Clip connector for joining columns and beams to concrete
AssigneeMenlo Park Enterprises Ltd.
InventorGino Gasparini
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Abstract
A clip connector for joining column and beam members to concrete building panels is non-corrosive, and does not require bolts or pins to pass into the concrete panels. The connector is a non-corrosive steel clip having a substantially angular shape with two flanges, one flange substantially straight, and the other flange divided into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion having a lip at the end thereof for containment within a column or beam section, the second portion having a bend therein to extend through an aperture in the column or beam section, the second portion terminating in a hook for engaging a reinforcing member in a concrete building panel.
Claims5
A connector assembly for concrete building panels comprising:
- a C-shaped steel channel member having a center web and two flat flanges, each of the flanges terminating in an opposing lip, one of the flanges being an adjacent flange and having a plurality of spaced apart apertures therein and
- non-corrosive steel connector clips for each of the plurality of apertures, each of the clips having a substantially angular shape with two angle flanges, a first angle flange substantially flat to rest against the center web of the channel member and a second flange divided into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being flat to rest against the adjacent flange between the center web and the lip of the channel member, the second portion having a bend therein extending the second portion through one of the plurality of apertures in the adjacent flange of the channel member, the extended second portion terminating in a hook shaped end for engaging a reinforcing member in a concrete building panel with the adjacent flange on the surface of the concrete building panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.