Beam connector
AssigneeStreif AG
InventorGerhard Meickl
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Abstract
A connector of structural parts such as beams with a through-going wooden pillar is disclosed. The connection consists of a first plate having a hook and being fastened to the beam in a torsion free manner. This hook has an essentially horizontal supporting area at the lower end and at least one vertical contact area. A second cross-shaped support plate is disposed in a pillar and its vertical plate portions are in one plane with the first plate. The second plate includes fitting areas which mate with the supporting area and the vertical contact area of the hook. The pillar is connected by means of a wedge-shaped tenon joint below the supporting area of the support plate.
Claims1
A connection of a plurality of horizontal beams with a vertical wooden pillar, said connection comprising:
- a glued tenon joint at a first position along a longitudinal direction of said pillar and having upper and lower longitudinal sides;
- crossed slots in said pillar and extending along said first direction, said slots extending on both said upper and lower longitudinal sides of said tenon joint;
- a cross shaped rigid one piece support plate fitted in said slots and extending on both said upper and lower longitudinal sides of said tenon joint, said support plate having planar arms, means securing said support plate to said pillar on both said upper and lower longitudinal sides of said tenon joint;
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- a hooked plate fixed to each said beam in a torsion-proof manner, each said hooked plate extending from an end of each said beam in a plane parallel to a longitudinal direction of said beam and having a hook including a lower edge,
- said arms of said support plate and said hooks of said hooked plate have horizontal supporting areas and at least one vertical contact area which are mutually engagable when said hooked plates are inserted in said slots above said support plate, and said horizontal supporting area of said support plate is on said upper longitudinal side of said tenon joint.
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