Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Means comprising hand manipulatable tool
Patent
1986-09-12
1987-08-04
Watson, Robert C.
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Means comprising hand manipulatable tool
254 11, B25B 2702
Patent
active
046836314
ABSTRACT:
The device for driving tongue and groove flooring panels into a mated or seated position for installation on floor joist has a weighted head including a rear face adapted to impact the outer edge of an elongated seated member resting on the floor joist and abutting an outer edge of the flooring panel to be installed. The head also includes an elongated opening for slidably receiving the upper portion of a floor joist. The head is moved back and forth along a floor joist to impact the seating member and drive the panel into a seated position by an elongated handle extending upwardly and rearwardly at an incline from the head. The handle is long enough to permit a workman to straddle a previously installed panel and the panel being installed while driving the latter panel into a fully seated position. The width of the groove and the head approximates the width or thickness of the floor joist. In one embodiment, the device can be used interchangably with standard wood floor joist and standard steel I-beam floor joist by making the width of the groove approximately the width of a flange on a standard steel I-beam floor joist and providing an insert which can be removably mounted in the groove and includes its own groove having a width approximating the thickness of a standard wood floor joist.
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Buse Glenn A.
Watson Robert C.
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