Collapsible ISO container-type modular shelter

Abstract

The apparatus and method is disclosed and seek to claim exclusivity of conception of a versatile structure that follows the maritime container ISO dimensions and that is collapsible to be stored in scanty places and/or hauled together with other collapsed units, saving transportation costs. Larger surfaces may be created by simply juxtaposing one modular unit to others, side-by-side, front-to-back or stacked. In order to allow these modules to dismount in a practical manner, the inventor conceived a “Collapsibility Mechanism”, requiring minimum labor and equipment, which is based on the two frontal frames natural swing produced from hanging them by each of the two pairs of the eccentrically oblong supports. The COLLAPSIBLE ISO CONTAINER-TYPE MODULAR SHELTER also comprises original design of profiles used in the top chassis perimeter that constitute that chassis' main structural elements, as well as prevent rain-water to flow through the unit lateral and frontal sides, as gutters do. This “Structural-Gutter” concept may fit numerous other applications in the construction industry. Governments can benefit from this invention to alleviate urgent needs to shelter people domestically and abroad. Private businesses would also find it a practical and affordable solution for many of their requests of temporary housing or mobile shelters.

1 . a Collapsible Mechanism comprising two swingable overall frontal frames detachable from grooves used for mounted position, and hanging on its respective pair of eccentric oblongs during the erection or dismounting procedures and removable sets of wheeled supports to facilitate the frontal frames sliding along channel type profiles that are elements of the bottom structure and also the bottom part, that work together with the upper channel that is a structural element of the top chassis to form the pair of grooves that host the removable laminated insulated panels that box to each other to form the lateral sides of the unit and are equipped with profiles that lock, screwlessly, the lateral wall system, or alternatively that host floor and ceiling caps covering the slots of two channels left empty by the absence of walls when two COLLAPSIBLE ISO CONTAINER-TYPE MODULAR SHELTER units are juxtaposed side-by-side to each other forming a double floor plan area, and other slots consecutively, every time more area is added by continuously juxtaposing other units to form larger areas, clipped together through the lower and top extremities of the units equipped with ISO maritime container-type corners allowing hauling a stand-alone erected COLLAPSIBLE ISO CONTAINER-TYPE MODULAR SHELTER unit as it was a maritime container, or bonding together groups of five dismounted units put in top of each other forming a block of five layers of bottom chassis/frontal frames/top chassis, each one oriented by a set of four of male-female corners, of which the top male elements are the oblong holders of the frontal frames, that are used when erecting or dismounting the unit, and all of them are the supports of embedment of the four columns that are also the vertical elements of the frontal frames that support the top chassis when the unit is erected; the frames are equipped with division walls, double-doors or utility walls that support air conditioning and power supply elements and/or hydraulic system when that part of the floor plan is destined to have a corner WC or kitchen, or the frames are only frames, with no face coverings, when two units are juxtaposed front-to-back in the search of creating more floor plan area; the electrical system copes with the ability of dismounting the COLLAPSIBLE ISO CONTAINER-TYPE MODULAR SHELTER through the sets of removable connections from the ceiling conduit ring to the walls equipped with switch or outlets, as well as to other juxtaposed units not directly power supplied.  
   
   
       2 . a system of Structural Gutters that besides being the main structural element of the top chassis, also prevent rain water to flow through the COLLAPSIBLE ISO CONTAINER-TYPE MODULAR SHELTER lateral and frontal sides, orienting that flow to go through the extremity corners of the unit, as a gutter does to roofs, and shaped as the “G letter” allowing the utilization of caps covering the edge of the two “Gs” juxtaposed one to the mirror of the other preventing water to flow between to units bonded side-by-side.