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.
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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 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, 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 notch formed in the planar wall of the first shoulder and the second shoulder and having the fourth side defining a lowermost portion of the 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, the first metal framing member for the connector element is configured to connect between said first metal framing member and said second metal framing member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.