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US 6,332,299 B1Granted
Connector for multiple member frame systems
OwnerKenneth G. Stewart, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A frame connector for connecting and spacing building frames is formed as a flat rigid rectangular bar with alternating depending rigid separating flaps equal in length to the desired spacing between frame members and flat rigid securement flaps equal in length to the width of a frame member and provided with holes for attaching securement devices to the frame members. A method for creating the connector is disclosed.
Claims19
A building frame connector for connecting and spacing building frame members comprising:
- an elongated body having a rigid rectangular configured top portion of a length at least greater than a distance between several building frame members;
- said body top portion provided with at least one pair of dependent opposed rigid flaps that extend at right angles to edges of the top portion;
- said at least one pair of the rigid flaps all depending in the same direction away from the top portion;
- wherein the length of the at least one pair of the rigid flaps is equal to a desired spacing between two frame members;
- wherein one of the pair of at least one pair of rigid flaps is situated to depend from one long side of the rectangular top portion and the other one of the at least one of the pair of rigid flaps is situated to depend from an opposite long side of the rectangular top portion so that the two depending rigid flaps directly oppose each other in parallel relationship;
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- at least four attachment flaps extending from the longitudinal edges of the rigid rectangular top portion adjacent to and at right angles to the depending rigid flaps.
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The method of making a building frame connector for connecting and spacing building frame members comprising:
- obtaining a rectangular flat sheet of rigid material;
- cutting the length of the material to a distance at least equal to the combined thickness of at least two building frame members to be connected and secured in addition to a desired distance between the two members;
- making a plurality of opposing inwardly extending cuts from both longitudinal edges of the flat sheet toward the center of the flat sheet leaving an uncut center portion;
- the inwardly extending cuts being in opposing pairs from each longitudinal edge of the flat sheet and spaced along each of the longitudinal edges to produce opposing adjoining flaps therebetween which have a length along each longitudinal edge equal to a distance of a width of a frame member and a desired spacing between frame members and bending downward the flap material between a first and second cut along the longitudinal edge to form a rectangular depending rigid flap for spacing two adjoining building frame members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.