INSULATING BUILDING PANEL AND OTHER BUILDING COMPONENTS WITH INTEGRAL JOINERY

摘要

An insulating structural building panel having front (12) and back face (14) sheets positioned opposite each other, top (16) and bottom (18) joining sides intermediate the front and back face sheets at opposite ends of the face sheets, first (20) and second (22) joining sides intermediate the front (12) and back face (14) sheets and extending from the top joining side (16) to the bottom joining side (18) to define an interior chamber (24) within the building panel. An insulating core (26) is located within the interior chamber (24). The first and second joining sides have integral joinery that includes a tongue (28) and a groove (30) adjacent to the tongue. The tongue-and-groove are shaped and sized to mate with tongue-and-groove joinery (32) of an adjacent building component to form a symmetrical, double, offset, tongue-and-groove joint (76) therebetween. Shear-resisting through connectors (50) are attached to the inside surfaces of the front (12) and back face (14) sheets and extend across the interior chamber (24) to stiffen the building panel and to resist shear and compressive forces exerted on the building panel. The through connectors (50) are surrounded and supported by the insulating core (26), which also acts within the panel to distribute externally applied compressive forces exerted on the assembly. A plurality of the building panels of the present invention joined together form a panelized building structure with continuous, integral, laminated posts and beams throughout the building structure.