Building anchoring system
OwnerJimmy R. Lung, Wayne E. Lunginventors
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Abstract
A house is anchored to the ground by extending a plurality of metal rods from anchors buried in a foundation to the upper framework of the house and clamping the house to each rod by a pair of spaced clamps, which includes a washer in each device around the rod jammed at an angle against the rod so as to be immovable in the tensile direction between the spaced clamps. The lower clamp is threaded onto the buried threaded anchor extending through the sole plate. A bolt extends through at least one top plate of an outer wall adjacent at least the outer corners of a building and threads into the upper clamp beneath the top plate.
Claims20
An anchoring system for a building having a wall with a sole plate and a top plate, said system comprising an elongated metal rod having opposite end portions with roughened surfaces, a pair of clamping means respectively attachable to said rod end portions by vertical sliding jamming relative movement therebetween without rotation and positionable vertically between a sole plate and a top plate, each said clamping means having a thread means for threadedly attaching each of said clamping means to a threaded member extendable through a sole plate and top plate of a building wall.
A clamp device comprising a tubular body with a central lengthwise bore adapted to permit an elongated rod to be passed concentrically therethrough and clamped thereto said tubular body having a primary portion and a secondary portion joined together, said primary portion containing a spring-biased washer around said bore and canted at an angle to permit wedging against an elongated rod when pushed thereinto, and to substantially prohibit lengthwise separating movement of said washer and said tubular body with respect to a wedged elongated rod in a direction which induces further wedging of said washer thereonto.
A clamp device comprising an elongated strip of metal folded transversely upon itself to produce a vertical column of generally square transverse cross-section with a vertical central axis and a cylindrical vertical passageway centered about said axis having an upper exit and a lower exit, the lower exit of said passageway adapted to receive a threaded end portion of a rod therethrough, said device having a nut with internal threads threaded onto a threaded end portion of a rod, the upper exit of said passageway being positioned at an acute angle to said axis and containing a washer around said passageway at said angle, a spring means biasing said washer outwardly generally along said passageway for maintaining said washer at said angle, said passageway being adapted to receive therein a generally smooth metal rod or a metal rod with transverse surface ridges, or other concrete reinforcement rod.
A building anchoring system adapted to affix outer walls of a building having a sole plate and at least one top plate with spaced studs therebetween and having spaced flooring bolts extending from the flooring through the sole plate with exposed threads thereabove, said system comprising a plurality of spaced elongated metal rods having opposite end portions and being located adjacent outside corners of a building, said rods extending approximately between at least one top plate and a sole plate, a pair of clamping means vertically slidably jammed onto respective said opposite end portions of each said rod without relative rotation therebetween, said clamping means being located between at least one top plate and a sole plate and having a threaded connection facing away from respective said opposite end portions of said rod, said threaded connection adjacent a sole plate being threaded onto exposed threads of a flooring bolt and a threaded bolt extending through and substantially vertically aligned with said metal rods respectively and being threaded onto said threaded connection adjacent said at least one top plate, said bolt being tightenable to remove any slack between said pair of clamping means and said rod and to maintain said rod taut.
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