US1253216A - Metal furring-strip. - Google Patents

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E. K. DAY.

METAL FURRING STRIP. APPLICATION HLED MAY 3, I915.

1 25mm, Patented Jan. 15,1918.

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EDGAR x. DAY, or wHEELmo, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSTGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

T WHITAKER-GLESSNER COMPANY, or WHEELING, wns'r VIRGINIA, a coaroaa- TION' OF WEST VIRGINIA.

Application filed May 3, 1915.

ITO all whom it may concern.

Be it known that ll, EDGAR K. DAY, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Wheeling, county of Ohio, and

State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal Furring-Strips, of which the following is a specification.

V This invention relates broadly to furring strips, and specifically to a metal furring strip designed particularly for supporting metal ceilings and the like.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a furring strip of metal to which metal plates or the like may be attached by means of nails.

A further object is to provide a metallic furring strip adapted for attachment to joists, beams, or similar surfaces to support sheathing, metal plates, or the like, which strip is designed to receive and hold the nails employed in attaching such sheathing or plates.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in the features of construction which will hereinafter be fully described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is. an outer face view of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the invention, showing a plate attached thereto;

Fig. A is an end elevation; and

Figs. 5 and 6 are elevations showin modified forms of the structure.

The invention, in its preferred embodiment, is composed of a single piece or strip of sheet metal, and comprises, essentially, a flat base portion A adapted for attachment to ceiling joists, studding, beams, and the like, a head portion B disposed substantially parallel to and at a suitable distance from said base, and an intervening connecting web 0 of double thickness.

The'base A is constituted by the two opposite lateral edges 1 of the strip of which the device is composed, said edges being disposed in a common plane at substantially right angles to the adjacent portions 2 which together constitute the web C; Said portions 2 of the web C are secured together at suitable intervals throughout their length, as

by rivets 3, forming a web which possesses Specification of Letters Patent.

METAL EUBRING-STRIP.

Patented Jan. 115, 191%.

Serial No. 25.342.

considerable strength or rigidity. Said web-portions are bent outward at a point adjacent to their upper ends to form divergently inclined leg portions 4: which terminate at points in a common plane parallel to the base A and constitute supports for the head '13. Said head consists of oppositely disposed members 5 formed by directing the metal from the terminal points of the leg portions 4 outward parallel to the base A and thence returning said metal to form a panel 6 which closely overlies said members 5, said panel occupying a position midway between the lateral edges of the strip of which the device is formed. Said panel preferably has its central portion pressed inward to form a longitudinally extending V-shaped trough the sides 7 of which closely engage the inclined leg portions A. This trough may be continuous throughout the length of the strip, as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, or it may be interrupted at intervals by the provision of a raised bead 8, as shown in Fig. 5, which bead may have a perforation 9 therein for the reception of a nail.

In the modification shown in Fig. 6 the furring strip is composed of three pieces, two of which comprise oppositely disposed base flanges 1, web members 2, leg portions 4: and underlying head members 5. The third piece consists of a panel 6 which rests upon said head members 5 and has its opposite lateral edges disposed in clenched relation to the edges of said head members.

The web 0 is preferably corrugated or otherwise ribbed in a longitudinal direction, as shown, the purpose being to provide its members 2 with irregular coinciding faces which will more readily grip an interposed nail.

In practice, the flanges 1 of the base A are suitably attached, as by nails 9, to the joists or other surface, as 10, Fig. 3. Then sheathing or plates are applied upon the heads B, securing nails 12 being so directed that they will enter between the web members 2, as shown in Fig. 3.

What is claimed is 1'. A furring strip formed of sheet metal bent to form a base and a web, said web being formed of a pair of substantially parallel parts each of which latter is flared outwardly and then extended to lie parallel to LOO i the base and doubled upon itself and at its central portion being conformably engaged with said flared parts to form a trough the converging walls of which are of double contacting thicknesses of metal and the base of which is of single thickness of metal and is disposed closely adjacent the. u ip of the web so as to receive support r latter.

2. A furring strip formed of sheet-metal bent to form a base and a web, said web being formed of a pair of substantially parallel parts each of which is flared outwardly and then extended to lie parallel to the base er end om the and doubled upon itself and at its central portion being conformably engaged with saidflared parts to form a trough the converging walls of which are of double contacting thicknesses of metal and the base of which is of single thickness.

vIn testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

v EDGAR K. DAY. Witnesses H. E. DUNLor, W. G. Ronenns.

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