a. Patent Description

R. BUCKMINSTER

FULLER

(1959):

PLYDOME (1959)**

US Patent No.:

2,905,113

Application:

April 22, 1957

Serial No.:

654,166

Patented:

September 22, 1959

*-

The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller:

A Comprehensive Collection of his

Designs and Drawings,

James Ward, Ed.,

Garland, New York,

(1984)

**-

Inventions, The Patented Works of

R. Buckminster Fuller,

R. Buckminster Fuller

(1983)

Self-Strutted Geodesic

Plydome Patent *

Dome which results from the assembly of regular rectangular (plywood) panels that are assembled together at specifi c points, accounting for some of their surface to overlap, and each sheet to be able to fold to form the spherical shape. In this case, the subdivision is standardized into sixty-four panels of various sizes, and four openings types (windows) ranging from a triangle, square and pentagonal shapes.

This case can create even, nonoriented, discontinuous and smooth enclosures.

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