Beveled corner structure for studded walls
OwnerRobert Brandon Wilsoninventor
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Abstract
A building wall with an improved corner structure having a having a right-angled interior corner and a beveled exterior corner, corner brackets used to construct the same, and a method of constructing the same. The pair of brackets include a first bracket that attaches to an upper end of both a first studded wall and a perpendicularly extending second studded wall, and a second bracket that attaches to a lower end of both the first studded wall and the second studded wall. When the first studded wall is joined to the second studded wall using the pair of brackets, an interior side of the corner joint includes two interior faces coming together at the right-angled corner, and an exterior side of the corner joint directly opposite the right-angled corner includes a beveled exterior face.
Claims19
A pair of brackets used to construct a corner joint joining a first studded wall to a second studded wall, the pair of brackets including:
- a first bracket configured to attach to an upper end of the first studded wall and the second studded wall;
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- a second bracket configured to attach to a lower end of the first studded wall and the second studded wall,
- wherein each of the first bracket and the second bracket are configured such that, when the first studded wall is joined to the second studded wall using the first bracket and the second bracket forming the corner joint, an interior side of the corner joint includes two interior faces coming together at a right-angled corner, and an exterior side of the corner joint directly opposite the right-angled corner includes a beveled exterior face, wherein each of the first bracket and the second bracket include a first track and a second track, wherein the first track of each of the first bracket and the second bracket is configured to attach to the first studded wall, and wherein the second track of each of the first bracket and the second bracket is configured to attach to the second studded wall.
A building wall having a right-angled interior corner and a beveled exterior corner, the building wall comprising:
- a first studded wall extending in a first direction, the first studded wall including:
- a first horizontally extending top plate;
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- a first horizontally extending sill plate;
- a second studded wall extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second studded wall including:
- a second horizontally extending top plate;
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- a second horizontally extending sill plate;
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- a pair of corner brackets joining the first studded wall to the second studded wall and forming a corner joint, the pair of corner brackets including:
- a first bracket configured to attach to an upper end of the first studded wall and the second studded wall;
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- a second bracket configured to attach to a lower end of the first studded wall and the second studded wall,
- wherein an interior side of the corner joint includes two interior faces coming together at the right-angled interior corner, and wherein an exterior side of the corner joint directly opposite the right-angled corner includes a beveled exterior face.
A method of constructing a building wall having a right-angled interior corner and a beveled exterior corner, the method comprising:
- constructing a first studded wall extending in a first direction;
- constructing a second studded wall extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;
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- joining the first studded wall to the second studded wall using a pair of corner brackets forming a corner joint, wherein an interior side of the corner joint includes two interior faces coming together at the right-angled interior corner, and-wherein an exterior side of the corner joint directly opposite the right-angled interior corner includes a beveled exterior face,
- wherein each of the corner brackets includes a first interior edge, a second interior edge, and a beveled exterior edge, wherein the first interior edge and the second interior edge together define an interior right-angled interior edge having a right-angled corner, and wherein the right-angled corner abuts the beveled exterior edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.