Wood blocking blank for creating wood blocking for metal studs and methods of manufacture and use thereof
OwnerCretice BENEFIELDinventor
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Abstract
A wood blocking blank for creating wood blocking for placement between metal studs includes a panel of a blocking material. The panel of blocking material has an original length and a standard width. The standard width is sized to a nominal stud width configured to fit between the metal studs. A groove is cut down the entire original length of the panel of blocking material approximate a first side of the panel of blocking material. The groove is configured for orienting the first side of the panel of blocking material in a soft side of a first metal stud and a second side of the panel of blocking material against the hard side of an adjacent metal stud. The groove is sized to receive the lip of the soft side of the metal stud.
Claims20
A wood blocking blank for creating wood blocking for placement between metal studs, the wood blocking blank comprising:
- a panel of a blocking material having an original length and a standard width;
- the standard width of the panel of the blocking material is sized to a nominal stud width configured to fit between a first metal stud and an adjacent metal stud;
- each of the first metal stud and the adjacent metal stud are c-channel metal studs including:
- a hard side including a flat web;
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- a soft side with an inner flange having an inner return lip and an outer flange having an outer return lip;
- where the c-channel is created from the flat web of the hard side and the soft side with the inner flange having the inner return lip and the outer flange having the outer return lip;
- a groove cut down the entire original length of the panel approximate a first side of the panel, said groove is sized to receive the outer return lip of the soft side of the metal stud, whereby the groove is configured for orienting the first side of the panel in the soft side of the first metal stud and a second side of the panel against the hard side of the adjacent metal stud.
A pallet of wood blocking comprising:
- a first row of wood blocking bundles having a first row width and a first row length;
- a second row of wood blocking bundles having a second row width and a second row length;
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- a base pallet having a pallet width of approximately said first row width plus said second row width and a pallet length of approximately said first row length or said second row length, whereby said base pallet is configured for supporting said first and second rows of wood blocking bundles side by side.
A method of installing wood blocking between metal studs comprising:
- creating a wood blocking blank for creating wood blocking for placement between the metal studs, the wood blocking blank comprising:
- a panel of a blocking material having an original length and a standard width;
- the standard width being sized to a nominal stud width configured to fit between the metal studs;
- cutting a groove down the entire original length of the panel approximate a first side of the panel, said groove being configured for orienting the first side of the panel in a soft side of a first metal stud and a second side of the panel against the hard side of an adjacent metal stud, where the groove is sized to receive a lip of the soft side of the metal stud;
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- cutting the length of the panel to a desired height of wood blocking or leaving the original length of the panel for the height of the wood blocking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.