Metal framing connector

Abstract

The present invention relates to a metal framing connector spanning between support members secured by having web-flange notches engaging the aperture of support members or where adjacent connectors overlap web-flange notches by changing the connector widths or where the connector has added lips with lip notches to engage the support members or where the flange-notches can have a continuous web notch engage the aperture bottom edge or where one end of the connector has a web extension with hook tongue for tongue end to engage a hole receiver in the web of an adjacent connector or where the aperture bottom edge projects and extends into the continuous web notch or where hole notches or hole projections will hold the connector from moving horizontally or vertically within the apertures.

1 . A structural framing system, comprising:
 a longitudinal spacing-bracing member comprising a web lying in a plane, said web having a first side and a second side opposite said first side, a first longitudinal wall connected to said first side of said web and a second longitudinal wall connected to said second side of said web, a first end and a second end;   said web said first longitudinal wall and said second longitudinal wall forming a channel, a first notch connected to an edge of said first longitudinal wall an said second notch connected to an edge of said second longitudinal wall, said first notch and said second notch walls are notched from their point of joinder inwardly into the web and outwardly into the longitudinal walls the notches in the web being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the longitudinal spacing-bracing member extending inwardly into said web forming a continuous web-flange notch comprising a plurality of notches spaced along a longitudinal length of said spacing-bracing member;   a first structural member and a second structural member substantially identical to said first structural member, each said structural member having a web and flanges, each said structural member having an aperture extending through said respective webs, said apertures being defined by a perimeter, whereby said notches at said first end and at said second end are configured to engage a respective one of said perimeters forming a connection among said longitudinal spacing-bracing member, said first structural member and said second structural member with said notches indented from said first end and said second end engaging said apertures in said first structural member and said second structural member.   
     
     
         2 . The structural framing system according to  claim 1  wherein the first said notch and the second said notch form a continuous web notch connection between the said notches in the first longitudinal wall and the second longitudinal wall at said first end and said second end with said continuous web notches engaging the said perimeter of said aperture with said notches indented from said first end and said second end. 
     
     
         3 . The structural framing system according to  claim 2  wherein the first said notch and the second said notch and said web form a continuous folded web notch with said continuous folded web notch having a first fold and a second fold extending for said web with said web forming a continuous bend at said web that engages the aperture bottom edge. 
     
     
         4 . The structural framing system according to  claim 2  wherein said first longitudinal wall and said second longitudinal wall have bends in the longitudinal wall profile to all the top profile of said first longitudinal wall and said second longitudinal wall to bend allowing the highest said longitudinal wall profile to exert pressure against said aperture side wall of said first structural member and said second structural member. 
     
     
         5 . The structural framing system according to  claim 4  wherein the said first longitudinal wall and said second longitudinal wall have an additional longitudinal wall attached to said first longitudinal wall and said second longitudinal wall with said wall having notches indented from the free distal side edges to engage said apertures in said structural members. 
     
     
         6 . The structural framing system according to  claim 5  wherein said additional longitudinal wall with notches engages hole notches in said side edges of said aperture. 
     
     
         7 . The structural framing system according to  claim 1  wherein the longitudinal spacing-bracing member spanning between said first structural member and said second structural member has said first longitudinal wall and said second longitudinal wall engage said aperture having a wide width opening in said aperture and a narrow width wide opening with said longitudinal spacing-bracing member fitting under said narrow width wide opening and against said side opening of said aperture and said bottom edge of said aperture. 
     
     
         8 . The structural framing system according to  claim 7  wherein said first longitudinal wall and second longitudinal wall have said notches at said longitudinal edges for said notches to engage said bottom edge of said narrow width opening of said aperture in said first structural member and said second structural member. notches in flanges engaging protrusions 
     
     
         9 . The structural framing system according to  claim 8  wherein said first longitudinal wall and second longitudinal wall have said notches at said longitudinal edges for said notches having continuous notches into said web with said notches engage the bottom side of said protrusions with said first longitudinal wall and said second longitudinal wall having notches indented from the longitudinal side edges of said first longitudinal wall and said second longitudinal wall engage the edges of said aperture in said first structural member and said second structural member. 
     
     
         10 . The structural framing system according to  claim 5  wherein said first end engages said aperture at said web notches and said longitudinal notches of said first structural member and said second end second end of said longitudinal spacing-bracing member has a smaller width profile to fit into a second longitudinal spacing-bracing member occupied in said second structural member with said first longitudinal spacing-bracing member fitting between said longitudinal walls of said second structural member. 
     
     
         11 . The structural framing system according to  claim 10  wherein said first end engages said aperture at said web notches and said longitudinal first wall and said longitudinal second wall engages the bottom edge of said narrow width opening with said web having an web extension extend over the said second end of an adjacent longitudinal spacing-bracing member with a tab being perpendicular to said web extension for said tab to be received in a slot hole in said web of said first longitudinal spacing-bracing member. 
     
     
         12 . The structural framing system according to  claim 1  wherein said flanges extend at an angle greater than 90 degrees from said web. 
     
     
         13 . The structural framing system according to  claim 1  wherein said longitudinal spacing bracing member has ribs extending through said first side and said second side.