Abstract: A bracket assembly, for use in spacing apart the inner and outer membranes of a cavity wall or roof construction, consists of a support member attached to an inner lining membrane and having a C-shaped cross-section and a bracket element formed from a trapezoidal shaped metal plate. The bracket element has the longer parallel side bent through 90.degree. for attachment through the outer membrane to a building structural member. Two inwardly directed slots are formed parallel to the opposite side to form a T-shaped head to the bracket for engagement with the C-section member through a twisting and locking action.

Abstract: The securing element (16) for tensionally fastening additions like roof balustrades (14), exterior stairways (15), roofs (11), arbors, greenhouses (13), pergolas (12), advertising elements, poster walls, etc. that function as extensions or expansions, to structures, especially single-story structures erected with with a kit of components. The securing element (16) extends over the total length of one side of the main structure (10) and has at least one fastening rail (22 or 23) that extends over its own total length.

Abstract: One common type of masonry wall is called a cavity wall which is composed of two wythes. This invention relates to a system for structurally connecting the two wythes together by the use of a mortise and tenon arrangement and for a particular type of connector having a flared tenon end and another end adapted for placement in the mortar joint of a wythe.

Abstract: A novel anchor system is provided for connecting backup studs and backup wall systems to veneers such as brick work and the like. The novel anchor system includes an elongated anchor channel for affixation to a backup stud. This arrangement stiffens the combined stud and channel against bending. An anchor tie, connected to the channel, extends for connection to the veneer. When assembled, the stud, the elongate channel, the anchor tie, and the veneer together have a resistance to wind loads and bending which exceeds the sum of the parts.

Abstract: Two panels respectively of concrete and insulating material form a prefabricated wall and are maintained in relatively spaced relation so as to form an air gap by means of coupling anchors. Each anchor head which is remote from the end to be embedded in the concrete panel is provided with notches for resilient engagement of the fastening flanges of a U-section retaining member mounted astride a row of anchor heads. The coupling anchors are disposed in planes at right angles to the axis of the retaining member.

Abstract: An anchor for tying between a sequentially layered veneer and a backup system. The anchor comprises a channel with a slotted web for accepting an anchoring means and apertured flanges pivotally receiving a formed wire tie. The anchor is adjustable translationally and pivotally as a unit. By locating the apertures in the flanges off center of the length of the elongate slot, pivoting of the channel 180.degree. expands the vertical adjusting capability of the tie which is captured fixedly between successive layers.

Abstract: An overhead anchoring track with a C-shaped channel and a row of outwardly protruding eye sockets in the web portion of the channel shape, the eye sockets having conical portions and adjoining neck portions which engage the threaded shaft portions of countersunk head anchoring screws, the anchoring screws having their heads supported in the conical portions of the eye sockets, on the inner side of the web portion, while being axially retained either by a female thread in the neck portions or by neck portions which are radially pinched against the screw shafts. At least one additional member is threadable onto the distal extremity of each anchoring screw, for the purpose of anchoring and/or positioning the anchoring track in relation to the concrete member.

Abstract: An anchoring track designed to be embedded in the surface of a structural member of concrete, the track having a C-shaped profile and a styrofoam filler body filling out the interior of the track to prevent the penetration of mortar into the track, the filler body being removable from the embedded track by means of a tear strip which is arranged between the back side of the filler body and the base wall of the anchoring track, in alignment with the slot of the anchoring track. The tear strip, when pulled through the slot of the track, tears out a central profile portion from the filler body to permit easy removal of the profile portions of the filler body remaining underneath the flange portions of the anchoring track.

Abstract: In an attachment device, comprising a channel member and an insert member, for securing an elastic membrane within the channel member via the insert member, one of the insert and channel members being capable of deformation to permit the insertion of the insert member, together with adjacent portions of the elastic membrane, into the channel member, the improvement, taking the form of a locking device, insertable into the channel member to prohibit the subsequent removal of the elastic membrane by elastic deformation of one of the channel and insert members.

Abstract: An apparatus for setting tiles on the surface of plaster comprises a plurality of vertical bars joined at regular intervals by a plurality of horizontal bars that serve as rests for the tiles. Each horizontal bar is held in place by a pair of horizontal bar holders mounted on the adjacent vertical bars.

Abstract: Disclosed are fastener assemblies in which the fastener is captivated in a channel member and is removable through the opening between inturned flange edges of the channel member. Embodiments of a nut retainer assembly and a bolt retainer assembly are disclosed as is an embodiment of a complementary clamping system utilizing a nut retainer assembly and a bolt retainer assembly. In order to facilitate insertion of a fastener through the opening between inturned flange edges of the channel member, at least one of the flats of the base of the fastener includes an inclined portion. Further, in order to facilitate removal of a captivated fastener, at least one of the flats of the base of the fastener includes a cut-out or recessed portion which with the inturned flange edge forms a slot suitable for receiving the tip of a screwdriver.

Abstract: A screen structure which includes a number of interspaced carrier members and at least one long screen member having a base flange which is adapted to be mounted in a holding track through a tilting insertion motion. At least one edge portion of the base flange and a remaining space is left behind the edge portion and the respective holding track. Profiled filler members are endwise insertable into at least a partial length of the remaining space for stabilizing the base flange relative to the carrier member. At least one end of each filler member has a longitudinally projecting end portion forming a resiliently bendable finger of a reduced cross section such that, during an insertion, the finger is bendable away from an adjacent wall portion of the carrier member. The outer end portion of the finger is provided with a lateral protrusion which is adapted to snap outwardly behind an end or recess edge thereof by the end of the insertion.

Abstract: Device for laying and stretching covering sheets over surfaces to be protected, the device comprising a first channel element, having a bottom and lateral walls, a second channel element having a bottom and lateral walls, smaller in depth than those of the former; first fastening means for securing one of said channel elements with its bottom facing towards the surface to be covered. Second fastening means being also provided in order to secure the other of said channel elements in position over the first one and with its lateral edges facing towards the bottom of the first channel element securing and tensioning the covering sheets interposed between the aforementioned channel elements.

Abstract: A solar collector assembly is provided comprising an absorber means adapted to transfer heat to a fluid, a solar energy transmitting cover member, a housing adapted to receive said cover member and to contain said absorber means, said housing having a bottom wall and a plurality of foot sections adapted to receive an after-defined elastomeric body, and an elastomeric body fastened to said foot sections, said elastomeric body having an articulated slot adapted to slideably receive an insert adapted to engage fastener means associated with a mounting bracket to movably secure said housing to said bracket.

Abstract: An anchorage for attachment of ties to walls, floors and ceilings of various kinds, e.g. for attachment of a facing to a concrete wall, consists of a tubular aluminum section (1) having a longitudinal slot for introduction of one end (6) of the tie (5). The slot of the section is provided with edge portions (4) which are curved outwardly so that their end portions extend about tangentially with respect to the cross section of the section. At the opposite side of the slot the section is provided with attachment flanges (2).The tie (5) consists of a cold-drawn stainless steel wire which at one end is looped to an eye (6), the free end (14) of which being bent transversally and extending some distance outwardly in order to prevent twisting of the tie in the anchorage section. The other end is provided with a transverse portion for securing in mortar or for cooperation with a safeguarding plate (12).

Abstract: An insert is disclosed for insertion into a U-shaped channel member for supporting hangers carrying cables, pipes, conduits and the like. The U-channel is a structural support element which is secured to a suitable substrate or, more commonly, embedded in concrete walls. The insert includes a main body portion of greater length than width having a threaded bore therethrough for insertion of a bolt therein, the bolt holding the support member in place. The insert also includes integral resilient legs extending from the rear wall of the insert and contacting the rear wall of the channel member, the legs biasing the insert forwardly against the side walls of the channel member.

Abstract: An insulated vehicle body, such as a refrigerated truck or trailer, has load carrying reinforcement beams in the roof structure with bottom slots accessible through openings in the ceiling skin to receive removable hangers that may be used to suspend meat rails or other articles from the roof structure.

Abstract: A fastener for securing parts to metal framing such as channel framing having side flanges with inwardly, hook-shaped lips defining a slot therebetween. The fastener comprises an elongate body or nut having inside and outside faces, opposite sides and opposite ends, a width less than that of the slot and a length greater than that of the slot. The fastener also includes a clamp member secured to the nut for clamping the nut on the channel. The clamp member has a crosshead which is spaced outwardly from the outside face of the nut and which is longer than the width of the slot.

Abstract: A free-standing, prefabricated, knock down, readily assembled and disassembled, relocatable vertical wall or space divider. Such wall dividers are useful for partitioning buildings and/or office complexes. The wall is made up of a plurality of individualized and decorative flush panel units which are interchangeable and which are adapted to be readily inserted within quadrilateral openings delineated by a novel wall frame and locked into place by hidden spline members that are mounted in the wall frame for translatory movement. The wall frame is fabricated in a novel assemblage of unique components which can present either a metallic or wooden exterior finish surface. The configuration of the wall frame components provides for lateral walls to extend outwardly not only at modular locations but also from any other desired location by use of novel adapters. The panels may be removed, redecorated and replaced as needed. Shelving or other appurtenances are attachable to the hidden spline members.

Abstract: An attachment for attaching a precast concrete wall panel to a building in a manner which permits vertical movement of that wall panel relative to building structural elements. In one embodiment, the attachment includes inserts embedded in the wall panel near the top and bottom edges of the upright wall panel, a tongue element connecting the top inserts to a building beam, or the like, and a clamp attached to the bottom inserts to connect those inserts to a building foundation. The inserts have slots defined therein in which portions of the tongue and clamp are located to permit the wall panel and building to move vertically with respect to each other.

Abstract: An improved slotted channel device for anchoring of bolted metal framing systems to concrete walls, ceilings or forms, which device is shaped to provide a front half section having parallel sides with inturned lips adapted to receive a rectangular locking nut which engages the parallel sides and is restricted from turning and a rear half section having sides which flare outwardly in the form of a wedge and serve as an anchor when the device is embedded in concrete.

Abstract: The device comprises, for anchoring each T-shaped fixing bolt in a concrete element, a passageway opening onto an outer face of the element and extended by a cavity which allows rotation of the head of the bolt through 90.degree.. A longitudinal reinforcement which is parallel to the outer face is located at a short distance from the outer face and near to the inner end of the passageways. The reinforcement has in the region of each passageway an opening for the passage of the head of the fixing bolt when this head extends in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the reinforcement. Two retaining surfaces adjoining the opening retain the head of the bolt when it is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the reinforcement.

Abstract: Building frame elongate structural elements are provided having at least cavity which in transverse cross section has a mouth permitting access to said cavity, defined by a pair of opposed flanges which have first portions extending toward each other across the mouth and second portions extending inwardly of the cavity from said first portions and terminating at free edges so as to leave to each side of the mouth an undercut space which is behind the first portion and laterally outside the second portion, the said second portions of the flanges being deformable. Fixing members for combining said structural elements are also provided. The fixing members and structural elements are useful in making building frames from a plurality of the structural elements.

Abstract: An insert assembly adapted to be imbedded within a concrete beam structure with portions exposed at a surface of the beam structure so as to allow equipment such as piping, conduit, cable supports and the like to be attached to the insert assembly and, thus, supported by the beam structure. The insert assembly includes a generally U-shaped channel section to which the aforementioned equipment may be secured, a plurality of pairs of anchor members attached to and extending upwardly from the channel section, and a plurality of spring members attached to and between the pairs of anchor members. In the construction of a concrete beam structure, the insert assembly is placed within and against the formwork for the concrete beam structure and an elongated reinforcing member such as a cable or rod is placed across the spring members. The reinforcing member is then placed under tension, causing the spring members to deflect downwardly whereby forces are directed downwardly toward the channel section and the formwork.

Abstract: Disclosed is a track assembly, particularly adapted for embedding in a structural component, comprising a track member having a rear wall with at least one attachment aperture therein and a back surface adapted for abuttng against the structural component, at least one anchor lug extending from the back surface, the anchor lug having an extension which passes through the attachment aperture in the rear wall of the track member, the anchor lug being secured to the track member by a swaged deformation of the extension on at least one side of the rear wall.

Abstract: A modular ceiling system utilizing a plurality of stringers interlocked with one another to provide a high strength, non-warping suspended ceiling grid assembly. The T-shaped stringer employed in the grid assembly has a channel-shaped T-head designed to support acoustical ceiling tiles flush with the lower edge of the stringers. The main stringers are arranged parallel to one another and interlocked to secondary stringers to provide a grid of four sided cells. Part of the secondary stringers have the same length as one side of a single cell and others are of double that length. The double length secondary stringers are constructed to have a snug snap-lock joint with the main stringers whereas the single length secondary stringers have a snug, non-locking fit between the mid-portions of the double length stringers.

Abstract: A channel member having its flanges extending at an acute angle to the web and having inturned margins on the free edges of the flanges is imbedded in plastic concrete in approximately the position of a threshold plate or other structure to be mounted, the set concrete retaining the mounting channel in fixed position by the dovetailed relation of the flanges in the concrete with the open top of the mounting channel substantially flush with the concrete to also serve as a screed guide for the plastic concrete; a plurality of spanner bars of channel shape and of a length greater than the spacing of the flanges of the mounting channel are provided with slots which extend the full distance between the free edges of the inturned margins with a square lock nut such as the type having a nylon strip in a keyway is slidably positioned in each spanner bar channel and a flat head or oval head mounting screw for the threshold extends through corresponding countersunk apertures in the threshold and threaded into the squar

Abstract: Coupling structure for artificial stone parts such as concrete plates etc., have an anchoring member partially embedded in the stone with a head projecting therefrom and releasably inserted in a coupling member of C-shaped cross-section e.g. for suspension but permitting limited turning on an axis longitudinal to the C-groove of the coupling member, so that lateral forces are reacted into the anchoring member. Additional features include support flanges on the anchoring member; bent off portions of the anchoring member with additional members; wire loops for improving anchoring; and special bayonet-like insertion and locking of the head in a particular type coupling member.

Abstract: A reglet channel having an unimpaired apron depending from the outer edge of its upper flange down to the level of the outer edge of its lower flange to protect the sealing compound in the interior of the channel from the deleterious effects of rain and sunlight, i.e., softening, seepage, drying-out and shrinkage. For ease in manufacture by extrusion processes, the lower marginal portion of the apron may be integral with the lower flange of the channel and may be provided with a single groove in its outer surface extending parallel and adjacent to the outer edge of the lower flange. After installation in a wall the reglet channel may be slit open along this groove to provide access to its interior for engagement of the retaining lip of the flashing. The apron, if unimpaired, provides the additional advantage of holding the installed flashing in position without the need for retaining wedges.

Abstract: A thin semi-rigid preformed elongate strip for disposition at the junctions of adjacent drywall wallboards or between sections of a plaster wall to absorb movement within a wall without detrimental effects therefrom, having two outwardly directed opposed flanges arranged for affixation to the wallboard or the lath outer face along adjacent edges, an adjoining central flexible bent portion arranged to be disposed below the general surface plane of the wall between adjacent edges of boards or sections thereof, and adjoined along its lateral edges to the two flanges, and an upwardly extending screed formed in each flange. In the preferred form, a flat strip extends across the central portion on the face of the strip. This may be of different material and more flexible, and may be formed for rapid removal after completion of the wall construction.

Abstract: An anchoring system for mobile homes, trailers and similar vehicles in which a rod structure extending over the top of the vehicle is anchored on opposite sides of the vehicle and a resilient means is incorporated in the rod structure for maintaining tension on the rod structure to maintain the rod structure firmly in effective operating condition. A strap structure extending over the vehicle is anchored on opposite sides and beneath the vehicle, by anchoring devices held by a channel iron in runners or other supporting surfaces for the vehicle. Straps may also be connected to the frame and the anchoring device so that the vehicle is anchored over the top and at the frame by a dual type system.

Abstract: An underground station is provided with an access cover assembly including a frame extending about an access opening and a cover hingedly attached to said frame. A support member is attached to said frame and extends about the periphery of the access opening. Attaching members are slidably mounted to said support member so that they may be positioned to any desired location about the periphery of the access opening. Fastening means are provided for fixing said attaching members at desired locations about the support member and for fastening station accessories to the attaching member so that the accessories may be mounted in preferred locations in a particular station.