Wallboard fastener
OwnerRoger Neil Weinarinventor
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Abstract
Mechanically fastened appended tabs invisibly secure common edge-abutting wallboard panels to common wood or metal framing members. The fastener appendants are spaced apart tabs extending from the back of and exposed beyond the vertical edges of the wallboard panels so as to be conveniently screw fastened. When screw fastened to common wall framing members, the appended tabs secure the wallboard panels slightly off the framing member front surface to permit offset appendant tabs of abutting wallboard panels to slide between the fastened wallboard panels and the framing members and be engaged by the fastened wallboard panels in a tongue and groove relationship.
Claims7
Wallboard fasteners useful for holding a first wallboard panel to a framing member at an end thereof and for joining to a second wallboard panel to be installed coplanar with and having an end thereof abutting the held end of the first panel so that parts of said fasteners, on installation of the second wallboard, contact the first panel, to which said fasteners are not joined, and prevent transverse movements of the second panel, which fasteners are each of a single piece of sheet metal having a substantially flat plate portion, a tongue portion extending from the plate portion and coplanar therewith, a pair of web portions, one on each side of the tongue portion and each extending at a right angle from said plate portion and an impaling flange portion extending from each web portion in the same direction essentially parallel to and overlying said plate portion and opposite to the direction in which the tongue extends so that the plate portion may contact the surface of the wallboard panel while the impaling flange portion is impaling said panel at an edge thereof, said fasteners including a walled depressed area in the plate and tongue portions with a longitudinal slot in the tongue portion, the depression being in a direction opposite to that in which the webs extend, and said fasteners being free of impaling portions extending in the direction of the tongue portion and being free of webs extending beyond the depression from the tongue and from the plate portions in the direction the depression extends from such portions.
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