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US 12,320,113 B2Granted
Metal framing self-locking connectors
OwnerDennis LeBlanginventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to metal framed wall components with self-locking fixed and sliding connections between support members and crossing connecting members without using fasteners to connect the two crossing metal framing members together. Different variations of the shapes of the connecting members as well as the location and shape of the notches, ledges, tabs and notched-tabs are used between the members at the holes, punch-outs or indentations all determine the self-locking connections.
Claims14
A structural framing system comprising:
- a first metal framing member and a second metal framing member connected by a connector element;
- the first metal framing member having an aperture defining a perimeter in a planar wall, the aperture having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the aperture having a third side and a fourth side opposite the third side, the aperture adapted to receive the connector element, the aperture having a first shoulder proximate an intersection of the first side and the fourth side and a second shoulder proximate an intersection of the second side and the fourth side, a first notch between the first shoulder and the second shoulder and having the fourth side defining a lowermost portion of the first notch, the aperture having a second notch at an intersection of the first side and the third side and a third notch at an intersection of the second side and the third side;
- the second metal framing member having a first side wall and a second side wall configured to be received between the first shoulder and the second shoulder of the first metal framing member.
A structural framing system comprising:
- a first metal framing member and a second framing member;
- the first metal framing member having an aperture cut into a planar wall, the aperture defining a perimeter and having a first side perimeter wall and a second side perimeter wall opposite the first side perimeter wall, the aperture having a third side perimeter wall and a fourth side perimeter wall, the aperture having a first shoulder extending from said third side perimeter wall proximate said first side perimeter wall defining a first space between said first side perimeter wall and said fourth side perimeter wall, and a second shoulder extending from said third side perimeter wall proximate said second side perimeter wall and defining a second space between said second side perimeter wall and said fourth side perimeter wall;
- said aperture with said first space forming a first shoulder opposite said second shoulder, a second metal framing member having a web attached to a first side wall and said web attached to a second side wall with said first and said second side wall having a cut into each of the distal edges forming a first and a second side wall notch configured to engage said first shoulder and said second shoulder to retain said second metal framing member within said aperture.
A structural framing system comprising:
- a first metal framing member and a second metal framing member;
- the first metal framing member having an aperture in a planar wall, the aperture defining a perimeter and having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the aperture having a third side and a fourth side opposite the third side, the aperture having a raised shoulder in a center portion of said fourth side wherein said raised shoulder having a first notch in a first sidewall facing said first side and a second notch in a second side wall facing said second side;
- said aperture having a first shoulder at an intersection of said first side and said third side and a second shoulder at an intersection of said second side and said third side, said first shoulder and said second shoulder having a gap there between;
- the second metal framing member having a first side wall and a second side wall configured to be received-between said raised shoulder and said fourth side of the first metal framing member.
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