Single-thickness seat hanger

Claim 1

A hanger adapted for attachment to a support and adapted for receiving a wood joist and being constructed from a single flat sheet of bendable material; said sheet being divided into areas constituting a back, a pair of sides, a seat and a connecting area connecting said sides and said seat; the improvement comprising: a. said seat being formed from a single thickness of said material by folding said material along a line dividing said back from said seat; b. said connecting area being folded to form a substantially right angle between said sides and said base, and all folded areas occurring at the sides of said hanger; c. each connecting area is cut at an angle to said sides with a pair of tabs formed in said connecting area haVing their bend lines coextensive with said angle and being positioned at the sides and folded to frictionally engage the folded portions of said connecting areas; d. each of said sides being formed with an opening spaced above said seat adapted for receiving a fastener adapted to join said sides to said joist to prevent unfolding of said folded connecting area; e. said material being folded and positioned so that the distance between the bottom of the joist and the bottom of the hanger constitutes no more than a single thickness of said material; and; f. said sides being folded 90 degrees to said back along fold lines wherein the seat and adjacent side portions are formed by folding each of the connecting areas as follows; 1. starting at a first point below and substantially in alignment with said side fold lines and extending along a line outwardly to the outer edge of said side, fold the portion below said line 180* upwardly; 2. starting at said first point and extending diagonally downwardly along a line substantially coincident with a line forming the upper edge of said tab, fold the area below said line 180* downwardly along said line; and 3. along a line coincident to the edge formed by said angular cut, bend said tab downwardly 180* .