Glenn A Reynolds

US Patent:

7530201, May 12, 2009

Filed:

Aug 31, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/932173

Inventors:

Glenn A. Reynolds - Long Beach CA, US
Dean R. Hackbarth - San Pedro CA, US
Gary N. Curtis - Anacortes WA, US

Assignee:

Gossamer Space Frames - Long Beach CA

International Classification:

E04B 7/08

US Classification:

52 813, 526481, 52638

Abstract:

A connection node for a double layer grid or truss system has at least one diagonal flange receiving a pair of diagonal framing members having surfaces that lie in a single diagonal plane parallel to the flange(s). Use of co-planar diagonal members that can be at various diagonal angles or vertical, simplifies node connections and permits variations in bay spacing to produce interesting architectural effects and to provide greater member density where structural loads are greater.

US Patent:

7578109, Aug 25, 2009

Filed:

Sep 22, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/525721

Inventors:

Glenn A. Reynolds - Long Beach CA, US
Dean R. Hackbarth - San Pedro CA, US
Gary N. Curtis - Anacortes WA, US

Assignee:

Gossamer Space Frames - Huntington Beach CA

International Classification:

E04H 12/00

US Classification:

526481, 52638

Abstract:

A node connector in a double layer grid-type of space frame preferably is an extrusion which includes an open-ended tubular portion for snugly at least substantially encircling a frame chord member of desired cross-sectional configuration which is disposable in the passage. The node connector has fixed external elements which extend along the connector parallel to the passage. Those elements define facing parallel flat surfaces arranged in at least two pairs of such surfaces. The surfaces of each pair lie equidistantly from a center plane between them. Each center plane is parallel to the passage axis and preferably includes the passage axis. Each pair of facing flat surfaces of the node connector can cooperate closely with opposite flat surfaces at the end of each of other frames framing member placed between the facing surfaces. The node connector can be secured to a chord member in its passage and to ends of other framing members by shear pins which have zero clearances in node connector holes and in holes or passages through the respective framing members. The space frame can be a movable armature for a curved solar reflector, the space frame having a V-shaped major surface.

US Patent:

7587862, Sep 15, 2009

Filed:

Oct 29, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/980220

Inventors:

Glenn A. Reynolds - Long Beach CA, US
Dean R. Hackbarth - Las Vegas NV, US
Gary N. Curtis - Anacortes WA, US

Assignee:

Gossamer Space Frames - Huntington Beach CA

International Classification:

E04B 7/08
E04H 12/00

US Classification:

52 813, 526481

Abstract:

A movable support armature for a curved reflector of electromagnetic radiation is defined substantially as a double layer grid space frame. The armature has plural parallel major chord framing members each having an elongate axis and disposed in a frame major surface. The major chord members include a pair of bottom major chord members essentially in a bottom one of the frame major surfaces. Upper major chord members include a central chord member which is located between two outer upper chord members. The outer chord members lie in respective ones of two planes which also include the central upper chord member; the planes intersect at the central chord member at an included angle which is concave away from the frame bottom plane. Node connector structures are disposed at spaced locations along each major chord member. Minor chord framing members are connected between corresponding node structures on the major chord members defining the respective planes to form arrays of major and minor chord members in each plane.

US Patent:

8132391, Mar 13, 2012

Filed:

Oct 22, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/910625

Inventors:

Glenn Alan Reynolds - Long Beach CA, US

Assignee:

Gossamer Space Frames - Huntington Beach CA

International Classification:

E04C 2/54
E04C 3/02
E04B 1/18
E04B 5/10
E04B 5/18

US Classification:

527831, 5278311, 52633, 52634, 52636, 52637, 52638, 52639

Abstract:

A thin-sheet panel assembly. In one embodiment, a substantially rigid thin-sheet panel assembly having a non-rigid thin-sheet component includes the thin-sheet component which has selected plan area and shape, a backer having a plan shape and area substantially similar to the thin-sheet component, and plural riser elements of selected height and configuration each extending from the backer to distal ends connected to a reverse surface of the thin-sheet component, the riser elements being configured and disposed in an array which causes the assembly to have substantial rigidity in a selected direction in the thin-sheet component, and the thin-sheet panel assembly further includes a bar coupled to the backer and extending between at least one pair of adjacent riser elements of the plural riser elements.

US Patent:

8327604, Dec 11, 2012

Filed:

Oct 20, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/254795

Inventors:

Glenn Alan Reynolds - Long Beach CA, US
Dean Robert Hackbarth - Las Vegas NV, US
Gary Noble Curtis - Anacortes WA, US

Assignee:

Gossamer Space Frames - Huntington Beach CA

International Classification:

E04B 1/00
E04B 1/18
E04C 2/54

US Classification:

527461, 527831, 5278311, 52633

Abstract:

A mini-truss thin-sheet panel assembly. In one embodiment, a substantially rigid thin-sheet panel assembly having a non-rigid thin-sheet component includes the thin-sheet component which has selected plan area and shape, a backer having a plan shape and area substantially similar to the thin-sheet component, and plural riser elements of selected height and configuration each extending from the backer to distal ends connected to a reverse surface of the thin-sheet component, the riser elements being configured and disposed in an array which causes the assembly to have substantial rigidity in a selected direction in the thin-sheet component.

US Patent:

20030163966, Sep 4, 2003

Filed:

Mar 1, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/087639

Inventors:

Glenn Reynolds - Long Beach CA, US
Gary Curtis - Long Beach CA, US

International Classification:

E04B001/12
E04H015/00

US Classification:

052/461000, 052/063000, 052/222000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for the attachment of sheet cladding and other thin surfaces to structural frame members such as in space frames and other lattice structures. A batten assembly may be either partially integrated into an elongated structural member or attached by fasteners. A batten receiver provides a pair of sheet margin receiving channels and a fastener guide channel. The batten receiver may be integrated into the surface of the elongated structural member which for example, may be a tubular member or I-beam. The mating batten comprises shoulders which are essentially congruent to the receiving channels. Between the shoulders, an elongated recess mates with a pair of guide walls in the receiver. A fastener such as a metal screw having a cutting tip, may be installed through the recess and the guide channel and into the wall of the elongated structural member to provide secure connection of the batten members to one another. The shoulder and receiving channels receive the sheet margins in compressive engagement. The invention herein permits the cladding of elongated structural members in an aesthetically pleasing flush mounting configuration which allows for water run-off from the cladding sheet surfaces. The invention also provides an advantageous hidden round seal configuration which while also being aesthetically more pleasing, is also more protective of the seal integrity. This invention also provides batten attachments of sheet cladding and other thin surfaces to elongated members of a tubular cross-section.

US Patent:

20040168383, Sep 2, 2004

Filed:

Mar 9, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/797325

Inventors:

Glenn Reynolds - Long Beach CA, US
Gary Curtis - Long Beach CA, US

International Classification:

E04D001/00
E04B001/12

US Classification:

052/273000, 052/222000, 052/063000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for the attachment of sheet cladding and other thin surfaces to structural frame members such as in space frames and other lattice structures. A batten assembly may be either partially integrated into an elongated structural member or attached by fasteners. A batten receiver provides a pair of sheet margin receiving channels and a fastener guide channel. The batten receiver may be integrated into the surface of the elongated structural member which for example, may be a tubular member or I-beam. The mating batten comprises shoulders which are essentially congruent to the receiving channels. Between the shoulders, an elongated recess mates with a pair of guide walls in the receiver. A fastener such as a metal screw having a cutting tip, may be installed through the recess and the guide channel and into the wall of the elongated structural member to provide secure connection of the batten members to one another. The shoulder and receiving channels receive the sheet margins in compressive engagement. The invention herein permits the cladding of elongated structural members in an aesthetically pleasing flush mounting configuration which allows for water run-off from the cladding sheet surfaces. The invention also provides an advantageous hidden round seal configuration which while also being aesthetically more pleasing, is also more protective of the seal integrity. This invention also provides batten attachments of sheet cladding and other thin surfaces to elongated members of a tubular cross-section.

US Patent:

20080072516, Mar 27, 2008

Filed:

Oct 29, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/978859

Inventors:

Glenn Reynolds - Long Beach CA, US
Dean Hackbarth - San Pedro CA, US
Gary Curtis - Anacortes WA, US

International Classification:

E04C 3/02

US Classification:

052694000

Abstract:

A tubular structural member has substantially constant cross-sectional size and configuration along its length between its opposite ends. The member has a pair of parallel oppositely aligned flat areas in its exterior surface. The member has substantially uniform wall thickness except in a selected portion of each the opposing areas where the member's wall thickness is a selected amount greater than the uniform wall thickness. The increase wall thickness preferably is manifested in the interior of the tubular member. The cross-sectional area of the member can have orthogonal neutral axes, and the exterior dimension of the member along one of those axes can be greater than the exterior dimension of the member along the other of those axes which is normal to the exterior flat areas; the amount and distribution of the thickening of the member's walls over the uniform thickness can be defined to cause the section modular of the member about each of the neutral axes to be substantially equal.