Adjustable connector assembly for vertically coupling the adjacent lateral edges of construction wall panels

DETAILED DESCRIPTION U.
S.
Pat.
No.
5,373,678, issued to Hesser, on Dec.
20, 1994, teaches a structural wall panel.
Hesser's structural wall building panels comprise an outer and inner metal skin spaced by an intermediate insulating core of foamed polymer.
Each such panel is adapted to have at least one interlocking edge with a metal lined tongue in a metal lined groove adapted to facilitate interconnection of panels as they are longitudinally interconnected.
The panels taught by Hesser also comprise a reinforcing steel beam on the other side of the metal line groove.
Fasteners may be passed through various portions of the interconnecting grooves and flanges in order to facilitate the connection.
While the mechanism taught by Hesser enables adjacent structural panels to interconnect, it does not teach a means of a framing the structural panels so as to specifically accommodate certain portions of a building structure, such as the roof, the eaves, the foundational frame members, and the frames for doors and windows and the outside or inside corners.
Such structural panels can be easily fabricated in mass quantities.
With appropriate interconnecting members, they can be used for rapid structure of strong and reliable buildings.
One of the advantages of such structural panels is in the standardization of the sizes and interconnecting members which not only make them easy to work with but also easy and quick to assemble and train construction workers for accomplishing even what would ordinarily be complicated tasks.
Such standardization also facilitates the ability to standardize certain building accessories.
The Inventor has solved the problem of providing a means of fastening window frames to buildings of structural panels by providing a uniquely adapted "C" frame apparatus which can fit over either the tops or sides of such structural panels and is adapted to receive a window or door frame.
Such is suitable for manufacture with the extrusion process as it of uniform cross-section throughout its entire length