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US 6,073,413 AGranted
Structural bracing for buildings
OwnerPaul P. Tongiatamainventor
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Abstract
A truss-like brace assembly for a wall of a building has a peripheral frame defined by a pair of stiles, a top member and a bottom member, where diagonal braces and horizontal cross-braces triangulate the frame. The brace assembly is close fit in a cavity in the wall (10, 110) and the stiles, top member and bottom member are fixed to the adjacent studs, top wall plate and bottom plate to provide structural bracing in the longitudinal plane of the wall.
Claims7
A truss-like brace assembly for a building wall including:
- a peripheral frame having a pair of substantially vertical stiles interconnected by a top member and a bottom member;
- a plurality of substantially horizontal cross-braces interconnecting the vertical stiles spaced between the top member and the bottom member;
- a plurality of diagonal braces, wherein a diagonal brace bisects each space in the peripheral frame defined by the vertical stiles and an adjacent pair of horizontal cross-braces;
- the peripheral frame cross-braces and diagonal braces are an integral unit, welded together and are of C, L, RHS or SHS-metal section;
- and
- the stiles being fixable to respective studs in an adjacent pair of studs in the wall to provide structural bracing to the wall in a longitudinal plane thereof to withstand cyclonic wind speeds.
3 more elements
A wall structure for a building including:
- a pair of studs, interconnected by a top wall plate and a bottom wall plate;
- a peripheral frame having a pair of substantially vertical stiles interconnected by a top member an a bottom member;
- a plurality of substantially horizontal cross-braces interconnecting the vertical stiles and spaced from the top member and bottom member;
- a plurality of diagonal braces, wherein a diagonal brace bisects each space in the peripheral frame defined by the vertical stiles and an adjacent pair of horizontal cross-braces;
- the peripheral frame, cross-braces and diagonal braces are an integral unit welded together and are of C, L, RHS, or SHS-metal section;
- the stiles are fixed to the studs;
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- the brace assembly provides structural bracing for the wall in a longitudinal plane thereof to withstand cyclonic speeds.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.