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The method of manufacturing standard size dwellings using a movable manufacturing facility brings standard size home building comprehensively within a controlled factory environment. The main structure of the movable manufacturing facility is sufficiently tall to allow assembly and movement of stand

The method of manufacturing standard size dwellings using a movable manufacturing facility brings standard size home building comprehensively within a controlled factory environment. The main structure of the movable manufacturing facility is sufficiently tall to allow assembly and movement of standard size homes within. Multiple independent production lines are established to each produce portions of the dwelling in the form of subassemblies. Finishes, cabinets, appliances, roofs, paint, etc. are installed in the partially completed dwellings prior to houses leaving the production floor. The movable manufacturing facility allows a standard size home under construction to be advanced via a transport element from one production line to the next until complete. The completed homes are subsequently transported on the transport element over a controlled access roadway to individual sites with pre-constructed foundations specifically designed to accept these standard size dwellings. The standard size house can be relocated from the transport element and placed directly onto the foundation. High capacity hoisting, such as clear span bridge cranes, are the key to material handling and transportation on the production lines in the movable manufacturing facility. A drive through alley large enough to accommodate semi-trucks with loaded trailers may be located within the main structure of the movable manufacturing facility.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A method for constructing standard size dwellings substantially in their entirety using a manufacturing facility that includes a plurality of dwelling subassembly production lines and a dwelling assembly alley, said manufacturing facility being located proximate a location at which

[ We claim:] [1.] A method for constructing standard size dwellings substantially in their entirety using a manufacturing facility that includes a plurality of dwelling subassembly production lines and a dwelling assembly alley, said manufacturing facility being located proximate a location at which standard size dwellings produced in said manufacturing facility are to be sited comprising the steps of:constructing, in said manufacturing facility, predetermined subassemblies for said standard size dwelling in at least two of said plurality of subassembly production lines, each of said predetermined subassemblies comprising a structural section of said standard size dwelling, from the class of structural sections including: walls, floors, roof, foundation base frame;transporting, using hoisting elements operational in each of said at least two subassembly production lines, said constructed predetermined subassemblies to said dwelling assembly alley for incorporation into a partially assembled standard size dwelling being assembled in said dwelling assembly alley; andtransporting said partially assembled standard size dwelling through said dwelling assembly alley to said at least two subassembly production lines, said standard size dwelling being assembled, substantially in its entirety, using said predetermined subassemblies, which are incorporated into said partially assembled standard sized dwelling when said partially assembled standard sized dwelling is positioned in dwelling assembly alley opposite each successive one of said at least two subassembly production lines.