Abstract: A wood-to-pipe connection in which a single sheet metal connector and a single threaded straight bolt are used to connect a wood frame member to an elongated pipe member. The elongated pipe member could be a metal conduit, standard pipe member or even a solid circular wood pole member. The wood-to-pipe connection is especially useful in attaching wood fencing to metal pipe used for fence posts. The sheet metal connector may be field bent by hand so that the same sheet metal connector may be used in connecting fence rails at mid-rail connections, butt joints, outside corners, inside corners and sloping fences.

Abstract: A rim tie connection for building structures including a wood post member, first and second wood rim members and a sheet metal connector. One specialized use of the rim tie connection is in constructing the floor support framing in gazebo structures. In such structures the wood post member is generally in a vertical position and the wood rim members are in a generally horizontal position. The sheet metal connector ties the ends of the wood rim members together and to the wood post member. The sheet metal connector includes a seat member, for holding the wood rim members and a back member for attachment to the front face of the wood post member. Floor boards attached to and supported by the wood rim members need not be notched to fit around the post member as in prior practice.

Abstract: A rigid intersection connection including three intersecting elongated wood structural members and a rigid connector made from a single sheet metal blank which requires no welding.The rigid connector includes a pair of angular members joined in angular relationship and joined at a common outer edge.The rigid connector more specifically includes structure for engaging two sides of one of the elongated wood structural members and three sides of two of the elongated wood structural members.The disclosure includes a log holder, a table, a bunk bed, and a greenhouse or garden structure as examples of structures which can be readily constructed from the rigid intersection connections.

Abstract: A multiple truss connection in which one or two trusses, such as a right hip truss and a jack truss, or a left hip truss and a jack truss, or two hip trusses are connected to a supporting girder by means of a sheet metal hanger. The sheet metal hanger is constructed from a single sheet metal blank in which no welding is required. The sheet metal hanger includes a seat member, first and second backwall members which are connected to the supporting girder and first and second side members connected to the supported trusses. A flange member integrally connected to the seat provides further connection when a jack truss is supported. The identical sheet metal hanger can also be used in a multiple framing member connection in which the wood members are standard lumber rather than trusses.

Abstract: A holdown connection including a single element holdown connector formed from a single metal sheet member requiring no welding for connecting a wood stud member to an anchoring means such as a concrete foundation or another structural member. Three sides of the connector are joined at 90.degree. to each other along a rigid corner bend line. A holding seat member overlaps with a held seat member so that a held edge of the held seat member is in close engagement with a substantial portion of the length of the rigid bend line of the holding seat member. Bending slots formed in the back and side members are limited in length.

Abstract: A wood rafter to wood corner plate connection in either a gazebo or a building roof having a hip roof. A single element sheet metal connector is provided having a base member connected to the corner plate, wing members connected to and tying the corner plates together, and a seat member bendably connected to the base for attaching a rafter at varying angles from 0.degree. to 90.degree..

Abstract: A gazebo top connection which includes a gazebo top connector formed from a single sheet metal piece, the upper ends of a plurality of wood rafters and fasteners joining the gazebo top connector and the wood rafters. The gazebo top connector is formed with arms which are field bendable to accommodate rafters at infinite pitches over a wide range of roof pitches. A compression ring formed in the gazebo top connector provides a connection which gives strength to the connection.

Abstract: A connector for securing a wood railing to a wood post by fasteners which are in shear in relaton to all forces imposed upon the railing. The connector is a single piece sheet metal member formed in a generally triangular cross section with openings provided for the insertion of the fasteners. The connector is placed on the underside of the railing to eliminate all top nailing or driving of screws through the top side of the rail.

Abstract: An upright connection including a rigid one-piece connector for joining an upright supported member to a support structure having a support surface and an angularly related edge surface. The connector includes an elongated rigid back member which is connected to the angularly related edge surface of the support structure and in combination with side members, encapsulates the upright supported member. Fasteners inserted through openings in flange members connected to the side members attach the connector to the support surface, and fasteners inserted through openings in the side members attach the upright supported member to the connector. The connection is used primarily in connecting guard rail posts to a wood deck structure.

Abstract: A holdown strap connection including an elongated sheet metal holdown strap for joining a generally vertical wood frame member such as a post or stud to a concrete foundation without the use of threaded anchor bolts washers and threaded nuts. The elongated sheet metal holdown strap includes a foot section embedded in the concrete, a transition section connected to the foot section which extends above the foundation past the outside edge of the wood mudsill and along a portion of the edge of the wood frame member and an elongated strap section connected to the transition section and extends in registration with the side face of the vertical wood frame member.

Abstract: A bearing connection in a building structure for distributing downward gravity bearing loads through fasteners driven through sheet metal connectors and into a load carrying wood structural member such as a floor joist, a roof rafter or a wood truss member, through a pair of sheet metal connectors and into a wood plate member via fasteners driven through the connectors and into the plate member. Seismic, hurricane or other upward forces are also resisted by the same connectors and fasteners. Relative movement between the load carrying structural member and the plate member is also resisted in a generally horizontal direction transverse as well as parallel to the plate member.

Abstract: A connection in a wood frame building wherein a one piece sheet metal hanger connector is used to join together a wood supporting member, and one or two wood supported members. The connector is connected to the supporting member by a top flange and the supported members are joined to the connector as well as to the supporting member by fasteners driven through openings in flanges of the connector, through the supporting member, through the back wall of the connector and into the supporting member. The arrangement places the fasteners in double shear resulting in unusually large load holding capability for the size and weight of the sheet metal connector. The connector seat is fully supported at the sides and back resulting in high load holding capacity both downwardly and upwardly with unusual rigidity and resistance to lateral forces.

Abstract: A light wood truss connection in which a hip truss and a jack truss are joined to a wood supporting girder by means of a sheet metal connector which includes first second and third side wall members and first and second back wall members. A single seat supports the hip truss while the jack truss is supported by fasteners only inserted through the third side wall member. Support for the jack truss is also by fasteners in double shear.

Abstract: An attachment system, method and connector connection for constructing a structure having supporting members and supported members as most commonly found in house and patio wood decks, board walks, stair systems, wood benches and trellis systems. The structures using the present disclosures are characterized by the apparent absence of nails or other fasteners. In fact, however, the structures are securely fastened by nails or screw fasteners in combination with a unique connector which uniquely is not directly connected to the supporting members.In some forms of the invention, locator prongs are provided on the connector for assisting the installer to attach the connector to the supporting board member. In its broadest form, however, no prongs are needed on the connector.In a preferred form of the connector, a projection is formed in the connector which bears against the underside of an adjacent structure even though the connector is not precisely installed.

Abstract: A metal integral elevated post base for elevating the base of a wood post above a concrete base in which the post base is embedded. The post base includes a metal foot member embedded in the concrete base, a pair of metal post members integrally connected to the foot member partially embedded in and extending above the concrete base, and a pair of seat members integrally connected to the post members for supporting the wood post. Side members integrally connected to the seat members attach to the sides of the wood post. The post base is formed in two halves from a sheet metal blank and is configured as opposite halves and folded to form a single post and seat. Parts of the post base could be welded, but the preferred form is not welded.

Abstract: A building frame connection including a metal connector for attaching plated wood trusses to wood top plates or mudsills in building structures consisting of a single member constructed from sheet metal including a base member for slidably receiving the bottom edge of the truss, a sail member formed with slotted nail openings and positioned in face to face registration with the side face of the truss, a pair of stabilizer members connected to the sail member, a pair of holding members connected by nails to the stabilizer members and affixed to the wood top plates or mudsills and nails inserted through the slots in the sail member and into the truss member enabling substantial horizontal relative movement of the truss with respect to the top plate but preventing uplift of the truss relative to the top plate. In a preferred form of the invention, projections protrude from the front face of the sail member preventing seating of the nail heads against the front face of the sail member.

Abstract: A timber and concrete connection which includes a steel connector formed with stirrup members embedded in the concrete and which extend above the concrete for fastening to the timber member. The timber member rests on a standoff member which holds the base of the timber member a specified distance above the concrete; usually one inch. The standoff member is constructed from a single sheet of metal and in one form of the invention is releasably connected to the stirrup members. In another form of the invention, the standoff member is restrained from horizontal movement in all directions by the stirrup members, and in still another form of the invention the standoff member may simply be placed between the stirrup members and either welded to the stirrup members or not.

Abstract: A multiple wood truss connection in which from two to three hip and jack trusses may be supported by a single sheet metal connector at two locations and connected to a carrying girder. Each carried truss is supported on a common seat and individually supported by nailing to sidewalls and tab members. The sheet metal connector is bolted and nailed to a vertical king post member on the carrying girder. The sheet metal connector is formed with overlapping back members which enable the connector to carry very large loads and to be connected to relatively narrow king posts. No welding of the sheet metal connector is required or desired.

Abstract: A snugging connection and method for moving a movable structural member into closer contact with a stationary structural member in which a connector for joining the two structural members is formed with a snugging member which is activated by driving a fastener through an elongated opening in the connector; snagging an end of the snugging member; causing the snugging member to pivotally rotate and move the connector in a direction generally in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the elongated opening. The two structural members are thus brought closer to each other and may cause the connector to be in tension.

Abstract: A multiple wood truss connection in which from three to five hip and jack trusses may be supported by a single sheet metal connector at from two to three location and connected to a carrying girder. Each carried truss is supported on a common seat and individually supported by nailing to sidwalls and tab members. The sheet metal connector is bolted and nailed to a vertical king post member on the carrying girder. The sheet metal connector is formed with overlapping back members which enable the connector to carry very large loads and to be connected to relatively narrow king posts. No welding of the sheet metal connector is required or desired.