Timber connectors
AssigneeMorton Buildings, Inc.
InventorsWayne A. Knepp, David A. Fehr
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Abstract
Timber connectors in the form of initially flat plates each having a portion containing a plurality of apertures with at least one tooth or barb or a series of teeth struck from the plate and turned inwardly from the bounding edge of each aperture, and a portion devoid of teeth but containing a row or rows of spaced aligned holes for fastening means in the form of a preferred type of nails or other suitable fastener as desired. The aforesaid aligned holes provide lines of weakness whereby part of the connector can be bent on the job site for engagement with a main supporting timber. The connectors can be supplied on the ends of timbers by a power press at the plant pressing the teeth into a timber, and shipped to the job site in strapped bundles as lumber is usually shipped.
Claims15
A timber having opposite side surfaces, a top surface, and an end adapted for connection in assembly with a supporting member in a supporting structural framework in a building under construction, wherein the improvement comprises:
- a pair of connectors each having a first body portion firmly attached to a respective opposite one of said side surfaces adjacent said end of said timber;
- each of said connectors having a second portion extending in a common plane with its first body portion and projecting substantially beyond said end of the timber;
- deformation means providing a line of weakness located between each of said first and second body portions and along which line said second body portion of each connector is adapted to be bent substantially accurately into substantially coplanar relation to the other second body portion at substantially right angles away from the adjacent timber side surface to provide lateral wings adapted to be secured to said supporting structure framework;
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- each of said connectors also having a factory bent downwardly facing supporting flange which remains in substantially the same plane and projects longitudinally beyond said end of said timber for overlying said supporting structure framework in timber-supporting and orienting relation in the assembly;
- whereby said timber may be stacked and bundled with other like timbers and transported to the job site as lumber is usually handled without interference of said connectors with bundling and stacking of the timbers.
A pair of connectors mounted one on each side of an end of a timber which is connected in endwise abutted relation to a side of a supporting member in a structural framework, wherein the improvement comprises:
- each of said connectors having a body part,
- a first portion of each of said body parts having means securing the associated connector to its side of said timber, and a second portion of each connector having apertures therein for fastening means and said second portions extending from said one end of the timber into lateral oppositely extending wing-like position in face-to-face contact with said side of said supporting member,
- one of said connectors also having a flange on the upper edge of its first portion and bent to overlie the top edge of said timber and providing an extension beyond said timber end engaged upon the top edge of said supporting member, with an aperture adjacent one end of said extension for a fastening element,
- the other of said connectors having on the upper edge of its first portion a flange bent to overlie said timber,
- and an apertured flange on the upper edge of the second portion of said other connector bent angularly to project toward and into overlying relation on said supporting member.
A connector for connecting a timber to a supporting member in a supporting structural framework, wherein the improvement comprises:
- said connector being a metal stamping, a first portion of which has a plurality of apertures with at least one tooth protruding from the bounding edge of each aperture to be pressed into said timber,
- a second portion bendable at job site from a coplanar relation to said first portion at approximately 90.degree. to said first portion,
- said portions having therebetween deformation means to provide a line of weakness to facilitate said job site bending,
- said second portion having an aperture or apertures for fastening means spaced from said line of weakness, and
- an apertured flange on said second portion permanently prebent to overlie the top face of said supporting member.
A connector for connecting a timber endwise to a supporting member in a supporting structural framework, wherein the improvement comprises:
- said connector being a metal stamping having a first portion containing a plurality of apertures with one or more teeth protruding from the bounding edge of each aperture to be pressed into the side of said timber adjacent the end of the timber,
- a second portion of said stamping normally extending in the same plane from the front end of said first portion and connected thereto along a bend line of weakness defined by deformation means to facilitate substantially accurate on site bending of said second portion to extend angularly as a lateral attachment wing from said front end of said first portion and having aperture means for fastening means to secure said second portion to the side of said supporting member, and
- a flange along an upper edge of said stamping permanently factory bent to overlie the top edge of said timber and having an extension to project in the plane of said flange beyond said end of the timber and engage supportingly on the upper edge of said supporting member,
- said extension being separated from said second portion so that said second portion can be bent along said line of weakness free from said extension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.