V-shaped former for stacking truss
AssigneeTomcat Global Corporation
InventorMark E. Fisher
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Abstract
A former in the shape of a substantially V-shaped body having an apex and two legs depending from the apex for use in assembling an elongated V-shaped truss that has a plurality of the formers removably attached to a plurality of associated elongated support chords to form a truss that may be disassembled for shipping.
Claims10
A former for use in assembling and disassembling an elongated truss that has a plurality of said formers and a plurality of elongated support chords, the former comprising:
- a substantially V-shaped body having an apex and two legs depending from said apex, each leg having an outer end;
- bracket means at the body apex and at each leg outer end for receiving one of said elongated support chords, each of said received elongated support chords being substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to said V-shaped body;
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- attachment means for enabling each of said bracket means to be attached to said received one of said elongated support chords such that a plurality of said elongated support chords and a plurality of said formers may be detachably assembled to each other to form a V-shaped stackable truss for storage that may be disassembled for shipping.
A former usable in assembling a V-shaped stackable support truss formed with elongated support chords, said formers and said support chords enabled to be transported as separate elements comprising:
- a substantially V-shaped former having an apex and two legs depending therefrom, each leg having an outer end;
- a bracket at the apex and at the outer end of each leg of said former;
- each bracket for receiving one of said elongated support chords such that each of said received elongated support chords are substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to said V-shaped body;
- plate on each of said brackets that can be used to engage a received one of said elongated support chords;
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- orifices in each of said plates that can receive pins for attaching said received ones of said elongated support chords to said plate.
A former for enabling a plurality of different shaped trusses to be formed from a plurality of said formers and a plurality of elongated support chords said former comprising:
- a substantially V-shaped body having an apex and depending legs with outer ends;
- a bracket on said apex and each leg outer end for attachment to one of said plurality of elongated support chords;
- each depending leg having at least a first flat surface thereon to enable a first one of said plurality of formers to be inverted and placed on a second one of said plurality of formers, first flat surface aligned to first flat surface;
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- an orifice in said first flat surface of said first one of said plurality of formers aligned with an orifice in said first flat surface of said second one of said plurality of formers for receiving a fastener placed in said aligned orifices to connect said first and second ones of said plurality of formers together to enable an elongated truss to be formed having a first shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.