US 11,028,580 B2Granted

Deck frame with integral attachment tabs

AssigneeFortress Iron, LP

InventorsKevin T. Burt, Matthew Carlyle Sherstad, Kevin B. Flatt, Aaron Jesiolowski, Geoff T. Luczycki

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Abstract

A deck frame includes at least one perimeter support member that has a joist support wall, a web wall extending perpendicularly from the joist support wall, and an overhang wall extending perpendicularly from the web wall. The web wall includes a plurality of spaced apart joist attachment features. Each attachment feature includes a slot defined by the web wall, a first tab extending from a first perimeter edge of the slot at a first angle with respect to the web wall, and a second tab extending from a second perimeter edge of the slot opposite the first perimeter edge in a first direction and forming a second angle with respect to the web wall. The first tab is disposed spaced apart from the second tab in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A deck frame, comprising:

at least one perimeter support member comprising a joist support wall, a web wall extending perpendicularly from the joist support wall and an overhang wall extending perpendicularly from the web wall and disposed parallel to the joist support wall, the web wall having a plurality of spaced apart joist attachment features, each one of the plurality of spaced apart joist attachment features comprising:
a slot defined by the web wall and having a width, a first perimeter edge extending a height of the slot, a second perimeter edge disposed opposite the first perimeter edge and extending the height of the slot;
an upper attachment tab extending from the first perimeter edge of the slot a first distance generally equal to the width of the slot at a first angle with respect to the web wall;
and
a lower attachment tab extending from the second perimeter edge of the slot the first distance and forming a second angle with respect to the web wall;
and
a first horizontal tab extending from a third perimeter edge of the slot and a second horizontal tab extending from a fourth perimeter edge of the slot;
and
a plurality of joists each having a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall disposed opposite the first lateral wall, wherein for each joist the upper attachment tab is configured to be secured to the first lateral wall and the lower attachment tab is configured to be secured to the second lateral wall.

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Facts

Application: 15/990,351Filed 25 May 2018
Published: US 2019/0360202 A128 Nov 2019
Granted: 8 Jun 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

E04B 5/10
Load-carrying floor structures formed substantially of prefabricated units: with metal beams or girders, e.g. with steel lattice girders
E04B 1/003
Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs: balconies; Decks
E04B 1/2403
The supporting parts consisting of metal: connection details of the elongated load-supporting parts
E04C 3/07
With substantially solid, i.e. unapertured, web: at least partly of bent or otherwise deformed strip- or sheet-like material

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US 2019/0360202 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Nov 2019
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