Robert Moses Simmons

US Patent:

6802169, Oct 12, 2004

Filed:

Mar 18, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/102404

Inventors:

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA 94542

International Classification:

E04H 1200

US Classification:

526481, 526551, 526531, 403170, 403187, 403230

Abstract:

Column, beam and cross-bracing frame structure and methodology. The column features an assembly of plural elongate angle-iron-like components held apart by spacers which establish laterally facing recesses between spaced, confronting legs for receiving the modified, inserted ends of the central webs in beams, and the ends of cross braces. Regions of end-to-end, vertically-stacked joinder between two columns take the forms of compact, friction-bound splices created through and with the inserted ends of beams central webs. Columns in a frame can respond to severe loads with a certain amount of beneficial individual load-handling promoted and provided by the plural angle-iron-like components, and with modest, reversible frictionally resisted energy-dissipating longitudinal motions relative to one another. Such loading is also resisted by reversible, frictional relative motion in the splices between beams and columns. Similar friction connections are provided between cross-connected beams.

US Patent:

6837016, Jan 4, 2005

Filed:

Aug 30, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/943711

Inventors:

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US
Walid M. Hicham Naja - San Carlos CA, US
Constantine J. Shuhaibar - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

E04H 1208

US Classification:

526551, 526569, 525901, 526532, 526501, 527215, 527232, 527313, 527322, 527364, 527375, 403173, 403219

Abstract:

Column-beam building frame structure, wherein columns and beams are interconnected to distribute and share all lateral loads through collars that encircle columns at the nodal points of attachments between columns and beams. Each collar includes inner and outer components which seat, and gravity-lock together, during frame construction, and which also to offer a certain amount of immediate moment resistance to lateral loads. Tension bolt and nut assemblies lock the inner and outer collar components together, and with these assemblies in place, the collars (which circumsurround the beams) function to deliver beam moment loads as plural-position, angularly distributed compression loads to different side regions of columns.

US Patent:

7021020, Apr 4, 2006

Filed:

Jul 2, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/884314

Inventors:

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US
Walid M. Hicham Naja - San Carlos CA, US

Assignee:

SMRSF Inc. - Hayward CA

International Classification:

E04C 2/38

US Classification:

526569, 526532, 526551, 52696

Abstract:

Column-beam building frame structure, wherein columns and beams are interconnected to distribute and share all lateral loads through collars that encircle columns at the nodal points of attachments between columns and beams. Each collar includes inner and outer components which seat, and gravity-lock together, during frame construction, and which also to offer a certain amount of immediate moment resistance to lateral loads. Tension bolt and nut assemblies lock the inner and outer collar components together, and with these assemblies in place, the collars (which circumsurround the beams) function to deliver beam moment loads as plural-position, angularly distributed compression loads to different side regions of columns.

US Patent:

7040069, May 9, 2006

Filed:

Aug 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/931156

Inventors:

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

International Classification:

E04H 9/02

US Classification:

527291, 527408, 52644

Abstract:

An elongate, long-span transition beam employable between columns in a building frame structure. This transition beam includes (a) an elongate central portion having one, principal cross-sectional vertical depth, and (b) joined to the opposite ends of the central portion, a pair of elongate end portions each having a smaller cross-sectional vertical depth. These end portions may be formed with flange-modified reduced beam sections to act as “overload fuses”. The central and end portions join through size-differentiated, transverse cross section, transitional regions which are formed adjacent opposite ends, and as parts, of the central portion.

US Patent:

7051917, May 30, 2006

Filed:

Nov 3, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/699759

Inventors:

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

International Classification:

B23K 31/02
B21D 39/00
E04C 5/08

US Classification:

228165, 228182, 522238, 522239

Abstract:

Preparation of a weld between a structural I-beam end and a beam-to-column attaching end component wherein no beam flange material is removed to participate in the creation of a weld trough. Instead, the space for a weld trough is created in the end component, and this trough is prepared with enough all-over length to establish run-on and run-off regions for molten weld material, which regions extend laterally outwardly from the opposite transverse ends of a flange. Full-section welds between a beam's flanges and the attaching end component are achieved without the need to use any run-on and run-off tabs, and also without the need to employ any traditionally-used backing bars.

US Patent:

7051918, May 30, 2006

Filed:

Jul 31, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/194864

Inventors:

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

International Classification:

B23K 5/22
B23K 31/02

US Classification:

228212, 228213, 228 471, 522239

Abstract:

A method utilizing a stabilizing jig structure for positioning and supporting the assembly of an elongate structural beam and a beam-end mounting component during weld attachment of that mounting component to an end of the beam. This method includes the steps of (a) applying, through a positionally shiftable first biasing element, a first yieldable biasing force which urges the beam-end mounting component relatively toward the associated beam end, and (b) applying, through a positionally shiftable second biasing element, a second yieldable biasing force which urges the beam-end mounting component relatively toward the first biasing element.

US Patent:

7127863, Oct 31, 2006

Filed:

Nov 3, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/700029

Inventors:

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

International Classification:

E04C 3/30

US Classification:

527375, 527365

Abstract:

Column/I-beam interconnect structure including an attaching plate joined to an I-beam end. This plate possesses, along its lateral margins, angularly oriented upper and lower through-passages, each characterized with a reception axis, and designed to receive, along that axis, portions of a hex nut-and-bolt set which is used to clamp together two adjacent, angularly related attaching plates. The socket portions, or outer chambers, of the through-passages are formed with spaced and generally parallel-planar upper and lower surfaces which act in these socket portions to restrain a received hex nut against rotation about its own rotational assembly axis which, in the socket portion, is coincident with the socket portion's reception axis. This arrangement uniquely allows for a structural configuration wherein laterally directed moment loads are transferred very closely relative to the elevations of such beams' flanges, and more specifically, as close as possible to key axes of force transmission such as those that lie laterally centrally in the planes of these flanges.

US Patent:

7131240, Nov 7, 2006

Filed:

Nov 3, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/700135

Inventors:

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

International Classification:

E02D 27/32
E02D 5/74

US Classification:

52297, 52296, 521699, 52156, 52165, 52298, 52299

Abstract:

A building foundation anchoring and interface system for receiving supporting the base of an upright structural column. This system and interface includes an open-topped bucket-well structure which is embedded in a foundation, and which is sized so as to permit the received base of an inserted column to be adjusted laterally, in a multidirectional sense, vertically angularly, and axially rotationally, and with substantial clearance, so as to enable easy correct positioning of a column. Poured into the bucket-well structure after the same has received the base of a column is an appropriate fluid-flowable, hardenable, bulk anchoring material, such as conventional building grout material. An opening may be provided in the wall of the base of a column so that such flowable material flows into the interior of a column, as well as into the space between the outside of the column's base and the inside of the receiving bucket-well. The column which has its base received in the bucket-well optionally carries a shoulder-extending foot plate which cooperates with the bulk-anchoring material, and the configuration of the bucket well, to inhibit vertical lifting of a column out of the bucket-well.

Address:

7717 Fayetteville Rd, North Charleston, SC 29418

Phone:

(843)8844023

VIN:

WDDGF54X08R039279

Make:

MERCEDES-BENZ

Model:

C-CLASS

Year:

2008