Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Intersection of wall to floor – ceiling – roof – or another wall – Sustainer coextensive with junction of panels or modules
Patent
1981-10-26
1984-08-28
Friedman, Carl D.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Intersection of wall to floor, ceiling, roof, or another wall
Sustainer coextensive with junction of panels or modules
52489, 52509, 52714, 52741, E04B 100
Patent
active
044675780
ABSTRACT:
Walls and partitions are constructed by securing wallboard panels to a substructure, such as one of conventional metal or other framing members, by a series of concealed fastening clips, some of which are affixed to the framing members by nail or screw fasteners and others of which, while not held to the framing members, help hold adjacent wallboard panels together and in alignment with each other at the panel sides, which are usually in abutting relationship. The fastening clips are made from sheet or strip material and include a base portion having a substructure contacting surface and a panel contacting surface spaced apart by intermediate strengthening walls, a web portion at about a right angle to the base portion and tab means extending from the web portion and suitable for entering the side of the panel to which the clip is to be appended. Preferably, the bases of such clips are substantially rectangular or are shaped like a T and include longitudinal rails or an equivalent part, and a plate portion, with intermediate strengthening walls. In walls or partitions assembled with the aid of such clips, which walls or partitions are disassemblable without harming the wallboard panels, series of such clips are applied alternately to abutting panel sides, with the clips on the wallboard on one side being held to the substructure and the panel side, and the clips on the wallboard on the other side being held to the panel side but not to the substructure.
In a preferred aspect of the invention the basic clip structure is modified to include "latch" or "catch" means on a plurality of clips to be held to one side of a panel board and to the substructure and the other of such catch or latch means on a corresponding plurality of complementary clips to be held to the abutting side of another panel board, with such sets of clips, or mounting means being capable of being fitted together and easily separated, so as to promote ease of removal of individual wallboard panels without the need to remove adjacent panels.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2317428 (1943-04-01), Anderson
patent: 4333286 (1982-06-01), Weinar
Friedman Carl D.
Kramer Raymond F.
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