METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOUNTING BUILDING WALL PANELS TO BUILDING FRAMES, INCORPORATING MOUNTING MEANS ELEMENTS WITH TWO DEGREES OF FREEDOM

摘要

A system for mounting building wall panels to buildingframes, and a method of its use, are disclosed. The system iscomprised of one or more insertional frame(s), at least one ofwhich provides a mounting means element therein with two degreesof motion freedom, which insertional frame(s) are secured to abuilding wall panel. The system provides for quick, easy andeconomical mounting of building wall panels to building frames byconstruction personnel as the mounting means element(s) in theinsertional frame(s) can be adjusted to match the location of thecorresponding mounting means on a building frame. The inventionalso, most importantly, provides protection against thedevelopment of potentially damaging stresses in building wallpanels mounted to a building frame as a result of seismicactivity, thermal expansion, wind induced building shape changesetc. Protection against potentially damaging stresses resultsfrom the fact that the two degrees of motion freedom alluded toremain after a building wall panel is mounted to a building frameby means of the present system.