Adjustable fixture means for maintaining wooden truss members in proper position during fabrication of a truss

Claim 1

Apparatus for prefabricating wooden truss members into a completed Truss, including a platform for supporting wooden truss members and pronged metallic truss plates in position for receiving pressures from a press, said platform being formed of a plurality of elongated slats and the longitudinal edges of adjacent slats being spaced apart, means being removably mounted and fixed at any longitudinal location on a slat, and said means including clamping mechanism clamping the longitudinal edges of a slat to fix said means in any adjusted position on the slat, and said means including mechanism projectable from said means to and from position engaging a wooden truss member to maintain it in proper position on said platform, the projectable mechanism being rotatably mounted, and an operating handle being connected to said projectable mechanism, said platform being movable and said operating handle extends upwardly from said slats when said projectable mechanism is in operative position engaging a truss member, and is in position substantially horizontal with respect to said slats when said projectable means in in inoperative retracted position, and said operating handle when in upstanding position being engagable with said press as the platform travels to move said operating handle into inoperative position substantially horizontal with respect to said slats.