A stud wall restraint system for in-plane building movement isolation
OwnerSasan Saidianinventor
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Abstract
A stud wall restraint system for in-plane building movement isolation uses a channel having side flanges and a web therebetween. The web has intermittent elongate longitudinal slots orientated along a longitudinal axis of the channel and the web comprises intermittent integrally formed fold out connectors which comprise elongate slots. The channel can be used for arrangements that allow for non-axial loadbearing walls to accommodate in-plane vertical and horizontal building movements whilst providing for enhanced structural restraint and resistance against out-of-plane transverse actions.
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A stud wall restraint system for in-plane building movement isolation, the system comprising:
- a channel having side flanges and a web therebetween wherein:
- the web comprises intermittent elongate longitudinal slots orientated along a longitudinal axis of the channel;
- the web comprises intermittent integrally formed fold out connectors;
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- the connectors comprise elongate slots which are:
- aligned parallel with the longitudinal axis of the channel when the connectors are not folded out;
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- orientated transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis of the channel when the connectors are folded out;
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- the flanges comprise transversal slots which are orientated transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis of the channel, further comprising the stud wall comprising a plurality of spaced-apart studs and wherein the channel is installed as a head channel wherein the web thereof is horizontal and wherein:
- the head channel is secured under a support structure using the longitudinal slots to allow horizontal in-plane movement between the channel and the support structure;
- webs of the studs are engaged using the slots of respective connectors to allow vertical in-plane movement between the channel and the stud wall;
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- wherein flanges of the studs are engaged using respective pairs of transversal slots to allow vertical in-plane movement between the channel and stud wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.