Hinged connector plate

[11. A wooden frame comprising at least three wooden structural framing members, means for pivotally connecting adjacent ends of two of said members, said pivotal connecting means including first and second sheet metal planar plates, each of said plates having a plurality of teeth struck therefrom leaving a plurality of slots in said plate, an end portion of each said plate having an opening therethrough, said teeth being distributed over the major portions of the areas of said plates and spaced back from said end portions thereof, the teeth of said plates being embedded into respective side faces of said two framing members with the teeth of said first plate being embedded into one of said members and the teeth of said second plate being embedded into the other of said members such that the plate end portions overlap one another with their respective openings registering one with the other, means passing through at least one of said openings for pivotally connecting said first and second plates one to the other for swinging movement of said first plate and said one member relative to said second plate and said other member, and means for joining the end of said one member remote from said joint to a third member of said frame whereby said one member is

• maintainable in a substantially rigid position in said frame.] 12. A structural device comprising first and second elongated wooden members, means for pivotally connecting said first and second wooden members at their longitudinal ends one to the other including first and second elongated sheet metal planar plates, each of said plates being of a sufficient size so that its width covers a major portion of the width of the side face of the corresponding said wooden member and having a plurality of teeth struck therefrom leaving a plurality of slots in said plate, an end portion of each said plate having an opening therethrough, said teeth being distributed over the major portions of the areas of said plates and spaced back from said end portions thereof, the teeth of said first plate being embedded into the side face of said first wooden member with the teeth of said second plate being embedded into the side face of said second wooden member with the plate end portions overlapping one another and the respective openings in the plate end portions registering one with the other, and means passing through at least one of said openings for pivotally connecting said first and second plates one to the other for free swinging movement of said first plate and said one member relative to said second plate and the second member, after said first and second plates have been pivotally connected to each other and attached to said first and second wooden members, respectively, the longitudinal ends faces [ends] of said first and second wooden members being spaced one from the other with the pivotal axis of the joint passing between the spaced [ends] longitudinal end faces of said first and second wooden
• members. 13. A structural device comprising first and second wooden structural members, means for pivotally connecting said first and second wooden members at their longitudinal ends one to the other including first and second sheet metal planar plates, each of said plates having a plurality of teeth struck therefrom leaving a plurality of slots in said plate, an end portion of each said plate having an opening therethrough, said teeth being distributed over the major portions of the areas of said plates and spaced back from said end portions thereof, the teeth of said first plate being embedded into the side face of said first wooden member with the teeth of said second plate being embedded into the side face of said second wooden member with the plate end portions overlapping one another and the respective openings in the plate end portions registering one with the other, and means passing through at least one of said openings for pivotally connecting said first and second plates one to the other for swinging movement of said first plate and said one member relative to said second plate and the second member, the side of one of said wooden members at its longitudinal end adjacent the longitudinal end of the other wooden member being cut away such that the longitudinal end portion of the other member is free to move to the opposite side of the pivotal axis of said joint for location within the cut away portion of said one member so that said wooden members can be arranged with
• their longitudinal end faces abutting one another .

A structural device comprising first and second elongated wooden structural members, means for pivotally connecting said first and second wooden members at their longitudinal ends one to the other including first and second elongated sheet metal planar plates, each of said plates having a plurality of teeth struck therefrom leaving a plurality of slots in said plate, an end portion of each said plate having an opening therethrough, said teeth being distributed over the major portions of the areas of said plates and spaced back from said end portions thereof, the teeth of said first plate being embedded into the side face of said first wooden member with the teeth of said second plate being embedded into the side face of said second wooden member with the plate end portions overlapping one another and the respective openings in the plate end portions registering one with the other, and means passing through at least one of said openings for pivotally connecting said first and second plates one to the other for free swinging movement of said first plate and said one member relative to said second plate and the second member after said first and second plates have been pivotally connected to each other and attached to said first and second wooden members, respectively, the side of one of said wooden members at its longitudinal end adjacent the longitudinal end of the other wooden member being cut away such that the longitudinal end portion of the other member is free to move to the opposite side of the pivotal axis of said joint for location within the cut away portion of said one member so that said members can be arranged with their longitudinal end faces facing each other.