for functioning
as a multi-channel wireless phone station, a multi-channel Personal
Mobile Commuter having optional wired connectivity--located within
the interactive interstitial space of the interstitial
accommodation matrix behind the accessible membrane barrier of the
enterprise-accessed from the occupied space through
modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node sites
by means of the Personal Mobile Commuter, Laptop Mobile Commuter,
Desk Top Commuter, and Work Station Commuter and having its own
resident disk storage, RAM, DRAM, and power system.
[0134] (9) Interstitial Architectural Multinetgridometry:
Signifying a combination of multiple networks of conductors,
components, devices, appliances and equipment disposed in a grid
geometry throughout the interstitial accommodation matrices and the
structural interstitial accommodation matrices of one or more
enterprises, accessed by means of digital telephones, digital
computers, Personal Mobile Commuters, Laptop Mobile Commuters, Desk
Top Commuters, Work Station Commuters, roving multimodal
interactive digital equipment and machinery, roving multimodal
empowerment, and multimedia devices
[0135] (10) Modular-Accessible-Units: Generic term including
Modular-Accessible-Matrix-Units, Modular-Accessible-Tiles,
Modular-Accessible-Planks, and Modular-Accessible-Pavers of my
previous inventions and included in my U.S. Pat. No. 5,205,091
[0136] Freely interchangeable units arranged in a discretely
selected replicative pattern layout
[0137] Any polygonal shape
[0138] A top wearing layer or exposed-to-view surface of ceramic,
stone, wood, cementitious concrete, polymer concrete, rubber,
vinyl, composition, vitreous, plastic, acrylic, concrete, metal,
and the like
[0139] May beneficially have a bottom tension reinforcement plate
affixed to the top wearing layer or exposed-to-view surface to
enhance load-bearing capacity
[0140] May have one or more foam layers affixed to the bottom of
the tension reinforced plate or placed between the top wearing
layer and the bottom tension reinforcement plate
[0141] Provide an accessible membrane barrier, composed of tile,
strip, plank, and panel shapes, into which modular accessible node
sites are disposed
[0142] (11) Modular-Accessible-Matrix-Units:
Modular-Accessible-Units positioned in the accessible membrane
barrier to define the alterable Interstitial Accommodation Matrix
for accommodating one or more potential modular-accessible-matrix
sites or modular accessible node sites within the interstitial
accommodation matrix as well as accommodating one or more layers of
electronic and electrical devices, conductors and connectors,
including processors, circuit boards, computer chips, transceivers,
transducers, hubs, servers, routers, bridges, switches, breakers,
storage devices, integrated systems data networks, local area
networks, wide area networks, broad band fiber optic networks,
support devices, configuring devices, positioning means, conductors
and connectors, including any type of fluid, gas, power, analog,
and digital conductor for voice, data and video, and flexible
circuits and connectors fitting around and/or supported by plinths
or fitting between the low .DELTA.t tubing or low .DELTA.t channels
encapsulating the low .DELTA.t tubing. Each
modular-accessible-matrix-unit is a potential node site for access
to the Interstitial Space Commuter and the conductors, devices,
components, appliances, and equipment within the interstitial
accommodation matrices of the enterprise. The
modular-accessible-matrix-u- nits have shapes of tiles, planks,
strips or panels.
[0143] (12) Modular-Accessible-Matrix Sites: The space within the
interstitial accommodation matrix located directly behind each
modular-accessible-matrix-unit, in which may be disposed an
Interstitial Space Commuter and any of the conductors, devices
components, appliances and equipment described in .paragraph. (11)
above. Modular-accessible-matrix sites may have capabilities for
phone answering with any of the following capabilities:
[0144] Internal e-mail system
[0145] Voice-mail boxes for incoming messages from outside the
enterprise
[0146] Resident ultramicro switch, hub, bridge or router
capabilities at each modular-accessible-matrix site provide the
enabling means for dynamically managing the enterprise, individual
modular-accessible-matrix sites for small, medium, large or
massively large parallel processing through the use of hundreds or
thousands of enterprise modular-accessible-matrix sites as required
during any of the variety of circumstances of use.
[0147] (13) Modular Accessible Nodes: An access point in the
accessible membrane barrier of the ceilings, walls, partitions,
columns or floors of my invention into the interstitial spaces
behind the accessible membrane barrier--generally covered by a
small modular-accessible-unit or MAN cover plate. Modular
accessible nodes are disclosed and claimed in my U.S. Pat. No.
5,205,091.
[0148] (14) Modular Accessible Node Sites: The space within the
interstitial accommodation matrix located directly behind each
modular accessible node, in which may be disposed an Interstitial
Space Commuter and any of the conductors, devices components,
appliances and equipment described in .paragraph. (11) above.
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS FOR OCCUPIED SPACE
[0149] (15) Personal Mobile Commuter: An interactive,
voice-activated or gesture-activated or key-operated or
pen-operated, two-way communication device comprising various
configurations, including a wireless or wired telephonic device, a
phone monitoring display (cordless phone with monitoring display
and slots for supporting PCMCIA cards), phone touch pad, phone
pocket card, phone wrist band, and the like, for interactive
coupling with the Interstitial Space Commuter to place the
capabilities of the Interstitial Space Commuter in the hands or on
the wrist with a device the size of a credit card, approximately 50
mm by 100 mm by 10-15 mm (2 by 4 by 3/8-5/8 inches).
[0150] (16) Laptop Mobile Commuter: A mobile Commuting device
having the capacity of a 586 Pentium processor or greater, which
communicates, wired or wirelessly, with the Interstitial Space
Commuter within the interstitial space of the interstitial
accommodation matrix located behind the accessible membrane
barrier--generally equipped with a hinged flat screen monitor or
touch screen, a transceiver/transducer, and one or more wired or
wireless input devices, such as, a keyboard, mouse, mouse
digitizer, and the like.
[0151] (17) Desk Top Commuter: A Commuting device, with or without
minitower, residing in the occupied space of the enterprise, which
communicates, wired or wirelessly, with the Interstitial Space
Commuter within the interactive interstitial space of the
interstitial accommodation matrix located behind the accessible
membrane barrier--generally has the capacity of a 586 Pentium
processor or greater, a flat screen monitor or touch screen, a
transceiver/transducer, and one or more wired or wireless input
devices, such as, a keyboard, mouse, mouse digitizer, and the
like--may provide a docking station for Laptop Mobile Commuters or
Personal Mobile Commuters
[0152] (18) Work Station Commuter: A Commuting device residing in
the occupied space of the enterprise, having a Pentium-based Pro or
greater processor, which functions similarly to the Desk Top
Commuter, with one or more flat screen monitors or touch screens, a
transceiver/transducer, and one or more wired or wireless input
devices, such as, a keyboard, mouse, mouse digitizer, touch screen,
and the like, and having a minitower or tower configuration for
intensive CAD/CAE/CAM (computer-aided drafting, architectural,
engineering, manufacturing) and technical publishing--may provide a
docking station for Laptop Mobile Commuters or Personal Mobile
Commuters.
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY STATIONS
[0153] (19) Home Commuter Stations: Personal Mobile Commuter user's
residence, whether single family or multifamily living unit, having
one or more Interstitial Space Commuters--provides connectivity to
the Internet, World Wide Web, coming HDTV, and National Information
Highway--typically containing some type of Personal Mobile Commuter
or Laptop Mobile Commuter which user uses in his work
[0154] (20) Vehicle Commuter Station comprises one or more
modular-accessible-matrix docking stations for Interstitial Space
Commuters in private passenger vehicles, such as, sedans,
sportcars, vans and light trucks--capacity of 586 Pentium or
greater--provides mobile connectivity to the Internet, World Wide
Web, and National Information Highway and an optional Commuter
credit/debit card slot--provides docking station for Personal
Mobile Commuter and Laptop Mobile Commuter--powered by vehicle
battery/generator
[0155] (21) Passenger--Transportation Commuter Station comprises a
plurality of Interstitial Space Commuters in passenger/freight
transportation vehicles, such as, busses, airplanes, trains, and
the like--provides mobile connectivity to the Internet, World Wide
Web, and National Information Highway and an optional Commuter
credit/debit card slot--powered by vehicle battery/generator
[0156] (22) Freight--Transportation Commuter Station comprises
multiple Interstitial Space Commuters in freight vehicles, such as,
medium size delivery trucks, large size delivery trucks, heavy duty
large trucks, 18-wheel semi-trailers--provides mobile connectivity
to the Internet and World Wide Web and an optional Commuter
credit/debit card slot--powered by vehicle battery/generator
[0157] (23) Campus Commuter Station comprises multiple integral
Interstitial Space Commuters
[0158] deployed throughout the Campus of enterprise buildings to
provide mobile connectivity to police or other security force as
well as normal user communications in the spaces within the Campus
between enterprise buildings as follows:
[0159] On the exterior of buildings
[0160] In large landscaping elements, trees, security lighting
standards, etc., and appurtenances surrounding buildings
[0161] In special communications kiosks and posts designed to
accommodate Interstitial Space Commuters
OTHER MISCELLANEOUS TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
[0162] (24) Vehicle: Private or public vehicle with one or more
interactive Vehicle Commuter Stations
[0163] (25) Campus: The spaces between two or more enterprise
buildings, requiring a plurality of Campus Commuter Stations for
user communication and for security
[0164] (26) Joints Between Modular Accessible Units:
3 Tees Inverted tees Grooved Engagement tee joints Linear foam
insert Elastomeric foam insert Pressure joints Magnetic joints
Tight butt joints Foam-filled joints Open joints Sealant-filled
joints* Cast-in-place cementitious linear key joint *Of my previous
U.S. Pat. No. 4,681,786
[0165] (26) Conductors In The Interstitial Accommodation
Matrix:
4 Twisted pair - unshielded Fiber optic Twisted pair - shielded
Superconductor Coaxial cable Fluid
[0166] (27) HDTV: High Definition Television as an interactive
communication device
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
[0167] By the teachings of this invention, fully accessible
ceilings, walls, partitions, columns, and floors create buildings
that are continually renewable and technologically upgradable by
reconfigurability, accessibility, and recyclability. Rather than
buildings being discarded to landfills because of obsolescence in
their ability to accept and accommodate technological innovation
and advances in mechanical, electrical and electronic systems, such
buildings may be renewed over generations or centuries rather than
decades, extending their useful lives and fulfilling changing
purposes as required to accommodate technological and economic
prosperity advances.
[0168] By the teachings of this invention, the resulting building
should be viewed as an accommodation matrix by which people
communicate and network with each other and with machines through a
continuous interstitial accommodation matrix within the ceilings,
walls, partitions, columns, and floors, which permits the free
passage of conductors from, say, the floor to the walls to the
ceiling in one part of the enterprise to the walls, partitions,
columns, floors and ceilings in all other parts of the enterprise
without the obstructions inherent in existing conventional
construction and without penetration of the primary core barrier
and also accommodating a plurality of devices, equipment and
conductors within the interstitial accommodation matrix. The
interstitial accommodation matrix, along with one or two floor,
ceiling or wall accessible membrane barriers, form an enterprise
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry which
accommodates some or all the building's electronic, electrical and
mechanical devices, conductors, equipment and the like. A
structural interstitial accommodation matrix encapsulated by the
structure within the enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry is sealed off from dust, fluids and fire,
thereby protecting the sensitive mechanical, electrical and
electronic devices, conductors and equipment housed therein,
including the electrical service backbone and power distribution
network backbone, and electronic, electrical and fluid conductor
networks for the enterprise while using the enterprise ceilings,
walls, partitions, columns, floors, and the structure as a very
large heat or energy sink for an array of very large Commuter
networks.
[0169] Of particular significance environmentally is the enclosure
of the internal workings of computers, such as, transceivers,
transducers, processors, circuit boards, chips, disk drives,
storage devices, bridges, servers, printers, support devices, and
the like in the structural interstitial accommodation matrices
protected on the face side by the accessible membrane barrier and
protected on the back side by the primary core barrier. By the
teachings of this invention, these components do not require the
usual encasing shell associated with personal computers,
workstations and mainframes. Thus, the building or, more
specifically, the multinetgridometry built into every ceiling,
wall, partition, column, and floor becomes the containment of the
components making up infinitely alterable, expandable, and
reconfigurable computers disposed within the interstitial
accommodation matrix, eliminating the need for such equipment in
the occupied spaces. Of course, conventional computer equipment may
still be housed in the occupied spaces of the enterprise if so
desired.
[0170] By the teachings of this invention, an enterprise alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry comprises a ceiling,
wall, partition, column or floor system which is used throughout an
enterprise. The enterprise comprises one or more spaces or rooms
forming a building or a plurality of spaces or rooms on one or more
levels. The enterprise may be a building or part of a building, a
campus of buildings or a national or international network of
buildings linked together by all having a multinetgridometry
integrally pre-built into every ceiling, wall, partition, column
and floor building component to form interstitial accommodation
matrices in all ceiling, wall, partition, column and floor building
components of the enterprise. The teachings of this invention
convert the enterprise into the enclosure of a multiplicity of
conventional black boxes which society calls laptop, desktop,
workstation, mini and mainframe computers, having interconnectivity
by means of a grid multinetgridometry matrix of conductors,
devices, and equipment disposed within the interstitial
accommodation matrix behind the fully accessible the ceiling, wall,
partition, column, or floor system accessible membrane barrier.
[0171] Different levels of enterprise interactive Commuting,
communications and computing can be accommodated during prime peak
time, prime time, regular time or off regular time, including the
following tasks:
[0172] Palm Tasks--by the Personal Mobile Commuter and by palm,
pocket or purse commuters
[0173] Micro Tasks--by the Personal Mobile Commuter, Laptop Mobile
Commuter and Desk Top Commuter and by personal, laptop or attache
computers
[0174] Mini Tasks--by the Personal Mobile Commuter, Laptop Mobile
Commuter, Desk Top Commuter and Work Station Commuter and by
workstation computers
[0175] Small Tasks--by the Personal Mobile Commuter coupled to the
Interstitial Space Commuter, by the Laptop Mobile Commuter, Desk
Top Commuter and Work Station Commuter and by personal computers,
laptop computers, desktop computers, and workstation computers
coupled to the Interstitial Space Commuter
[0176] Intermediate Tasks--by one or more Interstitial Space
Commuters or by Work Station Commuters and minicomputers and
mainframe computers within the occupied space
[0177] Large Tasks--by parallel processing using multiple
Interstitial Space Commuters or by mainframe computers
[0178] Super Tasks--by parallel processing using multiple
Interstitial Space Commuters or by supercomputers
[0179] A certain order is established throughout the enterprise by
the modular-accessible-matrix-units and the modular accessible
nodes in the accessible membrane barriers enclosing the
interstitial accommodation matrices surrounding each occupied
space. This certain order is established by the numbered elements
emphasized in the seven embodiments set forth in the table shown
under Seven Groups Of Embodiments Of The Invention at page 96.
[0180] The interstitial features of the preferred embodiments, in
some instances, generally consist of the floor longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 120, floor transverse
interstitial accommodation matrix 121, structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 122 above the primary core
barrier, structural transverse interstitial accommodation matrix
123 above the primary core barrier, structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 124, structural longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 125 below the primary core barrier, structural
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 126, ceiling
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 127, ceiling
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 128, structural
interstitial architectural matrix 129, structural accessible
interstitial girder passage 130, structural accessible interstitial
beam passage 131, structural accessible interstitial column passage
132, and apertures 133 aligning with channels and cores of the
structural interstitial architectural matrix.
[0181] The general features of the preferred embodiments include
the floor accessible membrane barrier 140, plinth support system
141 or channel support system 142 for low .DELTA.t absorptive and
emissive heating and cooling, primary core barrier 143, secondary
core barrier 144, ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145, and at
least one modular-accessible-matr- ix site 170 or modular
accessible node site 169.
[0182] Interconnections for all Commuter interaction between one
enterprise and another enterprise are made within the interstitial
accommodation matrices through the relocatable, reconfigurable,
recyclable modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible
node sites.
[0183] Interconnections for all Commuter interaction between one
modular-accessible-matrix site and another
modular-accessible-matrix site and between one modular accessible
node site and another modular accessible node site are made within
the interstitial accommodation matrices through the relocatable,
reconfigurable, recyclable modular-accessible-matrix sites and
modular accessible node sites.
[0184] Interconnections for all Commuter interaction between any
enterprise modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible
node site and supplementary stations are made within the
interstitial accommodation matrices through the relocatable,
reconfigurable, recyclable modular-accessible-matrix sites and
modular accessible node sites.
[0185] Interconnections for all Commuter interaction between
stations in a local area network are made within the interstitial
accommodation matrices through the relocatable, reconfigurable,
recyclable modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible
node sites.
[0186] Interconnections for all Commuter interaction with World
Wide Web networks are made within the interstitial accommodation
matrices through the relocatable, reconfigurable, recyclable
modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node
sites.
[0187] Interconnections for all Commuter interaction with power
grid are made within the interstitial accommodation matrices
through the relocatable, reconfigurable, recyclable
modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node
sites.
[0188] Switching and routing of voice, data, video and power, which
has been moved from the central office to the wiring closets within
the occupied spaces of existing enterprises, by the teachings of my
invention is moved to the interstitial spaces of the enterprise of
my invention. By the teachings of my invention, the wiring closet
can be materially reduced in size or virtually eliminated.
Therefore, substantial portions of a floor or even one or more
floors of a building can be released to be used as productive
occupied spaces by providing all switching and networking
distributed throughout the floor interstitial accommodation matrix,
the ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix, or the structural
interstitial architectural matrix as described in the disclosure of
my invention.
[0189] All conductors are run and interconnections are made within
the ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor interstitial
accommodation matrices to the Interstitial Space Commuter devices,
components, and appliances disposed within the interstitial
accommodation matrices of the enterprise and are readily accessible
behind the modular-accessible-matri- x-units forming the accessible
membrane barriers of each occupied space.
[0190] Conductors, devices, components, appliances and equipment
and the Interstitial Space Commuters of my invention are disposed
in the interstitial spaces, fitting modularly between the plinths
and supported in many instances by the plinths or channels and/or
fitted between the channels housing low .DELTA.t heating and
cooling tubing.
[0191] By the teachings of my invention, the conductors come out
through any of the perimeter boundary joints surrounding the
modular accessible tiles, strips or planks of the
modular-accessible-matrix-units or through the modular accessible
nodes or apertures disposed in the modular-accessible-matrix-units
in the accessible membrane barriers encapsulating the occupied
spaces.
[0192] Power and electronic conductors may consist of, but are not
limited to, any type of metallic or plastic conductors, shielded
twisted pair, unshielded twisted pair, thick coaxial cable, thin
coaxial cable, glass or plastic fiber optic cable, flexible
circuitry, shielded parallel cable, flat conductor cable, ribbon
cable, differential pair cable, superconductors, and the like.
[0193] My invention provides flexible wired connectivity. Modular
prefabricated cordsets in the wall, partition, ceiling or floor
interstitial accommodation matrices behind the accessible membrane
barriers provide pluggable connections for keyboards, mice,
printers, and other peripherals through the selectable
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site.
Wired connectivity cordsets are located at the
modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular accessible node sites.
Wired connectivity cordsets on miniature automatically retractable
reels are located at the modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular
accessible node sites. The cordsets in the interstitial
accommodation matrices are coiled within boxes or on automatically
retractable reels located within the interstitial accommodation
matrices. The cords may be straight or spiral type. The plugs for
the cordsets may be located in the face of the accessible membrane
barrier, requiring a cord to be brought from the devices in the
occupied space. Retractable cordsets may be pulled out of the
interstitial accommodation matrix to the devices in the occupied
space. Retractable cordsets are stored when not in use on an
automatically retractable reel in the interstitial accommodation
matrix for wired connection to the devices used in the occupied
space.
[0194] Wireless connections may also be made which are voice
activated, gesture activated, proximity sensor activated or
activated by digital or analog signal. There are many cordset
manufacturers whose products would be suitable according to the
teachings of my invention. For example, a number of molded
retractable cordsets could be adapted for use in the interstitial
spaces of the enterprise.
[0195] According to the teachings of my invention, many of the
devices, sensors, controls, components, appliances and equipment
intended to be disposed in the interstitial accommodation matrices
are a part of the known art or are adaptable therefrom. For
example, various configurations of equipment cabinets with
self-supporting rack frames to accommodate rack-mounted computer
equipment could be used. Any cabinet or subcabinet similar to those
described in current or recent manufacturers' catalogs can be
mounted in the ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix of my
invention. It is obvious that the doors of the cabinets may be
removed, to be functionally replaced by the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier comprising ceiling
modular-accessible-matrix-units, generally downwardly hinged or
entirely removable by means of rotational latch or sliding latch
support systems. Any of the devices, components, appliances or
equipment of the known art may be disposed within the wall,
partition or floor interstitial accommodation matrices of the
enterprise although greater ease of installation and access may
generally be obtained in the ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrices.
[0196] Any of the instrument or system cases, subracks, printed
circuit boards, plug-in units, panel-mounted component systems,
transfer connector, and bussed backplanes in manufacturers'
catalogs are beneficially installed within the ceiling, wall or
floor interstitial accommodation matrices of my invention.
[0197] Specialized catalogs illustrate micro-strip connector cable
assemblies, point-to-point cable assemblies, modular receptacle
assemblies, high-speed controlled impedance two-piece connectors,
programmed coaxial assemblies, multiple transmission cable
assemblies, and a multiplicity of connectors, all of which can be
used within the interstitial accommodation matrix according to the
teachings of my invention.
[0198] According to the teachings of my invention, any of the
connectors, sockets, cabling, devices and boards shown in any of
the current and recent manufacturers' catalogs may be used to
fabricate, upgrade and reconfigure modular and plug-in devices,
components, boards, sockets, conventional and retractable cordsets,
appliances, and equipment disposed within the ceiling, wall,
partition, column and floor interstitial accommodation matrices of
my invention.
[0199] According to the teachings of this invention, any of the
enclosures, terminals, and cabling currently manufactured may be
used in the ceiling, wall, partition, column and floor interstitial
accommodation matrices.
[0200] According to the teachings of my invention, open frame and
closed frame sockets, zig zag sockets, adapter strips, discrete
component carriers, and the like, as shown in current and recent
electronic and communications product catalogs, may be configured
within the interstitial spaces, eliminating the need for expensive
outer cases. For example, dual-line open frame and closed frame DIP
sockets, zig zag sockets, single in-line snap SIP adapter strips
and discrete component carriers, single in-line sockets and
adapters, board to board interconnections, high density
receptacles, low insertion force pin grid array sockets and
adapters having a variety of footprints can be used within the
ceiling, wall, partition, column and floor interstitial
accommodation matrices of my invention.
[0201] According to the teachings of my invention, any of the
subminiature connectors and, printed circuit board mount
connectors, and connectors for ribbon cable featured in current or
recent product catalogs may be used in the ceiling, wall,
partition, column and floor interstitial accommodation matrices of
my invention. For example, subminiature connectors having 9-78
contacts, plug-in cardedge connectors for ribbon cable and screw
terminal/edgecard connectors, and the like, are all suitable for
use according to the teachings of my invention.
[0202] According to the teachings of my invention, power cages,
card cages, backplanes, rack mounting flanges, and the like,
featured in current and recent manufacturers' catalogs may be used
in the interstitial accommodation matrices. For example, power
cages, card cages, backplanes to receive printed circuit boards,
rack mounting flanges and other components are suitable for use in
the ceiling, wall, partition, column and floor interstitial
accommodation matrices of my invention.
[0203] Certain materials, such as, nylon, gold or clear irridited
aluminum, and dimensionally stable polycarbonates, offer specific
benefits in electronic and communications applications. For
example, printed circuit card cages, nylon vibration and shock
damping card guides, nylon slotted printed circuit card guides,
subracks and nylon anti-vibration card guides are suitable for use
in the interstitial accommodation matrix according to the teachings
of my invention.
[0204] There are numerous types switches which could be use in
automatic switching according to the teachings of my invention,
including a variety of switches for use in automatic switching,
multiplexers for video and telecommunications applications and
microwave switches and drivers.
[0205] According to the teachings of my invention, the networking
components of various manufacturers for Ethernet, Token Ring, and
Fiber Distributed Data Interface networks may be used in the
interstitial spaces of the enterprise. For example, network center
hubs which support multiple networks simultaneously and switching
hubs which enable users to create software-based workgroups that
efficiently allocate available bandwidth, improve network
performance, and simplify network moves, additions and changes, may
be beneficially used in the ceiling, wall, partition, column, and
floor interstitial accommodation matrices of my invention. Many
enclosures of varying depths and flexible network cabinets and
racks suitable for installation in the ceiling, wall, partition,
column, and floor interstitial accommodation matrices of my
invention.
[0206] The problems of access to data by network users is addressed
by the teachings of my invention. The interactive interstitial
space accommodates compact disk-random access memory (CD-ROM)
servers of all types, including towers, jukeboxes, and the like.
Miniservers and the like are also suitable for use in the
interactive interstitial space for networking CD-ROMs.
[0207] Mass media storage is beneficially used in the interactive
interstitial spaces of the ceilings, walls, partitions, columns,
and floors according to the teachings of my invention. For example,
optical disk changers may be used, with magneto optical drive
technologies and phase change drive technologies in multi-write
systems. Optical disk changers in single-write systems with Write
Once Read Many (WORM) and CD-Recordable (CD-R) technologies in
single-write systems may also be beneficially used.
[0208] By the teachings of my invention, multiplatform backup of
all network servers, Personal Mobile Commuters, Laptop Mobile
Commuters, Desk Top Commuters, and Work Station Commuters is
accommodated within the interactive interstitial space behind the
ceiling, wall, partition, column, and floor interstitial
accommodation matrices of my invention. Enterprise-wide backups may
be beneficially used for scheduled backups and user-initiated
backups.
[0209] Network security demands protection of the network from
unauthorized or incorrect use of the network and identification of
the individual or individuals responsible. Token-based security
devices require a two-step user-identification process for access
to the network, requiring a coded card plus and personal
identification number (PIN). Security systems are beneficially used
within the interactive interstitial space of my invention.
[0210] Videoconferencing equipment is being manufactured to
international standards to assure interoperability of systems of
different vendors. By the teachings of my invention, a
sound-equipped Desk Top Commuter or Work Station Commuter in the
occupied space becomes a videoconferencing receiver and
transmitter, with all conductors, connectors, and enabling software
disposed within the interactive interstitial space. Such an
arrangement permits the individual Desk Top Commuter or Work
Station Commuter to be linked to other similarly equipped stations
in a sort of "roundtable" videoconferencing. The more conventional
type of videoconferencing system, originating in a conference room
or seminar with a "live" presentation by, for example, a panel of
experts or corporate officials, comprising the Conference Room
Video Commuter Conferencing of my invention, is accessible for
interactive participation by individuals seated at their Desk Top
Commuters and Work Station Commuters or roving any place in the
workplace or roving any place in the field with their Personal
Mobile Commuters. Similarly, the Numerical Control Video Commuter
Conferencing of my invention is accessed by one or more
individuals, either spontaneously or by prior arrangement, sitting
at their individual Desk Top Commuter or Work Station Commuter.
[0211] According to the teachings of my invention, sensors,
controls and monitors illustrated in the product catalogs of any of
a number of manufacturers are suitable for use in the interstitial
spaces of the enterprise. For example, devices for signal
conditioning and isolation, for temperature signal monitoring and
control, for motor, pump and overload control, for speed monitoring
and control, for weight and pressure monitoring, and for flow
monitoring and measurement control, inductive proximity sensors,
printed circuit boards, circuit breakers, interface modules,
liquidtight strain reliefs, safety relays, foot switches, and other
control devices used in control, protection, power distribution,
and automation systems may beneficially be used in the ceiling,
wall, partition, column, and floor interstitial accommodation
matrices of my invention.
[0212] According to the teachings of my invention, multicomputer
system modules shown in current and recent product catalogs may be
beneficially used in the interstitial spaces of the enterprise. For
example, multicomputer system modules of various configurations to
create powerful multiprocessing environments may be adaptable for
use in the ceiling, wall, partition, column, and floor interstitial
accommodation matrices of my invention.
[0213] One configuration of the enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry comprises a primary core barrier,
at least one opposed face spaced apart from the primary core
barrier, and an alterable interstitial accommodation matrix
disposed between the primary core barrier and the opposed face or
faces. The interstitial accommodation matrix accommodates one or
more layers or arrays of electronic equipment, electrical
equipment, devices, components, appliances, conductors and
connectors of all types, which include, but are not necessarily
limited to, one or more of the following:
[0214] Transceivers
[0215] Transducers
[0216] Conductors and connectors, including any type of fluid, gas,
power, analog, and digital conductor for voice, data and video
[0217] Flexible circuits and connectors
[0218] Connectors
[0219] Sockets
[0220] Circuit boards
[0221] Processors and semiconductors
[0222] Hubs
[0223] Network servers
[0224] Routers
[0225] Bridges
[0226] Switches
[0227] Breakers
[0228] Sensor and control devices
[0229] Storage devices
[0230] Circuit breakers
[0231] Transformers
[0232] Support, configuring, and positioning means
[0233] The equipment, devices, components and appliances
accommodated in the alterable interstitial accommodation matrix may
be of any size, all the way from miniaturized devices, such as
microprocessors and microswitches, to conventionally sized devices,
equipment and conductors.
[0234] The electronic equipment and devices are supported and
positioned by means of universal support devices for alterably
accommodating plates, mounting side blanks, mounting back blanks,
backboards, slots, mounts and mounting racks which do not penetrate
the primary core barrier. The universal support devices may be
disposed in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal position and may be
fastened to the primary core barrier by any means which does not
penetrate through the core barrier, including, but not limited to,
touch fasteners, screw fasteners, concentric ring fasteners, pins,
plinths, channels, racks, ties, and hooks. If desired, any
individual piece of equipment, appliance or device may be have its
own separate enclosure as additional protection from dust,
electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference,
electrostatic discharge, as its own individual cooling means, or a
combination thereof, within the interstitial accommodation
matrix.
[0235] The opposed faces of the accessible membrane barrier
comprise interchangeable modular-accessible-matrix-units. The
modular-accessible-matrix includes the
modular-accessible-matrix-units and the space behind the
modular-accessible-matrix-units. That portion of the alterable
interstitial accommodation matrix, also defined as the
modular-accessible-matrix, behind each removable
modular-accessible-matri- x-unit is potential
modular-accessible-matrix site for accommodating one or more layers
of electronic and electrical devices, conductors and connectors of
all types, which include, but are not necessarily limited to,
processors, circuit boards, computer chips, transceivers,
transducers, hubs, servers, routers, bridges, switches, breakers,
storage devices, integrated systems data networks, local area
networks, wide area networks, broad band fiber optic networks,
support devices, configuring devices, and positioning means,
conductors and connectors, including any type of fluid, gas, power,
analog, and digital conductor for voice, data and video, and
flexible circuits and connectors for wireless communication and for
wired communication with the Occupied Space Commuters.
[0236] A natural variation of the teachings of this invention is an
accessible membrane barrier comprising an array of
modular-accessible-units plus modular accessible nodes as disclosed
and claimed in my U.S. Pat. No. 5,205,091. Whereas a
modular-accessible-matri- x site occupies the entire space behind a
modular-accessible-matrix-unit and is accessible by means of the
removal of the modular-accessible-matri- x-unit from the accessible
membrane barrier, a modular accessible node is generally confined
to a small area at the intersecting corners of adjacent
modular-accessible-units. A variation of my previous invention
shows a modular accessible node in the center of the
modular-accessible-unit, accessible by an aperture in the
modular-accessible-unit. The modular accessible node is accessible
by means of the removal of a modular accessible node cover in the
array of modular-accessible-units. Important for the Commuter user,
data storage may be available at any modular-accessible-matrix site
or modular accessible node site as well as in mass storage devices
centrally located and regionally located within the interstitial
accommodation matrix or external to the interstitial accommodation
matrix within the enterprise.
[0237] The modular-accessible-units of my previous invention
comprise modular-accessible-tiles, modular-accessible-planks or
modular-accessible-pavers. By the teachings of this invention, the
distinction between a modular-accessible-matrix and the array of
modular-accessible-units of my U.S. Pat. No. 5,205,091 is that in a
modular-accessible-matrix each modular-accessible-matrix-unit
overlies a modular-accessible-matrix site which may be activated at
will according to the needs of the user. In an array of
modular-accessible-units plus modular accessible nodes, activating
conductors within the support layer generally takes place within a
modular accessible node box within one or more discretely selected
modular accessible node sites or modular-accessible-unit sites.
[0238] The primary core barrier remains unpenetrated and prevents
the penetration of fire, airborne sound, impact sound, and light
from one side of the core barrier to the other, thereby forming a
privacy barrier as well as a supporting core layer. By adding a
metallic layer to one or both faces of the primary core barrier and
to the back face of the modular-accessible-matrix-units, an
electrostatic discharge, electromagnetic interference and radio
frequency interference barrier is erected which prevents
disturbance of electronic transmissions on the opposite side of the
primary core barrier and provides a means for grounding the
equipment, devices, conductors, connectors, and the like disposed
within the alterable interstitial accommodation matrix as well as
providing electromagnetic interference, radio frequency
interference and electrostatic discharge attributes to one or more
opposed sides of the primary core barrier.
[0239] The opposed faces of the primary core barrier may be
integral skins of the same material as the primary core barrier.
The opposed faces may also be integrally cast of a different
material or may be materials applied to the finished primary core
barrier.
[0240] Thus, the entire enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry synergistically becomes a
non-penetrated fire, products of combustion, sound, light privacy
barrier and support barrier as well as a network system and,
singularly and collectively, an enterprise computer system, as well
as a communications system, accessed from within the occupied
spaces by those having the proper access codes required to activate
and configure the system in conformance with the programmed
artificial intelligence of the system. Monitors, which may vary in
size from one modular-accessible-matrix-unit to a plurality of
modular-accessible-matrix-units forming one or more entire walls,
may be inserted in vertical surfaces, such as, walls or partitions,
but may also be installed in horizontal surfaces, such as, counters
and desks, or even in floors or ceilings, depending on the
application, to create virtual reality interactive communication
for interactive videoconferencing for meetings, sales and
engineering conferences, interactive learning experiences for one
or more people, and the like.
[0241] The system may be voice activated, sensor activated by
motion, gesture, body motion, and body heat, or device activated,
such as, by pen, mouse, finger, hand, and the like or by means of a
touch screen or a keyboard installed into or upon any vertical or
horizontal surface, plugged into a connector located in a
modular-accessible-matrix-unit or a corner modular accessible node
site in conventional manner, or interactively communicated by
wireless means through transceivers/transducers.
[0242] The flexibility of the system is demonstrated by the ability
of the user to select any modular-accessible-matrix-unit in a
ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor building component to
become a modular-accessible-matrix site and to reconfigure the
system as to equipment and devices accommodated and the location of
such equipment and devices as well as to incorporate changes due to
technological evolution. Designed into the system,
reconfigurability, alterability and recyclability are important
capabilities so that the system can be upgraded, changed,
interchanged, altered and reconfigured. As parts of the system
become technologically obsolete for the highest level of computing
requirements, they may be replaced by state-of-the-art equipment
and the replaced equipment reassigned to be used for less demanding
tasks or seed planted as gifts to smaller, less technologically
advanced businesses, households, counties, states or nations to aid
them in climbing the technology ladder, thereby expanding global
markets for products and services produced by the more
technologically advanced nations, building a broader base for their
high technology exports. A less desirable method would be to send
back for 100% recycling all components to solve the landfill
"NIMBY" (Not In My Back Yard) challenges while cost efficiently
upgrading all existing technology by earlier recycling
upgrades.
[0243] The equipment and devices at various locations are
interconnected and may communicate interactively in a network
defined in part by the alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry, in part by technological advances, in part by
the creative knowledge of the users, and in part by the
evolutionary upgrade of the artificial intelligence of routers,
switches, servers, and bridges. Through servers and routers, data
may be shared and transferred from one Commuter access point to
another for algorithms, parallel processing, and the like, by means
of pulse codes, odor-sensing codes, temperature codes, voice codes,
and brain wave codes, and the like.
[0244] By means of activated voice codes, hand prints,
identification cards, and the like, the system may be activated by
an authorized individual at any point in the enterprise. Thus, the
system may be as small or as large as desired, starting small and
growing and upgrading continually to become all it is required to
be, utilizing one microprocessor during prime office and
manufacturing production time or utilizing hundreds, thousands or
millions of processors throughout an entire enterprise during both
prime time and non-productive nighttime hours in any algorithm or
parallel processing arrangement. Obviously, all processors within
the alterable interstitial accommodation matrix may be
interconnected into grids on two or three axes and may also have
diagonally crosswise grids in two or three axes so that these grids
may be programmed and configured and reconfigured to function in an
interactive network with any number of Personal Mobile Commuters,
Laptop Mobile Commuters, Desk Top Commuters, Work Station
Commuters, palm Commuters, wrist Commuters, neck choker Commuters,
strap Commuters, belt Commuters, laptop computers, desktop
computers, workstations, minicomputers or mainframe computers
within one or more enterprise occupied spaces by altering the grid
or by use of hubs, routers, servers, switches, sensors.
[0245] The enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry may be used in any type of building, such as,
but not limited to, offices, residences, factories and specialized
industrial shops, warehouses, educational institutions at all
levels, retail and wholesale merchandising establishments, research
and development laboratories, governmental facilities,
institutions, and the like.
[0246] In industrial applications, numerically controlled
equipment, such as, any type or size of horizontal or vertical
turning center, press or shear, may be controlled by
transceivers/transducers located in the alterable interstitial
accommodation matrix. Robots may be reprogrammed in the same manner
to perform new tasks interactively with transceivers/transducers.
The transceivers/transducers may be controlled by artificial
intelligence of hubs, servers, bridges, routers and switches from a
central computer system within the interstitial multinetgridometry
matrix or within the enterprise space or may be accessed by an
operator located at the plant floor or office floor. Instructions
for a particular operation may flow from one piece of equipment to
another by wireless or wired means or by wireless means or
conductors between equipment through two or more
modular-accessible-matri- x sites or through modular accessible
node sites in an array of modular-accessible-units in close
proximity to the spaced-apart equipment, communicating through the
two or more modular-accessible-matri- x sites or modular accessible
node sites.
[0247] Power may be transmitted by means of a cord connection, by
inductive coupling stations, or by focused microwave means of
passage through one or more assigned layers defined by the
multi-layered, multi-rotational bearings disposed within and
forming the alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry.
Likewise, the transmission of electronic data through the
enterprise alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry
may be accomplished by digital or analog means, with or without the
use of artificial intelligence, using any type of many variations
of binary codes of any type of existing or future operating
systems, by a cord connection, or by wireless means, including
microwaves, radio waves, photonics and the like on any frequency,
to connect individual equipment and machines within the occupied
spaces with all of the devices within the interstitial
multinetgridometry matrix.
[0248] Equally comprehensive references exist for classes of
computers, such as, mainframe computers, minicomputers, workstation
computers, personal computers, laptop computers, attache computers,
palm computers, and the like, all of which may be used in the
occupied spaces to communicate with hubs, servers, routers,
bridges, switches, and the like disposed in the interstitial
accommodation matrices of this invention and accessed through any
modular-accessible-matrix-unit site or modular accessible node
site.
[0249] Any and all ways of configuring supercomputers are in some
ways adaptable to this invention within the interstitial areas.
However, in contrast to all of these, the alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry of this invention is distinguished
in that, in addition to any number of ways exist to configure
mainframe computers, minicomputers, workstations, personal
computers, laptop computers, palmtop computers, and the like to
provide the synergy of networking all types of computers, by the
teachings of my invention the Personal Mobile Commuter, Laptop
Mobile Commuter, Desk Top Commuter, and Work Station Commuter may
communicate, wirelessly or wired, with the devices, components,
appliances and equipment disposed within the interstitial
accommodation matrices.
[0250] Any multi-functional modular-accessible-matrix site or
modular accessible node site within the enterprise comprises a
supercomputer hookup site for networking Personal Mobile Commuters,
Laptop Mobile Commuters, Desk Top Commuters, Work Station Commuters
and mainframe, mini, workstation, laptop, and palm computers. The
alterable multinetgridometry becomes an interwoven grid matrix or
crosswise grid matrix on two or three axes, upgradable to two or
three diagonal axes, whereby a network of conductors and flexible
circuits passes from node site to node site in various upgradable
configurations, with or without passing through transceivers
providing wireless communication between the
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site and
the equipment, robot or person operating in the enterprise
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry within any
interstitial accommodation matrix formed between the ceiling, wall,
partition, column or floor accessible membrane barrier and the face
of the primary core barrier.
[0251] The only constant in the enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry system of this invention is that
there is evolutionary unfolding change built into the system so
that users' creative knowledge, artificial intelligence, operating
system, and technology changes may be creatively accommodated over
a period of centuries so that the enterprise is not subjected to
razing by explosion leveling, wrecking balls, and bulldozers for
wasting of finite resources into landfill sites which are becoming
increasingly scarce because of NIMBY. A major objective of the
ability to reconfigure, alter, and recycle the interstitial
multinetgridometry matrix is to retain or recycle productive
assets, rather than permitting the inability to accommodate future
technological change to prematurely self-destruct existing
buildings into landfills when reconfigurability, alterability and
recyclability could convert the existing buildings into productive
assets having the features of this invention. This evolutionary
unfolding change affects the entire enterprise alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry--the people, robots,
office equipment, manufacturing equipment, production equipment,
service equipment, communications equipment within the occupied
spaces, the Personal Mobile Commuters, Laptop Mobile Commuters,
Desk Top Commuters, Work Station Commuters, the computers (from
supercomputers to palm computers) within the occupied spaces of the
enterprise, the Interstitial Space Commuters within the
interstitial accommodation matrix or any part of the devices,
conductors, flexible circuits, connectors, networking equipment,
mechanical equipment, electrical equipment, electronic equipment,
and the like within the interstitial accommodation matrix.
[0252] Everything within the alterable interstitial accommodation
matrix behind the opposed faces of modular-accessible-matrix-units
is subject to infinite evolutionary change, technological
obsolescence and upgrade, radical new approaches and concepts,
evaluation, configuration, and momentary evolutionary upgrade.
Assuming that an employee's modest workspace occupies 9 square
meters (100 square feet), the surface area of ceiling, walls and
floor in that workspace is approximately 3 times that 9 square
meters (100 square feet). If a processor, such as, a 586 Pentium or
greater, is assumed to have a footprint of approximately 650 square
mm (1 square inch), there is sufficient space within the matrix,
assuming only one layer within the matrix, to accommodate 43,200
processors (9 square meters (100 square feet).times.3.times.144
processor per square meter (square foot)=43,200 processors). Thus,
each workspace becomes a potential supercomputer site that can go
from one chip to 43,200 chips through the synergy of evolutionary
unfolding change on the presumption that each new microchip is a
computer on a chip. This only partly illustrates the potential of
my invention to adjust to and accommodate the almost infinite
capacity and complexity of interactive Commuting by voice or
thought augmented by artificial intelligence to support yet
undreamed of computer-assisted support for the interface of man,
robot and machine through modular-accessible-matrix sites and
modular accessible node sites and the interstitial accommodation
matrix interface within the enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry. Thus, the structure of the
enterprise, containing the primary core barrier is not wasted to
landfills which are increasingly disappearing due to NIMBY.
[0253] The interstitial multinetgridometry matrix of the enterprise
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry inherently
embodies characteristics which invest the primary core barrier and
the modular-accessible-matrix-units with an inherent synergy as
heat sinks or energy sinks within the interstitial areas while
providing the structural matrix which supports the interstitial
multinetgridometry matrix and encapsulates the devices and
conductors within interstitial accommodation matrices as well as
supports the floor, ceiling or wall accessible membrane barrier
comprising modular-accessible-matrix-units which, in turn, support
the activities of the people, robots, equipment and machines within
the occupied spaces of the interstitial multinetgridometry matrix
forming the alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry
of the enterprise. Because the supercomputers, mainframes and the
supporting equipment, devices, conductors, and the like are densely
packed within the enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry, the heat sink and cooling means are the
controllers of the ultimate size, capacity and configuration of the
system. The interstitial accommodation matrices and, thus, the
enterprise alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry,
vary in depth from a few inches to the full-ceiling height of an
entire building, as shown in the drawings.
[0254] By providing for the reconfigurability, accessibility and
alterability of various components as they require servicing and
evolutionary upgrading and replacement, the Interstitial Space
Commuter at each modular-accessible-matrix site is reconfigurable
and alterable from a 586 Pentium processor to the most advanced
chips, motherboards and other components into the supercomputers
created by reconfiguring the Interstitial Space Commuters within
the interstitial accommodation matrix forming the alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry of the enterprise,
which can continue to give state-of-the-art performance
indefinitely over generations as opposed to having a life of a few
years and, at most, lasting decades before coming to rest in
disappearing landfill sites. This wastes strategic natural
resources, materials, and energy and fails to set in motion a
pattern of planting seeds to assure the improvement of the global
economy by giving obsolete equipment to others lower down on the
technological and economic ladder so that they may climb that
ladder, thereby offering an expanding market base for the advanced
technology nations. Thus, the building or enterprise itself is
continually renewing the interstitial accommodation matrices and
continually renewing, reconfiguring and upgrading the Interstitial
Space Commuters by adapting its individual components to meet new
multi-functional needs, changing strategies, and technological
advancements in computer hardware, software, and computational and
reconfiguring mechanics, keeping buildings from being discarded
into landfills without regard for strategic constructive
utilization of finite resources so essential to future generations.
Moreover, the components, including superconductor chips, which
have been replaced by the technological upgrade may then be reused
in configuring Commuter systems or computer systems for less
demanding Commuting or computing environments worldwide, which have
been estimated to contain approximately 97 percent of the world's
population.
[0255] By the teachings of this invention, a ceiling, wall,
partition, column or floor system comprises a primary core barrier
having two opposed faces and one or two accessible membrane
barriers overlying and spaced from the opposed faces of the primary
core barrier for most interior ceilings, walls, partitions,
columns, and floors. For an exterior wall, the ceiling of the top
floor or the lowest floor of a building, there would be only one
accessible membrane barrier exposed to view in the occupied
space.
[0256] The primary core barrier is separated from the opposed
accessible membrane barriers by interstitial areas which
accommodate interstitial accommodation matrices which accommodate
various combinations of conductors, devices, and the like.
[0257] The ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor accessible
membrane barriers are spaced from the opposed faces of the primary
core barrier by one or more types of spacer elements. Thus, the
interstitial areas created are sized and defined by the spacer
elements. Spacer elements may include channels, plinths,
multi-rotational plinths, channels and plinths, ribs, ribs and
channels, trusses, zees, "H" shapes, tees, tubes or tubing, hanger
rods, foam, sandwiched foam and metal, sandwiched foam and plastic,
elastomers, studs, joists, and the like, and combinations or arrays
of such spacer elements. By the teachings of this invention, the
multi-rotational plinths may comprise a number of configurations
and features:
[0258] A multi-rotational bearing head and multi-rotational bearing
foot having a centered threaded aperture, both elements being
independently adjustable on a multi-rotational bearing threaded
solid shaft, a multi-rotational bearing externally threaded and
internally non-threaded tubular shaft, or a multi-rotational
bearing externally threaded and internally threaded tubular shaft,
thereby providing precision leveling of the top surface of the
multi-rotational bearing heads, precision leveling required for
several reasons:
[0259] Some modular-accessible-matrix-units are brittle and require
precision leveling to prevent breakage caused by heavy loads from
foot and rolling traffic
[0260] Most structural substrates in existing buildings are out of
level, thereby requiring a system that can be easily leveled from
above
[0261] Progressive increase in the use of automatic guided vehicles
and robots in industrial plants and automated warehouses calls for
advanced technology precision floors
[0262] The plinth heads and feet may be slotted or non-slotted, the
slots accommodating connector lugs or the interchangeable plates of
my U.S. Pat. No. 5,111,627 to form modular accessible node boxes
within the interstitial areas
[0263] The plinth heads and feet may be magnetic or
non-magnetic
[0264] The multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shafts and
tubular shafts may be threaded into internally formed, drawn and
rollthreaded sites in the flanges of metal formed channels or in
the metal formed decking of the primary core barrier
[0265] Screw fasteners or concentric ring fasteners may project
through the modular-accessible-matrix-units of the ceiling, wall,
partition, column or floor accessible membrane barrier into the
aperture of the tubular shaft, which may or may not be internally
threaded
[0266] A multi-layered stepped plinth comprising two or more
different sized elements may be assembled by means of a centered
threaded aperture on an externally threaded multi-rotational
bearing threaded solid shaft or tubular shaft, the stepped elements
remaining individually freely adjustable upwards or downwards or
fused together as one element by sealant, adhesive, foam tape,
magnet, or mechanical fastener means for creating subdivisional
layers in the interstitial areas for different functions and
uses
[0267] A multi-layered ring may have concentric rings for
supporting multiple layers of boards and sockets
[0268] The individual modular-accessible-matrix-units comprising
the ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor accessible membrane
barrier may be constructed as shown for the
modular-accessible-units, which may be modular-accessible-tiles or
modular-accessible-planks, as disclosed in my previous United
States patents or by some other method. Modular-accessible-strips
and modular-accessible-panels may also be used according to the
teaching of this invention. Modular-accessible-tiles generally
range in size from 100 mm (4 inches) square to 750 mm (30 inches)
square. Modular-accessible-planks generally range in size from 100
mm to 400 mm (4 to 16 inches) in width by 2400 mm to 3600 mm (96 to
144 inches) in length. Modular-accessible-strips generally range in
size from 25 mm to 150 mm (1 to 6 inches) in width by 600 mm to
3000 mm (24 to 120 inches) in length. Modular-accessible-panels
generally range in size from 375 mm to 1000 mm (15 to 40 inches) in
width by 2400 mm to 3600 mm (96 to 144 inches) in length.
[0269] In addition, the teachings of this invention include
optional shielding layers within or on one or more faces of the
accessible membrane barrier or the primary core barrier in
ceilings, walls, partitions, columns or floors to contain
electrostatic discharge, electromagnetic fields, and radio
frequency fields within the interstitial areas. The shielding may
be of conductive metal or conductive plastic. Either electrical
conductivity or thermal conductivity, or both, may be provided.
Thin metal layers backing and forming a part of the
modular-accessible-matrix-units, for example, provide a shielding
layer. Thus, each interstitial accommodation matrix within the
ceiling, walls, partitions, columns, and floors of the enterprise
may have a grounded field provided by shielded containment and/or
shielded joints. The metal formed decking which forms the primary
core barrier in certain embodiments of this invention provides a
shielding layer. Grounding may be provided through electrically
and/or thermally conductive plinths and may be enhanced by means of
conductive tape, grease, sealant or adhesive. As Example No. 1,
conductive plinths may be used. As Example No. 2, conductive
bearing strips may be adhered to the top of low .DELTA.t tubing to
facilitate electrical and thermal conductivity between adjacent
modular-accessible-matrix-units making up the accessible membrane
barrier. As Example No. 3, a conductive adhesive may be used to
adhere metal plates as a backing for
modular-accessible-matrix-units. An array of such conductively
adhered metal plates facing the floor interstitial accommodation
matrix confines electromagnetic interference, radio frequency
interference, and electrostatic discharge to the interstitial
accommodation matrix. This encapsulating shielding of the
interstitial accommodation matrix is preferred for floors but is
also suitable for ceilings and walls. The shielding layers thus
protect the health of persons in the occupied spaces outside the
ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor accessible membrane
barrier, protect the processors, drives, hubs, servers, storage
devices and other devices, appliances and equipment accommodated
within the interstitial areas, and prevent passage of electrostatic
discharge, electromagnetic fields, and radio frequency fields
through the primary core barrier or from one interstitial area to
another, causing disturbances, data loss, or damage to the
conductors and devices housed within the interstitial accommodation
matrices.
[0270] A major purpose, benefit and advantage of this invention is
that the primary core barrier is not at any time penetrated by any
conductor, outlet or device, nor is it necessary to do so in that
by increasing the interstitial space, penetration is avoidable.
Thus, the primary core barrier serves as a privacy and security
barrier and prevents the penetration of fire, airborne sound,
impact sound, and light. Where, by the teachings of this invention,
natural variations call for one or more secondary core barriers,
the primary core barrier is that barrier which has no penetrations,
particularly from the ceiling side in a floor/ceiling system. In
contrast, the existing art generally provides the weakest barrier
facing the ceiling side of a floor/ceiling assembly even though the
greatest danger from fire and smoke exists on the ceiling side.
[0271] Another major purpose of this invention is to provide a fire
membrane barrier to protect the conductors, devices, components,
appliances and equipment within the interstitial accommodation
matrices. Contrary to the prior art, the teachings of this
invention provide substantially greater protection from the ceiling
side in that, since fires burn upward, it is the ceiling area which
requires the greater protection.
[0272] There are a number of natural variations of this invention.
Interstitial areas are encapsulated and supported by the structural
system, allowing the building to act intelligently and
interactively with the people, robots, and equipment in the
occupied spaces of the enterprise.
[0273] The internal structure of precast double "I" units may have
intermittent solid webs, solid webs with modular apertures or
trussed webs. Bridging and integral end closure panels add
stability in handling and erecting the double "I" units.
[0274] A floor/ceiling system comprises precast double "I" units
formed of double tees made of structural concrete, which are placed
into a cast concrete bed of structural concrete to form an integral
unit having a top flange and bottom flange. The tapered,
variable-length stems of the tees are notched at the bottom to
accommodate bottom transverse reinforcement while significantly
forming undulating notched blockouts forming structural shear lugs
to increase the bonding of the two components into a single
structural interstitial accommodation matrix, which shear lugs
after curing of the structural concrete will be visible from below
the ceiling as a spaced linear pattern. The entire assembly
provides a fire, sound, security and privacy barrier which provides
protection for mechanical, electrical and electronic devices,
conductors, flexible circuits, equipment, and the like accommodated
within the interstitial area within the structure of the precast
double "I" units. Additional interstitial areas may be disposed
between the top surface of the top flange and the accessible
membrane barrier of this invention on the floor side of the
floor/ceiling system and between the bottom surface of the bottom
flange and the accessible membrane barrier on the ceiling side of
the floor/ceiling system. An obvious variation is to use the
assembly as a vertical wall or partition system.
[0275] Another variation consists of precast "I" units having a top
flange and a bottom flange with a trussed web integrally forming an
interstitial accommodation matrix with multiple barrier layers
synergistically providing fire, sound, security and privacy
barriers. Continuous access slots are positioned at points where
adjacent precast "I" units are joined together and intermittent
access slots at other points, forming the alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry to accommodate evolutionary
unfolding change.
[0276] FIGS. 1-160 show representative configurations in that any
combination of features may be used. For example, within the
teachings of this invention, it is obvious that any type of
suspended acoustical ceiling shown in FIGS. 1-160 can be adapted to
be used with any structural interstitial accommodation matrix shown
in FIGS. 1-160 or can be used in addition to or in lieu of the
integrally cast acoustical concrete or structural concrete ceiling.
Similarly, any type of ceiling accessible membrane barrier
suspension system shown in any figure may be adapted for use in any
other configuration shown in FIGS. 1-160. Any type of
modular-accessible-matrix-units may be used on the floor side of
the floor/ceiling system. Any type of floor accessible membrane
barrier or any support system shown in any figure may be adapted
for use in any other configuration shown in FIGS. 1-160. The low
.DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating and cooling feature of the
channel support system 142 used in FIGS. 33 and 34, for example,
may be dispensed with entirely within the teachings of my
invention. Furthermore, the primary core barriers, secondary
barriers, and interstitial accommodation matrices may be rearranged
in any manner shown in FIGS. 1-160. For example, any ceiling
accessible membrane 545 or ceiling support system shown in FIG. 31
may be replaced with a ceiling accessible membrane 545 shown in
FIG. 43 or with any other type of ceiling accessible membrane shown
in FIGS. 1-160. Any depth may be assigned to the ceiling
interstitial accommodation matrix and to the floor interstitial
accommodation matrix to accommodate any structural depth required.
The interstitial accommodation matrix may be accessible from either
the floor side or the ceiling side or from both sides of a
floor/ceiling system. A wall or partition system may be accessible
from either side or from both sides, and a column system may be
accessible from one or more sides.
[0277] The interstitial accommodation matrix within the structure
accommodates all types of electronic, electrical and mechanical
equipment, including movable racks of circuit boards, processors,
semiconductors, disk drives, data storage devices, transceivers,
transducers, backplanes, flexible backplanes, universal sockets,
mounting plates, support and mounting racks, electrical service
backbone and power distribution equipment, comfort conditioning
devices, and the like. Whereas some of this equipment may also be
accommodated in the ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix,
outside of the trussed web structure, the structural interstitial
accommodation matrix has the additional advantage of providing an
environment sealed against fire and dust by means of linear access
plugs or composite linear access plugs by means of perimeter seals
of one or preferably two edge seals of elastomeric materials, foam,
and the like, and one or preferably two edge seals of intumescent
tape, beads or sealant.
[0278] Modular universal racks of any size within the structural
interstitial accommodation matrices accessible from the floor side
or the ceiling side accommodate chip modules, board modules, socket
modules, card modules, device modules, combination modules, and the
like, providing scalability, convertibility, reconfigurability,
recyclability, adaptability, alterability, testability, and
maintainability to the multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry
within the alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry.
The device modules may comprise switch modules, bus modules,
controller modules, terminal modules, connector modules, server
modules, bridge modules, router modules, memory modules, random
access memory (RAM) modules, disk modules, testing modules, sensor
modules, multiplexer modules, multimedia modules, and the like.
[0279] Modular enclosed, scalable, reconfigurable, and alterable
multi-switching communications and computer building blocks
facilitate user determinism. Multipurpose and multifunctional
communications and/or computer configurations within the modular
universal racks and enclosures of one-eighth, one-quarter,
one-half, three-quarter, and full modular size are disposed
horizontally within the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix to provide access to chips, boards, cards, sockets, and
devices through removable covers through the intermittent access
slots.
[0280] On the floor side, a modular universal rack is suspended
within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix on a
rolling suspension system having a controlled moving conductor
tether system for in-and-out conductors, cables and fibers disposed
for 100 percent access to one or more device modules within the
modular universal rack with access through the floor accessible
membrane barrier and through the intermittent access slot. Access
is also available through the enclosure cover for the modular
universal rack.
[0281] On the ceiling side, a modular universal rack is suspended
within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix on a
rolling or sliding suspension system for the modular universal rack
having a controlled moving conductor tethered system for in-and-out
conductors, cables and fibers disposed for 100 percent access to
one or more device modules within the modular universal rack with
access through the ceiling accessible membrane barrier and through
intermittent access slots or through an intermittent access panel
as well as access through an enclosure cover for the modular
universal rack.
[0282] Rolling modular universal rack systems with a tethered
conductor means provide modular, scalable, rescalable,
reconfigurable, alterable, recyclable, multi-switching
communications and multi-server, multi-bridge, multi-router
components for a reconfigurable, upgradable, multi-processing
environment disposed horizontally by tethered roller suspension
means to provide 100 percent access within the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix through the intermittent access
slot.
[0283] Any type of exposed-to-view enclosure, such as, a universal
precast hat-shaped enclosure accommodating speakers, sensors,
lighting fixtures, smoke alarms, fire-suppression systems, and the
like, may be suspended from the ceiling, centered in the units or
suspended from the joints. Wiring for flush and recessed lighting
fixtures may be carried in channels within the ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix on the ceiling side of the floor/ceiling
system. Acoustical ceiling panels may be fastened by clips to a
channel.
[0284] The modular-accessible-matrix-units of the ceiling
accessible membrane barrier may be backed by a mineral type backer
board, such as gypsum, which provides sound attenuation. The
ceiling modular-accessible-matrix-units may be backed by a metal
plate, which, if conductive, provides the shielding for
electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference, and
electrostatic discharge. A metal plate provides the additional
benefit of permitting longer spans and an integral offset.
[0285] Because of the accessibility problems inherent to a ceiling
interstitial accommodation matrix containing layers of conductors
disposed in one to four or more axes, a preferred embodiment of my
invention is a ceiling accessible membrane barrier comprising a
plurality of downwardly hinged modular-accessible-matrix-units. Any
type of hinge giving full access by permitting the
modular-accessible-matrix-units to swing downward at least 90
degrees is within the teaching of my invention. Suitable hinges
include piano hinges, pin hinges, butt hinges, offset butt hinges,
and gear (roto) hinges.
[0286] The modular-accessible-matrix-units on the floor side of the
floor/ceiling system are supported by corner supports or by
intermediate supports arranged in various patterns. Some of the
supports are magnetically coupled to the
modular-accessible-matrix-units by magnetic multi-rotational
bearings. Other supports are mechanically fastened by various means
to the modular-accessible-matrix-units, such as, by means of screw
fasteners, concentric ring fasteners, viscoelastic registry
engagement fasteners, click fasteners and the like. Touch fasteners
may also be used.
[0287] In addition, modular-accessible-matrix-units in a wall,
partition or column system may be supported and positioned by one
of several variations of the fastener of this invention, having a
segmentally divided head and linear grooves forming a weakened
plane, whereby a segment of the fastener head may be folded back to
allow the removal of one unit at a time, leaving the remaining
units in place. The folded-back segment returns to its normal
position once it is released. The weakened planes may be on the
outside of the head or the inside of the head, forming a "living
hinge". A number of head configurations may be interchanged. Lower
shanks having alternating straight, multiple-axis fingers and
multiple finger rings, alternating straight rings and beveled
rings, repetitive symmetrical beveled rings, repetitive
asymmetrical beveled rings, repetitive concentric rings may also be
interchanged. Two upper bearing and positioning shanks are named by
the teachings of this invention, which support and position the
modular-accessible-matrix-units in a vertical array. In addition,
there are two upper shanks that support
modular-accessible-matrix-units although they do not position them.
A number of configurations of bearing and bearing and positioning
ledger are disclosed in the drawings.
[0288] Support and positioning means for wall, partition and column
modular-accessible-matrix-units rely on bearing and positioning
ledgers which align the units. The ledgers may be formed as part of
a formed metal channel or as part of a plastic or metal channel or
flat element having a round or diamond-shaped ledger to support
modular-accessible-matrix-units having soft edges. The support and
positioning means may be attached to channels or other support
means attached to the primary core barrier by any means, including
foam tape, flexible magnets or flexible magnetic tape, touch
fasteners, mechanical fasteners, and the like. Cups or channels
filled with sealant may also be used.
[0289] The primary core barrier within a wall, partition or column
system may consist of single barrier layers, spaced-apart barrier
layers, laminated barrier boards, used singly or spaced apart, and
multi-layer barrier boards. The barrier boards may have an edge
protector channel comprising magnets, touch fasteners, metal,
plastics, elastomeric, scrim and fiber films, rubber, composite,
moldings, extrusions, bindings, formed shapes, and the like. The
edge protector channels may be cushioned with foam and may be
magnetic.
[0290] Within the teachings of my invention, the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix members of an interstitial
architectural and interstitial structural building system are
precast and/or cast-in-place, the preferred embodiment being of
precast concrete, as follows:
[0291] (1) Precast composite steel and reinforced concrete
structural interstitial accommodation matrices, composite girders,
composite beams and composite columns having or forming hollow
cores and channels
[0292] (2) Precast composite carbon fiber reinforced plastic and
concrete structural interstitial accommodation matrices, composite
girders, composite beams and composite columns having or forming
hollow cores and channels
[0293] (3) Precast composite steel prestressed internally and/or
externally reinforced concrete structural interstitial
accommodation matrices, composite girders, composite beams and
composite columns
[0294] (4) Precast composite carbon fiber reinforced plastic
prestressed internally and/or externally reinforced concrete or
glass fiber reinforced precast concrete structural interstitial
accommodation matrices, composite girders, composite beams and
composite columns
[0295] (5) Precast composite steel posttensioned internally and/or
externally reinforced concrete structural interstitial
accommodation matrices, composite girders, composite beams and
composite columns
[0296] (6) Precast composite carbon fiber reinforced plastic
posttensioned internally and/or externally reinforced concrete or
glass fiber reinforced precast concrete structural interstitial
accommodation matrices, composite girders, composite beams and
composite columns
[0297] The bottom flanges of any variation of this invention may be
reinforced by means of principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement
and bottom transverse reinforcement. In the alternative, the bottom
flanges may have tension reinforcement provided by posttensioning
or prestressing or conventional reinforcement by rods, bars,
plates, and the like. Because the heat and flames from a fire
travel upward, the fire barrier of this invention is optimally and
beneficially positioned on the ceiling side of a floor/ceiling
system where a fire barrier is most needed in contrast to
conventional construction where the fire barrier faces the floor
side, where it is the least effective and where heat naturally
moves upwards toward the ceiling.
[0298] However, accessibility is provided from the floor side
through the openings between adjoining top flanges, which openings
are also sealed by linear access plugs protecting the devices and
equipment within the interstitial accommodation matrix from dust
and fire. Moreover, the cuttable and resealable sealant joints of
my previous invention may be placed between the
modular-accessible-matrix-units of the accessible membrane barrier
to protect from the downward passage of fluids the interstitial
accommodation matrix and the devices, conductors and equipment
accommodated therein.
[0299] The top flanges are reinforced by means of principal top
longitudinal reinforcement and top transverse reinforcement. The
reinforcement may be welded or tied together into reinforcement
cages before placement of the structural concrete in order to tie
structurally the top flange to the bottom flange by the trussed web
so as to function as a complete structural unit.
[0300] The existing art abounds with methods of reinforcing
structural concrete members, including concrete joists, waffle
slabs, flat slabs, and folded concrete plates.
[0301] The teachings of this invention show variations of the
standard means of reinforcing the structural concrete members.
[0302] In addition to and within the natural variations previously
stated as the teachings of my invention are the synergy of
providing nine superior life safety, knowledge safety, data safety,
intelligence safety, conductor safety, network safety, product
safety, service safety, and enterprise safety constructive
benefits.
[0303] These synergistic benefits are due in great part to the
fabrication of the interstitial accommodation matrix and the
enterprise alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry
of non-combustible materials, such as, structural lightweight or
normalweight concrete, insulating concrete, autoclaved concrete,
foam concrete, polymer concrete meeting Class A or Class I fire
standards, metals, and the like, permitting predictable thermal
barrier, mass, time and structural analysis to engineer
synergistically these nine new constructive safety categories into
the enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry of this invention. At the same time,
interstitial accommodation matrices are provided within the
structure and between the primary core barrier and the ceiling,
wall, partition, column and floor accessible membrane barriers
disposed over the unpenetrated primary core barrier.
[0304] Within the natural variations of the teachings of my
invention, the following synergistic benefits are provided:
[0305] Providing nine superior life safety, knowledge safety, data
safety, intelligence safety, conductor safety, network safety,
product safety, service safety, and enterprise safety constructive
benefits
[0306] Fabricating the primary core barrier of non-combustible
(fire ratable Class A or Class I) materials, such as, concrete,
gypsum, non-combustible particleboard, non-combustible tempered
hardboard, and the like
[0307] Fabricating the accessible membrane barrier of gypsum,
stone, cementitious concrete, and polymer concrete meeting Class A
or Class I fire standards, and the like
[0308] Providing the use of the interstitial accommodation matrices
within the structure, and the one or more interstitial
accommodation matrices in the walls, ceilings and floors for
advanced fire-suppression systems or a water-based sprinkler
system
[0309] Providing interstitial accommodation matrices for
accommodating advanced fire, smoke, and products-of-combustion
detection systems integrally tied to the advanced fire-suppression
system
[0310] Providing accessible membrane barriers having optional
cuttable and resealable fluidtight joints within the ceiling, wall,
partition, column or floor accessible membrane barrier
[0311] Providing cuttable and resealable fluidtight joints,
elastomeric, foam and the like perimeter seals, intumescent tape,
beads or sealant perimeter seals, or combinations thereof, around
the linear access plugs in the intermittent or continuous access
slots.
[0312] More specialized synergistic benefits can also be found as
natural variations of the teachings of this invention:
[0313] Providing untethered, mobile, wireless or wired, interactive
Commuting through Personal Mobile Commuters and Laptop Mobile
Commuters and interactive communication and computing through
wireless palm, pocket, belt, purse, neck choker or lapel devices
which communicate with the Interstitial Space Commuters disposed in
the modular-accessible-matri- x sites or modular accessible node
sites behind modular-accessible-matrix-- units of the accessible
membrane barrier throughout the ceiling, wall, partition, column or
floor system surrounding the spaces occupied people using the
enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry
[0314] Providing inductively coupled charge plates at the
modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular accessible node sites
for charging automatic guided vehicles and robots or, in the
alternative, at wait stations throughout the enterprise
[0315] Providing inductively coupled charge plates or docking
stations above or below the desktop, credenza or drawer for the
Personal Mobile Commuters and Laptop Mobile Commuters and for
wireless palm, pocket, belt, purse, neck choker or lapel devices
that wirelessly communicate with modular-accessible-matrix sites or
modular accessible node sites throughout the enterprise or, in the
alternative, are plug connected to connected to cordsets at the
modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular accessible node sites
throughout the enterprise.
[0316] The universal use that should be made of wireless Personal
Mobile Commuters and their future use lies in making several
magnitudes of change to miniaturize the size and weight of the
wireless Personal Mobile Commuters to at least a pocket size card,
for example, 50 mm.times.100 mm.times.10-15 mm (2 by 4 by 3/8-5/8
inches) in thickness and having a weight of a few grams, a battery
life at least in excess of today's wireless phone battery and
preferably having an increase in battery life of several magnitudes
over the battery life of the emerging personal digital assistants,
and a wrist band configuration in the near future.
[0317] Presently, the Personal Mobile Commuters can be the size of
an advanced wireless phone while providing several magnitudes of
increase in capability over the capabilities of telecommunication
devices presently available in the known art, using the processor
technology of the 586 Pentium or the Pentium Pro P6 or PowerPC
processors now available in advanced desktop personal computers for
interactive, voice-activated, analog and/or digital processing and
communications now available on an enriched multimedia personal
computer (with or without towers below the desktop) and without any
of the liabilities of greater size, weight, cost or power
requirements to run the advanced processors and storage systems,
which capabilities are handled by the modular-accessible-matrix
sites or modular accessible node sites in the enterprise, vehicle,
campus, and home while providing untethered robust capabilities to
the digital and analog Personal Mobile Commuters.
[0318] The new perspectives and viewpoints suggested above permit
the user to bring into play an exciting new capability for
interactive communications and computing by making quantum leaps in
capabilities and user friendliness of the wireless Personal Mobile
Commuter.
[0319] The next quantum leap for greater user friendly access to
the World Wide Web and the information superhighway by a greater
majority of all global citizens lies in a number of directions:
[0320] (1) Many magnitudes of reduction in the size, weight, and
cost of a Pentium-based Laptop Mobile Commuter with necessary
peripherals, such as, printer, fax/modem, and the like.
[0321] (2) Many magnitudes of increase in the volt/amp storage
capacity, rechargeability, and longevity and many magnitudes of
reduction in the weight of batteries.
[0322] (3) Many magnitudes of reduction in size, weight, and cost
to provide the mobility of a Personal Mobile Commuter having the
size of a credit card, the communication and computing capabilities
of a Pentium-based Laptop Mobile Commuter at an affordable cost,
all of which may be unobtainable by conventional advanced
thinking.
[0323] The above three seemingly unobtainable changes may be
brought about by the teachings of my invention. In my invention,
the power, weight, cost and battery capacity equation is radically
altered by several magnitudes. The convenience of the next
generation of Commuting places the power and capacity of at least a
586 Pentium-based Laptop Mobile Commuter within the interactive
interstitial spaces of my invention, connected up to the power grid
while providing interactive, mobile use by the battery-operated
Personal Mobile Commuter over microdistances of, generally, 2 to 8
meters (5 to 25 feet). By the teachings of my invention, the
evolving information highway, the World Wide Web, and the local
area network of the enterprise offer the user a choice of wireless
or wired interactive communication with the Interstitial Space
Commuter by means of any of the following groups of devices
comprising an Occupied Space Commuter:
[0324] (1) Personal Mobile Commuter
[0325] (2) Laptop Mobile Commuter
[0326] (3) Desk Top Commuter
[0327] (4) Work Station Commuter
[0328] (5) Keyboard
[0329] (6) Mouse
[0330] (7) Mouse and digitizer
[0331] (8) Touch screen
[0332] (9) Any combination of the above
[0333] Within the teachings of my invention, each
modular-accessible-matri- x site or modular accessible node site
selected in the accessible membrane barrier may be selected,
designed, engineered and manufactured, for example, to have within
the interstitial accommodation matrix at least one of the
following:
[0334] (1) Interstitial Space Commuter similar to a Laptop Mobile
Commuter with a modem, based on at least a 586 Pentium processor
operating at least at 75 MHz clock speed
[0335] (2) Bridge Router Interstitial Space Commuter similar to a
Pentium-based Laptop Mobile Commuter with modem, selectively
upgraded and enhanced by design, engineering and manufacturing to
route specific protocols, such as, TCP/IP and IPX, and bridges
other protocols, thereby combining the functions of both routing
and bridging with other Bridge Router Interstitial Space Commuter
units disposed within the interstitial accommodation matrix to
provide selective mass parallel processing and selective
instruction to interaction between various types of Interstitial
Space Commuter within the interactive interstitial space or
selective instruction to interaction between various types of
Occupied Space Commuters within the occupied space with various
types of Interstitial Space Commuters within the interstitial space
interacting, wired or wirelessly, through any selected
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site
within the accessible membrane barrier. The hybrid brouter,
performing the functions of both a bridge and a router, may also be
used.
[0336] (3) Within the teachings of my invention, any or all
Occupied Space Commuters may be designed, engineered and
manufactured to an input and output equivalent of a
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site with
at least the capabilities similar to a Laptop Mobile Commuter with
modem based on at least a 586 Pentium 75 MHz or faster processor to
be operated interactively by a Personal Mobile Commuter or with any
Interstitial Space Commuter or Bridge Router Interstitial Space
Commuter located within the interactive interstitial space, wired
or wirelessly, through any selected modular-accessible-matri- x
site or modular accessible node site.
[0337] Within the teachings of my invention, the Personal Mobile
Commuter, as small as 50 mm by 100 mm (2 inches by 4 inches), or
smaller, interfaces with the Interstitial Space Commuter through
any selected modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible
node site in the accessible membrane barrier in any of the
following modes:
[0338] (1) Personal Mobile Commuter used in a battery-operated,
wireless, analog or digital transceiver/transducer for wireless
communication over microdistances to obtain the function and
advantages of mobile computing, using the equivalent of a
Pentium-based Laptop Mobile Commuter, while the weight and power
needs of a Pentium processor reside in the interstitial
accommodation matrix connected to the power grid and the Personal
Mobile Commuter has the size and weight of a mobile, wireless phone
interacting with the Interstitial Space Commuter capacity and
connectivity with the network and power grid
[0339] (2) Personal Mobile Commuter used in a battery-operated,
wired, analog or digital transceiver/transducer to communicate with
the Interstitial Space Commuter residing within the interstitial
accommodation matrix
[0340] (3) Personal Mobile Commuter used in a power-operated,
wired, analog or digital transceiver/transducer to communicate with
the Interstitial Space Commuter residing within the interstitial
accommodation matrix and connected to the power grid.
[0341] Within the teachings of my invention, the Laptop Mobile
Commuter interfaces with the Interstitial Space Commuter through
any selected modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible
node site in the accessible membrane barrier in any of the
following modes:
[0342] (1) Laptop Mobile Commuter using a battery-operated,
wireless, analog or digital transceiver
[0343] (2) Laptop Mobile Commuter using a battery-operated, wired,
analog or digital transceiver
[0344] (3) Laptop Mobile Commuter using a power-operated, wired,
analog or digital transceiver.
[0345] Within the teachings of my invention, the Occupied Space
Commuter located within the occupied space of the enterprise also
comprises the following wired or wireless input devices for
communicating with the interactive Interstitial Space Commuter
within the interstitial space:
[0346] (1) Telephone
[0347] (2) Keyboard and flat screen monitor
[0348] (3) Keyboard with transceiver/transducer and flat screen
monitor
[0349] (4) Mouse and flat screen monitor
[0350] (5) Mouse with transceiver/transducer and flat screen
monitor
[0351] (6) Mouse digitizer and flat screen monitor
[0352] (7) Mouse digitizer with transceiver/transducer and flat
screen monitor
[0353] (8) Touch screen
[0354] (9) Touch screen with transceiver/transducer
[0355] The Enterprise Commuter of this invention comprises a
plurality of
[0356] (1) Interstitial Space Commuters
[0357] (2) Bridge Router Interstitial Space Commuters
[0358] (3) Occupied Space Commuters
[0359] (4) Bridge Router Occupied Space Commuters
[0360] By the teachings of my invention of a structural
interstitial architectural matrix encapsulating the occupied space
to form an enterprise architectural system comprising the 14
essentials described in the Summary Of The Invention, communication
from the occupied space to the interactive interstitial space
through modular-accessible-matrix sites and modular accessible node
sites may be achieved at any frequency in the spectrum. The
preferred frequency for communication from the Occupied Space
Commuters and Interstitial Space Commuters is from 59 Ghz and
above. These frequencies at the higher end of the spectrum are
preferred because of their availability, being far less used than
the overcrowded lower frequencies of, for example, less than 1 Ghz
to 28 Ghz, the frequencies used for television, cellular phones,
direct-broadcast satellite television, and network connections for
iridium satellite phones. The disadvantages of the higher
frequencies, such as, the absorption of signals by oxygen and
consequent limiting of transmissions to a few hundred meters
(feet), do not affect the communication between the Occupied Space
Commuters and the Interstitial Space Commuters. Moreover, at these
higher frequencies, narrow, focused beams can be generated which
can be aimed precisely at a targeted receiver in the Interstitial
Space Commuter in the ceiling, walls or floors.
[0361] My invention accommodates widely divergent progress, changes
in thinking, changes in priorities, changes in needs, wants, values
and requirement. My invention provides for accommodation of totally
unexpected and unplanned for future requirements.
[0362] My invention permits the coupling of the power of at least
the processor technology of the Pentium or PowerPC processor and
correspondingly large RAM and storage capability at each
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site tied
to a full array of advanced communication capabilities available to
the enterprise, vehicle, campus, and home from a Personal Mobile
Commuter or Laptop Mobile Commuter or an enriched multimedia Desk
Top Commuter or Work Station Commuter (with or without minitowers
or towers below the desktop or workstation), operating over the
microdistances defined in this application, providing enhanced,
interactive, voice-activated processing and communications
disposed
[0363] Within the interstitial accommodation matrix of the ceiling,
wall, partition, column or floor of the enterprise
[0364] In the Personal Mobile Commuters, Laptop Mobile Commuters,
and Work Station Commuters of this invention
[0365] In the desktop personal computers disposed within the
occupied space
[0366] Within clusters of office equipment forming equipment cells
disposed within the occupied space of the office enterprise
[0367] Within clusters of machinery forming manufacturing cells
disposed within the occupied space of the manufacturing enterprise
monitors, keyboards, and the like, into relocatable alterable
accessible reconfigurable modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or
modular accessible node sites 169.
[0368] By this almost limitless number of modular-accessible-matrix
sites 170 and modular accessible node sites 169, my invention
beneficially provides longer battery life and greater
miniaturization of multimedia roving interactive Commuters and
choice of any devices, having less weight and greater reliability
and higher quality with less potential health risks if roving
interactive communications devices are proved to have a cumulative
damaging effect on the users' health.
[0369] The teachings of my invention for micro multimedia roving
interactive Commuting, because of the finite range of 2 to 8 meters
(5 to 25 feet), are expected beneficially to minimize taxing the
overloaded radio spectrum or any other facet of the regulated or
non-regulated spectrum, allowing spectrum use at very high
frequencies not generally used, thereby not increasing the load on
the assigned existing spectrum.
[0370] Since the micro multimedia roving interactive Personal
Mobile Commuters, Laptop Mobile Commuters, focused and unfocused,
require such a micro range of 2 to 8 meters (5 to 25 feet), a much
wider use of roving interactive Commuting devices can be achieved
at substantially less cost with greater interactive multimedia
quality and reliability and with longer battery life and with less
interference from the spectrum.
[0371] Wireless multimedia transmission and receiving, whether for
use by roving users, mobile equipment, mobile machinery or mobile
robots with a roving, untethered, interactive multimedia
connectivity range of 2 to 8 meters (5 to 25 feet), is without
limit since a building with an infinite number of relocatable and
reconfigurable modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular
accessible node sites 169, configured to form an alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528 throughout the
enterprise, can handle unlimited travel for unrestricted,
untethered activity with greater reliability and quality. In
essence, the entire enterprise is at any time a plurality of
Commuters, nodes and communications networks within the occupied
spaces 538 and within the interstitial accommodation matrices 540,
which are reconfigurable, accessible, relocatable and recyclable to
accommodate evolutionary unfolding change.
[0372] FIG. 13 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0373] FIG. 14 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0374] FIG. 15 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0375] FIG. 16 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0376] FIG. 17 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0377] FIG. 18 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0378] FIG. 19 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0379] FIG. 20 is an enlarged, longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0380] FIG. 21 is an enlarged, longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0381] FIG. 22 is an enlarged, longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0382] FIG. 23 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0383] FIG. 24 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0384] FIG. 25 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0385] FIG. 26 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0386] FIG. 27 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0387] FIG. 28 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0388] FIG. 29 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0389] FIG. 30 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0390] FIG. 31 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0391] FIG. 32 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0392] FIG. 33 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0393] FIG. 34 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0394] FIG. 35 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0395] FIG. 36 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0396] FIG. 37 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0397] FIG. 38 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0398] FIG. 39 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0399] FIG. 40 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0400] FIG. 41 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0401] FIG. 42 is a transverse, sectional view of two stacked
floor/ceiling systems of this invention.
[0402] FIG. 43 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0403] FIG. 44 is a transverse, sectional view of a form for
channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0404] FIG. 45 is a transverse, sectional view of a form for
channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0405] FIG. 46 is a transverse, sectional view of a form for
channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0406] FIG. 47 is a transverse, sectional view of a form for
channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0407] FIG. 48 is a transverse, sectional view of forms for
channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0408] FIG. 49 is a transverse, sectional view of forms for
channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0409] FIG. 50 is a transverse, sectional view of forms for
channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0410] FIG. 51 is a transverse, sectional view of forms for
channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0411] FIG. 52 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0412] FIG. 53 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0413] FIG. 54 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0414] FIG. 55 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0415] FIG. 56 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0416] FIG. 57 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0417] FIG. 58 is a plan view of a cementitious concrete paver of
this invention.
[0418] FIG. 59 is a plan view of a series of interlocked
cementitious concrete pavers of FIG. 58 of this invention.
[0419] FIG. 60 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0420] FIG. 61 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0421] FIG. 62 is a transverse, sectional view of back-to-back,
stacked forms for channels and waffle domes of this invention.
[0422] FIG. 63 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0423] FIG. 64 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0424] FIG. 65 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0425] FIG. 66 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0426] FIG. 67 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0427] FIG. 68 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0428] FIG. 69 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0429] FIG. 70 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0430] FIG. 71 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0431] FIG. 72 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0432] FIG. 73 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0433] FIG. 74 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0434] FIG. 75 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0435] FIG. 76 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0436] FIG. 77 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0437] FIG. 78 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0438] FIG. 79 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0439] FIG. 80 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0440] FIG. 81 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0441] FIG. 82 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0442] FIG. 83 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0443] FIG. 84 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0444] FIG. 85 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0445] FIG. 86 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0446] FIG. 87 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0447] FIG. 88 is a, transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0448] FIG. 89 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0449] FIG. 90 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0450] FIG. 91 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0451] FIG. 92 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0452] FIG. 93 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0453] FIG. 94 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0454] FIG. 95 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0455] FIG. 96 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0456] FIG. 97 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0457] FIG. 98 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0458] FIG. 99 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0459] FIG. 100 is a transverse, sectional view of a precast double
tee unit of this invention.
[0460] FIG. 101 is a transverse, sectional view of the shear lugs
of this invention.
[0461] FIG. 102 is a transverse, section view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0462] FIG. 103 is a transverse, sectional view of a precast double
tee unit of this invention.
[0463] FIG. 104 is a rotated, sectional view of a solid web of FIG.
103 of this invention.
[0464] FIG. 105 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0465] FIG. 106 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0466] FIG. 107 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0467] FIG. 108 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0468] FIG. 109 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0469] FIG. 110 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0470] FIG. 111 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0471] FIG. 112 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0472] FIG. 113 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0473] FIG. 114 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0474] FIG. 115 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0475] FIG. 116 is an longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0476] FIG. 117 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0477] FIG. 118 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0478] FIG. 119 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0479] FIG. 120 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0480] FIG. 121 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0481] FIG. 122 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0482] FIG. 123 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0483] FIG. 124 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0484] FIG. 125 is an enlarged, transverse, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0485] FIG. 126 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0486] FIG. 127 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0487] FIG. 128 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0488] FIG. 129 is a longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0489] FIG. 130 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0490] FIG. 131 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0491] FIG. 132 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0492] FIG. 133 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0493] FIG. 134 is a transverse/longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0494] FIG. 135 is a transverse/longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0495] FIG. 136 is a transverse/longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0496] FIG. 137 is a transverse/longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0497] FIG. 138 is a transverse/longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0498] FIG. 139 is a transverse/longitudinal, sectional view of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention.
[0499] FIG. 140 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0500] FIG. 141 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0501] FIG. 142 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0502] FIG. 143 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0503] FIG. 144 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0504] FIG. 145 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0505] FIG. 146 is a transverse, sectional view of a linear tubular
void of this invention.
[0506] FIG. 147 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0507] FIG. 148 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0508] FIG. 149 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0509] FIG. 150 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0510] FIG. 151 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0511] FIG. 152 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0512] FIG. 153 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0513] FIG. 154 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0514] FIG. 155 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0515] FIG. 156 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0516] FIG. 157 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0517] FIG. 158 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0518] FIG. 159 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0519] FIG. 160 is a transverse, sectional view of a floor/ceiling
system of this invention.
[0520] FIG. 161 is a transverse, sectional view of two stacked
floor/ceiling systems of this invention.
[0521] FIG. 162 is a transverse sectional view of two stacked
floor/ceiling systems of this invention.
[0522] FIG. 163 is an illustration of the home, vehicle, and
workplace commuter stations of this invention.
[0523] FIG. 164 is an illustration of the campus of workplace
buildings with home and commuter stations, communication system,
and power and electronic networks of this invention.
[0524] The table below is provided to serve as a guide to the
embodiments, natural variations, and preferred embodiments of this
invention
5 SEVEN GROUPS OF EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION (G = Embodiment
Group) NATURAL DESCRIPTION OF GROUPS OF EMBODIMENT VARIATIONS
PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS SHT NO. FIG. NO. SHT NO. FIG. NO. EMBODIMENT
G-1 Channel Slab Units 3 17-19 1 1-8 17,20 Composite Beam
Supporting CSUs 4 20-22 2 9-16 Composite Girder Supporting Beam
Supporting CSUs G-2 Folded Slab Units 8 32-34 5 23-25 31 Composite
Beam Supporting FSUs 9 35-37 6 26-30 Composite Girder Supporting 7
31 Beams Supporting FSUs G-3 Channel Joist Units 16 68-70 10 38-41
68,72 Composite Girder Supporting 17 71-79 11 42 ChJUs 12 43 13
44-62 14 63-65 15 66-67 18 80-83 19 84-86 20 87-89 G-4 Trussed
Joist or Waffle 22 94-96 21 90-93 93,96,99 Joist Units 23 97-99
Composite Girders Supporting TJUs or WJUs G-5 Concrete Trussed or
Waffle 24 100-105 113-118 Concrete Trussed Units 25 106-108
Composite Girders Supporting 26 109-112 CTUs or WCTUs 27 113-120
G-6 Duplex Hollow Precast Units 33 126-127 28 121 130-139 Composite
Girder Supporting 34 128,129 29 122 DJPUs 35 130-133 30 123 36
135,136 31 124 37 138,139 32 125 36 134,137 G-7 Hollow Core Units
38 140-148 155 39 149-156 40 157-160 NOTE: Where I have indicated
like reference numerals, the elements have the same designation,
meaning, and function as described in previous and subsequent
embodiments of this invention.
[0525] General Modular-Accessible-Matrix Site, Alterable
Distributed Architectural Multinetgridometry and Interstitial
Accommodation Matrix Features Applicable To FIGS. 1-160: Every
modular-accessible-matrix-unit 543 forming a ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 145,545, floor accessible membrane barrier
140,546, and wall accessible membrane barrier 547 of this invention
is a potentially reconfigurable alterable recyclable
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible node site
169 within the enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528, symbolized in the P-E-M diagram (people,
equipment, machines interacting within the occupied spaces 538 of
the enterprise with the alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528 through the modular-accessible-matrix sites
170 or modular accessible node sites 169 and the structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 122-126,540) as shown between
FIGS. 66 and 67, between FIGS. 80 and 81, and between FIGS. 109 and
110.
[0526] My invention is the creation of an enhanced structural
interstitial accommodation matrix for the purpose of providing the
users (people, equipment and machines) with an evolutionary
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry to more
fully release, through accommodating evolutionary unfolding change,
the fantastic potential of the human mind, body and spirit. The
decision for selecting the variation to be used depends upon the
objective professional judgment of the building team (architects,
engineers, contractors, owners, etc.) and a consideration of the
owner's foreseeable program needs, which guides the building team
in selecting the specific features which best implement and fulfill
the program. It must be recognized, however, that NIMBY (Not In My
Back Yard), finite landfill resources, finite natural and manmade
resources, and the fragility of our spaceship Planet Earth
transcend program needs and wants and confronts mankind with the
reality that the buildings of the 21st Century will have to be
built to last generations or centuries, rather than decades, out of
common environmental necessity. A minimum global standard,
including the elimination of the planned obsolescence of buildings,
is required if civilized society is to survive in freedom and to
avoid being immersed in a super landfill. Therefore, certain
minimum interstitial accommodation matrix standards will be
required beyond short-term first cost and first user thinking.
[0527] By the teachings of this invention, the cavities formed by
the channel and waffle dome forms are created for the explicit
purpose of accommodating electronic, electrical and mechanical
conductors, fluid conductors, Commuters (computer and
communications), devices, components, appliances, equipment, and
the like to form a multinetgridometry of Commuters within the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 to form
the alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528 as
well as to accommodate lighting fixtures and speakers within the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 for
integration with Commuters within the occupied spaces 538 and every
type of networking and Commuting device and component
interconnected with Commuters, devices, components, appliances, and
equipment within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix
in a tethered or untethered mode through the
modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular accessible node
sites 169 which may have connectivity and connector means and/or
transceiver/transducer wireless communication means as desired to
form an enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528 for enhanced interaction with people,
equipment and machines (as illustrated by the P-E-M diagram between
FIGS. 66 and 67, between FIGS. 80 and 81, and between FIGS. 109 and
110) through the relocatable and reconfigurable modular accessible
node sites 169. Deep formed channel and hollow cavities accommodate
the larger devices and equipment in stationary and movable rack
systems which accommodate the Interstitial Space Commuters,
routers, bridges, and servers within the structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-126,540 with access through intermittent
access slots 610. The shallower formed cavities also accommodate
conductors, devices, equipment, and the like for Commuting devices
within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540
within the limitations of less space. No limitations are placed on
the location of electronic, electrical and mechanical devices and
equipment in the interstitial spaces of my invention, such devices
and equipment being equally suitable for both floor and ceiling
installation as well as for walls, partitions and columns which, as
an essential part of my invention, interconnect the floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 120,121,535 spaces and the
ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 127,128,534 spaces.
[0528] The innovative new micro building component
modular-accessible-matr- ix-units 543 forming ceiling accessible
membrane barriers 145,545, wall, partition or column accessible
membrane barriers 547, and floor accessible membrane barriers
140,546 accommodate and facilitate wireless communication between
the untethered user and modular accessible nodes in the enterprise
space or in the interstitial spaces, with or without conductors,
behind the modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 and permits
multimedia transmission of a very short, finite range of 2 to 8
meters (5 to 25 feet) to avoid interference of the chosen spectrum.
In essence, the entire building environment becomes a
three-dimensional, interlaced, interior Commuter communications
center and enterprise interconnecting computer in that the user can
wirelessly access the system at very short range of 2 to 8 meters
(5 to 25 feet) through any modular-accessible-matr- ix site
anywhere in the enterprise to any other modular-accessible-matrix
site, giving all the advantages of wireless, roving, untethered
multimedia communications with, at most, very micro interference at
the preferred high frequencies (above 59 Ghz) of the spectrum and,
in almost every instance, no interference in the preferred
frequencies, with substantially higher resolution on transmission
and receiving while having 100 percent untethered roving
capability.
[0529] The alternative of having 15 meters, 150 meters, 1500 meters
or even kilometers (50 feet, 500 feet, 5,000 feet or even miles) of
range for wireless multimedia transmission in theory sounds
conceptually quite simple and particularly advantageous in not
having to wire a building. However, this overly simplistic concept
has been shown to present numerous technological challenges that
may never be overcome 100 percent technologically. Certain inherent
limitations to providing high quality and reliability without
spectrum congestion, without interfacing at high cost, and without
technical limitations are well documented in the technical,
research, and sales literature as well as in the computer,
communications, and networking press.
[0530] The preceding five paragraphs and the following general
comments explain how FIGS. 1-160 fit into and form the enterprise
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528. The
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 forming a membrane barrier
which forms the interior ceiling, wall, partition, column, and
floor facing for the enterprise, are removable, reconfigurable,
activatable and deactivatable, and interchangeable in that by
access through a number of joints the electrical, electronic,
mechanical, and fluid systems, devices, equipment and the like
disposed within the interstitial spaces behind the
modular-accessible-units become fully accessible. Thus, through
this universal reconfigurable, accessible, recyclable capability of
all ceiling, wall, partition, column, and floor
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543, all of the computer, wire and
fiber conductors, devices, and other electronic components can be
continually upgraded so as to rule out obsolescence and rule in
evolutionary technological multimedia wired and wireless
advancements, also using fiber optics and superconductors.
[0531] As an alternative to conventional wireless networks, it is
anticipated that high quality untethered multimedia transmission
and receiving will be obtained by means of the Personal Mobile
Commuter, Laptop Mobile Commuter, Desk Top Commuter and Work
Station Commuter interfaced with modular-accessible-matrix sites
170 or modular accessible node sites 169 disposed in all ceiling,
wall, partition, column and floor surfaces of existing buildings
and new buildings so that the modular-accessible-matrix sites 170
or modular accessible node sites 169 are reconfigurable,
relocatable, and recyclable to provide an enterprise alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528.
[0532] My invention more reliably accomplishes the stated objective
by adapting to the roving interactive communications concept the
known quality of interactive methods and techniques for multimedia
transmission over wireless networks by requiring only limited
interactive transmission over distances of 2 to 4.5 meters (5 to 15
feet) to the nearest relocatable modular-accessible-matrix sites
170 and modular accessible node sites 169 and accommodates all
communications devices, such as, transceivers, transducers,
flexible circuits and connectors, circuit boards, processors and
semiconductors, hubs, network servers, routers, bridges, switches,
breakers, sensor and control devices, storage devices, monitors,
keyboards, and the like, into relocatable alterable accessible
reconfigurable modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular
accessible node sites 169.
[0533] By this almost limitless number of modular-accessible-matrix
sites 170 and modular accessible node sites 169, my invention
beneficially provides longer battery life and greater
miniaturization of multimedia roving interactive Commuters and
choice of any devices, having less weight and greater reliability
and higher quality with less potential health risks if roving
interactive communications devices are proved to have a cumulative
damaging effect on the users' health.
[0534] The teachings of my invention for micro multimedia roving
interactive Commuting, because of the finite range of 2 to 8 meters
(5 to 25 feet), are expected beneficially to minimize taxing the
overloaded radio spectrum or any other facet of the regulated or
non-regulated spectrum, allowing spectrum use at very high
frequencies not generally used, thereby not increasing the load on
the assigned existing spectrum.
[0535] Since the micro multimedia roving interactive Personal
Mobile Commuters, Laptop Mobile Commuters, focused and unfocused,
require such a micro range of 2 to 8 meters (5 to 25 feet), a much
wider use of roving interactive Commuting devices can be achieved
at substantially less cost with greater interactive multimedia
quality and reliability and with longer battery life and with less
interference from the spectrum.
[0536] Wireless multimedia transmission and receiving, whether for
use by roving users, mobile equipment, mobile machinery or mobile
robots with a roving, untethered, interactive multimedia
connectivity range of 2 to 8 meters (5 to 25 feet), is without
limit since a building with an infinite number of relocatable and
reconfigurable modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular
accessible node sites 169, configured to form an alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528 throughout the
enterprise, can handle unlimited travel for unrestricted,
untethered activity with greater reliability and quality. In
essence, the entire enterprise is at any time a plurality of
Commuters, nodes and communications networks within the occupied
spaces 538 and within the interstitial accommodation matrices 540,
which are reconfigurable, accessible, relocatable and recyclable to
accommodate evolutionary unfolding change.
[0537] My invention would not limit the roving user to spaces
within a building. Modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular
accessible node sites 169 can be placed outside in, e.g., lighting
fixture standards, or hidden in landscaping, etc., so the user may
use his communications devices in an exterior environment in a
campus of buildings. An alternate version of the Personal Mobile
Commuter provides signaling capabilities with a wider range for
women, the elderly or the disabled in an emergency situation,
whether the emergency is life threatening or a disabled vehicle on
a deserted road late at night, by using an emergency mode in order
to use the emergency satellite frequency for signalling the
emergency. This would require immediate battery replacement since
exercising the emergency use option would overly tax the micro
battery designed for the micro range of 2 to 8 meters (5 to 25
feet) for which the roving interactive communications device would
be designed.
[0538] By the teachings of my invention, any server, bridge or
router within the enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528 may communicate with any other existing
networks, whether by a satellite system, an existing phone system,
a super communications highway, an existing wireless system, and
the like.
[0539] The background of my invention must be viewed from 5
environmentally related realities:
[0540] (1) The first is the growing environmental problem generated
by the discarding of obsolete computers at the rate of more than 10
million per year. According to a Carnegie-Mellon University study,
if computers continue to be discarded at this rate, there will be
150 million computers deposited in the nation's landfills by the
year 2005.
[0541] (2) The second is the viewpoint adopted in my invention that
the building or enterprise is a Commuter (computer). This is
closely related to the concept of a computer on a chip, whereby the
outer shell which encases conventional computers is discarded and
components are placed in the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix 122-126,540 forming the alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528. As computing and other electronic systems
are upgraded by the universal sockets and universal connectors
developed to global industry standards, the replaced components may
be reassigned to perform less demanding tasks within the enterprise
or donated to small businesses or to the lesser developed
nations.
[0542] (3) The third is the teachings of my invention whereby a
network of conductors is disposed within the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540, making the
interstitial space behind every modular-accessible-matrix-unit 543
a potential modular-accessible-matrix site 170, whether in the
ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor. Thus, any
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible node site
169 may be activated as a point of multimedia transmission and
receiving. Because the entire enterprise is 100 percent accessible,
devices, accessories and conductors which are no longer needed can
be removed for re-use elsewhere, thus avoiding the "spaghetti"
syndrome of conventional underfloor wire management systems.
[0543] (4) The fourth is the growing environmental problem
generated by the discarding of building components as buildings are
renovated. Landfills have to deal with the plaster, drywall,
roofing, siding, etc., scrapped by contractors and home owners
because the structure became obsolete for lack of
reconfigurability, accessibility and recyclability of all ceilings,
walls, partitions, columns and floors in not having potentially
reconfigurable, alterable, and recyclable modular-accessible-matrix
sites 170 or modular accessible node sites 169 within an enterprise
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528. The
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528 of my
invention uses 100 percent accessible
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 which are conceived, designed
and engineered to be recyclable and reconfigurable while providing
for evolutionary change and providing untethered multimedia
wireless communications.
[0544] (5) The fifth is the growing environmental problem generated
by the premature discarding of cast-off buildings to the nation's
landfills due to premature obsolescence for a lack of having every
unit forming a ceiling membrane, a floor membrane, and a wall
membrane as a potentially reconfigurable, alterable, and recyclable
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible node site
169 within an enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528.
[0545] All 5 conditions are reaching the crisis point in that they
greatly increase the burden of handling solid wastes generated by
the population at a time when communities are having difficulty
finding places to dispose of the wastes generated. This is a global
problem. Thus, the need arises for buildings which are continually
renewable and for computers and communications networks which are
technologically upgradable to Commuter state, which, due to choice
and convenience becomes a substitute for travel in the overloaded
highway gridlock of today.
[0546] I have been issued a number of United States patents related
to modular-accessible-units 92 which are placed into an array in
ceilings, walls, partitions, columns and floors, each unit 92 being
accessible from the adjacent unit 92 by means of flexible joints
between modular-accessible-units 92. One or more units 92 may
easily be removed from the array to give access to the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 behind the
modular-accessible-units 92, and may be reconfigured or replaced,
activated or deactivated. The modular-accessible-units 92 of this
invention are modular-accessible-matr- ix-units 543, whereby each
unit has the capability of being activated as a
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 providing connectivity of
electronic conductors or devices and/or access to the system by
wired or wireless means. The entire building through its ceilings,
walls, partitions, columns and floors becomes a giant
reconfigurable and recyclable Commuter network capable of being
accessed at any point by wireless or wired devices. Thus, personnel
having wireless devices in the building need no longer be concerned
about being within range to access the system.
Modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular accessible node
sites 169 are always within range. Moreover, the performance of the
Personal Mobile Commuter or Laptop Mobile Commuter is tied to a
distance of 2 to 8 meters (5 to 25 feet) and is always at its peak
in that transmission of data is at the high speeds associated with
conductor networks, a feature which all wireless networks have not
yet been able to duplicate. Moreover, the high frequencies
preferred eliminate most spectrum interference. Therefore, there is
no need to be concerned about fadeout, loss of data, inability to
have multimedia communications, or failure to receive
communications as personnel move out of range of a
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible node site
169 through which they are communicating. In contrast, there is an
acknowledged concern about the ability of wireless networks to
perform reliably in national crisis, war, floods, hurricanes, and
the like. With modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular
accessible node sites being placed, for example, at 3 meter
(10-foot) intervals throughout the enterprise (smaller or greater
intervals may be used if required), the quality of communications
is not diminished. Another useful feature, in that there is some
concern about the security of wireless communications, would be a
"Confidential Reception" mode whereby communications traveling
between two or more modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular
accessible node sites 169 over the wired or wireless networks in
the structural interstitial accommodation matrices 122-126,540
within the enterprise could not readily be intercepted by
unauthorized personnel or tapped by outsiders not having the proper
current code or proper clearance or knowledge of where and how the
Personal Mobile Commuter or Laptop Mobile Commuter would be
directed to proceed.
[0547] The alterable structural interstitial accommodation matrix
122-126,540 becomes an interwoven grid matrix or crosswise grid
matrix on two, three or more axes and later is upgraded to include
two, three or more diagonal axes, whereby a network of conductors
and flexible circuits passes from one modular-accessible-matrix
site 170 or modular accessible node site 169 to another
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site
throughout the system, which may include hundreds, thousands, or
tens of thousands of modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular
accessible node sites. Each modular-accessible-matrix-unit 543 at a
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or each modular accessible node
90 at a modular accessible node site 169 may have a connector for
wired access and/or a transceiver/transducer for wireless access.
For wired communications, the user may select the travel route from
the multiplicity of travel routes available throughout the network
if he has a preference or may permit the artificial intelligence of
the enterprise servers, routers and bridges to direct the
communication by the best available route or have a microserver as
part of a computer on a chip or a microserver as part of a computer
on a board with artificial intelligence at the microserver,
microrouter or microbridge to serve and route Commuting interior to
and exterior to the enterprise at each activated
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible node site
169. In wireless communications, the user communicates through a
transceiver/transducer at the first modular-accessible-matrix site
170 or modular accessible node site 169, the communication passing
through the wired network or wirelessly to the second
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site
where the communication may pass through a transceiver if the
receiving party is receiving wirelessly or through a connector if
the receiving party is receiving in a wired mode. The
modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular accessible node
sites 169 along the selected route between the initiating
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site and
the destination modular-accessible-matrix site or modular
accessible node site 169 are bypassed. As microserver capability is
added to Commuters on a chip, greater speed and efficiency can be
expected in communications between the people, equipment or
machinery operating in the enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528.
[0548] A conventional wireless network does not, practically,
accept multimedia wired connectivity for roving people or mobile
equipment, machinery or robots whereas the alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528 provides total flexibility to
make choices for wired connectivity for higher quality interactive
multimedia transmission to a modular-accessible-matrix site or a
modular accessible node site or, in the alternative, operate with
roving interactive Personal Mobile Commuters or Laptop Mobile
Commuters over a very short range of 2 to 8 meters (5 to 25 feet)
with higher resolution interactive multimedia transmission than a
conventional 100 percent wireless network. The alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528 and the
Interstitial Space Commuters, Personal Mobile Commuters, Laptop
Mobile Commuters, Desk Top Commuters, and Work Station Commuters of
my invention would permit constant upgrading while conventional
wireless and wired networks and devices generally are fixed in
their parameters, requiring fresh expenditures for new networks and
devices as new technology develops. My invention turns the
enterprise alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry
528 into an invention medium for the user to constantly invent new
ways to Commute through the structural interstitial accommodation
matrices 122-126,540, speaking, for example, into one
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site and
having the communication received at another
modular-accessible-matri- x site or modular accessible node site
elsewhere in the enterprise by the intended receiver, whether
person, equipment or machine by an interwoven grid matrix or
crosswise grid matrix on two or more axes and later is upgraded to
include two or more diagonal axes, whereby a network of conductors
and flexible circuits passes from one modular-accessible-matri- x
site 170 or modular accessible node site 169 to another modular
accessible node site 169 throughout the system, which may include
hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of
modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular accessible node
sites 169, providing communication between the people, equipment
and machinery operating in the enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528.
[0549] Conventional buildings are conceived as structural systems
into which we most often place people and then add computers,
equipment, appliances, devices and machines in occupied spaces to
produce products or services within the building. The alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528 concept provides
an evolutionary interactive enterprise Commuter and network matrix
wherein people, transceivers, transducers, electronic devices, and
storage devices are conceived as appendages or servants or genies
which the human mind can call into use or with which the artificial
intelligence of roving equipment and machines can communicate,
interface and interact to produce those products and services, with
a structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540
synergistically serving the primary purpose of enabling the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix to accommodate an
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528 which
permits every ceiling, wall, partition, column or floor within the
enterprise to be an active, alterable part of the Commuter and
network matrix and the secondary purpose of creating the
enterprise. Access to the structural interstitial accommodation
matrices 122-126,540, and to the stationary and traveling universal
racks 644 therein which accommodate electronic devices and the
like, is by means of continuous access slots 609 or intermittent
access slots 610. The intermittent access slots 610 are generally
disposed within two arms' lengths of each other, generally 750 mm
to 900 mm (30 to 36 inches), a convenient distance for passing
conductors and the like from one portion of the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 to another. Passage
apertures 707 are generally disposed within one arm's length of the
access slot, generally 375 mm to 450 mm (15 to 18) inches. These
distances may, of course, vary with project requirements.
[0550] Specialized synergistic benefits can be found as natural
variations of my invention:
[0551] (1) Providing untethered, mobile, interactive Commuting
through wireless palm, pocket, head band, helmet, belt, purse, neck
choker or lapel devices which communicate wirelessly with arrays of
modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular accessible node
sites 169 within a few meters (feet) of the
modular-accessible-matrix-unit 543 accessible membrane barrier
140,145,547,546,545 throughout the ceiling, wall, partition, column
or floor system surrounding the workspaces for people using the
enterprise alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry
528
[0552] (2) Providing inductively coupled battery charge plates at
the modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular accessible node
sites 169 configurable for charging automatic guided vehicles and
robots or, in the alternative, at waitstations throughout the
enterprise alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry
528
[0553] (3) Providing inductively coupled charge plates above or
below the desktop, credenza or drawer for Personal Mobile
Commuters, Laptop Mobile Commuters or wireless palm, pocket, belt,
purse, neck choker or lapel devices that wirelessly communicate
with modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular accessible node
sites 169 throughout the enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528 or, in the alternative, are
plug connected to connected modular-accessible-matrix sites or
modular accessible node sites throughout the enterprise alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528.
[0554] Of particular significance environmentally is the enclosure
of the internal workings of computers, such as, transceivers,
transducers, processors, circuit boards, chips, disk drives,
storage devices, bridges, servers, printers, support devices, and
the like in the structural interstitial accommodation matrices
122-126,540 without penetrating the primary core barrier 143,553.
These components do not require the usual encasing shell associated
with personal computers, workstations and mainframes, thereby
freeing the occupied spaces 538 of unneeded equipment and conductor
"spaghetti" feeding into and out of each personal computer to
network the Commuters and computers digitally as well as to power
the equipment. Access to the Commuter conductors, devices,
components, appliances, equipment and the like in the structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 122-126,540 is by means of
continuous access slots 609 and intermittent access slots 610.
Thus, the building becomes the containment of the components making
up infinitely alterable, expandable, and reconfigurable Commuters
or computers, eliminating the need for such equipment in the
occupied spaces because of the alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528, multilayered interstitial
multinetgridometry 532, ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix
127,128,534, floor interstitial accommodation matrix 120,121,535,
wall interstitial accommodation matrix 536, structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-126,540, modular-accessible-matrix-units
543, ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145,545, floor accessible
membrane barrier 140,546, and wall accessible membrane barrier 547,
which are liberally illustrated in FIGS. 1-160. Of course,
conventional computer equipment may still be housed in the occupied
spaces of the enterprise if so desired.
[0555] Different levels of enterprise interactive Commuting can be
accommodated during prime peak work time, prime work time, regular
time or off regular time. A primary advantage of my invention is
its provision for evolutionary advancement beyond existing
technologies without obsoleting the alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528 and the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 of my invention but
only making the use of my invention more beneficial by all the
future inventions which enhance Commuting, computing, and
communications capabilities.
[0556] One configuration of the enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528 comprises a primary core
barrier 143,553, at least one opposed face spaced apart from the
primary core barrier, and an alterable structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-136,540 disposed between the primary core
barrier and the opposed face or faces. The structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-126,540 accommodates one or more layers or
arrays of Interstitial Space Commuters, electronic equipment,
electrical equipment, devices, conductors and connectors of all
types, which include, but are not necessarily limited to, one or
more of the following:
6 Transceivers/transducers Hubs Flexible circuits and connectors
Bridges Processors and semiconductors Switches Network servers
Breakers Circuit boards Storage devices Sensor and control devices
Support, configuring, and positioning means Conductors and
connectors, including any type of fluid, gas, power, analog, and
digital conductor for voice, data and video
[0557] Every modular-accessible-matrix-unit 543 is disposed over a
potential modular-accessible-matrix site 170. Any multi-functional
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible node site
169 within the enterprise comprises an Interstitial Space Commuter
for connectivity by means of a connector or for wireless
communications by means of a transceiver/transducer, with the
assigned modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible
node site 169 for networking Personal Mobile Commuters, Laptop
Mobile Commuters, Desk Top Commuters, Work Station Commuters and
mainframe, mini, workstation, laptop, and palmtop Commuters or
computers with Interstitial Space Commuters. For wireless
communications, any part of the spectrum may be used, including
that part used and not used by the infrared and radio frequency
technology of the prior art. Higher frequencies above 59 Ghz are
preferred. For wired communications, any type of conductor may be
used although broadband optical fiber is preferred. Superconductors
would also be a preferred embodiment. The structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-126,540 becomes an interwoven grid matrix
or crosswise grid matrix on two or three axes and later upgraded to
two or three diagonal axes, whereby a network of conductors and
flexible circuits passes from modular-accessible-matrix site 170 to
modular-accessible-matrix site or from modular accessible node site
169 to modular accessible node site throughout the system, which
may include hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of
modular-accessible-matrix sites or modular accessible node sites.
Each modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible node
site 169 may have a connector for wired access and/or a
transceiver/transducer for wireless access. For wired
communications, the user may select the travel route from the
multiplicity of travel routes available throughout the network if
he has a preference or may permit the artificial intelligence of
the enterprise servers, routers and bridges to direct the
communication by the best available route or have a microserver as
part of a computer on a chip or a microserver as part of a computer
on a board with artificial intelligence at the microserver,
microrouter or microbridge to serve and route Commuting activities
interior to and exterior to the enterprise at each activated
modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or modular accessible node site
169. In wireless communications, the user communicates through a
transceiver/transducer at the first modular-accessible-matrix site
170 or modular accessible node site 169, the communication passing
through the wired network or wirelessly to the second
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site
where the communication may pass through a transceiver/transducer
if the receiving party is receiving wirelessly or through a
connector if the receiving party is receiving in a wired mode. The
modular-accessible-matrix sites 170 or modular accessible node
sites 169 along the selected route between the initiating
modular-accessible-matrix site or modular accessible node site and
the destination modular-accessible-matrix site or modular
accessible node site are bypassed. As microserver capability is
added to the Interstitial Space Commuter, greater speed and
efficiency can be expected in Commuting between the people,
equipment or machinery operating in the enterprise alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528.
[0558] In addition, the concept of modular-accessible-matrix-units
543 and structural interstitial accommodation matrices 122-126,540
includes optional shielding layers within or on one or more faces
of the modular-accessible-matrix-units making up the accessible
membrane barrier 140,145,545,547,546 or the primary core barrier
143,553 in ceilings, walls or floors to contain electrostatic
discharge, electromagnetic fields, and radio frequency fields
within the interstitial areas. The metal tension plates backing and
forming a part of the modular-accessible-matrix-units 543, for
example, provide a shielding layer when grounded through the
support means to a quality ground. The metal formed decking which
forms the primary core barrier 143,553 in certain variations of my
invention provides a shielding layer when grounded to a quality
ground. The shielding layers offer the capability to thus protect
the health of persons in the enterprise occupied spaces outside the
ceiling, wall or floor modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 making
up the accessible membrane barrier 140,145,545,547,546 while
protecting the Interstitial Space Commuters, processors, drives,
hubs, servers, storage devices and other devices and equipment
accommodated within the interstitial areas, and prevent passage of
electrostatic discharge, electromagnetic fields, and radio
frequency fields through the primary core barrier or through the
modular-accessible-matrix-units making up the accessible membrane
barrier or from one interstitial area to another, causing
disturbances, data loss, or damage to the conductors and devices
housed within the multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532
or the individual multiple layers making up the multilayered
interstitial multinetgridometry 532.
[0559] The resulting building forming the enterprise should be
viewed as a network by which people, equipment and machines Commute
(compute and communicate) with each other in a beneficial symbiotic
relationship as directed by the human users through a continuous
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 within the
ceilings, walls, partitions, columns, and floors, which permits the
free passage of conductors from, say, the floor to the walls to the
ceiling in one part of the enterprise to the ceilings, walls,
partitions, columns, and floors in all other parts of the
enterprise without the obstructions inherent in existing
conventional construction. The structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-126,540, along with one or two accessible
membrane barriers 140,145,546,545,547, form a multilayered
interstitial multinetgridometry 532 which accommodates some or all
the building's electronic, electrical and mechanical devices,
conductors, equipment and the like, which are more fully described
in the third paragraph of this section, General
Modular-Accessible-Matrix Site, Alterable Distributed Architectural
Multinetgridometry and Interstitial Accommodation Matrix Features
Applicable To FIGS. 1-160. The structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-126,540 encapsulated by the structure
within the enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528 is sealed off from dust, fluids and fire,
thereby protecting the sensitive mechanical, electrical and
electronic devices, conductors and equipment housed therein,
including the electrical service backbone and power distribution
equipment for the enterprise.
[0560] The electronic equipment and devices are supported and
positioned by means of universal support devices for alterably
accommodating plates, mounting side blanks, mounting back blanks,
backboards, slots, mounts and mounting racks which do not penetrate
the primary core barrier 143,553. The universal support devices may
be disposed in a vertical, horizontal or angular position and may
be fastened to the primary core barrier 143,553 by any means which
does not penetrate through the barrier, including, but not limited
to, touch fasteners, screw fasteners, concentric ring fasteners,
pins, plinths, channels, racks, ties, and hooks. If desired, any
individual piece of equipment or device may have its own separate
enclosure as additional protection from dust, electromagnetic
interference, radio frequency interference, electrostatic
discharge, as its own individual cooling means, or a combination
thereof, within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix
122-126,540. The Commuter equipment and devices within the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 are
accessed by means of continuous access slots 609 and intermittent
access slots 610 as well as through the floor accessible membrane
barrier 140,546 and the ceiling accessible membrane barrier
145,545.
[0561] A major purpose, benefit and advantage of my invention is
that the primary core barrier 143,553 is not at any time penetrated
by any conductor, outlet or device, nor is it necessary to do so in
that by increasing the interstitial space, penetration is
avoidable. Thus, the primary core barrier 143,553 serves as a
privacy and security barrier and prevents the penetration of dust,
fire, smoke, heat, airborne sound, impact sound, and light. Where
natural variations call for one or more secondary core barriers
144,561, the primary core barrier 143,553 is that barrier which has
no penetrations, particularly from the ceiling side in a
floor/ceiling system. In contrast, the prior art generally provides
the weakest barrier facing the ceiling side of a floor/ceiling
assembly even though the greatest danger from fire and smoke exists
on the ceiling side.
[0562] Thus, the entire enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528 synergistically becomes a
non-penetrated privacy barrier and support barrier as well as a
network system and, singularly and collectively, an enterprise
Commuter system accessed from within the occupied spaces by those
having the proper access codes required to activate and configure
the system in conformance with the programmed artificial
intelligence of the system and the modular-accessible-matrix-u-
nits 543 forming the ceiling accessible membrane barriers 145,545,
floor accessible membrane barriers 140,546, and wall accessible
membrane barriers 547 of this invention which is a potentially
reconfigurable alterable recyclable modular-accessible-matrix site
170 or modular accessible node site 169 within the enterprise
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528.
Interactive flat screen monitors, which may vary in size from one
modular-accessible-matrix-unit 543 to a plurality of
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 forming one or more entire
walls, may be inserted in vertical surfaces, such as, walls or
partitions, but may also be installed in horizontal surfaces, such
as, counters and desks, or even in floors or ceilings, depending on
the application, to create virtual reality interactive
communication for interactive planning and conferencing for
meetings, sales and engineering conferences, interactive learning
experiences for one or more people, and the like.
[0563] The primary core barrier 143,553 remains unpenetrated and
prevents the penetration of fire, smoke, heat, airborne sound,
impact sound, and light from one side of the core barrier to the
other, thereby forming a privacy barrier as well as a supporting
core layer. By adding a metallic layer to one or both faces of the
primary core barrier 143,553 and to the back face of the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543, an electrostatic discharge,
electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference
barrier is erected which prevents disturbance of electronic
transmissions on the opposite side of the primary core barrier
143,553 and provides a means for grounding the equipment, devices,
conductors, connectors, and the like disposed within the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 as well as providing
electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference and
electrostatic discharge attributes to one or more opposed sides of
the primary core barrier 143,553.
[0564] Another major purpose of this invention is to provide a fire
membrane barrier, in the form of ceiling accessible membrane
barriers 145,545, floor accessible membrane barriers 140,546 and
wall accessible membrane barriers 547, to protect the devices,
conductors, and equipment within the structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-126,540. Contrary to the prior art, the
teachings of this invention provide substantially greater
protection from the ceiling side in that, since fires burn upward,
it is the ceiling area which requires the greater protection.
[0565] The flexibility of my invention is demonstrated by the
ability of the user to reconfigure the equipment and devices
accommodated by the system as to devices accommodated and the
location of such equipment and devices as well as to incorporate
changes due to technological evolution. The system can be upgraded,
changed, interchanged, altered, and reconfigured. The
configurations of FIGS. 1-160 are adaptable to retrofit work.
[0566] The equipment and devices at various locations are
interconnected and may communicate interactively in a network
defined in part by the alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528, in part by technological advances, in part
by the creative knowledge of the users, and in part by the
evolutionary upgrade of the artificial intelligence of routers,
switches, servers, and bridges. Through servers and routers, data
may be shared and transferred from one Interstitial Space Commuter
to another and from one device to another for algorithms, parallel
processing, and the like, through any type of conductor within the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 or
wirelessly within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix
122-126,540 or the enterprise from modular-accessible-matrix sites
and modular accessible node sites within the ceilings, walls,
partitions, columns or floors.
[0567] By means of codes, security codes, activated voice codes or
hand prints, the system may be activated by a roving individual at
any point in the enterprise. Thus, the system may be as small or as
large as desired, starting small and growing and upgrading
continually to become all it is required to be, utilizing one
microprocessor during prime office and manufacturing production
time or utilizing hundreds, thousands or millions of processors
throughout an entire enterprise during both prime work time and
non-productive nighttime hours in any algorithm or parallel
processing arrangement. Obviously, all processors within the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122-126,540 may be
interconnected into grids on two or three axes and may also have
diagonally crosswise grids in two or three axes so that these grids
may be programmed and configured and reconfigured to function in an
interactive network with any number of Personal Mobile Commuters,
Laptop Mobile Commuters, Desk Top Commuters, Work Station Commuters
and palm Commuters, wrist Commuters, neck choker Commuters, strap
Commuters, belt Commuters, laptop computers, desktop computers,
workstations, minicomputers or mainframe computers within one or
more enterprise spaces by altering the grid or by use of hubs,
routers, servers, switches, and sensors.
[0568] The only constant in the invention of the enterprise
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry 528 system
is that there is evolutionary unfolding change built into the
system so that users' creative knowledge, artificial intelligence,
operating system, and technology changes may be creatively
accommodated over a period of centuries so that the enterprise is
not subjected to razing by explosion leveling, wrecking balls, and
bulldozers for wasting of finite resources into landfill sites
which are becoming increasingly scarce. This evolutionary unfolding
change affects the entire enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528--the people, robots, office
equipment, manufacturing equipment, production equipment, service
equipment, communications equipment within the occupied spaces 538,
the Personal Mobile Commuters, Laptop Mobile Commuters, Desk Top
Commuters, Work Station Commuters, the computers (from
supercomputers to palm computers) within the occupied space, the
Interstitial Space Commuters within the structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 122-126,540 or any part of the devices,
conductors, flexible circuits, connectors, networking equipment,
mechanical equipment, electrical equipment, electronic equipment,
and the like within the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix.
[0569] Comprehensive references exist for classes of computers,
such as, mainframe computers, minicomputers, workstation computers,
personal computers, laptop computers, hubs, servers, routers,
bridges, switches, and the like, all of which may be used in the
enterprise alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry
528 and accessed through any modular-accessible-matrix site 170 or
modular accessible node site 169.
THE FIRST EMBODIMENT OF THIS INVENTION CHANNEL SLAB UNITS
[0570] Interstitial Features Of FIGS. 17-22: The interstitial
features of the channel slab units of FIGS. 17-22 include, as shown
in FIG. 18, a structural interstitial architectural matrix 129.
Also included among the interstitial features are a floor
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120, a floor
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121 above the primary
core barrier 143, a structural accessible interstitial girder
passage 130, and apertures 133 aligning with the channels and cores
of the structural interstitial architectural matrix.
[0571] General Features Of FIGS. 1-22: Any applicable general or
specific features disclosed for any of FIGS. 1-160 may apply to
FIGS. 1-22 and shall be considered as part of the general features
of these figures as if included herein. The aforementioned General
Modular-Accessible-Matrix Site, Alterable Distributed Architectural
Multinetgridometry and Interstitial Accommodation Matrix Features
Applicable To FIGS. 1-160, which is located prior to the First
Embodiment Of This Invention, is incorporated herein by reference
where applicable to FIGS. 1-22 and shall be considered as part of
the general features of these figures as if included herein.
[0572] Other Features Of FIGS. 1-22: FIGS. 9-16 illustrate a
progression of a primary core barrier 553 which begins with a flat
slab (FIGS. 9 and 10) and which is constructively modified by
several means, as shown in FIGS. 1-22, to improve its functional
benefits as a structural interstitial accommodation matrix. To more
fully illustrate the versatility of this invention as illustrated
by FIGS. 9-16, all structural reinforced slabs are shown as having
the same depth, illustrating a progression of distinctly different
primary core barriers 553 starting in FIGS. 9 and 10 with a flat
slab having a floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 above the
flat slab and having a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix
534 below the flat slab.
[0573] FIGS. 11 and 12 show a substantive altering of the
conventional slab into a floor rib-and-channel slab having the same
overall depth as the slabs of FIGS. 9 and 10, whereby the
substantive alteration lightens the weight of the slab while
providing longitudinal channels on the floor face for longitudinal
passage of conductors, support of the floor accessible membrane
barrier 546 by means of support means 606 disposed on the ribs, and
support of crosswise transverse conductors on the ribs. Where
project circumstances create a heavier demand for conductors and
devices in the ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534, FIGS.
13 and 14 show the bottom of the slab on the ceiling side 576
beneficially converted from a flat slab to a ceiling
rib-and-channel slab having channels for increased longitudinal
passage of conductors and used for receiving computer and
communications devices within the channels while the ribs provide
support surfaces for suspending the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545. The structural slabs for FIGS. 9-12 must be
formed.
[0574] Where project circumstances create a heavy demand for
conductors and devices in both the floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535 and the ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534,
FIGS. 15 and 16 beneficially further lighten the slab, while the
depth and strength remain the same, by providing a floor
rib-and-channel slab and a ceiling rib-and-channel slab for
optimizing the primary core barrier 553 structurally and
functionally for maximizing accommodation of conductors and devices
within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix, the floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535, and the ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix 534, while optimizing a fire barrier
determined by the average thickness of the primary core barrier
553.
[0575] Because of the channel shapes on the floor side 567 being
tied to the reinforcement on the floor side of the structural
slabs, the structure configurations shown in FIGS. 11-16, and
particularly in FIGS. 13-16, offer certain advantages in that the
reinforcement 290,293, the trussed bar joists 842,843, and the
transverse assembly spacer and temperature reinforcement 844 may be
formed into reinforcing mats which can be installed with and tied
to the channels 701, ready to receive the concrete. In FIGS. 13-16,
the formed decking 702 serves as a permanent form, the concrete
pumped in or placed by gravity feed from the floor side onsite to
form cast-in-place units or pumped in or placed by gravity feed
from above in the casting plant to form precast units.
[0576] In FIGS. 9-16, a floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535
is shown on the floor side 567 between the top face of the primary
core barrier 553 and the floor accessible membrane barrier 546. The
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 are shown supported on the top
face of the flat slab by support means 606 selected from plinths,
channels, foam, and the like. A ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534 is shown on the ceiling side 568 between the bottom face
of the primary core barrier 553 and the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545.
[0577] In FIGS. 9-14, an accessible ceiling system 576 is shown
suspended from the bottom face of the flat slab by means of
mechanical fasteners 382a comprising any kind of bolt, shank, rod,
stud or shaft which is threaded at least at the ends and having
multi-rotational conically-shaped bearing heads and threaded solid
shafts to fit and rotate within dovetail channels 564b which are
adhered by sealant, adhesive, or a layer of adhesive-backed foam
416 to the bottom face of the structural slab shown transversely
disposed in FIGS. 10, 12, and 14 and longitudinally disposed in
FIGS. 9, 11 and 13. The accessible ceiling systems 576 of FIGS.
9-11 and FIGS. 13 and 15 are shown supported on formed channels 427
having folded-over and outwardly extending flanges forming a
channel grid, shown as transversely disposed 427b, while the
accessible ceiling systems 576 of FIGS. 12, 14 and 16 are shown
supported on formed channels 427 shown as longitudinally disposed
427a. The formed channels 427 are shown in greater detail in FIG.
192 in my U.S. Pat. No. 5,205,091 and in the parent case, showing a
mechanical fastener 382 (any kind of bolt, shank, rod, stud or
shaft which is threaded at the ends and may be threaded its full
length and which has a slotted head) which, when combined with a
sex nut 393 and a retainer ring 394, permits the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 545 to be leveled by inserting a screwdriver with
a long shank up into the formed channels 427a to turn the
mechanical fasteners 382 to precision raise or lower the ceiling
units on the x or y axis by screwing in or out on the z axis, the
leveling or releveling process on the z axis importantly
accomplished from below the ceiling without having to removing the
ceiling units, a feature which may be used with any of the ceiling
interstitial accommodation matrices 534 of this invention.
[0578] In FIGS. 1, 2, and 7-16, various configurations are shown of
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290, top transverse
reinforcement 291, bottom transverse reinforcement 292, and
principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293.
[0579] Specific Features Of FIGS. 1-8: FIGS. 1-8 show natural
variations of FIGS. 17-22, the preferred variations of the channel
slab units of this First Embodiment of my invention.
[0580] FIGS. 1-3, 5, and 6 show structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 122 disposed between the top
flanges 146 of structural interstitial architectural matrix 129
above the primary core barrier 143.
[0581] FIGS. 3, 4, 7, and 8 illustrate structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 125 disposed between the bottom
flanges 147 of the structural interstitial architectural matrix 129
below the primary core barrier 143.
[0582] FIG. 1 shows metal formed decking 702a, a flexible magnetic
tape and foam tape load-bearing composite 742 supporting the floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 of modular-accessible-matrix-units
543.
[0583] FIGS. 5 and 6 show additional depth of the structural
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 122d, which depth is
sufficient to accommodate conductors, devices and equipment while
the remaining figures accommodate conductors or conductors and
devices or conductors and equipment. Variations of the channel
support system 142 for low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating
and cooling are shown supported on the top flanges 146 and
supporting the floor accessible membrane barrier 140.
[0584] FIGS. 1, 2, 7, and 8 show various configurations of
longitudinal bottom reinforcement 293 and transverse bottom
reinforcement 292 in the bottom flanges of the structural
interstitial architectural matrix 129.
[0585] FIGS. 1 and 6 show acoustical material 570 on the ceiling
side. FIG. 1 shows dovetailed channels cast in concrete 564a. FIG.
2 shows dovetailed channels 564 which, in this case, are cast in
concrete but, alternatively, may be applied to the surface.
[0586] FIGS. 4, 7, and 8 show linear assembly spacers 379 which may
be metal tubing of various configurations. The linear assembly
spacers are attached to the top of the metal forms which form the
structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices 125
below the primary core barrier, making the assembly stiffer to
facilitate lifting, transporting, and erection and concrete
placement at the jobsite. The attachment means may consist of
mechanical fasteners, welding, clamps, wire tying, clips, and the
like.
[0587] FIGS. 23-25 in the Second Embodiment of this invention
illustrate an even more desirable configuration, comprising linear
assembly spacers 379 attached to the bottom metal forming and to
the top metal forming, creating a stronger and stiffer assembly
than that shown for FIGS. 4, 7, and 8.
[0588] Specific Features of FIGS. 9-16: FIG. 9 shows a one-way
reinforced flat structural slab 849. The figure shows a
conventionally formed, reinforced and cast flat structural slab
having multilayered interstitial accommodation matrices comprising
a floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 above the flat slab
and a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 below the flat
slab, created by the teachings of this invention without folding
the slab as depicted in FIGS. 23-31. FIG. 9 clearly shows the
greater mass when compared to the folding slabs, as shown in FIGS.
23-31, reduces the height of the slab to form a folded primary core
barrier 553 as shown by the teachings of FIGS. 23-31 offers
substantive structural advantages over the greater mass of the
configuration of FIG. 9 as well as provides a substantive increase
in conductor passages in the interstitial accommodation matrices
above and below the primary core barrier 553 formed by the one-way
or two-way folded structural slab. The reinforcement of the slab of
FIG. 9 may be one-way reinforcement as shown or, where so desired,
may be two-way reinforcement with forming and supporting of
reinforcing bars by conventional forming means with chairs as shown
in the American Concrete Institute references and manufacturers'
sales literature for conforming with the ACI Code.
[0589] FIG. 10 shows a conventionally formed, one-way reinforced
flat structural slab 850 forming a primary core barrier 553 and
similar to that shown in FIG. 9 but has certain distinctive
features as part of the many alternative variations possible from
the teachings of my invention to tailor the structure to project
needs. The bottom transverse reinforcement 292 is supported on
longitudinal dovetail channels 564a integrally cast into the
concrete slab, with forming by any conventional flat deck forming
system with dovetail channels 564a integrally cast in the ceiling
face of the slab, which integrally cast channel provides a support
means for transverse cee channels 564b to be precision aligned to
give x and y axis precision positioning of threaded support rods
382a where slots are provided at right angles to the principal
axis. Although FIG. 10 shows only a longitudinal dovetail channel
564a, transverse dovetail channels 564a may also beneficially be
cast into the top or bottom of the conventional flat structural
slab for supporting the components creating the floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 and the ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534 above or below the structural slab with greater
precision flexibility in precision positioning of the floor
accessible membrane barrier 546 and the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545.
[0590] In FIG. 11, the one-way reinforced structural slab 851 has
an upward-facing undulating coplanar repetitive pattern of ribs and
channels 701, forming conductor passage channels 701 and a primary
core barrier 553 and forming a floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535 above the structural slab. The coplanar linear channels
701 are precision disposed in the top face of the structural slab
to form top flange ribs alternating between the linear channels 701
by precision mechanical fastening or precision welding to form a
shop-fabricated precision spacer and positioning reinforcement mat
to be field installed as a unit and comprising principal top
longitudinal reinforcement 290 and principal bottom reinforcement
293 formed into triangular trussed bar joists 843 assembled in
paired relationships and to a transverse assembly spacer and
temperature reinforcement 844 as part of the reinforcement mat for
transporting, lifting, and positioning at the jobsite before
placing concrete or, in the alternative, for precasting at a
factory on a casting bed. In the alternative, the top flange ribs
may be cast transversely.
[0591] FIG. 12 shows a one-way reinforced structural slab 852
having an upward-facing undulating coplanar repetitive pattern of
ribs and channels 701 forming conductor passage channels and a
primary core barrier 553 and forming a floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 above the structural slab. The coplanar
linear channels 701 have inwardly turning flanges and are precision
disposed in the top face of the structural slab to form
longitudinal top flanges alternating between the linear channels
701. Trussed bar joists 842a having single top bars 290 and bottom
bars and assembled into paired relationships are precision
mechanically fastened or precision welded to principal top
longitudinal reinforcement 290, principal bottom reinforcement 293,
and a transverse assembly spacer and temperature reinforcement
844.
[0592] FIG. 13 shows a one-way reinforced structural slab 853
having a downward-facing undulating coplanar repetitive pattern of
ribs and conductor passage channels formed by metal, plastic or
cementitious formed decking 702, forming a primary core barrier 553
and forming a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 below
the structural slab. The formed decking 702 serves as the forming
for the slab, and no other forms are required. The structural slab
is reinforced by means of top transverse reinforcement 291 and
trussed bar joists 842b having double top bar 290 and bottom bars
293. Dovetail channels 564b are applied to the bottom surface of
the ribs by any means, such as, by the flexible magnets 367 shown
to form the ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534. The
floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 is created by dovetail
channels 56a cast into the concrete in the top flange of the slab.
Load-bearing low .DELTA.t tubing 748b having a rectangular exterior
cross section with round internal tubing and having a groove on one
face with releasable readhering sealant tape in the groove is
disposed transversely in the floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535 directly below the modular-accessible-matrix-units 543
for support, for low .DELTA.t absorptive cooling and low .DELTA.t
emissive heating, for cushioning, for assembly, and for holding in
place.
[0593] FIG. 14 shows a one-way reinforced structural slab 854
having a downward- facing undulating coplanar repetitive pattern of
ribs and conductor passage channels formed by formed decking 702,
forming a primary core barrier 553 and forming a ceiling
interstitial accommodation matrix 534 below the structural slabs,
similar to that of FIG. 13 but has certain distinctive features as
part of the many alternative variations possible from the teachings
of my invention to tailor the structure to project needs. The
load-bearing low .DELTA.t tubing 748b is disposed longitudinally to
support modular accessible matrix units 543 and form a floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535. The formed channel 427a
forming a channel grid to support the accessible ceiling system 576
is longitudinally disposed from a transversely disposed cee channel
564b. The structural slab is reinforced by means of trussed bar
joists 842a with single top bars 290 and single bottom bars 293 and
transverse assembly spacers and temperature reinforcement 844.
[0594] FIG. 15 shows a one-way reinforced structural slab 855
having an upward-facing and downward-facing undulating coplanar
repetitive pattern of ribs and conductor passage channels having
forms of metal, plastic, gypsum, fiber or fiber cement which remain
in place, forming a primary core barrier 553 and forming an
upward-facing floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 and a
downward-facing ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534. The
spaced-apart channels 701 in the top face of the structural slab
have inwardly turning flanges. The spaced-apart channels in the
bottom of the slab are formed by the metal decking 702. The slab is
reinforced by trussed bar joists 842 and triangular trussed bar
joists 843 assembled in paired relationships and comprising
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and principal bottom
reinforcement 293, and the concrete is placed from the top between
the inward-facing channel flanges through spaces between the
channels 701 in the top of the primary core barrier 553. Within the
teachings of this invention, the channels may have outward-facing
flanges, hemmed and downward-facing flanges, and the like. The
accessible ceiling system 576 is shown suspended by means of magnet
keeper blanks welded to suspension rods 857 and attached to the
ribs of the formed decking 702 with any type of magnets 366,
including flexible magnets, which are linearly disposed or
intermittent magnets arranged in linear rows of magnets or any type
of continuous magnets disposed continuously in channels, while the
formed channels 427b forming the channel grid to support the
ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 are transversely
disposed.
[0595] FIG. 16 shows a one-way reinforced structural slab 856
having an upward-facing and downward-facing undulating coplanar
repetitive pattern of ribs and conductor passage channels forming a
primary core barrier 553 and forming an upward-facing floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535 and a downward-facing ceiling
interstitial accommodation matrix 534, similar to that of FIG. 15
but having certain distinctive features as part of the many
alternative variations possible from the teachings of my invention
to tailor the structure to project needs. Concrete is placed
between the outward-facing flanges of the spaced-apart top channels
701. The reinforcement of the structural slab differs. Top
transverse reinforcement 291 is disposed over the top bars 290 of
the triangular trussed bar joists 843. The transverse assembly
spacers and temperature reinforcement 844 are shown spaced above
the bottom bars 293 of the trussed bar joists 842. The accessible
ceiling system 576 is shown suspended by means of plates welded to
suspension rods 859 and attached to the ribs of the formed decking
702 with magnet keeper cups 858 precision stud welded to suspension
rods and, alternatively, with viscoelastic registry engagement
fasteners 373, while the formed channels 427a forming the channel
grid to support the ceiling accessible membrane 545 are shown
longitudinally disposed.
[0596] The construction systems shown in FIGS. 13-16 lend
themselves to precision-jigged shop fabrication of the decking,
channels and the reinforcement system into an integrated system for
transporting to the jobsite and erecting much like decking with
forms left in place for field placement of concrete by pumping or
crane trunk pouring of concrete or, in the alternative, precasting
at the shop for delivery to the jobsite as an integrated precast
system. FIGS. 9-12 may be precast or erected at the jobsite over a
conventional forming system for jobsite casting.
[0597] Specific Features Of FIGS. 17-22: FIGS. 17-22 are the
preferred variations of this First Embodiment of my invention.
[0598] FIG. 17 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 20, illustrating a
floor/ceiling system comprising channel slab units supported by a
composite steel and concrete girder 150 comprising a wide flange
steel beam so configured in my invention to form a bottom flange
147 encapsulating in concrete a bottom flange to which a wide steel
plate has been welded, designed to provide time/temperature rated
fire protection. The steel plate extends beyond the bottom flange
on either side to carry the load of the channel slab units and of
the composite steel and concrete beam 151. The top flange of the
steel beam is sufficiently narrow to permit the precast channel
slab units to be placed on the upward extending load-bearing webs
158 which support the channel slab units and the composite steel
and concrete beam 151. The exposed web 149 and top flange of the
composite steel and concrete girder 150 are encapsulated in an
optional intumescent coating 159 to provide fire protection for
those parts of the steel girder which are not encapsulated in
concrete. A structural accessible interstitial girder passage 130
is formed which accommodates the longitudinal passage of conductors
and is accessible from the floor interstitial accommodation
matrices.
[0599] FIG. 17 illustrates channel slab units having each top
flange 146 supported at midpoint between two bottom flanges 147.
The composite steel and concrete beam 151 and a ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 145 are shown below the primary core barrier 143.
A floor accessible membrane barrier 140 is supported above the
primary core barrier by a channel support system 142 for low
.DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating and cooling. A structural
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 122, a floor
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120, and a floor
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121 are shown between
the primary core barrier and the floor accessible membrane barrier.
The channel slab units of FIG. 17 have a primary core barrier 143,
a top flange 146, a bottom flange 147, and accommodate a plurality
of structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices 125
below the primary core barrier.
[0600] FIG. 18 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 21. FIG. 18 is
similar to FIG. 17, except that each top flange of the channel slab
units is aligned above a bottom flange. Each structural
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 122 is positioned
directly above a structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation
matrix 125, separated by the primary core barrier 143. The spacing
and arrangement of the structural longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrices 122,125 and the alignment of the top flanges
146 and bottom flanges 147 produce a different edge configuration
for the channel slab units supported by the load-bearing web 158 of
the composite steel and concrete girder 151.
[0601] FIG. 19 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 22, showing a
similar view as FIG. 17 and 18. A series of pre-spaced apertures
133 aligning with the channels and cores of the structural
interstitial architectural matrix 129 are shown through the web of
the steel girder, through the load-bearing concrete web 158 of the
composite steel and concrete girder 150, and through the composite
steel and concrete beam 151, permitting arm-length access to
conductors disposed within structural accessible interstitial beam
passages. Apertures 133 are shown aligning with the channels and
cores of the structural interstitial architectural matrix 129. A
cast-in-place concrete top flange 157 is shown for the composite
steel and concrete girder 150. Acoustical concrete 570 is shown on
the exposed ceiling side of the primary core barrier 143. A floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 is supported upon the flanges of
the primary core barrier 143 by means of a channel support system
142 for low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating and cooling,
creating a floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120
and a floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121.
[0602] FIG. 20 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 17 cut through the
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129, wherein a
composite steel and concrete beam 151 is supported on a composite
steel and concrete girder 150. FIG. 20 shows a composite steel and
concrete beam 151 having a steel bottom flange reinforced by a
welded plate extending on either side of the bottom flange
encapsulated in concrete, upward extending concrete webs, the steel
web and top flange encapsulated in an intumescent coating 159, and
a structural accessible interstitial beam passage 131 on either
side of the web to permit the longitudinal passage of conductors.
An aperture 133 is shown in the steel web, aligning with the
channels and cores of the structural interstitial architectural
matrix 129. The channel slab units are supported on the bottom
flanges or upward extending concrete webs of the composite steel
and concrete beam. A composite steel and concrete girder 150
supports the composite steel and concrete beam 151. A ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 145 is disposed below the primary core
barrier 143. A floor interstitial accommodation matrix 140 is
supported on the primary core barrier 143 by the channel support
system 142 for low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating and
cooling. A structural transverse interstitial accommodation matrix
123, a floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121, and
a floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120 are
shown above the primary core barrier.
[0603] FIG. 21 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 18. FIG. 21 shows
a structural transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 126 below
the primary core barrier. A structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 123 is shown above the primary core barrier
143. Apertures 133 in the composite steel and concrete girder 150
align with the channels and cores of the structural interstitial
accommodation matrix and permit arm-length access to conductors in
the structural accessible interstitial girder passage.
[0604] FIG. 22 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 19. FIG. 22 also
shows a cast-in-place top flange 157 and a large reinforced
aperture 133 in the steel web of the composite steel and concrete
beam 151. Apertures 133 aligning with the channels and cores of the
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129 are shown in the
concrete webs of the composite steel and concrete beam 151 and also
in the composite steel and concrete beam girder 150 upon which the
composite beam 151 is supported. The apertures permit arm-length
access to conductors disposed with the structural accessible
interstitial girder passage.
THE SECOND EMBODIMENT OF THIS INVENTION FOLDED SLAB UNITS
[0605] Interstitial Features Of FIGS. 32-37: FIGS. 32-37 are the
preferred variations of the folded slab units of this Second
Embodiment of my invention. The interstitial features of the folded
slab units of FIGS. 32-37 include, as shown in FIG. 32, a
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129. Also included
among the interstitial features above the primary core barrier 143
are a floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120a,
120b, and 120c, a floor transverse interstitial accommodation
matrix 121, a structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation
matrix 122, a structural transverse interstitial accommodation
matrix 123, and apertures 133 aligning with channels and cores of
the structural interstitial accommodation matrix. Below the primary
core barrier are shown a structural longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 125, a structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 126, a ceiling longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 128, and a ceiling transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 127. Within the primary core barrier 143 are
shown linear assembly spacers 379 which may align with apertures
133 to align with channels and cores of the structural interstitial
accommodation matrix and thereby serve as conductor passages.
[0606] General Features Of FIGS. 23-41: Any applicable general or
specific features disclosed for any of FIGS. 1-160 may apply to
FIGS. 23-41 and shall be considered as part of the general features
of these figures as if included herein. The aforementioned General
Modular-Accessible-Matrix Site, Alterable Distributed Architectural
Multinetgridometry and Interstitial Accommodation Matrix Features
Applicable To FIGS. 1-160, which is located prior to the First
Embodiment Of This Invention, is incorporated herein by reference
where applicable to FIGS. 23-41 and shall be considered as part of
the general features of these figures as if included herein.
[0607] FIGS. 23-41 show vertical cross sections of a floor/ceiling
system comprising a folded undulating concrete slab as a primary
core barrier 553 of cast structural concrete 571, which provides a
fire, smoke, sound, light, security and privacy barrier within a
multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 which also
accommodates a plurality of interstitial accommodation matrices,
which my include a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534
and/or a floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535, and/or one or
more interstitial accommodation matrices within the structure.
[0608] General Features Of FIGS. 23-25: FIGS. 23-25 show a first
layer of metal formed decking 702 comprised of coplanar channels
574 and a second layer of spaced-apart coplanar parallel metal
formed channels 701, which are pre-assembled by means of coplanar
linear assembly spacers 379 into a double layer to form the primary
core barrier 553, designated in FIG. 24, thereby creating a system
for forming a folded concrete plate and providing the following
synergistic benefits:
[0609] A folded primary core barrier 553 having a significant
strength-to-weight advantage is developed over a conventional
unfolded slab shown in FIGS. 1-22, while providing channels for
accommodating devices and conductors for assembling an enterprise
computer matrix.
[0610] A folded primary core barrier 553 is produced having
significant strength and span advantages with moderate material
use.
[0611] Concrete may be pumped and vibrated into place into
prefabricated forms at the jobsite in multi-story construction,
thereby achieving greater spans, as well as being placed by any
other conventional means.
[0612] An initial stronger working layer is created, before placing
the concrete as well as after placing the concrete, than is
possible with single layers of metal decking.
[0613] Essential conductor and device channels are formed in the
top and bottom surfaces of the primary core barrier 553 for
accommodating devices and conductors for creating an enterprise
computer matrix.
[0614] As the channels formed get progressively deeper in FIGS.
23-25, the strength of the primary core barrier 553 becomes
progressively stronger.
[0615] Since no conduits are required within the primary core
barrier 553, the concrete may be placed immediately without need of
preliminary layout of conduits and concrete inserts, as in
conventional construction over a single decking layer, before
concrete can be placed.
[0616] The subdivided interstitial accommodation matrices 533 may
be formed by magnetically coupling magnetic multi-rotational
bearing feet 603c (unslotted) or 603d (slotted) of the
multi-rotational plinths 605 to the flange of the metal formed
channels 701 on the floor side 567 or to the metal formed decking
702 on the ceiling side 568 and by magnetically coupling the
magnetic multi-rotational bearing heads to the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543, thereby allowing
micropositioning adjustment of the multi-rotational plinths 605 and
eliminating the need for fasteners.
[0617] Alternatively, the multi-rotational plinths 605 may be held
in place on the metal formed channels 701 and metal formed decking
702 and to the backs of the modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 by
globs of sealant or adhesive, foam tape, touch fasteners, or any
other mechanical fastening means, such as, threaded inserts,
dovetail slots, and the like.
[0618] Linear assembly spacers 379 are positioned transversely in
the primary core barrier 553 at any spacing between 6 inches and
144 inches although generally a spacing between 12 inches and 24
inches is preferred, thereby creating a precise formed matrix to
form a precise concrete matrix, and may comprise a zee channel, a U
channel, a square or rectangular bar, a rod, a pipe or the like,
accomplishing the following:
[0619] Positions the metal formed channels 701 discretely away from
the metal formed decking 702
[0620] Discretely positions the metal formed channels 701 in
parallel coplanar relationship above the channels 574 within the
metal formed decking 702
[0621] Ties the channels 701 and the decking 702 into an integral
whole for forming a structurally integrated whole surface for
workmen placing the concrete between the decking 702 and the
channels 701 through the linear slot 566 between the metal formed
channels 701 to form the primary core barrier 553 as well as to
form a structural composite primary core barrier 553 after the
concrete is placed and cured
[0622] Aligns and supports the metal formed channels 701 in precise
relationship with the channels 574 within the metal formed decking
702 while the structural concrete 571 is being placed and cured
[0623] Provides discrete positioning of the metal formed channels
701 by means of positioning and alignment guides 685 projecting
from the linear assembly spacer 379.
[0624] The primary core barriers 553 shown FIGS. 23-25 are
generally prefabricated for erection at the jobsite without the
concrete core and the concrete core placed at the jobsite after the
units have been erected. The units may also be supplied as precast
units. In contrast, the primary core barriers 553 of FIGS. 9-16,
38-67, 80-83, 90-93, and 100-125 are generally precast although it
is certainly within the teachings of this invention to cast the
units at the jobsite.
[0625] A ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 is disposed
between the primary core barrier 553 and the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 545. A floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535
is disposed between the primary core barrier 553 and the floor
accessible membrane barrier 546. The primary core barrier 553 is
cast within permanent metal formed channels 701 on the floor side
567 and a permanent metal formed decking 702 on the ceiling side
568 which forms channels 574 to accommodate the passage of
conductors. The concrete is placed through a linear slot 566
between the metal formed channels 701 in the top flange zone 554.
Assembly ties 703 may be attached to adjoining metal formed
channels 701 to keep the channels in alignment during the placement
of the structural concrete 571. Inspection peep holes and air vents
705 as small as 1/8 inch in diameter may be made in the metal
formed channels 701 so it may be determined that difficult places
to place concrete have been filled with concrete. The metal formed
channels 701 and the channels 574 in the formed metal decking 702
may be subdivided for separation of power conductors from
electronic conductors, for example, by means of vertical channel
dividers 710 or by horizontal metallic plates 699 and may have a
channel access cover 365. The folded concrete slab which comprises
the primary core barrier 553 has a zone functioning as a top flange
554, a zone functioning as a bottom flange 555, and a zone
functioning as a solid web 556.
[0626] Specific Features Of FIGS. 23-25: FIG. 23 shows a
multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 containing a
plurality of interstitial accommodation matrices 529 and having a
primary core barrier 553 featuring partially divided metal formed
channels 701 in the top flange zone 554 and partially divided
channels 574 in the bottom flange zone 555, formed by folds made in
the metal formed channels 701 and by folds made in the metal formed
decking 702 so as to accommodate conductors, devices, equipment and
the like. A channel access cover 365 is shown. A linear assembly
spacer 379 is positioned at midpoint in the solid web zone 556 to
discretely align and support the channels in the top flange zone
554 and the bottom flange zone 555 in a coplanar and parallel
relationship. A ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 is
shown on the ceiling side 568 of the floor/ceiling system disposed
between the primary core barrier 553 and the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 545 of modular-accessible-matrix-units comprising
an accessible ceiling system 576 with a composite of backer board
and acoustical facing 576a although any material or combination of
materials may be used. Homogeneous materials may also be used, such
as, having the backer board and facing of acoustical material or of
gypsum. The ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 is suspended
from the primary core barrier 553 by means of a plurality of
multi-rotational bearings 605, shown on one side as an unslotted,
non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing head 600a sharing a
multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shaft 601 with an
unslotted, magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603c and on the
other side as a multi-rotational bearing head 600a sharing a
multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shaft 602 with a slotted,
magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603d. A floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 is shown on the floor side 567 disposed
between the primary core barrier 553 and a floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 comprising modular-accessible-matri- x-units
543. The modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 are supported by a
plurality of multi-rotational bearing plinths 605, shown as having
various configurations of multi-rotational bearing heads 600a
(unslotted, non-magnetic), 600b (slotted, non-magnetic), 600c
(unslotted, magnetic), 600d (slotted, magnetic), and
multi-rotational bearing feet 603a, b, c, and d which have the same
definition as the multi-rotational bearing heads 600. Principal top
longitudinal reinforcement 290 and principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293 are shown.
[0627] FIG. 24 shows the structure of FIG. 23, with certain
exceptions. The solid web zone 556 and the metal formed channels
701 in the top flange zone 554 and the channels 574 within the
metal formed decking 702 in the bottom flange zone 555 are
deepened. A linear assembly spacer 379 is discretely positioned at
midpoint in the solid web 556 to align and support the metal formed
channels 701 relative to the channels 574 of the metal formed
decking 702. An assembly tie 703 is attached to adjoining metal
formed channels 701 to keep the channels in alignment during the
placement of the structural concrete 571 through the linear slot
566. The two channels 701 in the top flange zone 554 show single or
vertical tee-shaped vertical channel dividers 710 the full height
of the channels to support channel access covers 365. On the floor
side 567 of the floor/ceiling system, a floor accessible membrane
barrier 546 comprising modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 is
disposed over a subdivided interstitial accommodation matrix 533,
the subdividing accomplished by means of a metallic plate 699
resting on the steps of multi-rotational bearing plinths 605 and by
means of channel access covers 365 and single or multiple
tee-shaped vertical channel dividers 710. The multi-rotational
bearing plinths 605 are shown in a variety of configurations of
multi-rotational bearing heads 600 and multi-rotational bearing
feet 604, as shown in FIGS. 24, and 603, as described in FIG. 23.
Three types of shafts are shown, a multi-rotational bearing
externally threaded solid shaft 601, a multi-rotational bearing
externally threaded and internally non-threaded tubular shaft 602a
to receive a concentric ring fastener 381, and a multi-rotational
bearing externally threaded and internally threaded tubular shaft
602b to receive a screw fastener 674, each shaft threaded into an
internally formed, drawn and rollthreaded site 604 in the flanges
of the metal formed channels 701.
[0628] On the ceiling side, a ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534 is formed by suspending a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 comprising an accessible ceiling system of
modular-accessible-matrix-unit- s comprising a composite of metal
backer and acoustical facing 576c, although any material or
combination of materials may be used, by means of magnetic
multi-rotational bearing heads 600c and 600d and by means of
non-magnetic multi-rotational bearings 600a and 600b, as described
in FIG. 23, each having either a multi-rotational bearing threaded
solid shaft 601, a multi-rotational bearing externally threaded,
internally non-threaded tubular shaft 602a with inserted fastener,
or a multi-rotational bearing externally threaded internally
threaded tubular shaft 602b with inserted fastener, the shafts
threaded into an internally formed, drawn and rollthreaded site 604
in the metal formed decking 702, thereby providing a fire
barrier.
[0629] FIG. 25 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 24, except
that the solid web zone 556 of the primary core barrier 553 is
deeper and the metal formed channels 701 of the top flange zone 554
and the metal formed decking 702 of the bottom flange zone 555 have
dovetailed slots 562 to accommodate multi-rotational plinths 605
for precision leveling of the floor accessible membrane barrier 546
and ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545, each plinth comprising
a multi-rotational dovetailed foot 608 and a multi-rotational
bearing head 600, as described in FIG. 23, sharing a
multi-rotational bearing shaft of the types described in FIG. 24.
On the ceiling side 568, a ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534 is formed by suspending a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 comprising an accessible ceiling system of
modular-accessible-matrix-unit- s comprising a composite of backer
board and gypsum board facing 576b, although any material or
combination of materials may be used, by means of the
multi-rotational plinths 605, each comprising a multi-rotational
dovetailed foot 608 sharing a multi-rotational bearing threaded
solid shaft 601 with a non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing head
600c, fitted into a dovetailed slot 562 in the bottom flange zone
555 of the primary core barrier 553, thereby providing a fire
barrier. One of the extra-deep metal formed channels 701 in the top
flange zone 554 is divided horizontally by means of a channel
access cover 365. Small inspection peep holes and air vents 705 are
made in the channels 701 so it may be determined that difficult
places to place concrete have been filled with concrete.
[0630] General Features Of FIGS. 26-31: FIGS. 26-31 show a
floor/ceiling system comprising a folded undulating concrete slab
as a primary core barrier 553 of cast structural concrete 571,
which provides a fire, smoke, sound, light, security and privacy
barrier. FIGS. 26-31 are natural variations of FIGS. 23-25.
[0631] A ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 disposed on
the ceiling side between the ceiling accessible membrane barrier
545 and the bottom flange zone 555 of the primary core barrier 553
and a floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 disposed on the
floor side 567 between the floor accessible membrane barrier 546
and the top face of the primary core barrier 553 within a plurality
of interstitial accommodation matrices 529, distinguished and shown
in FIG. 26, to accommodate devices, conductors, connectors,
equipment, and the like.
[0632] Principal top and bottom longitudinal reinforcement 290,293
is shown in the top flange zone 554 and bottom flange zone 555.
FIGS. 27-30 show a linear assembly spacer 379 discretely positioned
at midpoint in the solid web zone 556 to align and support the
channels 574 in the metal formed decking 702 and the metal formed
channels 701 on the opposing faces of the primary core barrier 553
so that the concrete may be poured through the linear slot 566
between the metal formed channels 701. The view of FIG. 26 is taken
at a point which does not show the linear assembly spacer 379.
[0633] Specific Features Of FIGS. 26-31: FIG. 26 does not show the
linear assembly spacer 379 in the primary core barrier 553 as shown
in FIGS. 23-25 and 27-30. Instead, a reinforcement support cage 594
is shown which aligns and supports the principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 290 and the principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293 and also discretely spaces and aligns the metal
formed channels 701 and the metal formed decking 702 in a desired
spaced-apart parallel relationship. The ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 of modular-accessible-matrix-units comprising a
composite of metal backer [board] and gypsum board facing 576d,
although any material or combination of materials may be used as
shown in FIGS. 23-25, is suspended on multi-rotational bearing
plinths having an unslotted, non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing
head 600a, a multi-rotational dovetailed foot 608, and a
multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shaft 601. It is obvious
from the teachings of my invention that any type of backer board
may be used in combination with any type of acoustical facing
material, gypsum board facing, and the like. The floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 is supported by multi-rotational bearing
plinths having a multi-rotational bearing heat 600a, an unslotted,
magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603c, and a multi-rotational
bearing threaded solid shaft 601. As in other instances, the
multi-rotational bearing head, the multi-rotational bearing foot,
and the externally threaded shaft are fully interchangeable with
any other variation disclosed by the teachings of this
invention.
[0634] FIG. 27 shows the structure of FIG. 26, except that a linear
assembly spacer 379 supports the reinforcement 290 and a chair 591
supports the reinforcement 293. Multi-rotational bearing plinths
605, as described in FIG. 23, support the floor accessible membrane
barrier 546. Shielding layers 717 are shown in the metal layer in
the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 and in the floor
accessible membrane barrier 546 and in the metal formed decking
702.
[0635] FIGS. 28 and 29 show the same structure with minor
variations in the arrangement of metallic plates 699 providing a
subdivided interstitial accommodation matrix 533 on the floor side
567. The channels vary in depth and some are deeper than those in
FIGS. 26 and 27, thereby adding strength to the primary core
barrier 553. The floor accessible membrane barrier 546 is supported
on the primary core barrier 553 by multi-layered stepped plinths
595 having multi-rotational bearing feet 603. In FIG. 28, the foot
is an unslotted, magnetic foot 603c. FIG. 29 shows a
multi-rotational dovetailed foot 608 in a dovetailed slot 562 in
the metal formed channel 701. The ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 comprising a composite of metal backer and gypsum board
facing 576d, although any material or combination of materials may
be used as shown in FIGS. 23-27, is suspended by multi-rotational
bearing plinths having unslotted, magnetic multi-rotational bearing
heads 600c and multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shafts 601.
In FIG. 28, the multi-rotational bearing feet 603c are unslotted
and magnetic, while in FIG. 29, the feet are multi-rotational
dovetailed feet 608. The metal formed channels 701 have channel
access covers 365 or metallic plates 699, while the channels 574 in
the metal formed decking 702 have channel access covers 365.
Shielding layers as protection against electromagnetic
interference, radio frequency interference and electrostatic
discharge are provided in FIG. 28 by means of the metal backing of
the composite modular-accessible-matrix-unit 579 and the metal
formed decking 702. FIGS. 28 and 29 show multi-stepped heads with
alternative variations of shield plates 699 to form different
hierarchies of conductor management within the layers supported on
stepped plinths.
[0636] FIG. 30 shows a primary core barrier 553 and channels on
opposing sides of the primary core barrier both having a much
greater depth than FIGS. 26-29, the primary core barrier 553
correspondingly increasing in strength. The ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 545 comprises modular-accessible-matrix-units of a
composite of backer board and acoustical facing 576a supported by
universal precast hat-shaped enclosures 661 which are suspended
from dovetailed slots 562 in the metal formed decking 702. The
floor accessible membrane barrier 546 is supported by
multi-rotational bearing plinths 605 having multi-rotational
bearing dovetailed feet 608 in dovetailed slots 562 in the metal
formed channels 701.
[0637] The universal hat-shaped enclosure 661 is precast of
cementitious concrete or Class A or Class II non-combustible
polymer concrete to form a totally non-combustible suspended
acoustical ceiling system according to the teachings of this
invention, having corner support means for a composite of backer
board and acoustical facing 576a, although the enclosure may be
fabricated by any means, including by fire-resistant panels with
mitered corners. The universal precast hat-shaped enclosure 661, of
any polygonal shape, and in this case having a square shape in plan
view, and of any desired functional height, is fabricated to serve
multiple purposes as an enclosure for lighting fixtures, speakers,
sensors, fire-suppression devices, sprinklers, modular accessible
nodes for sensors, processors, controllers, transceivers or other
communication functions, and the like. The enclosure is supported
from a dovetailed slot 562 or channel to provide three-axis
precision alignment, on the vertical axis by means of threaded
mechanical fasteners, on the longitudinal axis by movement of the
dovetailed head positionable in the dovetailed slot 562 or channel,
and on the transverse axis by precision alignment made possible by
slotted apertures in the universal precast hat-shaped enclosure 661
which are disposed crosswise to the axis of the dovetailed slot
562. The universal hat-shaped enclosures 661 may, within the
teachings of my invention, be linear or of any polygonal shape and
assembled in arrays. The universal hat-shaped enclosure is
adaptable to being suspended by any adhesive or mechanical means
shown in FIGS. 1-160 as well as by any existing structural
fastening or suspension system.
[0638] FIG. 31 shows a structure similar to that shown in FIGS.
23-30. FIG. 31 shows how the folded undulating concrete slab can be
specifically configured with wider transverse folds in the metal
formed decking 702 at the ceiling side 567 and with wider floor
channels to form wider transverse folds in the floor side 568,
thereby more conveniently accommodating, for example, multiple-tube
fluorescent lighting fixtures from the ceiling side and
correspondingly wider floor channels while retaining the other
inherent advantages of this natural variation of my invention. The
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 in the top flange 554
and the principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293 in the
bottom flange 555 are supported by chairs 591. One of the channels
574 in the metal formed decking 702 accommodates a lighting fixture
625 suspended by means of a fixture-hanging yoke 628 and attached
to the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 by fastening means
selected from magnets, touch fasteners, foam tape, and the like.
The metal formed channel 701 is open to accommodate electronic and
electrical devices, conductors and equipment.
[0639] The ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 comprises
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 suspended below the ceiling
interstitial accommodation matrix 545 by channels 361 having
inwardly turning flanges to accommodate the ability of fastener
heads to slide along the longitudinal axis. Small secondary
channels 548 are rollformed into the metal formed decking 702 in
discrete positions, providing convenient alignment for positioning
channel feet 686 for chairs 591 which hold the principal
longitudinal reinforcement 293,290 in a certain desired position.
The secondary channels 548 also position and hold in place channels
361 having inwardly turning flanges from which lighting fixtures
625 and ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 may also be
suspended. The lighting fixtures 625 may be linear or of any
polygonal shape and assembled in arrays. The lighting fixture is
adaptable to being suspended by any adhesive or mechanical means
shown in FIGS. 1-160 as well as by any existing structural
fastening or suspension system. The linear assembly spacer 379
supports and aligns the metal formed channels 701 specifically in
relation to the channels of the metal formed decking 702 to form
the bottom flange 555. The metal formed channels 701 form the top
flange 554 on opposite sides of channel 701, the structural
concrete 571 being placed through the linear slot 566. The floor
accessible membrane barrier 546 is disposed over the floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535 by means of multi-rotational
bearing plinths 605 having a multi-rotational bearing head 600 and
a multi-rotational bearing foot 603 fitted into a channel 361
having inwardly extending flanges to allow precision alignment of
the foot along the longitudinal axis. The channels 361 have
crosswise slots to allow precision alignment on the transverse axis
with positioning channel feet 688 with fasteners through slots
fitting over the linear assembly spacer 379. A hat-shaped stub
bearing channel 687 with a slotted aperture is disposed between the
flange of the metal formed channel 701 and the channel 361
supporting the plinth 605. Cushioning layers of foam 667 and
elastomeric 664b are shown supporting the plinth 605, although
rubber, plastic, and the like may also be used. The positioning
channel feet 686 fitting over the top of the secondary channels 548
permit the alignment of the chairs 591 supporting reinforcement.
Also shown is an optional layer of foam 667 disposed below the
flanges of the metal formed channels 701 to facilitate screwing
into the flange for fastening positioning channel feet 686 and
channels 361. The positioning channel feet 686 and the plinth
support channels 361 may be raised to allow the passage of
conductors on the transverse axis above the formed metal channels
701.
[0640] General Features Of FIGS. 32-34: FIGS. 32-34 show a
composite steel and concrete girder 150 having a bottom flange
reinforced with a wide welded steel plate and encapsulated in
concrete to provide time/temperature rated fire protection and to
provide a reinforced ledge for supporting the folded slab units.
The exposed web and top flange of the composite steel and concrete
girder 150 are encapsulated in an optional intumescent coating 159
to provide fire protection to those parts of the steel girder which
are not encapsulated in concrete. An alternate system to the
composite steel girder 150, which may be more cost effective, is to
weld repetitively a series of large size reinforcing bars or other
bars of any polygonal cross section to the bottom flange of the
steel beam, as shown in FIG. 125, to provide the reinforced ledge
for carrying the folded slab units as an alternative to welding
continuous steel plate to the bottom flange as shown in FIGS.
32-34. A structural accessible interstitial girder passage 130 for
accommodating the passage of conductors is shown on either side of
the web, which web has an aperture 133 aligning with channels and
cores of the structural interstitial accommodation matrix.
[0641] Specific Features Of FIGS. 32-34: The floor accessible
membrane barrier 140 is supported on the top flanges 146 of the
primary core barrier 143 of the folded slab units by a channel
support system 142 for low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating
and cooling comprising channels accommodating two coplanar
longitudinal low .DELTA.t tubes and a mechanism for leveling the
channel support system from above. The floor longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix is shown with various
combinations to accommodate conductors 120a, to accommodate
conductors and devices 120b, to accommodate conductors and
equipment 120c, and to accommodate conductors, devices and
equipment 120d. The floor transverse interstitial accommodation
matrix is shown to accommodate conductors and equipment 121c in
FIG. 34. The ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145 is suspended
from the bottom flanges 147 of the primary core barrier 143 of the
folded slab units by a ceiling suspension system 148, as shown in
FIG. 22, where attached or affixed to the bottom flange 147, and in
FIG. 34, where embedded in the acoustical concrete 570 of the
bottom flange 147. Dovetailed channels are also shown recessed into
the bottom flange of the composite steel and concrete girder 150 to
accommodate certain elements of the ceiling suspension system.
Various configurations of the folded slab units are shown. Whereas
FIG. 33 shows a continuous metal, plastic or cementitious formed
decking 702 for the intermittent top flanges 146 and the structural
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices 122 above the
primary core barrier 143, FIGS. 32 and 34 show metal, plastic or
cementitious formed channels.
[0642] General Features Of FIGS. 35-37: FIGS. 35-37 show a
composite steel and concrete beam 151 having a bottom flange
reinforced with a steel plate and encapsulated in concrete and a
web and top flange encapsulating in an intumescent coating 159. A
structural accessible interstitial beam passage 131 for
accommodating the passage of conductors is shown on either side of
the web, which web has an aperture 133 aligning with channels and
cores of the structural interstitial accommodation matrix.
[0643] Specific Features Of FIGS. 35-37: FIGS. 35-37 show a floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 supported on the top flanges of the
primary core barrier 143 of the folded slab units by a channel
support system 142 for low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating
and cooling. A floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix
is shown to accommodate conductors 121a, to accommodate conductors
and devices 121b, to accommodate conductors and equipment 121c, and
to accommodate conductors, devices and equipment 121d. A ceiling
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 127 and a ceiling
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 128 are shown, with
a ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145 suspended from the bottom
flanges of the folded slab units by a ceiling suspension system
148. Linear assembly spacers 379 are shown. FIGS. 35 and 36 show
backbone conductors 979. FIG. 36 shows access plugs 712 sealed with
intumescent material 159 or flexible gasketing material.
THE THIRD EMBODIMENT OF THIS INVENTION CHANNEL JOIST UNITS
[0644] Interstitial Features Of FIGS. 68-79: The interstitial
features of the channel joist units of FIGS. 68-79 include a
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129. Also included
among the interstitial features are a structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 122 above the primary core
barrier 143 and a structural longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 125 below the primary core barrier. FIGS.
68-70 show a floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix
120 and a floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121
above the structural interstitial accommodation matrix 122, and a
ceiling transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 127 and a
ceiling longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 128 are
shown below the structural interstitial accommodation matrix 125.
The same elements apply to FIGS. 71-79 although some elements may
not always appear in the drawings because the section lines are cut
at a point where such elements are hidden by other parts of the
structure.
[0645] General Features Of FIGS. 38-39: FIGS. 38-67 and FIGS. 80-89
show natural variations of FIGS. 68-79, the preferred variations of
the channel joist units of this Third Embodiment of my
invention.
[0646] Specific Features Of FIGS. 38-42: FIGS. 38-41 show various
cross-sectional views of the channel joist units. A floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 is shown disposed over a plinth
support system 141 supported by channels and disposed over the top
flanges of the channel joist units.
[0647] FIG. 38 shows structural longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrices 122 above the primary core barrier 143 which
comprises the entire channel joist unit, closed off by linear
access plugs 154. A floor accessible membrane barrier 140 is
supported by a plinth support system 141. Structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 125 are shown below the primary core
barrier. A ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145 is suspended by
a ceiling suspension system 148 from the bottom flanges 147 of the
channel joist units. The bottom flanges are reinforced with
principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293. Top longitudinal
reinforcement 290 is also shown. Cast-in-place or post-tensioned
top reinforcement 180 is also shown. Floor longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 120c accommodating conductors
and equipment and 120d accommodating conductors, devices and
equipment are shown. A ceiling longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 128 and a ceiling transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 127 are shown above the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 145.
[0648] FIG. 39 illustrates the elements shown in FIG. 40, except
that the view is taken at another point in the span of the channel
joist units to show cross-tie bridging 611. Details of the top
transverse reinforcement 291, the bottom transverse reinforcement
292, and cross-tie bridging 611 are shown.
[0649] FIG. 40 illustrates a composite steel and concrete beam 151
having a wide steel plate welded to the bottom flange. The
reinforced bottom flange is encapsulated in concrete to provide
time/temperature rated fire protection and to provide a reinforced
ledge required to support the ends of the channel joist units and
is, in turn, supported by a composite steel and concrete girder
150, as more fully described for FIGS. 71-73. The web of the
composite beam has an aperture 133 aligning with channels and cores
of the structural interstitial architectural matrix 129. A
structural accessible interstitial beam passage 131 is shown on
either side of the web of the composite beam 151. Top transverse
reinforcement 291 and bottom transverse reinforcement 292 are
shown. A floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121a
accommodating conductors is disposed below the floor accessible
membrane barrier 140. A structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 126 is shown below the primary core barrier
143.
[0650] FIG. 41 shows a composite steel and concrete girder 150
having a wide steel plate welded to the bottom flange. The
reinforced bottom flange is encapsulated in concrete to provide
time/temperature rated fire protection and to provide a reinforced
ledge required to support the ends of the channel joist units and
is, in turn, supported by a composite steel and concrete girder
150, as more fully described for FIGS. 71-73. As in FIG. 40, the
web of the composite girder has an aperture 133 aligning with
channels and cores of the structural interstitial architectural
matrix 129. A structural accessible interstitial girder passage 130
is shown on either side of the web of the composite girder to
accommodate the passage of conductors. The channel joist units show
a bottom flange 147 reinforced with principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement, a web 149, and a top flange 146, all 3 elements
comprising the primary core barrier 143. A floor longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 120b accommodating conductors and
devices and a floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix
121a accommodating conductors are shown. In contrast to FIG. 38,
each structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 122
above the primary core barrier is optionally open, as is each
structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 125 below
the primary core barrier. A floor transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 121a accommodating conductors and a floor
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120b accommodating
conductors and devices are shown.
[0651] FIG. 42 illustrates how the channel joist units of this
Third Embodiment would be used in a multi-story structure. The
channel joist units are shown in the floor/ceiling system between
two floors of a building. The numerical designations are those used
in FIGS. 42-67 and FIGS. 80-89. A plurality of structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 are shown. Two alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometries 528 are shown, each
extending from the bottom face of the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 to the bottom face of the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 of the floor below. A floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535 is shown over which is disposed a floor accessible
membrane barrier 546. A ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix
534 is shown over which is disposed a ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545. An unpenetrated primary core barrier 553 is shown
which prevents the passage of fire, smoke, light, and sound from
passing from one occupied space to another. The primary core
barrier 553 encapsulates each entire occupied space from floor to
walls to ceiling. A wall, partition or column interstitial
accommodation matrix 536 is shown for each wall, having a wall,
partition or column interstitial accommodation matrix 547 on each
side of the matrix, thereby encapsulating the primary core barrier
553.
[0652] General Features Of FIGS. 38-89: Any applicable general or
specific features disclosed for any of FIGS. 1-160 may apply to
FIGS. 38-89 and shall be considered as part of the general features
of these figures as if included herein. The aforementioned General
Modular-Accessible-Matrix Site, Alterable Distributed Architectural
Multinetgridometry and Interstitial Accommodation Matrix Features
Applicable To FIGS. 1-160, which is located prior to the First
Embodiment Of This Invention, is incorporated herein by reference
where applicable to FIGS. 38-89 and shall be considered as part of
the general features of these figures as if included herein.
[0653] Specific Features Of FIG. 43: FIG. 43 shows a vertical cross
section of a floor/ceiling system comprising upward and downward
top and bottom flanges of a concrete slab as an intermediate
primary core barrier 809 having upwardly projecting longitudinal
top flanges 800 and downwardly projecting longitudinal bottom
flanges 803. Formed channels 701 with inwardly extending flanges
are disposed between the longitudinal top flanges 800 back-to-back
with the channels of formed decking 702 disposed between the
longitudinal bottom flanges 803. The webs of the formed channels
701 may contain a plurality of inspection peep holes and air vents
705 at places where it is difficult to place concrete. The
intermediate primary core barrier 809 is transversely reinforced by
means of a trussed spacer having continuous top and bottom flanges.
The longitudinal continuous solid web 811 is reinforced by means of
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293 which are tied together by
additional reinforcement means. A transverse beam 814 is shown,
whereby the top of the bottom flange 814a and the bottom of the
bottom flange 814b of the transverse beam 814 carry the
longitudinal bottom flange 803 and the top of the top flange 814c
of the transverse beam 814 carries the longitudinal top flange
800.
[0654] A multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 is shown
extending from the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 to the
ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545. The alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528 of this invention is shown
extending beyond the multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry
532 and encompassing the occupied spaces 538 on the floor side 567
and the occupied spaces 538 on the ceiling side 568. The structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 are shown extending from
the bottom to the top of each channel 701,702.
[0655] The floor accessible membrane barrier 546 comprises a
plurality of modular-accessible-matrix-units shown as cast
modular-accessible-matrix-u- nits 543e having integral magnetic
attraction perimeter edges on all sides, 543f having integral
magnetically permeable edges on all sides, 543g having integral
magnetic attraction at all corners, and 543h having integral
magnetically permeable edges at all corners. The floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 accommodates three-stepped plinths affixed
to the top surface of the longitudinal top flanges 800 by means of
a layer of adhesive-backed foam 416c, which support the
modular-accessible-matrix-units. One configuration shows a plinth
having two unslotted and magnetic multi-rotational bearing heads
600c sealed together by a sealant 416a and an unslotted and
non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603a on a
multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shaft 601. A second
configuration shows a plinth having two slotted and magnetic
multi-rotational bearing heads 600d adhered by an adhesive 416b and
a slotted and non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603b on a
multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shaft 602. Horizontal
interstitial divider blanks providing a conductive shield 713a and
a non-conductive shield 713b are shown supported by the steps of
the three-step plinths, thereby covering and closing off the
conductors and computer and communications devices and equipment,
and the like, disposed within the channels 701 and in the upper
part of the floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 and
protecting the people, devices, equipment, and the like in the
occupied spaces 538 on the floor side 567 from electromagnetic
interference, radio frequency interference, and electrostatic
discharge. Removable torquing tools 395 are shown on the floor side
and on the ceiling side for precision leveling the floor and
ceiling accessible membrane barriers 546, 545.
[0656] The ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 comprises a
plurality of modular-accessible-matrix-units shown as
modular-accessible-planks comprising acoustical board 796 covered
on both faces, acoustical board 796b covered on both faces with a
decorative wearing layer, gypsum board 796c covered on both faces,
and gypsum board 796d covered on both faces with a magnetically
permeable wearing layer. The modular-accessible-plank- s 796a,796b
shown have solid magnets 743 disposed within the units, while the
modular-accessible-planks 796c,796d shown have flexible magnets 744
disposed within the units. The modular-accessible-planks are
suspended from the bottom surface of the ribs of the formed decking
702 by means of mechanical fasteners 382a having at one end a
conically-shaped multi-rotational bearing head and threaded solid
shaft to fit and rotate within a dovetail channel 564b affixed to
the ribs by sealant, adhesive, or a layer of adhesive-backed foam
416 and having at the opposing end a longitudinally-disposed formed
channel 427c having magnetically attractive folded-over and
outwardly extending flanges forming a channel grid. An alternate
means of suspension is shown comprising a mechanical fastener 382b
having a cylindrically-shaped multi-rotational bearing head and
threaded solid shaft to fit and rotate within the cee support
channel 578b affixed to the ribs of the formed decking 702 by
sealant, adhesive, or a layer of adhesive-backed foam 416.
[0657] General Features Of FIGS. 44-62: FIGS. 44-57 and FIGS. 60-62
are vertical cross sections illustrating a variety of forms for
channels and waffle domes shown in various configurations of any
standard or custom size for use in FIGS. 23-31, 38-43, 63-67,
80-83, and 100-125, such as, the following:
[0658] (1) parallel, coplanar reinforced concrete joists on one
principal axis, forming channels;
[0659] (2) parallel, coplanar reinforced concrete joists having a
rectangular reinforced waffle pattern on the principal axis and the
secondary axis; and
[0660] (3) parallel, coplanar reinforced biaxial square waffle
pattern on both the principal axis and the secondary axis.
[0661] The concrete joist forms may be a standard or custom size.
Standard forms for the void spaces between ribs are 500 mm (20
inches) to 750 mm (30 inches) wide and vary in depth from 50 mm (2
inches) to 500 mm (20 inches). Standard joist widths vary from 125
mm (5 inches) to 225 mm (9 inches). The custom concrete joist forms
may be of any width, height and length.
[0662] The waffle dome forms may be a standard or custom size. The
standard size for waffle forms may be 475 mm (19-inch) width for
600 mm (24-inch) joist centers although dome forms may also be a
standard 750 mm (30-inch) width for 900 mm (36-inch) joist centers
or any custom width. The custom waffle forms may be of any width,
any height, and any length.
[0663] The channel forms for concrete joists, the channel forms for
concrete joists having a waffle pattern, and the waffle dome forms
for biaxial square waffle patterns may be made of fiberglass,
metal, plastic, wood, cementitious concrete, polymer concrete,
fiber-reinforced cementitious concrete, pressed fiberglass, pressed
mineral fibers, mineral materials, vitreous materials or vitreous
fibers, composites of any of the listed materials, and the
like.
[0664] In FIGS. 44-57 and FIGS. 60-62, the upward-facing units show
inwardly extending flanges while the downward-facing units show
outwardly extending flanges. There are many other possible
variations of the edges of the units within the teachings of this
invention and applicable to all interstitial spaces shown in FIGS.
1-160, including edges folded inwardly one or more times to form
hemmed edges, edges folded outwardly one or more times to form
hemmed edges, outwardly extending flanges having turned-up or
turned-down edges formed into dovetails, outwardly extending
flanges having turned-up or turned-down edges formed into channels,
inwardly extending flanges having turned-down edges formed into
channels, and the like.
[0665] By the teachings of this invention, the cavities formed by
the channel and waffle dome forms are created for the explicit
purpose of accommodating electronic, electrical and mechanical
conductors, devices, equipment, and the like to form a
multinetgridometry of computers and communication devices within
the interstitial accommodation matrix to form the alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry as well as to
accommodate lighting fixtures and speakers within the interstitial
accommodation matrix for integration with communication devices and
computers within the occupied spaces 538 and every type of
networking and computing device and component interconnected with
computers and communication devices within the interstitial
accommodation matrix in a tethered or untethered mode through the
modular accessible node sites to form an enterprise alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry for enhanced
interaction with people, equipment and machines (see the PEM symbol
between FIGS. 66 and 67) through the relocatable and reconfigurable
modular accessible node sites. Deep formed cavities accommodate the
larger devices and equipment in stationary and movable rack systems
which accommodate the computers, bridges, and servers within the
interstitial accommodation matrix. The shallower formed cavities
also accommodate conductors, devices, equipment, and the like for
computers and communication devices within the interstitial
accommodation matrix within the limitations of less space. No
limitations are placed on the location of electronic, electrical
and mechanical devices and equipment in the interstitial spaces of
my invention, such devices and equipment being equally suitable for
both floor and ceiling installation as well as for walls,
partitions and columns which, as an essential part of my invention,
interconnect the floor and ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix spaces.
[0666] Specific Features Of FIGS. 44-62: FIG. 44 illustrates a form
having outwardly extending flanges and a b 150 mm (6-inch) height
for use in forming channels in concrete joists or forming waffle
patterns. FIGS. 45-47 are similar to FIG. 44 but show some
variations according to the teachings of this invention, their
heights being, respectively, 225 mm (9 inches), 300 mm (12 inches)
and 375 mm (15 inches). FIG. 48 shows a series of two 150 mm
(6-inch) high forms of FIG. 44, FIG. 49 shows a series of three 225
mm (9-inch) high forms of FIG. 45, FIG. 50 shows a series of three
300 mm (12-inch) high forms of FIG. 46, and FIG. 51 shows a series
of three 375 mm (15-inch) high forms of FIG. 47 for use in forming
channels in concrete joists or forming waffle patterns. Dimensions
are stated for illustrative purposes in that the height may vary
from 50 mm (2 inches) to 500 mm (20 inches) and in that, by using
custom forms, the units may be of any width, any length, and any
height.
[0667] FIG. 52 shows a series of four back-to-back 150 mm (6-inch)
high channel units or waffle dome units aligned and positioned by
spreaders, forming an intermediate primary core barrier 809, the
bottom row of dome forms having outwardly extending flanges and the
top row of dome forms having inwardly extending flanges.
[0668] The forms of the channel units and waffle dome units of FIG.
52 are aligned and positioned by means of a series of cementitious
concrete cylindrical spacers 820a internally threaded for fastening
to the forms. The channel units and waffle dome units of the
remaining figures, FIGS. 53-57 and FIGS. 60-62 are aligned and
positioned by means of a series of single standalone pavers 821 (as
in FIG. 58) for use with square waffle patterns, having serrated
edges and internally threaded for fastening to opposed sides of the
forms by means of pins, threaded pins, internally threaded inserts,
through bolts and the like, or by means of multiple interlocked
cementitious concrete pavers 821 (as in FIG. 59), the serrated,
interlocking edges enhancing bond and fire barrier integrity, for
use with channel units. Alignment and positioning of the
back-to-back forms by either cementitious concrete cylindrical
spaces 820a or by cementitious concrete pavers 821 may be used with
any of the configurations of forms.
[0669] FIGS. 53-55 illustrate a series of four channel units or
waffle dome units as additional variations of the series of FIG. 52
and the configurations shown in FIG. 43 and FIGS. 64-66, each
forming an intermediate primary core barrier 809, FIG. 53 having a
height of 225 mm (9 inches), FIG. 54 having a height of 300 mm (12
inches), and FIG. 55 having a height of 375 mm (15 inches).
[0670] FIG. 56 illustrates a series of four back-to-back channel
units or waffle dome units as an additional variation of the
configurations shown in FIG. 43 and FIGS. 64-66. The primary core
barrier is a bottom primary core barrier 810, the top row of forms
having a height of 375 mm (15 inches) and inwardly extending
flanges and the bottom row of forms having a height of 150 mm (6
inches) and outwardly extending flanges. Similarly, FIG. 57
illustrates a series of four back-to-back channel units or waffle
dome units as an additional variation of the configuration shown in
FIG. 56. The units are reversed, forming a top primary core barrier
808, the top row of forms having a height of 150 mm (6 inches) and
inwardly extending flanges and the bottom row of forms having a
height of 375 mm (15 inches) and outwardly extending flanges. FIGS.
60-62 also have inwardly extending flanges on the top row and
outwardly extending flanges on the bottom row.
[0671] FIG. 58 shows a top plan view of a cementitious concrete
paver 821 having internally threaded apertures for fastening to
opposed sides of the back-to-back waffle dome forms by means of
pins, threaded pins, internally threaded insets, through bolts, and
the like, the paver having serrated sides to enhance interlocking
bonding of the pavers to form a primary core barrier for
structural, fire, smoke, privacy, sound, and life safety integrity.
FIG. 59 shows a top plan view of a series of interlocked
cementitious concrete pavers 821 of FIG. 58 for use with channel
units. Internally threaded apertures are also shown. Channel units
may also be formed of spaced apart cementitious concrete pavers 821
of FIG. 58 arranged with concrete between individual cementitious
concrete pavers 821 forming rows of spacers in a ladder-like
arrangement.
[0672] FIGS. 60-62 show variations of back-to-back channel forms or
waffle dome forms as variations of the configuration shown in FIG.
63, positioned and aligned by means of the cementitious concrete
pavers 821 of FIGS. 58 and 59. The primary core barriers follow
varying undulating patterns from bottom primary core barriers 810
to top primary core barriers 808. FIG. 60 shows alternating
back-to-back combinations of the 375 mm (15-inch) high forms of
FIG. 47 and of the 150 mm (6-inch) high forms of FIG. 44, forming
alternating bottom primary core barriers 810 and top primary core
barriers 808. FIG. 61 shows a two-one-two-one, etc., series of
alternating back-to-back combinations of the 375 mm (15-inch) high
forms of FIG. 47 and of the 150 mm (6-inch) high forms of FIG. 44,
forming alternating primary core barriers. The configuration of
FIG. 61 produces twice as many bottom primary core barriers 810 as
top primary core barriers and produces twice as many deep formed
cavities on the floor side of the floor/ceiling assembly for
accommodating electronic, electrical, and mechanical conductors,
devices, equipment, and the like, as on the ceiling side of the
assembly. The shallow formed cavities on the ceiling side easily
accommodate lighting fixtures, speakers, communication devices,
conductors, and the like.
[0673] FIG. 62 shows another possible variation of many alternate
variations of this invention, showing a three-to-three-to-three
series of alternating back-to-back combinations of a first group of
three upward-facing 375 mm (15-inch) high forms of FIG. 47 fastened
to three downward-facing 150 mm (6-inch) high forms of FIG. 44,
joined together by the cementitious concrete pavers 821 shown in
FIGS. 58 and 59, forming a bottom primary core barrier 810. A
second group of three upward-facing 150 mm (6-inch) high forms of
FIG. 44 is joined together to three downward-facing 375 mm
(15-inch) high forms of FIG. 47 by the cementitious concrete pavers
821 of FIGS. 58 and 59. A third group of three upward-facing 375 mm
(15-inch) high forms of FIG. 47 repeats the pattern of the first
group. The configuration of FIG. 62 produces an equal amount of
bottom primary core barriers 810 and top primary core barriers 808,
following an undulating pattern, and an equal amount of deep formed
cavities and shallow formed cavities accessible from the floor side
and from the ceiling side of the floor/ceiling assembly.
[0674] Another important advantage of this invention is the great
variety of choices available to the architect, engineer, facility
manager, contractor, and owner to optimize conductor and computer
management within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix
in configurations comprising channels over channels, waffle panels
over waffle panels, waffle panels over channels, and channels over
waffle panels.
[0675] General Features of FIGS. 63-83: The alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry is about more fully and creatively
unleashing the fantastic mind and spirit of human beings within
their ordinary office and manufacturing work spaces by so
synthesizing and configuring the enterprise space that the
structure forming the enterprise human work space is comprised of a
plurality of fully accessible and alterable encapsulating
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 with interactive multimedia
modular accessible node sites within the ceiling, walls,
partitions, columns, and floors, and within the structure. The
interstitial accommodation matrices accommodate an evolutionary
array of electronic, photonic, and organic devices, technology, and
conductors so that the human brain, tethered by conductors or
wirelessly untethered, may more directly and creatively interact by
broad multimedia means with such array through the human sensors of
voice, hearing, vision, and the like, communicating with
transceivers within the modular accessible node sites in ceilings,
walls, partitions, columns, and floors. In like manner, production
machinery and equipment, tethered by conductors or wirelessly
untethered, may also directly interact by broad multimedia means
with such array of electronic, photonic, and organic devices,
technology and conductors.
[0676] The longitudinal and transverse configuration of the precast
structural members and prefabricated self-forming structural
members for partial and complete jobsite casting of this invention,
having at least longitudinal top flanges 800 and longitudinal
bottom flanges 803 interconnected by a web to form non-combustible
parallel, coplanar
[0677] (1) reinforced concrete joists on one principal axis,
forming channels; or
[0678] (2) reinforced concrete joists having a rectangular
reinforced waffle pattern on the principal axis and the secondary
axis; or
[0679] (3) reinforced biaxial square waffle pattern on both the
principal axis and the secondary axis.
[0680] Thus, the special configuration of this invention, as shown
in typical FIGS. 63-66, forms a primary core barrier and a
secondary core barrier within a multilayered interstitial
multinetgridometry 532 comprising a floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535, a ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534, and one or more structural interstitial accommodation
matrices 540 within the structure, the multilayered interstitial
multinetgridometry 532 integrated with the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 and the ceiling accessible membrane barrier
545 to form the alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528 within the enterprise, as shown in FIG. 42,
which extends in multistory structures from the ceiling of the
occupied space 538 above the floor accessible membrane barrier 546
to the bottom face of the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545
at the bottom of the floor/ceiling system within multi-storied
enterprises. In single-story structures, the alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry 528 extends from the floor
accessible membrane barrier 546 to the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 of the occupied space 538.
[0681] Structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540 are shown
within the structure, quite often as upper structural interstitial
accommodation matrices and lower structural interstitial
accommodation matrices, along with a floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 and a ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534, all of which accommodate electronic, electrical and
mechanical devices, conductors, equipment, including devices,
connectors, sockets, circuit boards, semiconductor chips,
processors, transceivers, disk drives, storage devices, cards,
racks, servers, bridges, routers, switches, breakers, support
devices, and the like. Access to the interstitial accommodation
matrices 540 within the structure is obtained from the floor side
567 by means of longitudinal intermittent access slots 610 in the
floor accessible membrane barrier 546 or from the ceiling side 568
by means of access slots 610 in the ceiling accessible membrane
545, which access slots are closed off with linear access plugs
700, some of the plugs further sealed by having compressible
perimeter edge seals 706 adhered to the perimeter of the plugs. The
precast structural members may be cast with continuous slots but,
in such case, would require end closure panels to stabilize the
units and prevent their tipping over.
[0682] The multiple processors and the communication links between
the multiple processors constitute a network that has an enhanced
interstitial accommodation matrix configuration in that the nodes
of the network (the processors) and the links are topologically
equivalent to the boundaries of the multilayered interstitial
multinetgridometry 532. The enhanced interstitial accommodation
matrix encapsulates the human user, including support equipment,
manufacturing and production equipment, automated guided vehicles,
robots, and the like, in a multi-functional, multi-modal,
accessible modular accessible node system forming a responsive,
encapsulating, super-enhanced enterprise alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry. The alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry computer and communications matrix
is a message-passing, multiple-interaction/multiple-data/multimedia
computer and communications matrix that offers significant
advantages over older existing concepts of mainframe computers,
minicomputers and microcomputers and networks disposed within the
enterprise space. My invention features evolutionary
reconfigurability, accessibility and recyclability that accommodate
individual and interactive networks for both individual and
distributed processing as well as parallel processing while also
achieving a balance among the following competing first cost,
operating cost, obsolescence cost, recycling cost, reconfiguration
cost factors as to performance in processing and communications,
ease of use, tolerance of and recovery from faults, accommodation
of evolutionary technological progress, and matching the capability
of capacity with the tremendous variations in size of computing or
communications challenge from elementary, routine computing by word
processing or messaging by keystroke to the more sophisticated
interaction with pen or interactive voice or interactive multimedia
computing and sensing for the most sophisticated supercomputing
jobs requiring multiple parallel supercomputing or super
hyperswitch computing which, by my invention, are doable within the
devices and conductors within the encapsulating interstitial spaces
of the ceiling, wall, partition, column and floor interstitial
accommodation matrices.
[0683] Specific Features Of FIGS. 63-66: FIGS. 63-66 show
variations of concrete joists having upward-facing and
downward-facing, back-to-back cavities formed by waffle dome forms,
such as found in FIGS. 44-62. Transverse apertures 806 shown in the
transverse webs 805 or in transverse end closure panels form
conductor passages and accommodate the maintenance of the computer
and communications devices, appliances, and equipment within the
interstitial accommodation matrices 540. Principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 290 and principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement
293 comprising single reinforcing bars are shown in FIGS. 63-65.
FIG. 66 shows two reinforcing bars as principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 290 and two reinforcing bars as principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293, while principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 585 is field applied over points of bearing and
cantilever where negative moments are created and to obtain
structural continuity.
[0684] FIGS. 63-66 show a floor accessible membrane barrier 546
comprising a plurality of modular-accessible-units of the various
types according to the teachings of my invention, each figure
showing a different support means.
[0685] Three distinctly different attachment means are employed for
the ceiling accessible membrane barriers 545 of FIGS. 63-65. FIG.
66 shows no ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545, the
identically configured cavities exposed to view from the ceiling
side 568 of the occupied space 538.
[0686] The floor integral to making possible the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 540, the floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535, and the floor accessible membrane barrier
546 of FIG. 66 may be interchanged with those of any other figure.
Moreover, any floor configuration of this invention may be used
with any primary core barrier arrangement disclosed.
[0687] The ceiling integral to making possible the interstitial
accommodation matrix 540c within the square waffle pattern of the
structure, the ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534, and
the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 of FIG. 66 may be
interchanged with the ceiling of any other figure, and any other
ceiling configuration of this invention may be used with any
primary core barrier disclosed.
[0688] FIG. 63 shows a series of undulating series of concrete
joists placing the waffle dome forms in a unique configuration,
whereby continuous, alternating bottom primary core barriers 810
and top primary core barriers 808 are joined by longitudinal
continuous solid webs 811, thereby forming alternating shallow and
deep waffle panels above and below the primary core barriers. The
waffle dome forms are spaced by cementitious concrete or metal
cylindrical spacers 820a internally threaded for fastening to the
forms and by cementitious concrete pavers 821 internally threaded
for fastening to the forms and having serrated interlocking sides
to enhance bond and fire barrier integrity, both types of spacers
remaining permanently in the structural concrete. The bottom
primary core barrier 810 maximizes the space of the deeper waffle
panel above the barrier to accommodate electronic, electrical and
mechanical, computer and communications devices, appliances and
equipment in movable or stationary racks and large groups of
electronic, power and fluid conductors, and the like which are
accessible from the floor side 567. The top primary core barrier
808 maximizes the space of the deeper waffle panel below the
barrier to facilitate recessing lighting fixtures from the ceiling
side 568 and to accommodate computer and communications devices,
appliances and equipment in racks and large groups of electronic,
power and fluid conductors which are accessible from the ceiling
side 568. The interstitial accommodation matrices 540 are
self-contained, there being no apertures in the longitudinal
continuous solid webs 811, with access only from, respectively, the
floor side 567 or the ceiling side 568. Transverse top flanges 804,
transverse bottom flanges 807, transverse webs 805 and transverse
apertures 806 are illustrated. Cementitious concrete or metal
cylindrical spacers 820a, internally threaded for fastening to the
forms, and cementitious concrete pavers 821 internally threaded for
fastening to the forms are shown as permanently in place after the
dome forms of the waffle panels have been removed. The spacers are
used wherever back-to-back waffle panels are cast, such as, in
FIGS. 63-66. The arrangement of the back-to-back waffle panels is
similar to that of the waffle dome forms shown in FIG. 60.
[0689] In FIG. 63, the floor accessible membrane barrier 546
comprises composite modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c having a
metal plate affixed to the back of the units. The composite
modular-accessible-matrix- -units 543c are supported by means of a
variety of different multi-rotational bearing plinths shown as
having multi-rotational bearing heads which are unslotted
non-magnetic 600a, slotted non-magnetic 600b, unslotted magnetic
600c, and slotted magnetic 600d, multi-rotational bearing feet
which are unslotted non-magnetic 603a, slotted non-magnetic 603b,
unslotted magnetic 603c, and slotted magnetic 603d, and
multi-rotational bearing threaded shafts which are solid 601,
tubular internally non-threaded 602a, and tubular internally
threaded 602b more fully illustrated at a larger scale in FIG. 43.
The tubular threaded shafts 602a,602b receive any type of fastener
691 applied between adjacent corners to position and hold the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c in place by engagement. The
multi-rotational bearing plinths are disposed over hat-shaped
channels which are disposed on the longitudinal top flanges 800 of
the precast structural members and are shown as 829a (long channels
with foam disposed over the longitudinal top flange 800), 829b
(long channels with foam adhered to the inside of the channel),
829c (clip channels with foam disposed over the longitudinal top
flange 800), and 829d (clip channels with foam adhered to the
inside of the channel). The composite
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c are precision positioned,
aligned, and leveled on three axes--on the horizontal or x axis by
positioning the threaded shaft 601,602a,602b within a transverse
slot in the channel 829a,829b,829c,829d, on the longitudinal or y
axis by positioning the threaded shaft 601,602a,602b within a
longitudinal slot in the channel 829a,829b,829c,829d, and on the
vertical or z axis by rotating the multi-rotational bearing head
600a,600b,600c,600d up or down on the threaded shaft 601,602a,602b.
Conductors are disposed transversely on the top flanges 800 between
the multi-rotational bearing plinths.
[0690] FIG. 63 shows an accessible ceiling system giving enhanced
sound isolation by means of a composite 576a of backer board and
acoustical facing, a composite 576b of backer board and gypsum
board facing, a composite 576c of metal backer and acoustical
facing, and a composite 576d of metal backer and gypsum board
facing suspended, respectively from cementitious concrete or metal
cylindrical spacers 820b internally threaded for ceiling suspension
from a channel 819 adhered by means of sealant, adhesive, or a
layer of adhesive-backed foam 416 to the longitudinal bottom flange
803, from a mechanical fastener 382b having a multi-rotational
cylindrically-shaped bearing head and threaded solid shaft to fit
and rotate within a cee support channel 578b applied to the bottom
face of the longitudinal bottom flange 803, from a mechanical
fastener 382a having a multi-rotational conically-shaped bearing
head and threaded solid shaft to fit and rotate within a dovetail
channel 564b applied to the bottom face of the longitudinal bottom
flange 803, and a mechanical fastener 382a within a dovetail
channel 564a cast into the bottom of the longitudinal bottom flange
803, each suspension means concealed by a cementitious, metal or
plastic decorative accent bearing plate 822.
[0691] FIGS. 63-66 show an intermediate primary core barrier 809
accommodating back-to-back waffle panels, each figure showing
waffle panels of the same size and depth, similar in configuration
to the back-to-back channel forms and waffle dome forms illustrated
in FIGS. 52-55. Longitudinal apertures 802 are shown in the
longitudinal web below the longitudinal top flange 800 and above
the longitudinal bottom flange 803, permitting the passage of
conductors from one interstitial accommodation matrix 540 to
another.
[0692] In FIG. 64, the modular-accessible-units of the floor
accessible membrane barrier 546 comprise reversible wood
modular-accessible-planks 544c having, variously, exposed-to-view,
load-bearing, wear-resistant, magnetic attraction plates 823a
laminated to both faces and magnetic attraction plates 823c
recessed into recesses in both faces. The modular-accessible-planks
544c are supported and held in place by means of load-bearing
magnetic supports 830 disposed on the top faces of the longitudinal
top flanges 800 of the precast structural members.
[0693] FIG. 64 shows an accessible ceiling system comprising
acoustical tile 580a, acoustical plank 580b, gypsum tile 580c, and
gypsum plank 580d held to the bottom face of the longitudinal
bottom flanges 803 by various means, including a load-bearing
hold-up and positioning engagement touch fastener and cushioning
foam tape composite 738d comprising two mating components, a
hold-up type flexible magnetic tape and foam tape load-bearing
composite 742b in combination with a magnetic attraction plate 826
applied to the back side of the ceiling unit, and a hold-up
load-bearing low .DELTA.t tubing 747 having flexible magnetic
attraction encapsulation in combination with magnetic attraction
material 827 buried within the gypsum tile 580c and the gypsum
plank 580d.
[0694] In FIG. 65, cast modular-accessible-matrix-units of the
accessible floor system are shown as having a magnetic attraction
perimeter channel 543d, integral magnetic attraction perimeter
edges on all sides 543e, and integral magnetically permeable edges
on all sides 543f. The modular-accessible-matrix-units are
supported by various multi-rotational bearing plinths, which show,
respectively, an unslotted non-magnetic head 600a with a clip
channel 825a having an externally threaded stud welded to the web
of the clip channel, a slotted non-magnetic head 600b with a clip
channel 825b having an externally threaded stud inserted in a slot
for longitudinal micro adjustment, an unslotted magnetic head 600c
with a clip channel 825c having an internally threaded fastener,
and a slotted magnetic head 600d with a clip channel 825d having an
internally threaded fastener inserted in a slot for movement on the
longitudinal axis. The clip channels are seated on a transversely
disposed conductor channel 119.
[0695] FIG. 65 shows an accessible ceiling system having ceiling
units comprising a composite of non-combustible, sound-attenuating,
backer board and acoustical facing 574a and a composite of
non-combustible, sound attenuating backer board and gypsum board
facing 576b supported on the outwardly-extending flanges of a
lighting fixture 662 recessed into a ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix 534. The light fixture 662 is attached to two
channels 819 which are adhered to two adjacent longitudinal bottom
flanges 803.
[0696] In contrast to FIGS. 64 and 65 which show the longitudinal
apertures 802 on the same plane as the transverse apertures 806,
FIG. 66 shows the apertures 802,806 on a different plane, thereby
permitting conductors on one axis to pass through the apertures on
that axis without interference from the conductors disposed on
another axis. The same-plane apertures 802,806 of FIGS. 64 and 65
are not as desirable in that crossing conductors would in part
interfere with each other in crosswise passage and would have to be
threaded over or under each other. The waffle domes are shallower
than the waffle domes in FIG. 66, thereby not permitting the
relocation of the apertures in that to raise the apertures would
place them in the curve of the waffle domes and to lower the
apertures would interfere with the principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293 in the longitudinal bottom flange 803 or the
principal bottom transverse reinforcement in the transverse bottom
flange 807.
[0697] In FIG. 65, on the floor side 567, a floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 is disposed between the top face of the
longitudinal top flanges 800 and the floor accessible membrane
barrier 546, which shows modular-accessible-matrix-units 543a
comprising reversible composites having two good sides. The
modular-accessible-matri- x-units 543a are supported by support
means comprising unslotted 600a and slotted 600b non-magnetic
multi-rotational bearing heads and unslotted 603a and slotted 603b
non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing feet on, variously,
multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shafts 601 and
multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shafts 602 which are
shown as internally non-threaded 602a and internally threaded
602b.
[0698] There is no accessible ceiling system shown on the ceiling
side 568 of FIG. 66. Obvious to anyone skilled in the art, any
ceiling system shown for this invention, as well as any existing
ceiling system, may be added at a future date by means shown for
this invention.
[0699] Specific Features Of FIG. 67: FIG. 67 illustrates the
unpenetrated structural intermediate primary core barrier 809 of
this invention and interstitial accommodation matrix, which has a
waffle pattern 540c below the intermediate primary core barrier 809
and a structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 above the
intermediate primary core barrier 809. FIG. 67 shows the
longitudinal apertures 802 and the transverse apertures 806 on the
same plane, which is not as desirable as having the apertures on
different planes in that crossing conductors would in part
interfere with each other in crosswise passage and would have to be
threaded over or under each other. The waffle domes are shallower
than the waffle domes in FIG. 66, for example, thereby not
permitting the relocation of the apertures in that to raise the
apertures would place them in the curve of the waffle domes and to
lower the apertures would interfere with the principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293 in the longitudinal bottom flange
803 or the principal bottom transverse reinforcement in the
transverse bottom flange 807.
[0700] The structure of FIG. 67 is similar to the structure of FIG.
66 but has certain distinctive features as part of the many
alternate variations possible from the teachings of my invention to
tailor the structure to project needs. The longitudinal top flanges
800 of FIG. 67 are shown as having extended wide flanges forming a
tee shape, with sloped side of the flanges facilitating draft
removal and forming longitudinal intermittent access slots 610
which accommodate linear access plugs 700, thereby providing a
series of structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540 closed
off from above and interconnected with each other by means of
longitudinal apertures 802 in the upper part of the longitudinal
webs 801. The configuration of the interstitial accommodation
matrix 540 and the width of the intermittent access slot 700 of
FIG. 67 are governed by the width and length size of the forms and
the depth of the form to be removed through the access slot. The
width of the web of the tee-shaped longitudinal top flange 800,
which is shown to be narrower than the longitudinal web 801 of the
longitudinal bottom flange 803 of FIG. 67 and of the longitudinal
web 801 at either flange in FIG. 66, for example, is governed by
the length of the arm from elbow to finger tips, plus any tools
designed to assist in extending the arm's reach, in permitting a
person to reach through the longitudinal apertures 802 or to reach
between adjacent longitudinal intermittent access slots 610.
Whereas the waffle domes on the ceiling side 568 offer no
impediment for reaching through the aperture 802, it can be seen
that attention must be given to spacing the longitudinal apertures
802 below the extended top flanges 800 so that full access may be
obtained for disposing conductors and, more particularly, computer
and communications devices, and the like, in that a principal
purpose of this invention is to form an interstitial communication
enterprise computer. Transverse apertures 806 in the transverse
webs 805 and transverse bottom flanges 807 of the waffle domes are
shown on the ceiling side 568, while transverse top flanges 804 and
transverse apertures 806 are shown in the transverse webs 805 on
the floor side 567. Each tee-shaped longitudinal top flange 800 in
FIG. 67 is reinforced by means of principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 290, top transverse reinforcement 291, and two sets
of principal top longitudinal reinforcement 585 field applied over
points of bearing and cantilever where negative moments are created
and to obtain structural continuity. The field-applied principal
top longitudinal reinforcement 585 comprises reinforcement by any
means or combination of means, including rods and bars, wire mesh,
welded wire fabric, plastic, metallic, wood fiber, glass, mineral
or ceramic fabric, prestressing, posttensioning, and the like. A
similar reinforcement pattern may be developed for the transverse
flanges 804,807 where a two-way reinforced waffle pattern is
structurally desired with one set of principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 585 field applied over points of bearing and
cantilever where negative moments are created and to obtain
structural continuity to form a diaphragm within the precast
units.
[0701] In FIG. 67, the floor accessible membrane barrier 546
comprises modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b which are solid,
reversible, and good two sides. The support means for the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b comprises a series of
multi-layered stepped plinths 595 shown as unslotted 595a and
slotted 595b non-magnetic plinths having, respectively, unslotted
600a and slotted 600b non-magnetic, multi-rotational bearing heads
and internally non-threaded 602a and internally threaded 602b
multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shafts. Some of the
multi-rotational bearing heads 600 are shown with replaceable
adhesion ring 597 within the head, which holds the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b in place. Other
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b are held in place by
engagement by any type of fastener 691 applied between adjacent
corners to position and hold down the
modular-accessible-matrix-units.
[0702] In FIG. 67, a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534
is disposed between the longitudinal bottom flanges 803 and an
accessible ceiling system 576 comprising ceiling units including
composites of backer board and acoustical facing 576a and
composites of backer board and gypsum board facing 576b, the
materials laminated together to provide fire barrier protection for
the computer and communications devices and conductors disposed
within the structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540c and
ceiling interstitial accessible matrix 534 while also gaining
enhanced sound isolation as an inherent benefit in addition to
providing accessibility. The ceiling units are suspended from the
bottom face of the longitudinal bottom flanges 803 by means of
mechanical fasteners 382a, comprising any kind of bolt, shank, rod,
stud or shaft which is threaded at the ends and may be threaded its
full length and having a multi-rotational conically-shaped bearing
head and threaded solid shaft to fit and rotate within the dovetail
channels 564a cast into the concrete of the longitudinal bottom
flanges 803. The accessible ceiling system units 576a,576b are
shown supported by formed channels 427 having folded-over and
outwardly extending flanges and forming a channel grid by means of
channels which are longitudinally disposed 427a and transversely
disposed 427b. Micropositioning adjustments may be made on the
longitudinal or y axis by moving the mechanical fastener 382a
longitudinally within the dovetail channel 564a and on the vertical
or z axis by rotating the threaded mechanical fastener 382a to
raise or lower the formed channel grid 427 and level the ceiling.
My U.S. Pat. No. 5,205,091 discusses further means for precision
leveling which may be used to provide level surfaces for the
ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 and the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546.
[0703] Specific Features Of FIGS. 68-79: FIGS. 68-79 show the
preferred variations of the channel joist units of this Third
Embodiment of my invention.
[0704] FIGS. 68-70 show cross-sectional views of FIGS. 71-79 cut
through the primary core barrier 143, the structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 122 below the primary core
barrier, the structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation
matrix 125 below the primary core barrier, the ceiling longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 128, and the ceiling transverse
interstitial accommodation matrix 127, and at various points in the
channel joist units.
[0705] FIG. 68 illustrates a structural interstitial architectural
matrix 129 comprising an undulating primary core barrier 143 and
showing alternating deep and shallow structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 122,125 above and below the
primary core barrier. The primary core barrier 143 has a common top
flange 146, web 149, and bottom flange 147 between each set of
undulating structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation
matrices. Apertures 133 align with channels and cores of the
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129. The floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 is supported on the top flanges 146
by means of a transversely disposed channel support system 142 for
low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating and cooling, forming a
floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120b
accommodating conductors and devices and a floor transverse
interstitial accommodation matrix 121a accommodating conductors.
The ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145 is supported by a
ceiling suspension system 148. A ceiling transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 127 and ceiling longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 128 are shown. Cross-tie bridging 611 is shown
above and below the primary core barrier 143, typically at 1/4
points, 1/3 points or 1/2 points, based on engineering principles,
to form a transversely reinforced whole to facilitate creating a
transverse beam action for lifting and handling each channel joist
unit.
[0706] FIG. 69 shows a primary core barrier 143 disposed in a
straight horizontal line at midpoint in the web 149, thereby
forming structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices
122,125 above and below the primary core barrier, which are
identical in depth. The channel support system 142 is
longitudinally disposed. FIG. 69 reverses the longitudinal and
transverse axes of 121a and 120b to illustrate alternatives to
floor accessible membrane barrier support system wherein a floor
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120b accommodates
conductors below the floor accessible membrane barrier 140.
Cross-tie bridging 611 is shown below the primary core barrier 143,
typically at 1/4 points, 1/3 points or 1/2 points, based on
engineering principles, to form a transversely reinforced whole to
facilitate creating a transverse beam action for lifting and
handling each channel joist unit. All other features are similar to
those of FIG. 68.
[0707] FIG. 70 shows a primary core barrier 143 closer to the floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 than to the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 145, forming thereby shallow structural
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices 122 above the
primary core barrier and deep structural longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrices 125 below the primary core barrier. An
important alternative within the teachings of this invention is to
place the primary core barrier closer to the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier in contrast to FIG. 70 which places the primary
core barrier closer to the floor accessible membrane barrier. A
floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120b
accommodating conductors and devices and a floor transverse
interstitial accommodation matrix 121b accommodating conductors and
devices are shown below the floor accessible membrane barrier 140.
The channel support system 142 is longitudinally disposed.
Cross-tie bridging 611 is shown below the primary core barrier 143,
typically at 1/4 points, 1/3 points or 1/2 points, based on
engineering principles, to form a transversely reinforced whole to
facilitate creating a transverse beam action for lifting and
handling each channel joist unit. All other features are similar to
those of FIG. 68.
[0708] FIGS. 71-73 are cross-sectional views of FIG. 68 and
illustrate channel joist units supported on a composite steel and
concrete girder 150 comprising a wide flange steel beam so
configured in my invention to form a bottom flange 147
encapsulating in concrete a bottom flange to which a wide steel
plate has been welded, designed to provide time/temperature rated
fire protection. The steel plate extends beyond the bottom flange
on either side to carry the load of the channel joist units. The
top flange of the steel beam is sufficiently narrow to permit the
bottom flange 147 of the precast channel joist units to be placed
on the concrete encapsulated bottom flange 147 of the steel beam.
The exposed web and top flange of the composite steel and concrete
girder 150 are encapsulated in an optional intumescent coating 159
to provide fire protection for those parts of the steel girder
which are not encapsulated in concrete. An alternate system to the
composite steel and concrete girder 150, which may be more cost
effective, is to weld repetitively a series of large size
reinforcing bars of any polygonal cross section to the bottom
flange of the steel beam, as shown in FIG. 125, to provide a
reinforced ledge for carrying the channel joist units, rather than
welding continuous steel plate to the bottom flange as shown in
FIGS. 72, 75, and 78. Cross-tie bridging 611 is typically at 1/4
points, 1/3 points or 1/2 points, based on engineering principles,
to form a transversely reinforced whole to facilitate creating a
transverse beam action for lifting and handling each channel joist
unit from the casting bed onto a truck, to offload the unit at the
jobsite, to lift the unit into place in the building structure, and
to have the unit rest in place without breaking the unit in its
transverse axis. A structural accessible interstitial girder
passage 130 is formed which accommodates the longitudinal passage
of conductors and is accessible from the floor interstitial
accommodation matrices. A structural interstitial architectural
matrix 129 is shown spanning FIGS. 71-73, which comprises the
primary core barrier 143 and the structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrices 123,126 above and below the primary core
barrier, showing the alternating shallow and deep configuration
caused by the undulating pattern of the primary core barrier.
Apertures 133 in the web of the steel beam and in the web 149 of
the channel joist units are aligned with channels and cores of the
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129. A ceiling
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 127 and a ceiling
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 128 are shown above
the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145. A floor longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 120a accommodating conductors and
a floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121b
accommodating conductors and devices are shown below the floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 which is supported by a channel
support system 142 for low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating
and cooling.
[0709] FIGS. 74-76 are cross-sectional views of FIG. 69. The
exposed steel web of the composite steel and concrete girder 150
shows two apertures 133 while the webs 149 of the channel joist
units supported by the concrete encapsulated bottom flange 147 show
one aperture 133 aligning with cores and channels of the structural
interstitial architectural matrix 129. The structural transverse
interstitial accommodation matrices 123,126 above and below the
primary core barrier 143 have the same depth. The foot of the
transversely disposed channel support system 142 shows a square
channel. A floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121b
accommodating conductors and devices is shown below the floor
accessible membrane barrier 140. The cross-tie bridging 611 of FIG.
69 is shown as metal channels not encased in concrete. All other
features are similar to those shown in FIGS. 71-73. It is within
the teachings of this invention that the metal channels not encased
in concrete may be encapsulated in an intumescent coating for fire
protection as shown for steel webs and flanges in other drawings
within FIGS. 1-160.
[0710] FIGS. 77-79 are cross-sectional views of FIG. 70. The
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129 spanning FIGS.
77-79 shows a shallow structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 123 above the primary core barrier 143 and a
deep structural transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 126
below the primary core barrier, corresponding to the primary core
barrier 143 shown in FIG. 70. The cross-tie bridging 611 of FIG. 77
is similar in configuration to that shown in FIG. 71 and similar in
location to that shown in FIGS. 74 and 76. All other features are
similar to those shown in FIGS. 71-73.
[0711] Specific Features Of FIGS. 80-83: FIGS. 80-83 show
variations of the folded concrete slab of the teachings of my
invention. Channels 701 in the top face of the longitudinal top
flange 800 must be tied and positioned to the concrete joist forms
with precision to prevent floating during placement of concrete.
The web apertures 802 form a biaxial open grid having dome cavities
similar to those of the waffle panels of a waffle slab, creating
structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540. The slab
portion of the assembly on the floor side 567 forms the
longitudinal top flange 800 which comprises the top primary core
barrier 808 of structural concrete. The longitudinal bottom flange
803 shows principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293, the
longitudinal top flange 800 shows principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 290 and top transverse reinforcement 291, and the top
face of the longitudinal top flange 800 shows a plurality of
channels 701. Longitudinal apertures 802 are shown in the
longitudinal webs 801 of the joists, and transverse apertures 806
are shown in the transverse webs 805 of the biaxial waffle slab,
permitting the passage of conductors from one waffle panel to
another and permitting the installation and maintenance of computer
and communications conductors, components, devices, appliances,
equipment, and the like in one waffle panel by personnel working in
an adjacent waffle panel. Occupied spaces 538 are shown on the
floor side 567 and on the ceiling side 568 of the floor/ceiling
system. FIG. 51 shows the forming of the waffle domes with the
concrete joists placed between adjoining waffle dome forms.
[0712] A floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 is disposed
between the top face of the top primary core barrier 808 and a
floor accessible membrane barrier 546 comprising an array of
modular-accessible-matrix-uni- ts 543 supported by support means
606 selected from plinths, tubing, fluid tubes, channels,
elastomeric, rubber, plastic, foam, magnets, touch fasteners, and
the like. The multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 is
shown extending from the bottom face of the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 to the bottom face of the longitudinal bottom
flange 803.
[0713] FIGS. 80-83 have, generally, the same configuration in that
the waffle panels of the biaxial waffle slab are the same size and
the longitudinal webs 801 are the same size. Channels 701 are shown
in the top face of the longitudinal top flange 800, which forms the
top primary core barrier 808, which remains unpenetrated and is
reinforced by principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and top
transverse reinforcement 291. The slabs are the same size, except
that the channels 701 for FIG. 83 are spaced farther apart than the
channels 701 for FIGS. 80-82. Longitudinal apertures 802 are shown
in the longitudinal webs 801, providing access from one biaxial
waffle panel to another, each web having a longitudinal bottom
flange 803 reinforced by means of principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293. Transverse bottom flanges 807 of the waffle
panels are shown in FIGS. 81-83.
[0714] FIG. 80 shows the basic variation described for FIGS. 80-83.
FIG. 80 differs from FIGS. 81-83 in that the waffle dome forms of
the waffle panels are shown in place, thereby concealing from view
the transverse webs 805, the transverse apertures 806, and the
transverse bottom flanges 807.
[0715] FIG. 81 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 80, except
that the dome forms of the waffle panels have been removed and the
transverse apertures 806 are shown in the transverse webs 805
having transverse bottom flanges 807.
[0716] FIG. 82 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 81 but has
certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor
the structure to project needs. A comfort conditioning unit 657 is
shown within a structural interstitial accommodation matrix 650,
and ductwork 658 is shown passing through the longitudinal
apertures 802 into adjoining structural interstitial accommodation
matrices 540 within the waffle slab. An accessible ceiling system
is shown with ceiling units comprising a composite of a metal
backer and acoustical facing 576c and a composite of a metal backer
and gypsum board facing 576d.
[0717] FIG. 83 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 82 but has
certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor
the structure to project needs. The longitudinal apertures 802 in
the longitudinal webs 801 are shown as considerably shallower than
those of FIGS. 80-82 and the support channels, angles, zees or bars
574 are shown as intermitted, rather than continuous as in FIG. 82,
being confined to a single waffle panel. The accessible ceiling
system shows ceiling units comprising a composite of backer board
and acoustical facing 576a, a composite of backer board and gypsum
board facing 576b, and of a metal backer and acoustical facing
576c. The transverse apertures 806 in the transverse webs 805 are
also shown as considerably shallower than the transverse apertures
806 of FIGS. 81 and 82.
[0718] Specific Features Of FIGS. 84-86: FIGS. 84-86 illustrate a
natural variation of the channel joist units of this Third
Embodiment of my invention.
[0719] FIG. 84 shows a view at midspan in a channel joist unit.
Tension reinforcement 290 is embedded in cast-in-place concrete top
flanges 157 to tie the channel joist units structurally into an
integrated whole. A structural interstitial architectural matrix
129 is shown, comprising a primary core barrier 143 having a top
flange 146, web 149, and bottom flange 147 separating the
structural interstitial accommodation matrices 125 below the
primary core barrier. The bottom flange 147 shows principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293. Apertures 133 are aligned with
channels and cores of the structural interstitial architectural
matrix 129. A floor accessible membrane barrier 140 is supported by
a plinth suspension system 141 disposed over the primary core
barrier 143, forming floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation
matrices 120a accommodating conductors and 120b accommodating
conductors and devices. A composite steel and concrete girder 151
is shown supporting the channel joist units. A ceiling longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 128 is shown below the composite
girder 151 and above the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145
which is suspended from the bottom flanges 147 by a ceiling
suspension system 148.
[0720] FIG. 85 shows a view of the composite steel and concrete
girder 150 at the end span, showing the channel joist units bearing
on the composite girder. FIG. 84 illustrates channel joist units
supported on the composite steel and concrete girder 150 comprising
a wide flange steel beam so configured in my invention to form a
bottom flange 147 encapsulating in concrete a bottom flange to
which a wide steel plate has been welded, designed to provide
time/temperature rated fire protection. The steel plate extends
beyond the bottom flange on either side to carry the load of the
channel joist units. The top flange of the steel beam is
sufficiently narrow to permit the bottom flange 147 of the precast
channel joist units to be placed on the upward extending
load-bearing webs 158 of the concrete encapsulated bottom flange
147 of the wide flange steel beam. After the channel joist units
are in place, a concrete top flange 157 is cast in place over the
top flange of the composite steel and concrete girder 150 and over
the channel joist units. The top flange 157 is reinforced with
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and with top
transverse reinforcement 291. A structural accessible interstitial
girder passage 130 accommodates the longitudinal passage of
conductors. Apertures 133 for arm-length access or for passage of
conductors are shown in the webs 149 of the channel joist units in
the structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices 125
below the primary core barrier 143 and in the web of the steel beam
forming the composite girder 150. The other features are similar to
those described for FIG. 84.
[0721] FIG. 86 illustrates one of the composite steel and concrete
beams 151 supporting two of the channel joist units shown in FIG.
84. The configuration of the bottom flange of the composite beam is
similar to that of the composite steel and concrete girder 150
shown in FIG. 84, except that the composite beam 151 has less depth
than does the composite girder 150 and the bottom flange does not
have upward extending load-bearing webs. A cast-in-place concrete
flange 157 is reinforced by principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 290. The bottom flanges 147 of the channel joist
units are reinforced with bottom transverse reinforcement 292. A
structural accessible interstitial beam passage 131 accommodates
the transverse passage of conductors. Apertures 133 for arm-length
access or for passage of conductors are shown in the webs 149 of
the channel joist units, in the structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrices 126 below the primary core barrier 143, and
in the web of the composite beam 151. A floor transverse
interstitial accommodation matrix 121a accommodating conductors is
shown. A ceiling transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 127
and a ceiling longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 128
are shown below the primary core barrier 143. The other features
are similar to those described for FIG. 84.
[0722] Specific Features Of FIGS. 87-89: FIG. 87 is a transverse
cross-sectional view of an undulating series of concrete joists
placing channel forms in a unique configuration, shown prior to
placement of the structural concrete, whereby continuous,
alternating bottom primary core barriers 810 and top primary core
barriers 808 are joined by longitudinal continuous solid webs 811,
thereby forming alternating shallow and deep channels above and
below the primary core barriers. The back-to-back channel forms are
spaced by cementitious concrete pavers 821 having apertures
internally threaded for fastening to the forms and having serrated
interlocking sides to enhance bond and fire barrier integrity, the
spacers remaining permanently in the structural concrete.
[0723] Two reinforcing bars are shown as the principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293 in the longitudinal bottom flange
803, and two reinforcing bars are shown as the principal top
longitudinal reinforcement 290. Field-installed top negative
reinforcement 908 and floor diaphragm action are shown over points
of bearing and cantilever at column connections by conventional
reinforcement and/or posttensioning in the longitudinal top flange
800 where negative moments are created and to provide structural
continuity to the precast units so they have a continuous beam
effect as compared to simple spans. The field-applied top negative
reinforcement 908 comprises reinforcement by any means or
combination of means, including rods and bars, wire mesh, welded
wire fabric, plastic, metallic, glass, mineral or ceramic fabric,
prestressing, posttensioning, and the like. Added wind resistance
is gained by the floor/ceiling diaphragm while permitting a primary
parallel axis for conductors running parallel to the principal top
longitudinal reinforcement 290.
[0724] A multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 is shown
extending from the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 to the
ceiling accessible membrane barrier. The floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 extends from the bottom of the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c to the bottom of the
upward-facing cavities. A girder web 905 is shown having apertures
706 above and below which match the access and conductor passages
in the integral end barrier closure panels 612 while providing
linear conductor passages parallel to the web of the steel girder
902, the closure panels 612 and the steel girder 902 shown in the
cross-sectional views of FIGS. 88 and 89.
[0725] The floor accessible membrane barrier 546 comprises
composite modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c having a metal plate
affixed to the back side. The modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c
are supported at the corner juncture of the perimeter joints 749 by
means of multi-rotational bearing threaded shafts 794a having
conically-shaped multi-rotational bearing feet to fit and rotate
within a dovetail channel 564b having inwardly sloping sides and
outwardly extending flanges and having a head comprising a magnet
366 or a multi-rotational formed hat-shaped magnetic keeper head
579 to contain magnets 366.
[0726] The ceiling accessible membrane barrier comprises an
accessible ceiling system suspended from the bottom of the
longitudinal bottom flange 803 by means of multi-rotational bearing
solid threaded shafts 794b having cylindrically-shaped
multi-rotational bearing feet and threaded solid shafts to fit and
rotate within a cee support channel 578b applied to the bottom
surface of the longitudinal bottom flange 803 by means of sealant,
adhesive, or adhesive-backed foam 416. The ceiling units comprise a
composite of backer board and acoustical facing 576a and a
composite of backer board and gypsum board facing 576b.
[0727] FIG. 88 illustrates a cross-sectional view of FIG. 87
through the top primary core barrier 808, showing a steel girder
902 having a girder web 905 with apertures matching intermittent
access slots 610 which serve as conductor passages in the integral
end barrier closure panels 612 while providing linear conductor
passages parallel to the web of the steel girder. The intermittent
access slots 610 have linear access plugs 700 with perimeter
compressible edge seals 706. Two reinforcing bars comprise the top
transverse reinforcement 291, and two reinforcing bars comprise the
bottom transverse reinforcement 292. The longitudinally-disposed
field-installed top negative reinforcement 908 and floor diaphragm
action is shown over points of bearing and cantilever at column
connections. Steel reinforcement 907 is shown tying together the
top flanges of the girders 902 while providing for access apertures
comprising an intermittent access slot 610 which is shown closed
off by a linear access plug 700. A load-bearing inverted tee-shaped
concrete time-temperature-fire ratable encapsulation 906 of the top
flange of the steel girder 902 facilitates placement of the ends of
the precast or cast-in-place structural units having integral end
barrier closure panels 612 and facilitates the jobsite casting in
place of negative reinforcement 908 parallel and/or crosswise to
the top flange principal axis and serving also to provide floor
diaphragm action as well as continuity of continuous beam action. A
built-up steel girder 903 is shown having a linear reinforcement
plate 909 structurally joined to the bottom flange of the steel
girder 902 and a load-bearing inverted tee-shaped concrete
time-temperature-fire ratable encapsulation 904 of the load-bearing
extended bottom flange, the bottom flange carrying the integral end
barrier closure panels 612 of the precast structural units while
providing a linear conductor passage parallel to the web of the
steel girder 902.
[0728] FIG. 89 illustrates a cross-sectional view of FIG. 87 and is
similar to FIG. 88, except that it is taken through the bottom
primary core barrier 810 and shows a top flange 551 and a bottom
flange 552. The linear access plug 700 in the intermittent access
slot 610 in the top flanges of the steel girder 902 is shown having
a compressible perimeter edge seal 706.
THE FOURTH EMBODIMENT OF THIS INVENTION TRUSSED JOIST OR WAFFLE
JOIST UNITS
[0729] Interstitial Features Of FIGS. 90-93 and 94-99: The
interstitial features of the trussed joist or waffle joist units of
FIGS. 94-99 include, as shown longitudinally in FIGS. 94-96, a
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129 comprising a
structural transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 123 above
the primary core barrier 143, a structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 125 below the primary core
barrier 143, and a structural transverse interstitial accommodation
matrix 126 below the primary core barrier. Also included among the
interstitial features are a floor longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 120 and a floor transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 121 above the structural interstitial
architectural matrix, a ceiling transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 127 and a ceiling longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 128, a structural accessible interstitial
girder passage 130, and apertures 133 aligning with the channels
and cores of the structural interstitial architectural matrix.
[0730] General Features Of FIGS. 94-99: The general features of the
trussed joist or waffle joist units of FIGS. 94-99, with FIGS. 96
and 99 as the preferred embodiments (designated as "P.E." after the
Fig. No.) include a primary core barrier 143, at times a secondary
core barrier 145, a web, a top flange 146, and a bottom flange 156.
A composite steel and concrete beam 150 has a load-bearing web 158,
a top flange 146, a bottom flange 156 and cross-tie bridging 155,
and at times a cast-in-place top flange 157. The trussed joist or
waffle joist unit has a bottom flange 156 and cross-tie bridging
155. A floor accessible membrane barrier 140 is supported by a
plinth support system 141 or a channel support system 142 for low
.DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating and cooling. A ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 145 is supported by a ceiling
suspension system 148.
[0731] Further General Features Of FIGS. 94-99: Any applicable
general or specific features disclosed for any of FIGS. 1-162 may
apply to FIGS. 94-99 and shall be considered as part of the general
features of these figures as if included herein. The aforementioned
General Modular-Accessible-Matrix Site, Alterable Distributed
Architectural Multinetgridometry and Interstitial Accommodation
Matrix Features Applicable To FIGS. 1-160, which is located prior
to the First Embodiment Of This Invention, is incorporated herein
by reference where applicable to FIGS. 94-99 and shall be
considered as part of the general features of these figures as if
included herein.
[0732] Specific Features Of FIGS. 94-99: FIG. 94 shows a
longitudinal, sectional view of FIG. 97. A composite steel and
concrete girder 150 is shown, having the top flange 146
encapsulated in concrete to form a cast-in-place top flange 157
which also ties all adjacent structural interstitial accommodation
matrices to each other to form a structural floor diaphragm, while
the bottom flange 147 is also encapsulated in concrete. A
load-bearing concrete web 158 is also shown for the girder. A
structural accessible interstitial girder passage 130 is shown on
opposing sides of the web of the steel girder. The exposed
intumescent-coated trussed steel web 149i of the trussed joist or
waffle joist unit is shown, with structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 125 disposed below the primary
core barrier. A plinth support system 141 supports the floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 above the top flange 146 of the
primary core barrier 143, forming thereby a floor longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 120a accommodating conductors. A
ceiling suspension system 148 supports a ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 145, forming thereby a ceiling transverse
interstitial accommodation matrix 127a accommodating conductors
below the composite steel and concrete girder 150 and forming a
ceiling longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 128d
accommodating conductors, devices and equipment below the bottom
flange 156 of the trussed joist or waffle joist unit. FIG. 94 shows
continuous longitudinal reinforcement welded to the web of the beam
above the apertures and may also be below the apertures to
reinforce the steel girders where the apertures are precut in the
steel girder to align with all channels and cores of the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix. This reinforcing bar above the
aperture also provides support for the form while it is left in
place to support jobsite casting in place of the top flange which
ties all structural interstitial accommodation matrices into a
structural floor diaphragm for resisting wind loads. The web of the
steel girder is encapsulated in an intumescent coating 159.
[0733] FIG. 95 shows a composite steel and concrete girder similar
to that shown in FIG. 94, except that apertures 133 in the
load-bearing web 158 and in the web of the steel girder are aligned
with channels and cores of the structural interstitial
architectural matrix 129. The exposed fiber cement trussed web 149f
assembles the top flange to the bottom flange. A structural
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 123c accommodates
conductors and equipment above the primary core barrier 143, and
structural transverse interstitial accommodation matrices 126d
accommodate conductors, devices and equipment below the primary
core barrier. Cross-tie bridging 155 is shown below the web 149i
and coplanar with the bottom flange 147 of the trussed joist or
waffle joist unit. The floor interstitial accommodation membrane
140 and the ceiling interstitial accommodation membrane 145 are
arranged similarly to those in FIG. 94.
[0734] FIG. 96 shows a composite steel and concrete girder 150
similar to that shown in FIG. 95, except that the top flange 146 is
not encapsulated in cast-in-place concrete but is encapsulated in
an intumescent coating 159. The exposed concrete trussed web 149c
assembles the top flange to the bottom flange. The floor accessible
membrane barrier 140 is supported by a channel support system 142
for low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating and cooling,
forming thereby a floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation
matrix 120b accommodating conductors and devices and a floor
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121a accommodating
conductors. A structural transverse interstitial accommodation
matrix 123c above the primary core barrier 143 accommodates
conductors and equipment while a structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 126d accommodates conductors, devices and
equipment below the primary core barrier. The ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 145 is similar to those shown in FIGS. 94 and
95.
[0735] FIG. 97 is a transverse, sectional view of the trussed joist
or waffle joist unit of FIG. 94. Structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 122 are shown above the primary
core barrier 143. A plinth support system 141 is disposed on the
top flanges 146 of the primary core barrier, forming thereby a
floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121
accommodating conductors. The exposed intumescent-coated trussed
web 149i assembles the top flange 146 to the bottom flange 156.
Longitudinal reinforcement of the trussed joist or waffle joist
unit is shown as well as a structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 126 below the primary core barrier. The web
158 and bottom flange 147 of the composite steel and concrete
girder of FIG. 94 are indicated. A secondary core barrier 144 and
cross-tie bridging 155 are shown. A ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 145 is supported by a ceiling suspension system 148,
forming thereby a ceiling transverse interstitial accommodation
matrix 127 and a ceiling longitudinal interstitial accommodation
matrix 128.
[0736] FIG. 98 is a transverse, sectional view of the trussed joist
or waffle joist unit of FIG. 95. A floor accessible membrane
barrier 140, plinth support system 141, floor transverse
interstitial accommodation matrix 121, and structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 122 above the primary core
barrier 143 are shown, similar to those shown in FIG. 97.
Longitudinal and transverse reinforcement of the primary core
barrier 143 are indicated. The structural longitudinal 125 and
transverse 126 interstitial accommodation matrices, the ceiling
transverse 127 and longitudinal 128 interstitial accommodation
matrices, the ceiling suspension system 148, and the ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 145 of FIG. 97 are shown. The
load-bearing web 158 and bottom flange 147 of the composite steel
and concrete girder of FIG. 95 are shown. The exposed fiber cement
trussed web 149f assembles the top flange 146 to the bottom flange
156 of the trussed joist or waffle joist unit. Cross-tie bridging
155 is indicated.
[0737] FIG. 99 is a transverse, sectional view of the trussed joist
or waffle joist unit of FIG. 96. A floor transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 121b accommodating conductors and devices and
floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices 120a
accommodating conductors formed by the channel support system 142
for low .DELTA.t absorptive and emissive heating and cooling
supporting the floor accessible membrane barrier 140 are shown.
Structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices 122 are
shown above the primary core barrier 143, similar to those in FIGS.
97 and 98. The concrete trussed web 149c assembles the top flange
146 to the bottom flange 156. Longitudinal reinforcement of the
primary core barrier, cross-tie bridging 155, and the web 149c and
bottom flange 156 of the trussed joist or waffle joist unit are
shown as well as the bottom flange 147 of the composite steel and
concrete girder of FIG. 96. The structural longitudinal 125 and
transverse 126 interstitial accommodation matrices, the ceiling
transverse 127 and longitudinal 128 interstitial accommodation
matrices, the ceiling suspension system 148, and the ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 145 of FIGS. 97 and 98 are shown.
Within the teachings of this invention, as in other configurations
in FIGS. 1-162, the ceiling accessible membrane barrier shown may
be omitted, as shown in FIG. 127.
[0738] General Features Of FIGS. 90-93: FIGS. 90-93 show precast
"I" units 587 having a top flange 551 and a bottom flange 552 with
a trussed web 558 integrally forming a primary core barrier 553
with multiple barrier layers synergistically providing a fire,
smoke, sound, light, and privacy barrier. Continuous access slots
609 are positioned at points where adjacent precast "I" units are
joined together and intermittent access slots 610 at other points,
forming a multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 to
accommodate evolutionary unfolding change. The trussed web members
are generally formed and cast upside down and turned over after
curing. However, within variations of the features of the teachings
of this invention and by using extra intermediate false vee forming
means, formed decking 702 may be placed on the bottom of the top
flange 551 and bottom flange 552 with certain benefits and
alternative disadvantages. The primary benefit is that the flanges
may be cast right side up, eliminating the need to turn over the
cast members after setting and partial curing.
[0739] The metallic trussed joist web of FIGS. 90-93 beneficially
provides a highly conductive trussed web 558 transferring the
fire-induced thermal heat buildup between the top flange 551 and
the bottom flange 552 to the opposite flange to provide an enhanced
composite thermal mass of the combined thickness and mass of both
top and bottom flanges for a combined greater fire resistance of
the assembly while the structural interstitial accommodation matrix
540 provides the means for the full untethered or tethered
interactive alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry
of this invention. The use of any fluidtight metallic tubing along
with a working fluid, such as, steel pipe, for forming the trussed
web 558 of FIGS. 90-93 also beneficially provides a highly
conductive means of providing low .DELTA.t heating and cooling in
the top floor flanges 551 and the bottom ceiling flanges 552 such
that, depending on the thermal temperature of the working fluid
passed through the metallic trussed web tubing, the flanges 551,552
may be absorptive of heat for enterprise space cooling or emission
of heat for enterprise space heating while the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 540 provides the means for the
untethered or tethered interactive working of the alterable
distributed architectural multinetgridometry of this invention
while also providing an improved fire resistance. To one skilled in
the art, it is obvious that the sprinkler heads of a sprinkler
system may be integrated into the assembly of this invention by
tapping into the trussed web piping so that the circulating working
fluid that provides low .DELTA.t heating and cooling of the flanges
551,552 of FIGS. 90-93 may also provide the beneficially increased
fire safety of an integrated sprinkler system.
[0740] FIGS. 90-93 show representative configurations in that any
combination of features may be used. For example, it is obvious
that a suspended acoustical ceiling can be used in FIG. 90 in
addition to or in lieu of the integrally cast acoustical concrete
570 or structural concrete 571 ceiling. Any type of
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 may be used on the floor side
567 of the floor/ceiling system. Any depth may be assigned to the
floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 to accommodate any
structural depth required. The floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535 is accessible only from the floor side 567.
[0741] The structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540
accommodates all types of electronic, electrical and mechanical
equipment, including processors, semiconductor chips, transceivers,
circuit boards, disk drives, data storage devices, movable racks,
support and positioning devices, conductors, flexible circuitry,
distributed electronic backbone, distributed electrical power
backbone, cooling and comfort conditioning devices, and the like.
Whereas some of these devices and equipment may also be
accommodated in the ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534
and the floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535, outside of the
trussed web structure, the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix 540 has the additional advantage of providing an environment
sealed against fire and dust by means of linear access plugs 700 or
composite linear access plugs 704.
[0742] Any type of exposed-to-view, surface-mounted lighting
fixtures 625 may be suspended from the ceiling, centered in the
units or suspended from the joints. Ceiling channels 792,793 may be
fastened by clips to transverse channels 574.
[0743] The modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 on the floor side
567 of the floor/ceiling system are supported by corner supports or
by intermediate supports arranged in various patterns. Some of the
supports may be magnetically coupled to the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 by magnetic multi-rotational
plinths 605. Other supports are mechanically fastened by various
means to the formed channels 701. In FIGS. 91 and 92, the array of
coplanar parallel surface-applied dovetail channels 791a and 791b
creating the floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 provides
support for crosswise conductors above the dovetail channels 791
while accommodating longitudinal conductors disposed between and
parallel to the dovetail channels 791 and provides a precision
means of positioning multi-rotational bearing conically-shaped
bearing feet 794a and cylindrically-shaped bearing feet 794b of the
multi-rotational bearing threaded shafts. Within the teachings of
this invention, as in other configurations of FIGS. 1-162, any
combination of floor accessible membrane barriers,
modular-accessible-matrix-units, support systems, fastening means,
interstitial accommodation matrices, and formed channels may be
used.
[0744] The bottom flanges are reinforced by means of principal
bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293 and bottom transverse
reinforcement 292. The top flanges are reinforced by means of
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and top transverse
reinforcement 291. The reinforcement may be welded, clamped or tied
together into reinforcement support cages 594 (as further shown in
alternate ways in FIGS. 11, 12, 15, 16, and 26) before placement of
the structural concrete 571 in order to tie structurally the top
flange 551 to the bottom flange 552 by means of the trussed web 558
so as to function as a complete structural unit.
[0745] Specific Features Of FIGS. 90-93: FIG. 90 shows a
floor/ceiling system having a trussed web 558 which has a bottom
flange 552 and a top flange 551 of cementitious structural concrete
571 and a structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 designed
to accommodate a plurality of electronic devices, conductors,
flexible circuits, electrical and mechanical devices and equipment,
and the like. The bottom flange 552 has formed decking 702 forming
channels and ribs, which serves as a permanent form. The top flange
551 has formed channels 701 as a permanent form, forming continuous
dovetailed slots 562 which accommodate the multi-rotational
conically-shaped bearing feet of multi-rotational bearing threaded
shafts 794a. A variety of wire and strap assembly ties 703 is shown
holding the trussed web members 558 in alignment as they pass
through slots in the formed decking 702 of the bottom flange 552. A
cast-in-place cementitious linear joint 563 is placed in the space
between the adjoining bottom flanges 552. At the bottom of the
linear key joint 563 is a foam rod 20, a sealant bead 668, or one
or more pieces of foam 667.
[0746] A linear access plug 700 having a perimeter compressible
edge seal 706 is placed in the continuous access slot 609 between
the adjoining top flanges 551. The perimeter compressible edge seal
706 for the linear access plug 700 may be of any type, including
foam, rubber, elastomeric, and the like. The floor side 567 of the
floor/ceiling system has a floor accessible membrane barrier 546
comprising modular-accessible-matrix-unit- s having a metallic
plate 699 adhered by a flat web adhesion layer 669 to form a
composite, reversible, good two sides modular-accessible-matrix-un-
it 543a with any type of wearing surface. The flat web adhesion
layer 669 may be an adhesive, a polymer sheet, such as
polypropylene or other type of plastic, polyethylene foam or some
other type of foam, globs or beads of sealant, or the like. A floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535 is formed between the top
face of the top flange 551 and the floor accessible membrane
barrier 546, accommodating a variety of electronic, electrical and
mechanical devices, conductors, flexible circuitry, equipment, and
the like. The ceiling side 568 of the floor/ceiling system shows
two possible faces, structural concrete 571 and two layers of
concrete comprised of structural concrete 571 and a facing of
acoustical concrete 570, which are integrally cast with the bottom
flange 552. Lighting fixtures 625 may be centered in the ceiling
units or centered over the joints between the bottom flanges 552.
The lighting fixtures 625 centered over the joints show a
suspension system comprising a formed intermittent truncated
channel 575a, an internally threaded nut 575b, and a threaded
hanger rod or tube 575c.
[0747] The multi-rotational bearing threaded shafts 794a have
multi-rotational bearing heads, shown as unslotted and non-magnetic
600a, slotted and non-magnetic 600b, unslotted and magnetic 600c,
and slotted and magnetic 600d, threaded onto multi-rotational
bearing threaded solid shafts 601 or multi-rotational bearing
threaded tubular shafts which are internally non-threaded 602a and
internally threaded 602b. The magnets may comprise ceramic magnets,
ferrite magnets, rare earth magnets, magnets formed by ferrite
powders in a resin binder, and the like. The composite
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543a are held in place by the
magnetic multi-rotational bearing heads 600c,600d in combination
with the metallic plates 699 and by means of any type of fastener
691 applied between adjacent corners into the multi-rotational
bearing threaded tubular shafts 602a,602b to position and hold the
modular-accessible-matr- ix-units 543c in place by engagement over
the non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing heads 600a,600b. Any type
of fastener may be adapted to the teachings of this invention for
fastener 691, as shown in FIGS. 90, 91 and 93, as well as other
commercially available fasteners with concentric rings or screw
threads.
[0748] FIG. 91 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 90 but has
certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible to tailor the structure to the end users'
project needs within the teachings of this invention. The bottom
flange 552 forming the primary core barrier and the top flange 551
forming the secondary core barrier 561 of the floor/ceiling system
are formed with removable forms and have no channels or slots. A
composite linear access plug 704 of metal and a cementitious mix is
placed in the access slot between adjoining top flanges 551. A
grouted joint 537 is shown between the adjoining bottom flanges
552. A ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 is shown
between the bottom flange 552 and the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 on the ceiling side 568 of the floor/ceiling system. A
transverse channel 574 is shown in the ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix 534 above spaced-apart, rounded-edged ceiling
channels 792 on the ceiling side 568, shown as unperforated 792a,
perforated with mineral acoustical material 792b, perforated with
ceramic acoustical material 792c, and perforated with fiberglass
acoustical material 792d. The ceiling channels 792 may be hooked to
the transverse channel 574 by means of clips. A hanger rod 575
projects downward through the joint between the adjoining bottom
flanges 552, held in place by a U-shaped nut or the like. A floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535 is shown between the top
flange 551 and the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 on the
floor side 567 of the floor/ceiling system. The composite
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543a are good two sides, comprising
two faces of the same wearing surface material on opposite sides of
a flat web adhesion layer 669, creating a reversible unit. The
composite modular-accessible-matrix-units 543a are supported by a
plurality of multi-rotational bearing threaded shafts 794a having
multi-rotational conically-shaped bearing feet and threaded tubular
shafts 602, which are shown as internally non-threaded 602a and
internally threaded 602b, to fit and rotate within surface-applied
load-bearing dovetail channels 791, which are shown as having
inwardly-extending flanges 791a and outwardly-extending flanges
791b and as being adhered to the top flange 551 by means of a
sealant, adhesive or a layer of adhesive-backed foam 416, arranged
in a pattern of intermediate support points. The multi-rotational
bearing threaded shafts 794a are shown as having non-magnetic
multi-rotational bearing heads which are unslotted 600a and slotted
600b. The composite modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c are held
in place by means of any type of fastener 691 (as more fully
described for FIG. 90) applied between adjacent corners into the
multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shafts 602 which are
internally non-threaded 602a and internally threaded 602b to
position and hold the modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c in place
by engagement.
[0749] FIG. 92 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 91 but has
certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor
the structure to project needs. A sealant bead 668 is placed from
above into the bottom of the cast-in-place linear key joint 563 and
then filled to become a grouted joint 537. The access slot in the
top flange 551 has a linear access plug 700. The linear,
square-edged, spaced-apart ceiling channels 793 of the suspended
ceiling, which are shown as unperforated 793a, perforated with
mineral acoustical material 793b, perforated with ceramic
acoustical material 793c and perforated with fiberglass acoustical
material 793d, may be hooked to the transverse channel 574 by means
of clips. The multi-rotational bearing threaded shafts 794b have
cylindrically-shaped bearing feet and threaded solid shafts 601 to
fit and rotate within the surface-applied dovetail channel 791 to
support the composite modular-accessible-matrix-units 543a on the
top face of the primary core barrier 553. The plate-backed
composite modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c are held in place by
means of a replaceable adhesion ring 597 within each
multi-rotational bearing head 600a,600b.
[0750] FIG. 93 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 91 but has
certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor
the structure to project needs. The ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix 534 on the ceiling side 568 of the
floor/ceiling system is disposed between the bottom flange 552 and
accessible ceiling units 581 supported from the perimeter ledge of
a universal precast hat-shaped enclosure 661a or 661b, the ceiling
units comprising composite units 576a of backer board and
acoustical facing, 576b of backer board and gypsum board facing,
576c of metal backer and acoustical facing, and 576d of metal
backer and gypsum board facing in the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545. The ceiling units 576a,b,c,d are shown supported on
the outward-turning flanges of two variations of a universal
precast hat-shaped enclosure 661, which are attached to the bottom
face of the bottom flange 552 of the primary core barrier 553. The
multi-functional universal precast hat-shaped enclosures 661 serve
multiple purposes, as described for FIG. 30, and are wired through
a channel or junction box 624 placed between the top of the
universal enclosure 661a and the bottom face of the bottom flange
552 or, as shown for the universal enclosure 661b, through a
channel or junction box 624 attached to the side of the universal
enclosure. In FIG. 93, the universal enclosures serve as lighting
fixtures, showing variations of a lighting socket 625, a light bulb
629, and transparent diffusers 670 supported by fasteners 670a
projecting from the interior sides of the universal enclosure and,
alternatively, by perimeter ledges 670b affixed to the interior
sides of the universal enclosure. The universal enclosure may be
fabricated by any means, including by fire-resistant panels having
mitered corners. The universal enclosures 661 may be attached to
the bottom flange by any mechanical fastener means, by any adhesion
means, such as, by a sealant, an adhesive, or a layer of
adhesive-backed sealant, or by any magnetic means, such as,
permanent magnets, flexible magnets or flexible magnetic tape. The
universal enclosures 661 may also be beneficially attached by
mechanical means for three-axis precision positioning, such as, by
the use of channels to allow precision alignment on the
longitudinal or y axis by the use of longitudinal slots in the top
of the universal enclosure 661, to allow precision alignment on the
transverse or x axis by the use of crosswise slots in the top of
the universal enclosure 661, and to allow precision leveling on the
vertical or z axis by the use of mechanical fasteners and
compressible and expandable foam between the top of the universal
enclosure 661 and the bottom of the mounting substrate.
[0751] In FIG. 93, the floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535
on the floor side 567 of the floor/ceiling system is disposed
between the plate-backed composite modular-accessible-matrix-units
543c of the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 and the top
flange 551 comprising the secondary core barrier 561 and includes
an open channel 574 and an intermittent access slot 610 in the top
surface of the top flange 551. The longitudinal channel 574 is
shown integrally cast into the top flange 551 to increase the
capacity for conductor management on the longitudinal axis and to
optimize weight reduction of the structure while maximizing
conductor passage. The channel 574 is held in place prior to
casting by top transverse reinforcement 291 acting as temperature
reinforcement and positioning reinforcement as part of a
reinforcement support cage 594. The plate-backed composite
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c are supported by a series of
corner multi-rotational bearing threaded shafts 794a having
multi-rotational conically-shaped feet and threaded solid shafts
601 to fit and rotate within continuous or intermittent dovetailed
slots 562 in the top flange 551. The multi-rotational bearing
threaded shafts 794a are shown with non-magnetic multi-rotational
bearing heads which are unslotted 600a and slotted 600b. The
composite modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c are held in place by
means of any type of fastener 691 applied between adjacent corners
into the multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shafts 602 which
are internally non-threaded 602a to position and hold the
modular-accessible-matrix-unit- s 543c in place by engagement. Two
different types of composite linear access plugs 704 having
perimeter compressible edge seals 706 are shown between adjoining
top flanges 551, one of metal and a cementitious mix and the other
indicated as a three-layer composite. Two or more reinforcing bars
are shown on opposite sides of each trussed web 558 where a greater
amount of principal longitudinal reinforcement 293 is required over
the single bar 293 shown in FIGS. 91 and 92.
THE FIFTH EMBODIMENT OF THIS INVENTION CONCRETE TRUSSED OR WAFFLE
CONCRETE TRUSSED UNITS
[0752] General Features Of FIGS. 100-105: FIGS. 100-105 show a
floor/ceiling system comprising the precast double "I" units 587a
of this invention, formed of double tees 590a made of structural
concrete 571, which are placed into a cast concrete bed of
structural concrete 571 having optional facing of acoustical
concrete 570 to form an integral unit having a top flange zone 551,
bottom flange zone 552, and solid web 541 with apertures 707 to
form the double "I" units forming integral structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540. Any number of two or more multiple "I"
units are within the teachings of my invention.
[0753] Passage apertures 707 are integrally cast intermittently in
the solid web 541 of the precast double "I" units 587a, using any
type of blockout, such as, foam, plastic, metal, wood, and the like
placed where desired and removed after curing. Passage apertures
707 may be cast similar to any one of the types shown in FIG. 125.
Conductors may be pulled crosswise to the axis of the principal
conductors through the passage apertures 707.
[0754] The entire assembly provides a superior fire, smoke, dust,
sound, light, security and privacy barrier which provides
protection for electronic, electrical and mechanical devices,
conductors, equipment and the like accommodated within the
structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540.
[0755] Although not shown in FIGS. 100-105, a floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 may be disposed between the top surface of
the top flange zone 551 and a floor accessible membrane barrier 546
of this invention on the floor side 567 of the floor/ceiling system
and a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 may be disposed
between the bottom surface of the bottom flange zone 552 and a
ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 on the ceiling side 568 of
the floor/ceiling system. An obvious variation is to use the
assembly to form an enterprise multilayered interstitial
multinetgridometry 532 as a vertical interior or exterior wall or
partition system.
[0756] It is desirable that the perimeter edge of the top slab of
the double tee 590a have an inward slope, rather than the
conventional outward slope. This feature is achieved by the
teachings of this invention by providing a continuous, removable
"V" form insert, as shown in FIG. 100a, at the perimeter edge.
Intermittent, discretely disposed access apertures 709 having
inwardly sloping perimeter edges to receive linear access plugs 700
are placed in the top flange 551 and/or the bottom flange 552 as
required for access to the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix 540.
[0757] Specific Features Of FIGS. 100-105: FIG. 100 shows a
reinforced double tee 590a having a top flange 551 reinforced by
means of principal top longitudinal reinforcement 291 and top
transverse reinforcement 290. The double tees have a repetitive
series of shear lug and reinforcement notches 589 at the bottom of
the stem to accommodate the bottom transverse reinforcement 292 of
the bottom flange 552 shown in FIG. 102 and a bearing plate or
chair 708. The top flange 551 shows an access aperture 709. FIG.
100a shows a continuous, removable "V" form insert for forming the
inwardly sloped top flange 551. FIG. 100b shows the split form for
use in forming shear lugs encapsulating the reinforcement in the
bottom of the stem of the double tee 590a to achieve the repetitive
notching for shear lugs shown in FIG. 101.
[0758] As shown in FIGS. 100 and 103, the art of making forms for
casting double tees similar to the double tees 590a of this
invention is known. The tapered stems of the tees have notches 589
at the bottom to accommodate the bottom transverse reinforcement
292 and have intermittent bearing plates or chairs 708 at the
bottom of the stem, which will develop horizontal shear and
enhanced bond to structurally join the bottom of the double tees
590a to the bottom flange zone 552. The concrete in the bottom
flange 552 may be placed either before or after the double tees
590a are set in the bottom flange casting bed. Concrete may be
placed through access apertures 709 after the double tees are
set.
[0759] As shown in FIG. 101, a reliable structural bond between the
bottom of the double tee 590 and the bottom flange 552 is essential
to this invention and is achieved by the teachings of this
invention by casting a repetitive pattern of blockouts, using the
split forms shown in FIG. 100b to form shear lugs 565 having bottom
longitudinal reinforcing rods 582 passing through the shear lugs to
accommodate concrete intermittently in the bottom flange 552 and
also to accommodate transverse reinforcement rods 292 passing
through the shear lugs. Transverse reinforcement may be placed
below the bottom longitudinal reinforcing rods 582 passing through
the shear lugs and permitting uncured double tees 590a to be set
down into the prepared transverse reinforcement and/or freshly
placed concrete forming the bottom flange 552 as shown in FIG. 102.
In the alternative, the transverse reinforcement 292 may be placed
above the bottom longitudinal reinforcing rods 582 passing through
the shear lugs 565. The structural bond may be further enhanced by
roughening the surfaces to be bonded by bushhammering, scarifying,
application of retarders, and the like, or the bond may be enhanced
by adding latexes or resins to the structural concrete and coating
the bottom of the double tees with compatible resins.
[0760] FIG. 102 shows the reinforced double tee 590 of FIG. 100
placed in a cast bed of structural concrete 571 which comprises the
bottom flange 552, having a facing of acoustical concrete 570. A
cast-in-place linear key joint 563 having a foam rod 20 in the
bottom and filled with a cementitious mix is placed between
adjoining bottom flanges 552 to form a continuous fire, smoke,
dust, sound, light, security and privacy barrier. The structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 between the top and bottom
flange zones accommodate devices, conductors and equipment. Passage
apertures 707 in the stems of the reinforced double tee 590,
forming the solid web 541 of the precast double "I" units, permit
the passage of conductors crosswise to the axis of the principal
conductors. Linear access plugs 700 made of a cementitious mix and
having a perimeter compressible edge seal 706 are placed between
the top flange zones 551 in access apertures 709. The synergy of
this invention, in having a floor accessible membrane barrier
supported on a plurality of plinths, for example, permits the
simple spans of precast double "I" units 587a having 11/2" to 3"
field-applied principal top longitudinal reinforcement 585 over
points of bearing and cantilevers where negative moments are
created and to provide structural continuity to the precast units
so they have a continuous beam effect as compared to simple spans
as well as providing floor diaphragm action. The field-applied
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 585 comprises
reinforcement by any means or combination of means, including rods
and bars, wire mesh, welded wire fabric, plastic, metallic, glass,
mineral or ceramic fabric, prestressing, posttensioning, and the
like. Added wind resistance is gained by the floor/ceiling
diaphragm while permitting a primary parallel axis for conductors
running parallel to the principal top longitudinal reinforcement
290.
[0761] FIG. 103 shows the same structure as FIG. 100 but has
certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor
the structure to project needs. The stems of the double tee units
590a are deeper for greater spans and permit deeper structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 for accommodating
electronic, electrical, and mechanical devices, conductors,
equipment and the like, all of which are more fully described in
the General Features Of FIGS. 44-62.
[0762] FIG. 104 shows a rotated view of the solid web 541 with
apertures of the double tees 590a of FIG. 103, showing the bottom
portion of the web, including bottom transverse reinforcement 292,
bearing haunch 583, shear lug 565, and stirrups 584, which cannot
be seen from the view in FIG. 103.
[0763] FIG. 105 shows the same structure as FIG. 102 but has
certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor
the structure to project needs. The structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 are deeper, thereby accommodating large
electronic, electrical and mechanical devices, conductors,
equipment, and the like. The field-applied principal top
longitudinal reinforcement 585 of FIG. 102 is not included for
illustration purposes but, of course, by the teachings of this
invention could be used as required.
[0764] Within the teachings of this invention, FIGS. 100-105 may
have any of the floor accessible membrane barriers shown in FIGS.
1-160 or combinations thereof, supported by any of the support
systems shown in FIGS. 1-160 or combinations thereof.
[0765] General Features Of FIGS. 106-108: FIGS. 106-108 show a
floor/ceiling system comprising the precast multiple "I" units of
this invention. The longitudinal top flanges 800 are reinforced by
means of principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and top
transverse reinforcement 291. The longitudinal bottom flange 803 is
reinforced by means of principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement
293 and bottom transverse reinforcement 292. A linear key joint
563, which may be filled with a cementitious mix, is shown between
the longitudinal bottom flanges 803 of the adjoining precast
multiple "I" units.
[0766] Specific Features Of FIGS. 106-108: In FIG. 106, the
multiple "I" units are formed of double tees 590a made of
structural concrete 571, which are placed in a cast concrete bed of
structural concrete 571 to form an integral unit having a
longitudinal top flange 800 showing a top flange zone 554 of a
primary core barrier, a longitudinal bottom flange 803 showing a
bottom flange zone 555 of a primary core barrier, longitudinal
continuous solid webs 811, and transverse continuous solid webs at
ends forming integral end barrier panels 612 and a fire barrier
similar to those shown in FIGS. 88 and 89. Secondary core barriers
561 are shown in the longitudinal top flange 800, containing
intermittent access slots 610 formed in the spaces between
adjoining top flanges 800, the outwardly extending flange sides
accommodating linear access plugs 700, the slots 610 providing
access from the floor side 567 into the structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 540 formed at the juncture of adjoining double
"I" units 587a. Additional reinforcement is placed on the top
surface of the longitudinal top flange 800 directly over the
longitudinal continuous solid webs 811, which reinforcement 593 is
by any means or combination of means, including rods and bars, wire
mesh, welded wire fabric, plastic, metallic, glass, mineral or
ceramic fibers, prestressing, and posttensioning. A secondary core
barrier 561 is shown in the longitudinal bottom flange 803,
permitting access from the ceiling side 568 through an intermittent
access slot 610 into the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix 540 between the two longitudinal continuous solid webs 811
of the double "I" unit 587a. Additional reinforcement is placed in
the bottom flange 803 at points between intermittent slots 610.
[0767] In FIG. 106, a floor accessible membrane barrier 546
comprising a plurality of solid, reversible, good two sides
modular-accessible-matrix-- units 543b and composite
modular-accessible-matrix-unit 543c having a metal plate affixed to
the back side is disposed over a floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535. The modular-accessible-matrix-unit- s 543b,543c are
supported by means of a series of multi-rotational plinths shown as
having and unslotted and magnetic multi-rotational bearing head
600c and an unslotted and non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing
foot 603a on an unspecified multi-rotational bearing threaded
shaft, an unslotted and non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing head
600a and an unslotted and non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing
foot 603a on a multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shaft 602,
a slotted and non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing head 600b and a
slotted and non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603b on a
multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shaft 601, and a slotted
and magnetic multi-rotational bearing head 600d and a slotted and
non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603b on an unspecified
multi-rotational bearing threaded shaft.
[0768] In FIG. 106, a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534
is shown disposed between the bottom face of the bottom flange 803
and an accessible ceiling system comprising ceiling units suspended
from formed channels 427 having folded-over and outwardly extending
flanges forming a channel grid which are supported by a support
channel, angle, zee or bar 574 attached to the bottom surface of
the longitudinal bottom flange 803. The ceiling units are shown as
composites of backer board and acoustical facing 576a, composites
of backer board and gypsum board facing 576b, composites of metal
backer and acoustical facing 576c, and composites of metal backer
and gypsum board facing 576d. The ceiling units may be cast right
side up as shown by using permanent forming.
[0769] In FIG. 107 double "I" units 587a are cast right side up as
a single unit into a bed of acoustical concrete 570 into which a
plurality of downward-facing dovetail channels 564a have been
placed. Each double "I" unit has a longitudinal top flange 800, a
longitudinal bottom flange 803, and longitudinal webs 801 having
longitudinal apertures 802. The double "I" units have intermittent
access slots 610 with linear access plugs 700 having compressible
perimeter edge seals 706 disposed between the top flanges 800,
which provide access from the floor side 567 into the structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540. No access is provided from
the ceiling side 568. Composite modular-accessible-matrix-u- nits
543c having a metal plate affixed to the back of the unit are
supported and held in place over the floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 by means of multi-rotational bearing
plinths having a multi-rotational formed hat-shaped magnetic keeper
head 579b with an internally threaded shaft and a multi-rotational
bearing foot 603.
[0770] In FIG. 108 the precast unit comprises a triple "I" unit
587b having an unpenetrated bottom primary core barrier 810 on the
ceiling side 568. FIG. 108 is similar to FIG. 107 but has certain
distinctive features as part of the many alternative variations
possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the structure
to project needs. The longitudinal top flange 800 and the
longitudinal bottom flange 803 are wider and thinner than those
shown in FIG. 107, while the longitudinal web 801 is narrower and
taller, and the longitudinal aperture 802 in the web 801 is larger.
Consequently, the structural interstitial accommodation matrices
540 are larger and accommodate larger and a greater quantity of
computer and communications devices, components, appliances,
equipment, conductors, and the like. The floor accessible membrane
barrier 546 comprises a plurality of modular-accessible-pavers 544b
disposed over the longitudinal top flanges 800, accommodating flat
conductor cable and the like between the flanges and the
modular-accessible-pavers. Access to the structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 is obtained from the floor side 567
through intermittent access slots 610 closed off by linear access
plugs 700.
[0771] General Features Of FIGS. 109-112: FIGS. 109-112 show a
floor/ceiling system comprising the precast multiple tees of this
invention, comprised of two or more inverted tees, formed of
inverted double tees 590a, modified inverted double tees 590a or
inverted quadruple tees 590c made of structural concrete, which are
placed in a cast concrete bed of structural concrete to form an
integral unit having a longitudinal top flange 800, a longitudinal
bottom flange 803, and a longitudinal continuous solid web 811 or a
longitudinal web 801 having a longitudinal aperture 802. FIG. 109
indicates the multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 of
this invention, which extends from the ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix 545 to the floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 546. The double tees 590a and quadruple tees 590c are cast
upside down and turned over after curing, providing, generally, the
longitudinal bottom flange 803 as the bottom primary core barrier
810 and the longitudinal top flange 800 as the secondary core
barrier. FIG. 111 and 361 provide variations of this arrangement,
whereas FIG. 110, although similar to FIG. 109, involves casting
inverted tees and also casting a waffle pattern by using
back-to-back waffle dome forms with spacers over the multiple tee
forms to align and position the waffle dome forms, comprising
cementitious concrete cylindrical spacers 820a internally threaded
for fastening to the forms and cementitious concrete pavers 821
internally threaded for fastening to the opposed sides of the form,
the paver having serrated, interlocking sides to enhance bond and
fire barrier integrity, and then inverting the waffle dome forms
and the multiple tees. The modified double tees 590a of FIG. 110
result from the casting of biaxial waffle slabs, the deeper cavity
forming the structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 when
cast integrally with the longitudinal top flange 800. Although the
bottom surface of the longitudinal top flange 800 is shown as being
arched, a flat bottom surface is also according to the teachings of
my invention.
[0772] Between FIG. 109 and FIG. 110 is illustrated a P-E-M diagram
illustrating the interaction of people, equipment and machines in
the occupied spaces 538 with the alterable distributed
architectural multinetgridometry of this invention by means of the
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 and the modular accessible
node sites 169 in the reconfigurable alterable recyclable ceilings,
walls, and floors of my invention.
[0773] Specific Features Of FIGS. 109-112: FIGS. 109-111 show the
arched bottom surface of the longitudinal top flange 800 comprising
a permanent non-combustible form 800a forming an arch suspended
from the longitudinal web forming the arched longitudinal top
flange 800 comprising metal, cement board, backer board, waterproof
gypsum board or similar enduring materials. The decking is
suspended from an undulating shear lug pattern as shown in FIGS.
101 and 104 by any means, such as, by wire hanger loops, "U" straps
or other hanging bracket means for supporting arch decking
materials during the casting of the longitudinal top flange 800. In
contrast, FIG. 112 shows the bottom face of the longitudinal top
flange 800 as having a removable form 800b forming the arch.
Principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and top transverse
reinforcement 291 are shown in the longitudinal top flange 800 and
principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293 and bottom
transverse reinforcement 292 in the longitudinal bottom flange 803,
with the exception of FIG. 110 which shows only reinforcement 293.
The arrangement of the bottom reinforcement 292,293 and top
reinforcement 290,291 in FIG. 112 is reversed from that shown in
FIG. 109. By placing the principal top longitudinal reinforcement
290 below the top transverse reinforcement 291 in the longitudinal
top flange 800 and by placing the principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293 above the bottom transverse reinforcement 292 in
the longitudinal bottom flange 803 of FIG. 112, both flanges are
able to sustain heavier loads. Occupied spaces 538 are shown on
both sides of the floor/ceiling system.
[0774] FIGS. 109-112 are shown with longitudinal intermittent
access slots so that the top and bottom flanges between adjacent
units are cast integrally with each other while being transversely
reinforced at the points where slots are not continuous in the top
and bottom flanges to achieve stability for handling double, triple
or quadruple tees. The precast structural members of FIGS. 109-112
may also be cast with continuous slots. In other types of tee
configurations not shown in FIGS. 109-112, where continuous slots
are cast, end closure panels would be required to stabilize the
units with points of cross-reinforcing ties to form a transversely
reinforced whole to facilitate creating a transverse beam action
for lifting and handling each concrete joist or waffle joist unit.
It is also within the teachings of this invention to provide
cross-tie bridging typically at 1/4 points, 1/3 points or 1/2
points, based on engineering principles, to form a transversely
reinforced whole to facilitate creating a transverse beam action
for lifting and handling each concrete joist or waffle joist
unit.
[0775] In FIGS. 109, 110 and 112, a channel 577 is shown in a
longitudinal aperture 802 in the longitudinal web forming the
interstitial accommodation matrices at midpoint in the structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 and interconnecting the
interstitial accommodation matrices 540. Cast-in-place linear key
joints 563 have a foam rod 20 in the bottom and are filled with a
cementitious mix. Access to each structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 540 in FIGS. 109, 110 and 112 is only from the
floor side 567 by means of the longitudinal intermittent access
slots 610, while access from one structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 540 to adjoining structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 is by means of apertures 802 in the
longitudinal webs 801, the bottom primary core barrier 810
remaining unpenetrated. In contrast, each structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 540 in FIG. 111 is self-contained, not
interconnecting with adjoining coplanar structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 in that the structural members comprise
longitudinal continuous solid webs 811. A continuous pattern of
forming is developed in that longitudinal intermittent access slots
610 alternate from the longitudinal top flange 800, which forms the
top primary core barrier 808, to the longitudinal bottom flange
803, which forms the bottom primary core barrier 810. Alternating
patterns of intermittent access slots 610 in the longitudinal top
flange 800 and the longitudinal bottom flange 803 give access to
the structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540 from the
floor side 567 or the ceiling side 568.
[0776] In addition, in FIG. 110, access to the biaxial waffle
panels is obtained from the ceiling side 568 by removing the
accessible ceiling system 576a,576b,576c,576d which is supported by
means of formed channels 427 having folded-over and outwardly
extending flanges and suspended from dovetailed channels 564a cast
into the concrete at the base of the longitudinal bottom flange
803, the intermediate primary core barrier 809 remaining
unpenetrated.
[0777] In FIGS. 109-112, a floor interstitial accommodation matrix
535 is disposed on the floor side 567 between the top face of the
longitudinal top flange 800, which forms a secondary core barrier
and shows a permanent non-combustible form (FIGS. 109-111) or a
removable form (FIG. 112) forming an arch suspended from the
longitudinal web forming an arched longitudinal top flange, and the
floor accessible membrane barrier 546.
[0778] In FIG. 109, the modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 of the
floor accessible membrane barrier 546 are supported by support
means 606 selected from plinths, channels, foam, and the like, as
shown in detail in FIGS. 23-26 and 120.
[0779] In FIG. 110, the floor accessible membrane barrier 546
comprises solid, reversible, good 2 sides
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b. The
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b forming the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 are supported by multi-rotational bearing
plinths 605 having unslotted 600a and slotted 600b, non-magnetic
multi-rotational bearing heads and unslotted 603a and slotted 603b
non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing feet, and multi-rotational
bearing threaded solid shafts 601.
[0780] In FIG. 111, modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 comprising
the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 are supported by
multi-rotational plinths 605 and are held in place by engagement
and positioned by any type of fastener 691 applied between adjacent
corners.
[0781] In FIG. 112, the modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b of the
floor accessible membrane barrier 546 are shown as solid,
reversible, good two sides and supported by unslotted 595a and
slotted 595b, non-magnetic, multi-layered step plinths having
multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shafts 601 and threaded
tubular shafts 602 and unslotted 600a and slotted 600b,
non-magnetic, multi-rotational bearing heads.
[0782] FIGS. 109 and 110 show a ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534 disposed on the ceiling side 568 between the bottom face
of the longitudinal bottom flange 803, which serves as the bottom
primary core barrier 810, and the accessible ceiling system 576
comprising a ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545.
[0783] In FIG. 109, the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 is
suspended by suspension means 607 selected from plinths, hanger
rods, and the like, as shown in detail in FIGS. 9-16, 23-29, 38,
67, 123 and 125.
[0784] In FIG. 110, the ceiling units comprise a composite of
backer board and acoustical facing 576a, backer board and gypsum
board facing 576b, metal backer and acoustical facing 576c, and
metal backer and gypsum board facing 576d, the ceiling units
suspended by means of formed channels 427 having folded-over and
outwardly extending flanges suspended from dovetailed channels 564a
cast into concrete and attached to the waffle slabs 592.
[0785] In FIGS. 111 and 112, the ceiling side 568 shows an
acoustical concrete facing 570 on the structural concrete 571 of
the longitudinal bottom flange 803.
[0786] General Features Of FIGS. 113-120: Any applicable general or
specific features disclosed for any of FIGS. 1-160 may apply to
FIGS. 113-120 and shall be considered as part of the general
features of these figures as if included herein. The aforementioned
General Modular Accessible Node, Alterable Distributed
Architectural Multinetgridometry and Interstitial Accommodation
Matrix Features Applicable To FIGS. 1-160, which is located prior
to The First Embodiment Of This Invention, is incorporated herein
by reference where applicable to FIGS. 113-120 and shall be
considered as part of the general features of these figures as if
included herein.
[0787] FIGS. 113-120 show a primary core barrier 553 and a
secondary core barrier 561 of reinforced concrete 571 of a
floor/ceiling system of this invention, comprising a top flange
551, a bottom flange 552, and an intermittent solid web 550. The
ceiling side 568 of the floor/ceiling system is shown, as is the
floor side 567 of the floor/ceiling system. FIGS. 113-118 are
longitudinal cross sectional views, and FIGS. 119 and 120 are
transverse cross sectional views. The top flange 551 is shown
reinforced by means of principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290
and top transverse reinforcement 291. The bottom flange 551 is
shown reinforced by means of principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293 and bottom transverse reinforcement 292.
Structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540 are shown formed
by the precast structural members, containing rails 652 for
traveling racks 643 which may accommodate electronic devices, such
as, circuit boards, semiconductors, processors, transceivers,
cards, servers, bridges, routers, switches, breakers, disk drives,
storage devices, universal sockets, connectors, controllers,
sensors, and the like as more fully described in the third
paragraph of General Modular Accessible Node, Alterable Distributed
Architectural Multinetgridometry And Interstitial Accommodation
Matrix Features Applicable To FIGS. 1-160. The structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 provide sealed environments
to protect the sensitive devices and equipment contained therein.
Access is shown by means of discretely disposed access apertures
709 in the face of the top flange 551, the apertures having
inwardly sloping sides formed by the outwardly sloping sides of the
bottom flanges 551. The apertures may be sealed by means of linear
access plugs 700, which plugs may have a perimeter compressible
edge seal 706 as shown in FIG. 120. A floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 is disposed between the top flange 551 and
a floor accessible membrane barrier 546 comprised of
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 supported, generally, by
support means 606 selected from plinths, channels, foam, fasteners
of any type, and the like or, specifically, multi-rotational
plinths 605 positioned in intermittent or continuous dovetailed
slots 562. An integral facing of acoustical concrete 570 is shown
on the bottom surface of the bottom flange 552. This is optional,
as shown in FIG. 120 where only structural concrete 571 is
indicated.
[0788] Forming for the rectangular intermittent solid web 550 may
be made of any material, including metal, plastic, wood, plywood,
hardboard, particleboard, cement board, treated cardboard, and the
like, although metal or cement board are preferred for their
non-combustibility where the forms are permanently left in place.
To form rectangular enclosures to float above the top of the bottom
flange 552, forms should be of non-combustible material if forms
are to be left in place.
[0789] The continuous and intermittent forms shown in FIGS. 113-120
for forming the upper top flange 551 for the secondary core barrier
561 may be removable or permanent. The forms may be made of any
material, including metal, plastic, wood, plywood, hardboard,
particleboard, cement board, and the like, although metal or cement
board are preferred. The horizontal deck forms may be held in place
by any support means, including any type of fastener, wire hangers,
Z-clips, wood or other type of blocking, cripples, stilts, and the
like, off the intermittent solid web 550. The forms may also be
free of the U-shaped channel sides shown in the drawings, whereby
the forms are held in place by means of any type of board or other
support means in a conventional manner. Other embodiments of my
invention may have variations of these combinations of
elements.
[0790] Specific Features Of FIGS. 113-120: FIG. 113 shows a
longitudinal cross sectional view of the top flange 551, the bottom
flange 552, and the intermittent solid web 550 prior to the
placement of the concrete, showing a continuous form 728 having
integral U-shaped channel sides forming the top flange 551 and the
structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540 formed by the
structural members.
[0791] FIG. 114 shows the top flange 551, the bottom flange 552,
and the intermittent solid web 550 after placement of the
structural concrete 571. Other features are as shown in FIG.
113.
[0792] FIG. 115 shows the top flange 551, the bottom flange 552,
and the intermittent solid web 550 with stirrup reinforcement 727
prior to placement of the concrete. Other features are as shown in
FIG. 113.
[0793] FIGS. 116-118 show a structure similar to FIGS. 113-115 but
have certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor
the structure to project needs. The longitudinal cross sectional
views are taken at a point between adjoining solid webs, thereby
showing the open interstitial accommodation matrices 540 formed by
the structural members all the way across, with the intermittent
solid webs 550 shown in the background.
[0794] FIG. 116 shows an intermittent form 729 supported off a
continuous form 728 at either side. The turned-down edges of the
hat-shaped intermittent form 729 fit into and are supported by the
integral U-shaped channel sides of adjacent continuous forms 728.
The bottom flange 552 is indicated as the primary core barrier 553
and the top flange 551 is indicated as the secondary core barrier
561.
[0795] FIG. 117 shows an intermittent form 731 and two continuous
forms 730, each having one turned-down edge and one integral
U-shaped channel side, whereby the turned-down edge of each
continuous form 730 or intermittent form 731 fits into and is
supported by the integral U-shaped channel side of the adjacent
form 731,730.
[0796] FIG. 118 shows continuous forms 732 supported off either
side of an intermittent form 733. The turned-down edges of the
hat-shaped continuous forms 732 fit into and are supported by the
integral U-shaped channels of the hat-shaped intermittent form
733.
[0797] FIG. 119 shows a transverse cross sectional view at a point
cutting through the intermittent solid web 550, showing the
U-straps 734 at the top of the intermittent solid web 550 and
permanent stilts, reinforcement chairs or other support means 735
at the bottom of the intermittent solid web 550, supporting the
forms for casting the intermittent solid web 500. Integral end
closure panels 612 are shown at the end of the precast units,
beyond the structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540.
Cross-tie reinforcement 611 is shown between the ends of adjoining
top flanges 551 in the areas not occupied by the discretely
disposed apertures 709 to provide transverse reinforcement at
points where the apertures are not continuous in the top flanges
551. Linear access plugs 700 are shown in the access apertures 709
in the top face of the top flange 551. Dovetailed slots 562 are
shown, which receive the multi-rotational plinths 605. Rails 652
for traveling racks 643 are shown, allowing the traveling racks to
be rolled directly below the access apertures 709 so that the
various electronic devices and equipment may be accessed from the
floor side 567. No access is provided from the ceiling side 568 to
the structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540. A foam rod
20 is placed in the bottom of a linear key joint 653 to form a seal
between adjoining bottom flanges 552.
[0798] FIG. 120 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 119 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
variations possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor
the structure to project needs. The transverse cross sectional view
is cut through the structural interstitial accommodation matrices
540 formed by the structural members in the intermittent open
portion of the intermittent solid web 550. A sealant bead 668 is
placed in the bottom of the linear key joint 653 to form a seal
between adjoining bottom flanges 552. The bottom flange 552 is
shown as all structural concrete 571 without having a bottom layer
of acoustical concrete. Linear access plugs 700, each having a
perimeter compressible edge seal 706 attached to the sides, are
shown pressed into access apertures 709 so the edge seal 706 is
compressed into the sides of the access apertures 709. Other
features are as shown in FIG. 119 with variations shown in the
location of the rails 652 for the traveling racks 643.
[0799] FIGS. 119 and 120 show modular universal racks 643 of any
size within the structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540
accessible from the floor side 567 or the ceiling side 568
accommodating chip modules, board modules, socket modules, card
modules, device modules, combination modules, and the like,
providing scalability, convertibility, reconfigurability,
recyclability, adaptability, alterability, testability, and
maintainability to the multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry
532 within the alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry 528. The device modules may comprise switch
modules, bus modules, controller modules, terminal modules,
connector modules, server modules, bridge modules, router modules,
memory modules, random access memory (RAM) modules, disk modules,
testing modules, sensor modules, multiplexer modules, multimedia
modules, and the like.
[0800] Modular enclosed, scalable, reconfigurable, and alterable
multi-switching communications and computer building blocks
facilitate user determinism. Multipurpose and multifunctional
communications and/or computer configurations within the modular
universal racks 643 and enclosures of one-eighth, one-quarter,
one-half, three-quarter, and full modular size are disposed
horizontally within the structural interstitial accommodation
matrix 540 to provide access to chips, boards, cards, sockets, and
devices through removable covers through the discretely disposed
access apertures 709.
[0801] In FIGS. 119 and 120, on the floor side 567, a modular
universal rack 643 is suspended within the structural interstitial
accommodation matrix 540 on a rolling suspension system 652 having
a controlled moving conductor tether system for in-and-out
conductors, cables and fibers disposed for 100 percent access to
one or more device modules within the modular universal rack with
access through the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 and
through the discretely disposed access apertures 709. Access is
also available through the enclosure cover for the modular
universal rack 643.
[0802] On the ceiling side 568, a modular universal rack is
suspended within the structural interstitial accommodation matrix
540 on a rolling or sliding suspension system for the modular
universal rack having a controlled moving conductor tethered system
for in-and-out conductors, cables and fibers disposed for 100
percent access to one or more device modules within the modular
universal rack with access through the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545 and through intermittent access slots 610 or through an
intermittent access panel as well as access through an enclosure
cover for the modular universal rack.
[0803] In FIGS. 119 and 120, rolling modular universal rack systems
643 with a tethered conductor means provide modular, scalable,
rescalable, reconfigurable, alterable, recyclable, multi-switching
communications and multi-server, multi-bridge, multi-router
components for a reconfigurable, upgradable, multi-processing
environment disposed horizontally by tethered roller suspension
means to provide 100 percent access within the structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 540 through the discretely
disposed access apertures 709.
THE SIXTH EMBODIMENT OF THIS INVENTION DUPLEX HOLLOW PRECAST
UNITS
[0804] General Features Of FIGS. 121-139: Any applicable general or
specific features disclosed for any of FIGS. 1-160 may apply to
FIGS. 121-139 and shall be considered as part of the general
features of these figures as if included herein. The aforementioned
General Modular-Accessible-Matrix Site, Alterable Distributed
Architectural Multinetgridometry and Interstitial Accommodation
Matrix Features Applicable To FIGS. 1-160, which is located prior
to the First Embodiment Of This Invention, is incorporated herein
by reference where applicable to FIGS. 121-139 and shall be
considered as part of the general features of these figures as if
included herein.
[0805] General Features Of FIGS. 121-125: FIGS. 121-123 show
vertical cross sections representing a modified concrete joist
system providing a two-layer fire, smoke, sound, light, security,
and privacy barrier comprising a primary core barrier 553 and a
secondary core barrier 561 of structural concrete 571 accommodated
within the enterprise alterable distributed architectural
multinetgridometry. The entire floor/ceiling assembly comprises a
multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 and shows a floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535, structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540, and a ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix 534 between the interior faces of the floor
accessible membrane barrier 546 and the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545. Occupied spaces 538 are shown above and below the
entire floor/ceiling assembly. The longitudinal top flanges 800 are
reinforced by principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and top
transverse reinforcement 291. The longitudinal bottom flanges 803
are reinforced by principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293
and bottom transverse reinforcement 292.
[0806] FIGS. 124 and 125 show vertical cross sections representing
a modified concrete joist system providing a three-layer fire,
smoke, sound, light, security, and privacy barrier comprising a
primary core barrier 553 and two secondary core barriers 561 of
structural concrete 571 accommodated within the enterprise
alterable distributed architectural multinetgridometry. In addition
to the cross-tie bridging 611 shown in FIG. 124 above and below the
primary core barrier 553 and in FIG. 125 above the primary core
barrier 553, integral end barrier closure panels 612 may be
included at both ends of the units to insure stability of the
system. A natural variation, of course, would be to have neither
bridging 611 nor integral end barrier closure panels 612. Where
large lighting fixtures are required, the bottom flanges 803 may be
modified at desired locations by shortening or removal. Collapsible
or deflatable forms may be used to form the structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540. The entire assembly comprises a
multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry 532 and shows the
interstitial accommodation matrix 539 between the interior faces of
the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 and the ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 545. A floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535 is shown between the top of the longitudinal top flange
800 and the interior face of the floor accessible membrane barrier
546. A ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 is shown
between the bottom of the longitudinal bottom flange 803 and the
interior face of the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545.
[0807] Specific Features Of FIGS. 121-125: FIG. 121 shows an
unpenetrated primary core barrier 553 at approximately midway
between the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 and the ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 545. The structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 above the primary core barrier are
accessible from the floor side 567 through a continuous access slot
609 and intermittent access slots 610 in the secondary core barrier
561 with a linear access plug 700. Cross-tie bridging 611 is shown
behind the linear access plugs 700 to provide stability to the
assembly, typically located at 1/4 points, 1/3 points or 1/2
points, based on engineering principles, with points of cross-tie
reinforcing to form a transversely reinforced whole to facilitate
creating a transverse beam action for lifting and handling each
duplex hollow precast unit. A latticework 615 of vertical and
horizontal reinforcement with stirrups 584 as shown in the
longitudinal continuous solid webs 811 and the top longitudinal
flanges 800 and bottom longitudinal flanges 803. Transverse
continuous solid webs 812 and transverse bottom flanges 807 are
also shown below the primary core barrier 553. The structural
interstitial accommodation matrices below the primary core barrier
553 are alternatively shown as 540a having a parallel concrete
joist pattern forming an interstitial accommodation matrix and
bridging pattern, as 540b having a parallel concrete joist with
transverse bridging pattern or transverse concrete joist forming a
rectangular waffle pattern with an interstitial accommodation
matrix, and as 540c having a square waffle pattern forming an
interstitial accommodation matrix. A plinth support system for the
floor accessible membrane barrier 546 of composite, reversible,
good two sides modular-accessible-matrix-units 543a or solid,
reversible, good two sides modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b is
shown having an unslotted, non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing
head 600a on a multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shaft 601
and an unslotted, non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603a.
Also shown is a slotted, non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing head
600b on a multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shaft 602 and a
slotted, non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603b. The
multi-rotational bearing feet 603a and 603b are affixed to the top
flange 800 by means of a sealant, an adhesive, or a layer of
adhesive-backed foam 416. The ceiling accessible membrane barrier
545 shows four variations of an accessible ceiling system of
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 comprising a composite of
backer board and acoustical facing 576a, a composite of backer
board and gypsum board facing 576b, and a composite of metal backer
and acoustical facing 576c or a composite of metal backer and
gypsum board facing 576d. The modular-accessible-matrix-units 543
and modular-accessible-units 92 are supported on formed channels
427 having folded-over and outwardly extending flanges suspended by
mechanical fasteners 382a having a conically-shaped
multi-rotational bearing head and threaded solid shaft to fit and
rotate within a dovetail channel 564b or by mechanical fasteners
382b having a cylindrically-shaped multi-rotational bearing head
and threaded solid shaft to fit and rotate within a cee support
channel 578b applied to the bottom surface of the bottom
longitudinal flanges 803 by means of a sealant, an adhesive, or a
layer of adhesive-backed foam 416. On the ceiling side, the passage
of conductors between occupied spaces and interstitial spaces is
shown through joints between sides of adjoining
modular-accessible-units and modular-accessible matrix units 224.
On the floor side, the passage of conductors between occupied
spaces and interstitial spaces is shown through joints between
sides of adjoining modular-accessible-units and
modular-accessible-matrix-units 225, through joints at corners
between adjoining modular-accessible-units and
modular-accessible-matrix units 226, through notched joints in
sides of adjoining modular-accessible-unit- s and
modular-accessible-matrix-units 227, through notched joints at
corners between adjoining modular-accessible-units and
modular-accessible-matrix-units 228, through pre-cut prepared
apertures in modular-accessible-units and
modular-accessible-matrix-units 229, and through joints between
sides of adjoining modular-accessible-units and
modular-accessible-matrix-units 231.
[0808] FIG. 122 shows a precast triple "I" unit 587b made of
structural concrete 571. The precast triple "I" unit has an
unpenetrated primary core barrier 553 on the ceiling side 568,
while a secondary core barrier 561 is shown on the floor side 567,
forming structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540, one of
which is indicated as a 540a having a parallel concrete joist
pattern forming an interstitial accommodation matrix and bridging
pattern. The structural interstitial accommodation matrices are
accessible only from above through the secondary core barrier 561
by removal of linear access plugs 700. Cross-tie bridging 611 is
shown, typically at 1/4 points, 1/3 points or 1/2 points, based on
engineering principles, which gives stability to the floor/ceiling
assembly, with points of cross-tie reinforcing to form a
transversely reinforced whole to facilitate creating a transverse
beam action for lifting and handling each duplex hollow precast
units. The longitudinal top flanges 800 of the precast triple "I"
unit 587b is reinforced by principal top longitudinal reinforcement
290 and top transverse reinforcement 291. The longitudinal bottom
flanges 803 are reinforced by principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293. A longitudinal web 801 with a longitudinal
aperture 802 is shown between the primary core barrier 553 and the
secondary core barrier 561, permitting the passage of conductors
from one structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 to
another. The longitudinal bottom flange 803 shows a longitudinal
intermittent solid web 813, permitting the passage of conductors
from one ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 to another.
The modular-accessible-units 92 comprising acoustical planks 580b
forming the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 are applied to
the bottom faces of outwardly extending flanges of channels 362
with touch fasteners 363 or flexible magnets 367. The channels 362
are applied to the bottom flanges 803 of the precast triple "I"
unit 587b by means of touch fasteners 363 or flexible magnets 367.
Any modular-accessible-unit 92 location may be a potential modular
accessible node site 216. The floor accessible membrane barrier 546
comprises composite, reversible, good two sides
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543a, solid, reversible, good 2
sides modular-accessible-matrix-units 543b, and composite, with
metal plate modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c. The
modular-accessible-matrix- -units are held in place by either a
sealant flexible assembly joint 739 or by any type of fastener 691
applied between adjacent corners to position and hold the
modular-accessible-matrix-units in place by engagement. The floor
accessible membrane barrier 546 is illustrated supported on a
support system comprising formed channels 438 having inwardly
sloping and outwardly extending flanges, threaded solid shafts 794a
having conically-shaped multi-rotational bearing feet to fit and
rotate within the formed channel 438, and load-bearing channels 748
accommodating the threaded shafts 794a in the center of the channel
web to provide a multi-rotational bearing leveling system and
containing load-bearing round dual low .DELTA.t tubing, the channel
having a rectangular exterior cross section 748a, a rectangular
exterior cross section 748b and having a groove with releasable and
resealable sealant in the groove, a rectangular exterior cross
section 748c and having a linear flexible magnetic tape applied to
the top side, and a rectangular exterior cross section 748d and
having an integrally formed top magnetic layer.
[0809] FIG. 123 shows an unpenetrated primary core barrier 553 on
the floor side 567 and a secondary core barrier 561 on the ceiling
side 568. The reinforcement of the primary core barrier 553 is
identical to that shown for the primary core barrier of 122. The
configuration of the longitudinal top flanges 800 and the
longitudinal bottom flanges 803 and the reinforcement of the top
and bottom flanges are exactly reversed from the configuration and
type of reinforcement shown for the longitudinal top and bottom
flanges of FIG. 122. The structural interstitial accommodation
matrices 540 disposed between the primary core barrier and the
secondary core barrier are accessible through intermittent access
slots 610 which are sealed by composite linear access plugs 704.
Cross-tie bridging 611 is shown behind the composite linear access
plugs 704 to stabilize the floor/ceiling assembly, typically at 1/4
points, 1/3 points or 1/2 points, based on engineering principles,
with points of cross-tie reinforcing to form a transversely
reinforced whole to facilitate creating a transverse beam action
for lifting and handling each duplex hollow precast unit. The
longitudinal webs 801 have longitudinal apertures 802 accommodating
a channel 577 interconnecting adjoining structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 and permitting the passage of
conductors. Dome forms 592 of biaxial waffle slabs are shown
between the top flanges 800. The floor accessible membrane barrier
546 comprises composite modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c with a
metal plate backing. The support system for the floor accessible
membrane barrier shows an unslotted, magnetic multi-rotational
bearing foot 600d affixed to the top longitudinal flange 800 by
means of a sealant, an adhesive, or a layer of adhesive-backed foam
416, a multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shaft 602, and a
slotted, magnetic multi-rotational bearing head 600d. An alternate
support system shown comprises an unslotted, magnetic
multi-rotational bearing 603c affixed to the top longitudinal
flange 800 by means of a sealant, an adhesive, or a layer of
adhesive-backed foam 416, a multi-rotational bearing threaded solid
shaft 601, and an unslotted, magnetic multi-rotational bearing head
600c. The magnetic heads 600c,d position the metal-backed
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543c in place. The ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 545 comprises an accessible ceiling
system of modular-accessible-units 92 having a composite 576c of a
metal backer and acoustical facing or a composite 576d of a metal
backer and gypsum board facing. The ceiling suspension system shown
is a ceiling hanger 579c comprising a multi-rotational formed
hat-shaped magnetic keeper housing a magnet 366, an internally
threaded shaft 602, and a channel 361 having inwardly extending
flanges applied to the bottom face of the longitudinal bottom
flanges 803 by a sealant, an adhesive, or a layer of
adhesive-backed foam 416. An alternate ceiling suspension system
shows a multi-rotational bearing threaded solid shaft 601. The
magnets 366 position the metal-backed modular-accessible-units 92
in place. The joints between the modular-accessible-units in the
floor and ceiling accessible membrane barriers are shown as tight
abutting 749a, open 749b, flexible-magnetic tape filled 749c, and
foam filled 749d.
[0810] FIG. 124 shows separate, non-communicating structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 which are accessible from
the ceiling side 568 and from the floor side 567, the primary core
barrier 553 remaining unpenetrated. The longitudinal bottom flange
803, which comprises the secondary core barrier 561 on the ceiling
side is reinforced by means of principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293, bottom transverse reinforcement 292, and the
bottom portion of the latticework of vertical and horizontal
reinforcement 615 which reinforces the primary core barrier 553.
The longitudinal top flange 800, which comprises the secondary core
barrier 561 on the floor side is reinforced by means of principal
top longitudinal reinforcement 290, top transverse reinforcement
291, and the top portion of the latticework of vertical and
horizontal reinforcement 615. The reinforcement latticework 615
stiffens the members so they may be more safely handled during
assembly. Access to the structural interstitial accommodation
matrices 540 is through intermittent access slots 610 which are
sealed by linear access plugs 700 being pressed into perimeter
compressible edge seals 706. The ends of the longitudinal flanges
803 and 800 may be straight or tapered, thereby controlling the
profile of the intermittent access slots 610. Bridging 611 is shown
at each intermittent access slot 610 to stabilize the structure but
may be left out.
[0811] FIG. 124 shows a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix
534 disposed between the bottom face of the longitudinal bottom
flange 803 and the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545. The
ceiling units comprise a composite of backer board and acoustical
facing 575, which are suspended from the longitudinal bottom flange
803 by suspension means comprising dovetail channels 564 affixed to
the bottom flange 803 with sealant, adhesive, or a layer of
adhesive-backed foam 416, accommodating formed channels 427 having
folded-over and outwardly extending flanges forming a channel grid.
A floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 is disposed between
the top face of the longitudinal top flange 800 and the floor
accessible membrane barrier 546. The
modular-accessible-matrix-unit- s 543c, composites having metal
back plates, which comprise the floor accessible membrane barrier
546, are supported on the top flange 800 by various support means
affixed to the top flange 800 by sealant, adhesive, or a layer of
adhesive-backed foam 416. Support means shown includes a
multi-rotational formed hat-shaped magnetic keeper head 579b
containing a magnet 366, an internally threaded shaft and an
unslotted, non-magnetic multi-rotational bearing foot 603a. Another
support means indicates a slotted, non-magnetic multi-rotational
bearing foot 603b. A third support means indicates a
multi-rotational conically-shaped bearing foot 794a and a threaded
solid shaft to fit and rotate within a dovetail channel 564.
[0812] FIG. 125 is similar to FIG. 124, with certain distinctions.
FIG. 125 shows structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540
which are accessible from the ceiling side 568, from the floor side
567, and from adjacent structural interstitial accommodation
matrices through longitudinal apertures 802 in the longitudinal
webs 801, forming an interstitial multinetgridometry matrix. The
primary core barrier 553 remains unpenetrated. The longitudinal
bottom flange 803, which comprises the secondary core barrier 561
on the ceiling side is reinforced by means of principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293 and bottom transverse reinforcement
292. Absent is the latticework reinforcement 615 of FIG. 124. The
longitudinal top flange 800, which comprises the secondary core
barrier 561 on the floor side is reinforced by means of principal
top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and top transverse reinforcement
291. Access to the structural interstitial accommodation matrices
540 is through intermittent access slots 610 which are sealed by
linear access plugs 700 and by composite linear access plugs 704
being pressed into perimeter compressible edge seals 706.
[0813] FIG. 125 has ceiling units comprising acoustical planks 580b
which are suspended from the longitudinal bottom flange 803 by
suspension means comprising zee supports affixed to the bottom
flange 803 by sealant, adhesive, or a layer of adhesive-backed foam
416 or touch fasteners 383. The modular-accessible-matrix-units
543c of the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 are supported on
the top flange 800 by various support plinths. Load-bearing
channels 797a,b,c, d,e,f of various configurations accommodating
single and double low .DELTA.t tubing are shown on multi-rotational
bearing threaded tubular shafts 602. Unslotted, non-magnetic 603a
and slotted, non-magnetic 603b multi-rotational bearing feet are
shown. The perimeter joints between modular-accessible-matrix-un-
its are shown as tight abutting 749a, open 749b, flexible magnetic
tape filled 749c, foam filled 749d, and sealant filled 749e.
Potential modular accessible node sites 216 are also shown. The
passage of conductors between occupies spaces and interstitial
spaces through the crosswise joints transversely disposed to
longitudinal fluid conductors 230 is shown on the floor side.
[0814] Interstitial Features Of FIGS. 126-139: The interstitial
features of the duplex hollow precast units of FIGS. 126-139
include, as shown in FIG. 126, a structural interstitial
architectural matrix 129. Also included among the interstitial
features are a floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix
120 and a floor transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 121
above the primary core barrier 143, a structural accessible
interstitial girder passage 130, and apertures 133 aligning with
the channels and cores of the structural interstitial architectural
matrix.
[0815] General Features Of FIGS. 126-139: FIGS. 126-139 show the
preferred variations of the duplex hollow precast units of this
Sixth Embodiment of my invention.
[0816] FIGS. 126-139 illustrate an unpenetrated primary core
barrier 143 generally located close to the floor accessible
membrane barrier 140. FIG. 127 is an exception in that the primary
core barrier is located midway between the floor accessible
membrane barrier 140 and the ceiling side. A plinth support system
141 is disposed over the top flanges 146 of the primary core
barrier 143 and support a floor accessible membrane barrier 140. A
secondary core barrier 144 provides access to the structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 125,126 on the ceiling side
through linear access plugs 154. A common web 149 is shared by the
primary core barrier 143 and the secondary core barrier 144, having
a top flange 146 and a bottom flange 147. The primary core barrier
143 serves as an unpenetrated fire, smoke, sound, and light
barrier. The secondary core barrier 144, because it contains linear
access plugs 154 sealing the intermittent access slots 610,
provides greater fire, smoke, sound, and light protection than most
conventional construction. Whereas the duplex hollow precast units
may be precast, they may also be extruded.
[0817] In FIGS. 126, 127, and 130-133, longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrices 122 are shown above the primary core barrier
143 and longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrices 125 are
shown below the primary core barrier.
[0818] In FIGS. 128, 129, 134-139, transverse interstitial
accommodation matrices 126 are shown below the primary core barrier
143.
[0819] Special Features Of FIGS. 126-129: FIG. 126 is a
cross-sectional view of FIG. 128. FIG. 128 is a cross-sectional
view of FIG. 126. FIG. 127 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 129.
FIG. 129 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 127.
[0820] FIG. 126 shows floor transverse interstitial accommodation
matrices 121a accommodating conductors and floor longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 120b accommodating conductors and
devices above the primary core barrier 143. Access to the
structural longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 125 below
the primary core barrier is through intermittent access slots after
removal of linear access plugs 154. Principal top longitudinal
reinforcement 290 is shown embedded in grout 178 in the top flange
146 of the primary core barrier 143. Principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293 is shown in the bottom flange 147.
[0821] FIG. 127 shows an upper secondary core barrier 144 above a
primary core barrier 143 which is positioned midway in the
floor/ceiling system, forming structural longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrices 122 accessible from the floor side through
intermittent access slots after removal of linear access plugs 154.
A second level of structural longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrices 122 is disposed above the upper secondary
core barrier 144. A lower secondary core barrier 144 is positioned
below the primary core barrier 143, forming structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 125 accessible from the ceiling
side through intermittent access slots 610 after removal of linear
access plugs 154. A second level of structural longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrices 125 is disposed below the lower
secondary core barrier 144. A floor transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 121a accommodating conductors is shown between
the elements of the plinth support system 141.
[0822] FIG. 128 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 126. A composite
steel and concrete girder 150 is shown, having a wide flange steel
girder with a bottom flange reinforced by a welded plate extending
on either side of the bottom flange and encapsulated in precast
concrete and a steel top flange reinforced by two welded plates and
encapsulated in precast concrete. The steel top flange comprises an
ordinary wide top flange which has been cut off on both sides to
permit the duplex hollow precast units to be lowered from above and
positioned and supported on the bottom flange 147 of the composite
steel and concrete girder 150. Each cut-off steel top flange has
been cut in two and two pieces welded onto the underside of the
narrowed top flange. Two tie bolts 177 are shown with washers 174
and nuts 176. The tie bolts are high-strength bolts to withstand
the stresses of the internal moment brought on by high winds which
twist the structural members. Alternative positions for the
high-strength tie bolts would be above the primary core barrier 143
and below the secondary core barrier 144. The alternative positions
would be especially important in a mid-rise or high-rise building
which is subjected to greater wind pressures than a low-rise
building. Grout 178 is shown filling in the area around the precast
top flange of the girder. An alternative would be to encapsulate
the top flange of the composite girder 150 in cast-in-place
concrete, thereby eliminating the grout. Grout 178 is also shown
above the bottom flange encapsulated in precast concrete. A
structural accessible interstitial girder passage 130 is shown on
either side of the steel web to permit the longitudinal passage of
conductors. Structural transverse interstitial accommodation
matrices 126 are shown between the primary core barrier 143 and the
secondary core barrier 144 and below the secondary core barrier.
Structural transverse interstitial accommodation matrices 123 are
shown above the primary core barrier. Ceiling transverse
interstitial accommodation matrices 127 and ceiling longitudinal
interstitial accommodation matrix 128 are shown above the ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 145 which is supported by a ceiling
suspension system 148.
[0823] FIG. 129 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 127. The various
elements are generally comparable to those shown in FIGS. 127 and
128. The two cut-off ends of the top wide flange of the steel
girder of the composite steel and concrete girder 150 have been
welded to the top of the top flange. The exposed web of the steel
girder 150 is encapsulated in an intumescent coating 159. A floor
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120a accommodating
conductors is shown. A ceiling transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 127 is shown without the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier of FIG. 128.
[0824] FIGS. 130-133 show cross-sectional views of FIGS. 134, 136,
138, and 139. The common elements are an unpenetrated primary core
barrier 143 on the floor side and a secondary core barrier 144 with
hinged fire barrier panels 179 providing access to the structural
longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 125 on the ceiling
side. Cross-tie bridging 611 is shown below the primary core
barrier 143, typically at 1/4 points, 1/3 points or 1/2 points,
based on engineering principles, with points of cross-tie
reinforcing to form a transversely reinforced whole to facilitate
creating a transverse beam action for lifting and handling each
duplex hollow precast unit. Where a waffle pattern is used, the
cross-tie bridging 611 extends for the full depth of the sides of
each waffle dome. FIGS. 130-133 show variations of principal top
longitudinal reinforcement 290 and principal bottom longitudinal
reinforcement 293. FIGS. 131-133 show apertures 133 aligning with
channels and cores of the structural interstitial architectural
matrix 129. FIGS. 130-133 show a floor transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 121a accommodating conductors below the floor
accessible membrane barrier 140 which is supported by the plinth
support system 141 shown in FIGS. 134-136. FIGS. 130-133 show a
ceiling transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 127 and a
ceiling longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 128 above
the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145. Any ceiling suspension
system may be used to support the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier.
[0825] FIG. 134 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 131, showing some
of the basic elements of FIGS. 134-137. A structural transverse
interstitial accommodation matrix 123 is shown above the primary
core barrier 143. A structural transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 126 is shown below the primary core barrier. A
floor longitudinal interstitial accommodation matrix 120a
accommodating conductors is shown below the floor accessible
membrane barrier 140. A ceiling transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 127 and a ceiling longitudinal interstitial
accommodation matrix 128 are shown above the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier 145. Hinged fire barrier panels 179 are shown in
the secondary core barrier 144 on the ceiling side. Cross-tie
bridging 611 is also shown behind the hinged fire barrier panels
179, typically at 1/4 points, 1/3 points or 1/2 points, based on
engineering principles, with points of cross-tie reinforcing to
form a transversely reinforced whole to facilitate creating a
transverse beam action for lifting and handling each duplex hollow
precast unit.
[0826] FIG. 135 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 130 through the
top transverse reinforcement 291 and the bottom transverse
reinforcement 292. A concrete girder 152 is shown having principal
top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293. A structural accessible
interstitial girder passage 130 is shown on either side of the web
of the concrete girder 152, permitting the longitudinal passage of
conductors. Apertures 133 in the webs of the duplex hollow precast
units align with the cores and channels of the structural
interstitial architectural matrix 129. The floor accessible
membrane barrier 140 is supported on the top flange 146 by a plinth
support system 141.
[0827] FIG. 136 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 132 through the
top transverse reinforcement 291 and the bottom transverse
reinforcement 292 and a cross-sectional view of FIG. 133 and a
cross-sectional view of FIG. 133 through the floor accessible
membrane barrier 140, the primary core barrier 143, and the ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 145. A composite steel and concrete
girder 150 comprises two wide flange steel beams. A steel plate is
welded to the two spread-apart bottom flanges of the steel beams.
The bottom flanges are encapsulated in cast-in-place concrete. The
outer top flanges of the two steel beams have been cut off and the
cut-off portions welded to the bottom of the inner top flanges,
reinforcing the top flanges and permitting the duplex hollow
precast units to be lowered from above to be supported on the
bottom flanges of the composite steel and concrete girder 150. The
top steel flanges are encapsulated in cast-in-place concrete.
[0828] FIG. 137 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 133 through the
floor accessible membrane barrier 140, the primary core barrier
143, and the ceiling accessible membrane barrier 145. The
arrangement of the elements, including the hinged fire barrier
panels 179 and cross-tie bridging 611, is similar to that of FIG.
134.
[0829] FIG. 138 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 130 through the
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290. FIG. 138 shows a
concrete girder 152 with structural accessible interstitial girder
passages 130 permitting the transverse passage of conductors. The
bottom flange 147 of the concrete girder 152 is reinforced by
principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293 and bottom
transverse reinforcement 292. Apertures 133 in the web 149 of the
concrete girder 152 align with the channels and cores of the
structural interstitial architectural matrix 129. Structural
transverse interstitial accommodation matrices 126 are disposed
between the primary core barrier 143 and the secondary core barrier
144. The floor accessible membrane barrier 140 is supported on the
top flange 146 of the duplex hollow precast units by a plinth
support system 141, forming a floor transverse interstitial
accommodation matrix 121a accommodating conductors. The ceiling
accessible membrane barrier 145 is supported by the bottom flange
147 of the duplex hollow precast units, forming a ceiling
transverse interstitial accommodation matrix 127.
[0830] FIG. 139 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 133 through the
principal top longitudinal reinforcement 290 and the principal
bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293. A concrete girder is shown
similar to that of FIG. 138. The bottom flange 147 of the concrete
girder 152 is reinforced by three rows of principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293 and two rows of bottom transverse
reinforcement 292. The remaining elements are similar to those
shown in FIG. 138.
THE SEVENTH EMBODIMENT OF THIS INVENTION HOLLOW CORE UNITS
[0831] Interstitial Features of FIGS. 140-160: The interstitial
features of the hollow core units of FIGS. 140-160 include a
structural interstitial architectural matrix 540, a floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535 and a ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix 534.
[0832] General Features Of FIGS. 140-160: Any applicable general or
specific features disclosed for any of FIGS. 1-160 may apply to
FIGS. 140-160 and shall be considered as part of the general
features of these figures as if included herein. The aforementioned
General Modular Accessible Node, Alterable Distributed
Architectural Multinetgridometry and Interstitial Accommodation
Matrix Features Applicable To FIGS. 1-160, which is located prior
to The First Embodiment Of This Invention, is incorporated herein
by reference where applicable to FIGS. 140-160 and shall be
considered as part of the general features of these figures as if
included herein.
[0833] Further General Features Of FIGS. 140-156: FIGS. 140-156
show a floor/ceiling system comprising an unpenetrated primary core
barrier of precast structural concrete hollow core units which
provides a dust, fire, smoke, sound, light, security, and privacy
primary core barrier 553. The unpenetrated primary core barrier 553
is a natural variation of the folded undulating slab of FIG. 23 in
which there is a zone functioning as a top flange 554, a zone
functioning as a bottom flange 555, and a zone functioning as a
solid web 556. A secondary core barrier 561 is shown where openings
occur in the top or bottom flange of the precast units by means of
intermittent access slots 610 disposed in a modular patterned
layout or a random layout to suit user needs. Occupied spaces 538
are shown on the floor side 567 and on the ceiling side 568 for
FIGS. 140-156.
[0834] The structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540
within the structure are accessible by means of discretely disposed
intermittent access slots 610 in the face of the secondary core
barrier 561 on the floor side 567 or the ceiling side 568 of the
floor/ceiling system. The slots 610 are closed off by means of
linear access plugs 700a having a truncated cross section for
support, 700b having straight sides with crosswise strap suspension
means, composite linear access plugs 704 or non-combustible
compressible linear access plugs 715. The linear access plugs may
be of solid materials, cast materials such as plaster, cementitious
concrete, polymer concrete or foam concrete, plastic, metal,
rubber, elastomeric, wood, fire-treated wood, particleboard,
flakeboard, compressed and resin-bound mineral material, vitreous,
glass fiber board or any type of acoustical board or any type of
foam, or like material, or composites of two or more materials. A
perimeter compressible edge seal 706 may be affixed to the edges of
the access plugs to form a gravity-induced seal to protect the
devices, conductors, flexible circuits, connectors, equipment, and
the like accommodated in the discrete structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 from dust, fire, smoke, and the like,
and to provide integrity and safety for multimedia computer devices
and conductors, and also provide enhanced sound isolation, enhanced
visual, light and sound privacy, safety of interior equipment and
manufacturing and production equipment, and fire and life safety
benefits. In most instances there is lateral communication between
the structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540 by means of
passage apertures 707, whereby conductors may be pulled crosswise
or transversely to the primary axis of the principal
conductors.
[0835] In FIGS. 140-160, it is within the teachings of this
invention to provide at the ends and at 1/4 points, 1/3 points or
1/2 points, at the very least, top and bottom flanges without
continuous slots, based on engineering principles, to maintain
transverse beam action to facilitate handling of the precast hollow
core units.
[0836] Any of the bottom or top flanges having linear access slots
or intermittent access slots may be transversely reinforced at
intermediate points to facilitate maintaining transverse beam
action for lifting and handling the precast hollow core units while
increasing the length of the linear slots in the top or bottom
flanges.
[0837] Parallel coplanar structural interstitial accommodation
matrices 540 having linear tubular voids 540d of any polygonal
cross-sectional shape, with round, elliptical, rectangular or
square cross sections being the most useful for accommodating
conductors and devices within the structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540, run along the longitudinal axis of the
precast units and may be formed by any of the following means:
[0838] Linear extrusion on a heated casting bed wherein the lateral
crosswise passage apertures 707 between adjacent structural
interstitial accommodation matrices 540 are pressed out or blocked
out in the extrusion process
[0839] Inflated (and deflatable) flexible tubes which have side
form appendages 868 attached, adhered or integrally formed, forming
one-half of the lateral crosswise communication and passage
apertures 707, blockouts, and intermittent access slots 610 from
the floor side 567 or ceiling side 568
[0840] Tube forms having any polygonal cross section and made of
metal, plastic, fiber/resin, fiberglass, wood, cementitious
concrete, polymer concrete, fiber-reinforced cementitious concrete,
pressed fiberglass, pressed mineral fibers, mineral materials,
vitreous materials, pressed vitreous fibers, acoustical absorptive
materials for sound attenuation benefits, or composites of any of
the listed materials, which have side form appendages 868 attached,
adhered or integrally formed, forming one-half of the lateral
crosswise communication and passage apertures 707, blackouts, and
intermittent access slots 610 from the floor side 567 or ceiling
side 568
[0841] The linear tubular voids 540d could be cast with square
openings having coved corners formed, for example, with tempered
hardboard, treated cardboard made from recycled paper, or any of
the above listed materials. The precast units may also be cast
upside down with blackouts. The discretely disposed intermittent
access slots with tapered sides 610a may be cut or pressed out
hydraulically, or formed, or cast over a flat casting bed by means
of a secondary vee form 867 and still allow the removal of the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540, or blocked out
with blocking 866 on top of the linear tubular void 540d, the last
two methods shown in FIG. 146, which illustrates the forming
method. It should be noted that in FIGS. 140-156 an intermittent
access slot 610 in the top flange zone 554 on the floor side 567 is
never shown directly above an intermittent access slot 610 in the
bottom flange zone 555 on the ceiling side 568, a configuration
which would cause loss of sound privacy and allow smoke and harmful
products of combustion to travel between the multilayered occupied
spaces 538.
[0842] The crosswise communication and passage apertures 707 may be
hydraulically pressed or punched out.
[0843] Whereas the voids in structural slabs of the prior art are
created mainly to decrease the weight of the slabs and to provide
economies of cost, the linear tubular voids within the precast
structural slab units of my invention, which form part of the
evolutionary interactive enterprise computer and network matrix of
this invention, are created primarily to provide safe, protected
environments for the electronic, electrical and mechanical
conductors, computer and communications devices and peripherals,
equipment, and the like to be placed therein. For the purpose of
better visualizing and understanding my invention, the figures are
drawn to the following scales as examples only. FIGS. 140-143 show
150 mm (6-inch) thick precast units and small voids, FIGS. 144,
145, 147 and 148 show 200 mm (8-inch) thick precast units and
midsize voids, FIGS. 149 and 150 show 250 mm (10-inch) thick
precast units and midsize voids, FIGS. 151 and 152 show 300 mm
(12-inch) thick precast units with midsize voids, and FIGS. 153-156
show 300 mm (12-inch) thick precast units with large voids. Whereas
most of my invention achieves, possibly, precast units having 75
percent occupied by the structural interstitial accommodation
matrices 540 and 25 percent occupied by the concrete structure
itself, a more ideal objective would be to attain 90 percent for
the interstitial accommodation matrices and 10 percent for the
concrete structure, thereby increasing the space available for the
conductors, devices, equipment and the like. Whereas FIGS. 140-156
cannot achieve such an ideally high percentage of space devoted to
forming the structural interstitial accommodation matrix, the
figures do achieve approximately 40 percent to 60 percent as being
interstitial voids.
[0844] FIGS. 140-156 are drawn at the same scale to illustrate the
distinct advantages of large aperture size for increasing the
capacity to accommodate greater quantities of devices, conductors,
equipment, and the like with disproportionately little increase in
material weight or cost from using the midsize or large cross
sectional linear tubular voids within the precast units.
[0845] A cast-in-place linear key joint 563 between the adjoining
precast units is filled with a cementitious mix to bond the precast
units and to provide a solid top flange zone 554. A foam rod or
sealant bead may be placed in the bottom of the joint to
beneficially contain the cementitious mix.
[0846] Where there is no ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 on
the ceiling side 568 and where no acoustical material 570 is
indicated, a finished ceiling 608 is shown which comprises an "as
is" finish of the structural concrete, a decorative applied paint
finish, a textured finish, and the like. The first cost advantage
of an "as is" ceiling is obvious, and it is obvious by the
teachings of my invention that it provides a convenient
evolutionary way to add a future ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534 as future evolutionary needs demand as shown on most
other figures.
[0847] Specific Features Of FIGS. 140-148: FIG. 140 shows precast
structural slab units having linear tubular voids 540d with the
center linear tubular void 540d in each unit having discretely
disposed intermittent access slots 610 in the face of either the
floor side 567 or the ceiling side 568 of the floor/ceiling system.
Passage apertures 707 allow communication between two linear
tubular voids 540d on either the ceiling side or the floor side,
even between two adjoining precast units, but do not permit
penetration of the primary core barrier from one side to another.
The precast units are joined together by means of cast-in-place
cementitious linear key joints 563. A floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 is disposed on the floor side 567 between
the top faces of the top flange zone 554 of the primary core
barrier and the secondary core barrier 561 and the bottom face of
the floor accessible membrane barrier 546. The
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 of the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 are supported by support means 606 selected
from plinths, channels, foam and the like. A bottom flange zone 555
of the primary core barrier and a secondary core barrier 561 are
shown on the ceiling side 567. Whereas the top flange zone 554 of
the primary core barrier has no penetrations at all, the secondary
core barrier 561 has penetrations in the form of modularly disposed
intermittent access slots 610 which are closed off by linear access
plugs 700 which, in other figures, may have a truncated cross
section 700a for support or straight sides 700b with crosswise
strap suspension means or which may be composite linear access
plugs 704 or non-combustible compressible linear access plugs 715.
As can be seen from the drawings, the top flange zone 554 of the
primary core barrier on the floor side 567 and the bottom flange
zone 555 of the primary core barrier on the ceiling side 568
contain no penetrations while the secondary core barrier 561 has
penetrations on either the floor side or the ceiling side. Also
shown are solid web zones 556 between the linear tubular voids 540d
which are not linked by passage apertures 707. Principal bottom
longitudinal reinforcement 293 and a finished ceiling 608 are
shown.
[0848] FIG. 141 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 140 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. FIG. 141 importantly shows a different
pattern of access from the floor side 567 and the ceiling side 568,
each precast unit containing two center floor side apertures and
single apertures at either end, while FIG. 140 reverses the
arrangement of the apertures. Thus, on the floor side 567 it is
possible to gain access to one linear tubular void 540d from the
adjoining coplanar parallel linear tubular void 540d, reaching into
the void and through the connecting passage aperture 707 into the
adjoining void.
[0849] FIG. 142 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 140 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. A ceiling accessible membrane barrier
545, supported by support means 607 selected from plinths,
channels, hanger rods, clip angles with threaded fasteners forming
the foot disposed over conductor channels, and the like, has been
added. A variation is shown in the pattern of access to the linear
tubular voids 540d from the floor side 567 and the ceiling side
568. Composite linear access plugs 704 are shown in the modularly
placed intermittent access slots 610. The pattern of the slots 610
varies from those in FIGS. 140 and 141 in that each unit has two
adjacent slots 610 on the ceiling side and two adjacent slots 610
on the floor side.
[0850] FIG. 143 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 142 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. A different pattern of the modularly
disposed intermittent access slots 610 is shown in the opposed
faces of the secondary core barrier 561, the pattern coinciding
with that shown in FIG. 140 and showing the progression to a
ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 on the ceiling side
568.
[0851] FIGS. 144, 145, 147 and 148 show a floor accessible membrane
barrier 546 of modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 supported by
support means 606 selected from plinths, channels, foam and the
like disposed in the floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535. A
finished ceiling 608 is shown for FIGS. 144, 145, 147 and 148.
[0852] FIG. 144 shows linear tubular voids 540d which are larger in
size than those shown in FIGS. 140-143 and are accessible from the
floor side 567 or the ceiling side 568 through intermittent access
slots 610 in the opposed faces of the precast units without
purposely having a crosswise intercommunication means 707. Linear
access plugs 700 are shown having a perimeter compressible edge
seal 706 to close off the linear tubular voids 540d from dust,
fluids, and the like and protect the devices, conductors and
equipment housed within from fire. Each precast unit shows two
slots 610 on the floor side and one center slot on the ceiling
side. Not having an intercommunication means by passage apertures
707 makes the precast units easier to manufacture and permits other
uses for selected linear tubular voids 540d as supply, return and
makeup air ducts.
[0853] FIG. 145 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 144 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. A different pattern of access is shown
to the linear tubular voids 540d, there being two slots 610 on
ceiling side 568 and one center slot on the floor side 567.
[0854] FIG. 147 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 144 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. The floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535 disposed between the top flange zone 554 of the primary
core barrier and the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 is
considerably more shallow than the floor interstitial accommodation
matrices 535 shown for FIGS. 140-145 and indicates a layer of foam
for the support means 606. Access to the linear tubular voids 540d
forming a structural interstitial accommodation matrix within each
precast unit is obtained by means of a single, centrally located
intermittent access slot 610 in the bottom flange zone 555 on the
ceiling side 568. Composite linear access plugs 704 are shown in
the slots 610. Access to the adjoining linear tubular voids 540d is
obtained by means of passage apertures 707 with intermittent solid
web zones 557 shown above and below the passage apertures 707 and
solid web zone 556 shown at either end of each precast unit where
there are no passage apertures shown. As one of the many variations
possible by the teachings of my invention, certain discretely
selected passage apertures 707 may be omitted, as shown in FIG.
144, and the linear tubular voids at the opposing ends of selected
precast units used as air ducts for the building heating system for
supply air, exhaust air, makeup air, and the like. No access to
linear tubular voids 540d is shown from the floor side 567.
[0855] FIG. 148 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 147 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. Access is reversed, with all linear
tubular voids 540d forming the structural interstitial
accommodation matrices accessed only from the floor side 567 and
passage apertures 707 disposed between all linear tubular voids
540d, including those in adjoining precast units. No solid web
zones are shown. The structure of FIG. 148, having all access from
the floor side 567, provides a superior primary fire barrier at a
lower cost, using the economy of a finished ceiling 608 ("as is" or
decoratively applied paint or textured finish). At some future
time, adding a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534
provides a future enhanced fire barrier in addition to all the
advantages of a ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix 534 for
accommodating evolutionary technological advances of accommodating
conductors, computers and communication devices in the ceiling
interstitial accommodation matrix 534.
[0856] Specific Features Of FIGS. 149-156: FIGS. 149-156 show
principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293 in the bottom
flange zone 555. FIG. 149 shows precast units of structural
concrete 571 having linear tubular voids 540d in the structural
interstitial accommodation matrices. Only the center linear tubular
void 540d in each precast unit has linear access plugs 700a having
a truncated cross section for support in the top flange zone 554 of
the floor side 567 of the floor/ceiling system. The precast units
forming the primary core barrier are joined together by means of a
cast-in-place cementitious linear key joint 563 and form an
unpenetrated barrier which is not accessible from the ceiling side
568. A floor interstitial accommodation matrix 535 is disposed
between the top face of the precast units and the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546. The modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 of
the floor accessible membrane barrier 546 are supported by support
means 606 comprising a variety of multi-rotational plinths having
multi-rotational bearing heads which are unslotted and non-magnetic
600a and slotted and non-magnetic 600b, multi-rotational bearing
feet which are unslotted and non-magnetic 603a and slotted and
non-magnetic 603b, and multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular
shafts 602.
[0857] FIG. 150 shows the same structure as that of FIG. 149 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. Every linear tubular void 540d within
the structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 has an
intermittent access slot 610 in the top face of the secondary core
barrier 561. An enhanced fire and sound barrier may be achieved
with the future addition of a ceiling interstitial accommodation
matrix 534. Passage apertures 707 in the side of the interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 permit conductors to pass crosswise to
the primary axis of the principal conductors. A finished ceiling
608 is shown. The slots 610 are closed off with linear access plugs
700a having a truncated cross section for support. The use of the
greater depth of the structural interstitial accommodation matrix
540 and the midsize linear tubular voids 540d in FIGS. 149 and 159,
in contrast to the those shown for FIGS. 140-143, illustrate that
the principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293 may be placed
so as to provide greater concrete cover with the benefit of longer
fire resistance and greater transverse strength during
handling.
[0858] FIG. 151 shows precast units, each having one linear tubular
void 540d with a discretely disposed intermittent access slot 610
in the top face and two linear tubular voids 540d with discretely
disposed intermittent access slots 610 in the bottom face of the
precast unit. The slots 610 on the floor side 567 are closed off by
means of linear access plugs 700a having a truncated cross section
for support, while the slots 610 on the ceiling side 568 have
non-combustible compressible linear access plugs 715 having
straight sides. The face of the primary core barrier on the ceiling
side 568 of the floor/ceiling system comprises acoustical concrete
570 cast as a first layer below the structural concrete, using a
form liner to create acoustical voids and texture, such acoustical
concrete having in most cases greater fire-protective properties to
protect the floor/ceiling assembly from fires occurring in the
occupied spaces 538 on the ceiling side 568. If the slab is cast
upside down, it is obvious that the structural concrete is placed
first and the acoustical concrete is placed last and roughly struck
off to create acoustical voids and texture.
[0859] FIG. 152 shows the same structure as that of FIG. 151 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. A multilayered interstitial
multinetgridometry 532 is shown, which comprises the entire
assembly from the top face of the floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 546 on the floor side 567 to the bottom face of the
acoustical concrete 570 on the ceiling side 568. The multilayered
interstitial multinetgridometry 532 applies, of course, to every
figure depicting the precast units of my inventions and is not
specifically noted on each figure. Access to the linear tubular
voids 540d forming the structural interstitial accommodation matrix
is reversed, two linear tubular voids 540d of each precast unit
having access in the top flange zone 554, the access slots closed
off by means of linear access plugs 700a having a truncated cross
section and perimeter compressible edge seals 706 and a single
center linear tubular void 540d having access in the bottom flange
zone 555, the access slot closed off by means of a non-combustible
compressible linear access plug 715. Also a floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 is disposed between the top flange zone
554 and the second primary barrier 561 of the precast unit and the
floor accessible membrane barrier 546. The
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 of the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 are shown supported by support means 606
comprising a conductor channel 119 and multi-rotational bearing
plinths comprising a plurality of multi-rotational plinths shown as
having a multi-rotational bearing head 600, a multi-rotational
bearing foot 603, and a multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular
shaft 602, the shafts 602 affixed to the channel 119 and providing
a flexible positioning means.
[0860] FIG. 153 shows a structure similar to that of FIG. 150 but
has certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. A multilayered interstitial
multinetgridometry 532 is shown. Every linear tubular void 540d
forming the structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 has an
intermittent access slot 610 in the bottom face of the secondary
core barrier 561 on the ceiling side 568. There are two large,
instead of three small, linear tubular voids 540d forming the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 per precast unit.
The intermittent access slots 610 on the bottom face of the
secondary core barrier 561 are closed off by means of linear access
plugs 700a having a truncated cross section and a perimeter
compressible edge seal 706. Intermittent solid web zones 557 are
shown where passage apertures 707 provide access from one linear
tubular void 540d to another. The floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535 is disposed between the top flange zone 554 and the
floor accessible membrane barrier 546. The
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 in the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 are supported by support means 606 comprising
multi-rotational plinths 605 having multi-rotational bearing feet
603 and load-bearing dual low .DELTA.t tubing 748b having a
rectangular exterior cross section with round internal tubing and
having a groove with releasable adhering sealant in a groove on the
top face, disposed in a load-bearing channel having threaded
fasteners in the center of the channel web to provide a precision
multi-rotational bearing leveling system adjustable from above the
floor accessible membrane barrier 546. A finished ceiling 608 is
shown on the ceiling side 568.
[0861] FIG. 154 shows a structure like that of FIG. 153 but has
certain distinctive features as part of the many alternative
patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to tailor the
structure to project needs. The linear tubular voids 540d all have
discretely disposed intermittent access slots 610 in the top face
of the secondary core barrier 561 on the floor side 567. The
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 of the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 are supported by load-bearing low .DELTA.t
dual tubing 746b with a foam adhesion and cushioning layer on one
face and a releasable and resealable sealant in a linear
groove.
[0862] FIG. 155 shows a structure similar to that of FIGS. 153 and
154 but has certain distinctive features as part of the many
alternative patterns possible from the teachings of my invention to
tailor the structure to project needs. Each precast unit has one
linear tubular void 540d with a discretely disposed intermittent
access slot 610 in the top face of the precast unit and the other
slot 610 in the bottom face of the precast unit. No passage
apertures 707 are shown. The modular-accessible-matrix-u- nits 543
on the floor side 567 of the floor/ceiling assembly are supported
by support means 606 which, by the thickness of the floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535, would indicate foam. Within
the teachings of this invention, foam may beneficially have
coplanar parallel grooves on one or more axes and coplanar parallel
grooves on one or more axes on a second level to permit crosswise
passage of conductors.
[0863] FIG. 156 shows the linear tubular voids 540d of the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 of adjoining
precast units having discretely disposed intermittent access slots
610 disposed alternately in the top face and in the bottom face of
the precast units. Linear access plugs 700b having straight sides
with crosswise strap suspension means and perimeter compressible
edge seals 706 close off the access slots 610 on the ceiling side
568. Linear access plugs 700a having a truncated cross section for
support and perimeter compressible edge seals 706 close off the
access slots 610 on the floor side 567. A ceiling interstitial
accommodation matrix 534 on the ceiling side 568 is disposed
between the bottom face of the precast unit and the accessible
ceiling system 576 which forms the ceiling accessible membrane
barrier 545. The accessible ceiling system 576 is suspended from
the bottom face of the precast unit by suspension means 607
selected from plinths, hanger rods, and the like, as well as formed
channels 427 having folded-over and outwardly extending flanges
forming a channel grid, as shown in FIG. 192 in my U.S. Pat. No.
5,205,091 and in the parent case and in FIGS. 9-16. A floor
interstitial accommodation matrix 535 on the floor side 567 is
disposed between the top face of the precast unit and the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 of the floor accessible
membrane barrier 546. The modular-accessible-matr- ix-units 543 are
supported by assembled multi-layered stepped plinths 595 having
multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shafts 602 and
multi-rotational bearing heads 600.
[0864] Further General Features Of FIGS. 157-160: FIGS. 157-160
show a floor/ceiling system comprising the precast multiple "I"
units of this invention, which form hollow core units of structural
concrete 571. Linear key joints 563 are shown between adjoining "I"
units. The multiple "I" units have a longitudinal top flange 800
and a longitudinal bottom flange 803. An unpenetrated primary core
barrier 810 is shown on the ceiling side 568. Access to the
structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540 is from the floor
side 567 through intermittent access slots 610 sealed by linear
access plugs 700. A multilayered interstitial multinetgridometry
532 is shown spanning from the floor accessible membrane barrier
546 comprising modular-accessible-units 543 down through the
floor/ceiling assembly to the bottom face on the ceiling side 568.
Reinforcement of the longitudinal bottom flange 803 comprises
principal bottom longitudinal reinforcement 293 and bottom
transverse reinforcement 292.
[0865] Specific Features Of FIGS. 157-160: FIG. 157 shows precast
multiple "I" units having a solid web 549. Each structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 540 is self-contained with access
only from the floor side 567 through the intermittent access slots
610. FIG. 157 shows a finished ceiling 608. The floor accessible
membrane barrier 546 is held in place over the top flanges 800 of
the "I" units by load-bearing composites comprising hold-down and
positioning engagement touch fasteners and cushioning foam tape
738, creating a very shallow floor interstitial accommodation
matrix 535.
[0866] FIG. 158 illustrates certain elements shown in FIG. 157. The
floor accessible membrane barrier 546 is supported by means of a
flexible magnetic tape and foam tape load-bearing composite 742.
The structural interstitial accommodation matrices 540 are tapered
at the bottom to conform with the outwardly sloping longitudinal
bottom flanges 803 of the "I" units, in contrast to the straight
longitudinal bottom flanges 803 shown in FIG. 157. FIG. 158 shows
an exposed-to-view ceiling comprising acoustical concrete 570.
[0867] FIG. 159 illustrates deeper structural interstitial
accommodation matrices 540 than those shown in FIGS. 157 and 158.
The longitudinal webs 801 have longitudinal apertures 802 forming
an interstitial accommodation matrix which permits the passage of
conductors from one structural interstitial accommodation matrix
540 to another and permits arm-length access through an
intermittent access slot 610 into an adjoining structural
interstitial accommodation matrix 540 to place or remove devices
and equipment. Solid magnets are disposed within the composite
modular-accessible-matrix-units 743. The
modular-accessible-matrix-units 743 are supported and held in place
by load-bearing dual low .DELTA.t tubing disposed in a load-bearing
channel 748 having threaded fasteners in the center of the channel
web to provide a multi-rotational bearing leveling system. The
floor accessible membrane barrier 545 illustrates an accessible
ceiling system comprising composites of backer board and acoustical
facing 576a, of backer board and gypsum board facing 576b, of metal
backer and acoustical facing 576c, and of metal backer and gypsum
board facing 576d. The composite units 576 are suspended by linear
cee channels 391b having inwardly extending flanges and applied to
the bottom face of the longitudinal bottom flanges 803 with a
sealant, an adhesive, or a layer of adhesive-backed foam 416,
mechanical fasteners 382b having a multi-rotational bearing head
and threaded solid shaft to fit and rotate within the channels
391b, and formed channels 427 having folded-over and outwardly
extending flanges forming a channel grid, thereby forming a ceiling
interstitial accommodation matrix 534. Each composite unit 576 is a
potential modular accessible node site 216.
[0868] FIG. 160 is similar to FIG. 159. The floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535 is formed by the
modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 and modular-accessible-units
544 supported by a plurality of plinths. The plinth variations
shown comprise combinations of unslotted, non-magnetic 600a and
slotted, non-magnetic 600b multi-rotational bearing heads,
internally non-threaded 602a and internally threaded 602b
multi-rotational bearing threaded tubular shafts, and unslotted,
non-magnetic 603a and slotted, non-magnetic 603b multi-rotational
bearing feet. The modular-accessible-matrix-units 543 and
modular-accessible-unit- s 544 of the floor accessible membrane
barrier are held in place by any type of fastener 691 applied
between adjacent corners to position and hold the units in place by
engagement. The ceiling accessible membrane barrier 545 comprises
composites of metal backer and acoustical facing 576c and of metal
backer and gypsum board facing 576d. Variations in hold-up support
systems are also shown, comprising two split and one undivided 738c
and two undivided 738d hold-up and positioning engagement touch
fastener and cushioning foam tape load-bearing composites, and two
split and one undivided 742c and two undivided 742d flexible
magnetic tape and foam tape load-bearing composites, forming
thereby a shallow ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix
534.
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM OF THIS INVENTION
[0869] FIG. 161 is similar to FIG. 42 in that it shows two stacked
floor/ceiling systems of this invention for use in multi-story
buildings. For illustration purposes, three variations of the
channel joist units of this invention are shown for the
floor/ceiling system. The occupied spaces 538, floor interstitial
accommodation matrix 535, ceiling interstitial accommodation matrix
534, structural interstitial accommodation matrix 540, and wall
interstitial matrix 536 are shown. A vertical primary core barrier
553 is shown with modular-accessible-matrix- -units 543 on opposing
sides of wall interstitial matrices 536. The first floor level
shows a numerically controlled hydraulic shear with articulating
arm 985a, a numerically controlled horizontal turning center 985b,
a numerically controlled vertical turning center 985c, each piece
of equipment connected by an infrared beam 949 to a transceiver 639
located in the accessible ceiling below Interstitial Space
Commuters in vertical racks 947a and horizontally stacked 947c. A
light duty overhead crane rail 985d is shown. Two multi-functional,
hat-shaped universal enclosures are shown recessed into the
accessible membrane barrier, one universal enclosure 661b having a
junction box on the side and the other universal enclosure 661a
having a perimeter support flange for supporting the accessible
ceiling system with a channel or junction box at the top.
[0870] The second floor level shows bridging 611 between the top
flange zones 554 of the primary core barrier of the floor/ceiling
system and between the bottom flange zones 555 of the primary core
barrier. Modular-accessible-units 544 are shown on the floor side
of the top and middle floor/ceiling systems with bridging 611 also
shown in the top floor/ceiling system. Below, above, and around the
workstations are shown interstitial conductor passage channels with
the integrated fiber, broadband fiber, electronic, and electrical
network of this architectural building system, which link
electronically by a server 647, a bridge 648, and a router 649 the
various computer components within the occupied spaces encapsulated
by a plurality of interstitial accommodation matrices. At the
workstation on the left, a Desk Top Commuter 945 with flat screen
is placed on a desk, having a keyboard 995 and mouse 996 placed
below the desktop and shown communicating by an infrared beam
through an analog transceiver 639a to an Interstitial Space
Commuter 947 in the accessible ceiling. A monitor 655 and a Desk
Top Commuter 945 with touch screen 998 are placed on another desk
and are shown communicating by an infrared beam through a digital
transceiver 639b to a horizontally stacked Interstitial Space
Commuter 947c in the accessible ceiling.
[0871] A component 980, a universal enclosure 661, a sprinkler head
916, and a sound speaker 978 in a universal fire-rated enclosure
are shown in the ceiling. At the workstation on the right, a Laptop
Mobile Commuter 942 is placed on another desk and is shown
communicating by an infrared beam through a transceiver/transducer
654 to an Interstitial Space Commuter 947b in a horizontal stack
containing a disk drive 640. A comfort conditioning unit 657 is
shown below another desk on which a Desk Top Commuter 946 having a
keyboard 995 and a mouse digitizer 997 below the desktop and a
desktop personal computer 961 with a conventional cathode ray tube
are placed and shown communicating by an infrared beam with an
Interstitial Space Commuter 947a in a vertical rack containing a
computer on a board 967, a computer on a chip 968, a board 635, a
printed circuit board 636, a microchip 637, a microprocessor 638,
and a modem 653.
[0872] FIG. 162 is similar to FIGS. 161 and 42 in that it also
shows two stacked floor/ceiling systems of this invention. For
illustration purposes, two variations of the channel joists units
of this invention are shown for the two top levels of the
floor/ceiling system. The lower level of the floor/ceiling system
shows the concrete joist or waffle joist units of this invention
with channel joist units on top. A number of conductors is shown
within the interstitial spaces of the structural interstitial
architectural matrix 129 in the lower level of the floor/ceiling
system, including fluid conductors 617, power conductors 618a,
superconductors 618b, and fiber conductors 620. An aperture 133 is
shown, aligning with channels and cores of the structural
interstitial architectural matrix 129.
[0873] Transverse electronic conductors in a cable tray 619a,
longitudinal electronic conductors tied below the cable tray 619b,
and longitudinal electronic conductors tied above the cable tray
619c are shown in the interstitial spaces of the floor/ceiling
system in the lower and mid levels. Transverse electronic
conductors 619d, longitudinal electronic conductors 619e, and a
circulating fluid conductor 622 are shown in the floor interstitial
accommodation matrix. Modular-accessible-units 644 are shown. An
intermittent access slot 610 is shown in the ceiling accessible
membrane barrier of the lower level of the floor/ceiling system. A
seated male figure is shown on the first floor of the assembly,
using the Personal Mobile Commuter 940 of this invention,
communication being by an infrared beam 949 traveling to a
transceiver 639 in the ceiling. Desk Top Video Commuter
Conferencing 931 is shown on a desk as well as a cellular phone
base station 973. A bridge 648 is shown under the desk. A second
desk shows a switch 650 beneath the desktop and Laptop Mobile
Commuter 942 is shown on top of the desk. A comfort conditioning
unit 657 is shown, having a starter 919. An appliance 986 is shown
beneath a desktop holding a wireless occupied space
computational/communication device 984. A television 970 is shown
as part of Conference Room Video Commuter Conferencing 933. An
Occupied Space Commuter 948 as part of Desk Top Video Commuter
Conferencing 931 is shown on an adjoining desk. A wireless phone
972 is shown on the desktop, while a desktop personal computer with
minitower 962 is shown below the desk. A series of transceivers 639
is shown in the ceiling behind downwardly hinged panels. A wireless
interstitial space computational/communication device 982 is shown
in the ceiling behind a downwardly hinged panel. A
multi-functional, hat-shaped universal enclosure 661a, having a
perimeter support flange for supporting an accessible ceiling
system, with channel on top, is shown being a downwardly hinged
panel in the ceiling. Ductwork 658 is also shown in the
interstitial spaces of the ceiling. Bridging 611 is shown in the
floor/ceiling system.
[0874] In the second floor of the assembly, FIG. 162 shows a seated
male figure communicating by satellite phone 975a through satellite
communicate 951 and by cellular phone 975b through cellular
communication 950. The workstation area contains a Bridge Router
Occupied Space Commuter 944 under one desk on which are placed a
wireless phone base station 971 and a Desk Top Commuter 946 with a
conventional cathode ray tube communicating by an infrared beam
through a transceiver in the ceiling with an interactive
interstitial space device 999. On a second desk are placed a
telephone 975, a workstation computer 963, and Work Station Video
Commuter Conferencing 932. A printer 918 and a copier 985e are
shown. A series of three mainframe computer modules 969 are shown,
along with two switches 650, two storage devices 641, and a rack
644. An array of modular-accessible units 544 and
modular-accessible-matrix-unit sites 170 are shown on the floor. In
the interstitial spaces below the floor are seen longitudinal
electronic conductors 619e and broadband fiber conductors 620a.
[0875] The ceiling shows equipment mounted on the reverse side of
downwardly hinged panels, which equipment includes a control rack
913 and a hub 917. A transceiver 639 is shown mounted in one of the
downwardly hinged panels, which is representative of the
transceivers shown on the remaining panels. A Bridge Router
Interstitial Space Commuter 943 is shown behind a fixed ceiling
panel. A sensor 914 and a detector 915 are shown mounted in one of
the downwardly hinged panels. The interstitial spaces show bridging
611 cross-tying the channel joist units and apertures 133 aligning
with channels and cores of the structural interstitial
architectural matrix 129. Transverse electronic conductors in a
conductor cable tray 619a are shown. The top floor/ceiling system
shows modular-accessible-units 544 and modular-accessible-matrix
sites 170 on the floor side.
[0876] In FIG. 163, the basic communication system of this
invention is illustrated. A home commuter station 937, a vehicle
commuter station 938, and a workplace commuter station 939 is
shown, connected by a power grid 992 and a regional network 989, a
national network 990, and a global network 991. The vehicle
commuter station is shown communicating with a low orbit iridium
satellite 977 or a satellite 976 by satellite communication means
951 and by cellular communication means 950 with the workplace
commuter station 939.
[0877] In FIG. 164, a more expanded communication system of this
invention is illustrated. Shown are a home, townhouse, garden
apartment commuter station 937a, b, c, a passenger vehicle commuter
station 938a using a cellular communication 950 and satellite
communication 951, and a workplace commuter station in a campus of
mixed type enterprise buildings 939c using satellite communication
951 to a satellite 976. A freight truck vehicle commuter station
938b is shown using cellular communication 950 and satellite
communication 951. An apartment commuter station 937d is shown. A
pedestrian female figure in business attire is shown using a
personal mobile commuter 940 for cellular emergency communication
974a and using the personal mobile commuter 940 for satellite
emergency communcation 974b to a low orbit iridium satellite 977. A
direct-broadcast television satellite 993 is shown broadcasting. An
integrated campus network 987, a regional network 989, a national
network 990, a global network 991, and a power grid 992 are shown.
The integrated campus network 987 is shown linking the home
commuter station 937, which may be found in a home 937a, a
townhouse 937b, a garden apartment 937c or an apartment building
937d, with the workplace commuter stations 939, shown in FIG. 163,
in the campus 939c of mixed type enterprise buildings, while the
vehicle commuter station 938a is shown in a passenger vehicle which
is free to roam and communicates with the home commuter stations,
the workplace commuter stations, and the personal mobile commuters
by the most convenient communication means.
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