Floor support for sectionalized buildings

Claim 1

In a sectionalized building having two joining components, each component including a floor section and side walls, a ground supported foundation, each building component carried upon said foundation, the improvement wherein said foundation includes side walls, a plurality of parallel spaced cross beams each carried by and extending from one said foundation wall to the other, each floor section including: a girder extending longitudinally of the floor section, said girder including a center beam part and a plurality of longitudinally spaced cantilevered transverse gussets extending from opposite sides of said beam part and terminating at reduced end portions, spaced joists carried upon said gussets paralleling the beam part of said girder and having upper surfaces lying in approximately the same plane, a pair of spaced board supports each paralleling said joists at the end portions of said girder gussets, each board support extending from the plane of said joist upper surfaces to approximately the level of the bottom of said girders, flooring applied over said joists and board supports, said floor section of one component and said floor section of the other component positioned side by side with the respective girders of each section resting upon said cross beams, one board support of one floor section and one board support of the other floor section being juxtaposed, said juxtaposed board supports carried by said cross beams, the other of said board supports of the floor sections carried by said foundation walls.