Slotted metal stud with supplemental flanges
OwnerDennis L. Edmondsoninventor
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Abstract
A metal building stud having at least one supplemental flange extending from at least one slot in the stud web yielding a stud with increased strength, both compressive (longitudinally) and in shear (transverse). The slotted web presents a reduced web area through which heat or sound may be conducted and slots in which insulation is received, both increasing resistance to heat and sound transfer. Slots and supplemental flanges may also be provided in the stud primary flanges.
Claims13
A building structure comprising a plurality of horizontal parallel joists and a plurality of vertical parallel metal load bearing studs disposed orthogonal to the joists, the studs comprising a single primary flange bending from and extending in a same single direction from each side of a web forming a C-shaped channel, the improvement comprising said web of said stud with a slot intermediate the web and at least two supplemental flanges extending respectively from at least two sides of said slot into the channel between the primary flanges such that a cross sectional center of gravity for the slotted stud with said at least two supplemental flanges is in the channel a distance away from the web greater than that of a C-shaped stud without said at least two supplemental flanges and a slotted web, the at least two supplemental flanges comprising a portion of the web separated and bent away from the web on said at least two sides of said slot resulting in an opening in the web which opening forms the whole or substantially the whole of said slot wherein all or substantially all supplemental flanges that extend from a slot side extend into the channel and wherein the at least two supplemental flanges comprise a first and a second supplemental flange extending from respective first and second vertical sides of said slot into the channel.
A building stud comprising
- a single primary flange bending from and extending in a same single direction from each side of a web forming a C-shaped channel, the web having at least one slot,
- at least two supplemental flanges extending respectively from at least two sides of said at least one slot into the channel,
- wherein each of said at least two supplemental flanges comprises a portion of the web bent inward between the primary flanges on said at least two sides therein moving the stud cross sectional center of gravity away from the web such that a cross sectional center of gravity for the slotted stud with said supplemental flanges is a distance from the web greater than that of a C-shaped stud without supplemental flanges and a slotted web and resulting in an opening in the web which opening forms the whole or substantially the whole of said at least one slot, and
- wherein the at least two supplemental flanges comprise a first and a second supplemental flange extending from respective first and second vertical sides of said at least one slot into the channel,
- and wherein all or substantially all supplemental flanges extending from a slot side extend into the channel.
The method of increasing the compressive stability, strength and bending resistance of a C-shaped metal stud formed by a pair of primary flanges respectively extending in a same single direction from each side of a web forming a C-shaped channel comprising the following steps:
- (1) Partially cutting at least two supplemental flanges from the web forming the whole or substantially the whole of a slot in the web such that one of the at least two supplemental flanges extends from each vertical side of the slot, respectively;
- (2) Bending said one of the at least two flanges from said each vertical side of the slot inward between the primary flanges wherein each of said supplemental flanges comprises a portion of the web bent inward between the primary flanges such that said cross sectional center of gravity for the slotted stud with said at least two supplemental flanges is a distance from the web greater than that of a C-shaped stud without said at least two supplemental flanges wherein all or substantially all supplemental flanges extend from a slot side into the channel.
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