Wall bracing apparatus
OwnerDamian Langinventor
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Abstract
A wall bracing apparatus for mounting between a wall and the floor during construction. The wall bracing apparatus includes a tube that is mounted to a wall-mounted device and a floor-mounted device. The wall-mounted device has a backing plate and a front plate on opposite sides of the wall. A t-bar having a head at one end and a shaft through which a hole is formed extends through aligned central apertures in the plates and a wedge is inserted in the hole near the front plate end of the t-bar. A pair of ears on the front plate has aligned holes through which a pin extends that is also inserted through the tube. A duplicate of the front plate can be mounted to the floor and the opposite end of the tube can pivotably mount to the ears thereof.
Claims18
An apparatus bracing a wall during construction, the apparatus comprising:
- (a) a backing plate on a first side of the wall, the plate having an aperture;
- (b) a front plate on a second side of the wall opposite the backing plate, the front plate having an aperture and opposed ears with a first pair of aligned holes through which a pin extends and to which a bracing member extending away from the wall pivotably mounts;
- (c) an elongated fastener having a head and a shaft, the shaft extending through the aperture in the backing plate, the aperture in the front plate that is aligned with the aperture in the back plate and the wall disposed between the plates, fastener having at least one hole near one end;
- (d) a wedge extending through the hole in the t-bar near the front plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.