Bracket with angled nailing feature
AssigneeUnited Steel Products Company
InventorDaniel E. Young
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Abstract
A slope and skew hanger for connecting a rafter to a beam at a variety of slope and skew angles. The hanger includes a connection portion and an integrally attached seat portion which is connected with the connection portion along a bend line. The connection portion includes a central opening, a pair of side connecting brackets joined by connecting strips and adapted for connection to the beam, and a pair of centrally positioned connection flanges extending outwardly from the front face of the connection portion and adapted for connection with the sides of the rafter. A further feature of the present invention is the provision of a raised spherical portion and an offset nail receiving opening to facilitate the angled nailing of such a hanger or bracket to the beam or rafter.
Claims14
A structure comprising:
- a supported wooden member, a supporting wooden member, and a bracket joining said supported wooden member and said supporting wooden member together, said bracket including a plurality of integrally formed flanges each connected by nailing to at least one of said supported and supporting wooden members, at least one of said flanges including a mounting planar surface for engagement with at least one of said supported and supporting wooden members and a nail receiving planar surface spaced from and extending parallel to said mounting planar surface on said at least one flange for receiving nails to connect said at least one flange to at least one of said supported and supporting wooden members, means for facilitating angled nailing of said at least one flange to at least one of said supporting and supported members including a raised surface portion integrally formed with and extending above and outwardly from said nail receiving planar surface of said at least one flange, said raised surface portion extending away from said mounting planar surface of said at least one flange of said bracket such that a convex, dome shaped surface configuration is formed on and relative to said nail receiving planar surface;
- and a nail receiving opening formed in said raised surface portion.
A bracket for connecting a pair of wooden, nail receiving members and facilitating angled nailing of said bracket to at least one of said nail receiving members, said bracket comprising:
- a plurality of integrally formed flanges each adapted for connection to at least one of said nail receiving members, at least one of said flanges including:
- a first planar surface for engagement with at least one of said nail receiving members,
- a second, nail receiving planar surface spaced from and extending parallel to said first planar surface on said at least one flange surface;
- at least one raised surface portion integrally formed with and extending above and outwardly from said second planar surface of said at least one flange, said at least one raised surface portion extending away from said first planar surface of said at least one flange such that a convex, dome shaped surface configuration is formed on and relative to said second planar surface;
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- at least one nail receiving opening formed in said raised surface portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.