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US 4,376,361 AGranted
Partition wall construction
AssigneeUnited States Gypsum Company
InventorRalph E. Michael
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AssigneeUnited States Gypsum Company
InventorRalph E. Michael
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An improvement in a partition wall construction having two spaced apart rows of wall board connected to flanged studs wherein studs are supportably engaged within opposingly spaced apart channels, a bottom channel opening upwardly with bottom portions of the studs residing therein and an upper channel opening downwardly with top portions of the studs residing therein. The improvement comprises a device for prevention of squeaking at stud and runner engagements when said partition well is subjected to racking forces. Said device comprising a plurality of clips each having in cross-section a hairpin-like configuration wherein an elongate plate portion terminates in a thickened base portion, said base portion having an angled plate portion including a first leg angling back toward the elongate plate, and then terminating in an outwardly angling second leg portion, said configuration forming a hairpin-like shape defining a slot between the elongate plate and angled plate portion. Stud flanges nested in said slots and contacting the thickened base portion, wherein said elongate plate is disposed between flanges of the channels and flanges of the studs. Said clips comprising acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene and wherein said clip devices prevent squeaking and clicking upon subjection of said partition wall construction to horizontal racking forces tending to force the partition wall construction into a generally parallelogram-shape.
In a partition wall construction having two spaced apart rows of wall board connected to flanged studs wherein said studs are supportably engaged within opposingly spaced apart channels, a bottom channel opening upwardly with bottom portions of the studs residing therein and an upper channel opening downwardly with top portions of the studs residing therein, the improvement comprising:
A clip device for use in partition wall construction utilizing spaced-apart rows of wall board supported by stud means residing within channels of upper and lower runners for support, said clip device comprising an extruded plastic material having an elongate plate portion which terminates in a thickened base portion, said thickened base portion having at an opposite edge thereof an angled plate member forming a slot between the angled member and elongate plate portions, said clip cooperative with flanged runners having spaced apart flanges, wherein at opposite ends of stud means stud flanges may nest within slots of oppositely disposed clip devices and thereby separate upper and lower runner members from stud means.
A partition wall construction which when subjected to racking forces prevents squeaking and clicking at interconnections between flanged studs and oppositely disposed channel-shaped supportive runner members, said partition wall construction including acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene clip members affixed at opposite stud ends wherein said clip devices are of a generally hairpin-shape construction providing a slot between a plate portion and an angled portion, the juncture of said plate portion and angled portion forming a thickened base portion whereby said clip members are disposed having said plate portion residing adjacent flanges of channel-shaped runners with flanges of stud members residing within said slot to thereby separate studs from runners.
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