Tying devices for tying wooden members to composite brick and masonry walls

Claim 2

A tying device for tying a wooden plate to an upper surface of a composite wall structure including a plurality of tiers of concrete blocks or the like, and a plurality of tiers of bricks or the like in juxtaposition with the blocks or the like, said tying device comprising an elongate, flat, sheet metal body member having opposite flat faces and an upper end and a lower end, said lower end bent laterally outwardly defining a flat, rectangular, horizontal anchoring foot integral with said body member, and said upper end of said body member split longitudinally in half, defining a pair of oppositely horizontally extending, flat, rectangular tying arms struck from the upper end of the body member and extending perpendicularly in opposite directions from the body member in a plane parallel to the plane of the anchoring foot and terminating in free ends, each of said arms having a width substantially one half the width of the body member and each having a plurality of holes therein for receiving fastening means therethrough and into a plate, one of said arms, when in use, extending horizontally from the body member and beneath a plate and bent upwardly at the free end thereof against one side of the plate, and the other arm, when in use, extending upwardly from the body member and along one side of a plate and bent horizontally at the free end thereof across the top of the plate, to receive fastening means through the holes and into a plate to tie the plate to the wall.

Claim 3

A tying device for tying a wooden plate having top, bottom and side surfaces to the top of a composite brick and concrete block or like masonry unit wall construction, wherein a plurality of tiers of vertically stacked bricks or the like are in juxtaposition with a plurality of tiers of vertically stacked concrete blocks or the like, said tying device comprising an elongate, flat, rectangular, vertically extending body member having upper and lower ends and front and rear faces, said body member positioned between the tiers of bricks or the like and the tiers of concrete blocks or the like with the plane of the body member parallel to the plane of the wall, the lower end of the body member bent horizontally defining a flat, rectangular anchoring foot extending perpendicular to the plane of the wall and positioned between upper and lower adjacent concrete blocks or the like, the upper end of the body member split longitudinally defining a pair of tying arms each having a width one half as great as the width of the body member, and each having a free end, one of said arms extending horizontally from one face of the body member and between the bottom surface of said wooden plate and the top of said tiers of bricks or the like and bent vertically upwardly at the free end thereof against one side surface of the wooden plate, the other of said arms extending upwardly from the body member and against the other side surface of said plate and bent horizontally at the free end thereof across the top surface of said plate, openings in said arms, and fastening means extended through said openings into said plate to tie said plate to said wall.

Claim 4

A tying device for tying a wooden plate having top, bottom and side surfaces to the top of a composite brick and concrete block or like masonry unit wall construction, wherein a plurality of tiers of vertically stacked bricks or the like are in juxtaposition with a plurality of tiers of vertically stacked concrete blocks or the like, said tying device comprising an elongate, flat, rectangular, vertically extending body member having upper and lower ends and front and rear faces, said body member positioned between the tiers of bricks or the like and the tiers of concrete blocks or the like with the plane of the body member parallel to the plane of the wall, the lower end of the body member bent horizontally defining a flat, rectangular anchoring foot extending perpendicular to the plane of the wall and positioned between upper and lower adjacent concrete blocks or the like, the upper end of the body member split longitudinally defining a pair of tying arms each having a width one half as great as the width of the body member, and each having a free end, one of said arms extending horizontally from one face of the body member and between the bottom surface of said wooden plate and the top of said tiers of bricks or the like and bent vertically upwardly at the free end thereof against one side surface of the wooden plate, the other of said arms extending upwardly from the body member and against the other side surface of said plate and bent horizontally at the free end thereof across the top surface of said plate, openings in said arms, and fastening means extended through said openings into said plate to tie said plate to said wall.

Claim 5

A tying device as in claim 2, wherein a substantially U-shaped diagonal brace is connected at its opposite ends to said vertically extending body member intermediate the ends thereof and to said one tying arm at the point where said one tying arm is bent vertically upwardly.

Claim 6

A tying device as in claim 3, wherein said brace comprises an elongate, substantially straight, bight portion and a pair of legs extending substantially perpendicularly from opposite ends of the bight portion, socket means integral with said body member on said one face thereof, one of said legs of said brace received in said socket means, a second socket means integrally formed on said one arm at the point where said one arm is bent and the other leg of said brace received in said second socket.

Claim 7

A tying device as in claim 4, wherein a plurality of downwardly projecting anchoring teeth are stuck from said anchoring foot.

Claim 8

A tying device for tying a wooden plate having top, bottom and side surfaces to the top of a composite brick and concrete block or like masonry unit wall construction, wherein a plurality of tiers of vertically stacked bricks or the like are in juxtaposition with a plurality of tiers of vertically stacked concrete blocks or the like, said tying device comprising an elongate, flat, rectangular, vertically extending body member having upper and lower ends and front and rear faces, said body member positioned in the joint between adjacent confronting ends of a pair of the concrete blocks or the like with the plane of the body member extending substantially perpendicular to the plane of the wall, the lower end of the body member bent horizontally defining a flat, rectangular anchoring foot extending perpendicularly from one of said faces and positioned between adjacent upper and lower concrete blocks or the like, the upper end of the body member split longitudinally defining a pair of tying arms each having a width one half as great as the width of the body member and each having a free end, said arms integrally joined at their other ends to the body member by coplanar, triangular webs extending perpendicularly from the other face of said body member, one of said arms extending horizontally from one side edge of the body member at the upper end of the body member and between the bottom surface of said wooden plate and the top of said tiers of bricks or the like and bent upwardly at the free end thereof against one side surface of the wooden plate, the other of said arms extending upwardly from the other side edge of the body member at the upper end of the body member and against the other side surface of said plate and bent horizontally at the free end thereof across the top surface of said plate, openings in said arms, and fastening means extended through said openings into said plate to tie said plate to said wall.

Claim 9

A tying device for tying a wooden plate having top, bottom and side surfaces to the top of a composite brick and concrete block or like masonry unit wall construction, wherein a plurality of tiers of vertically stacked bricks or the like are in juxtaposition with a plurality of tiers of vertically stacked concrete blocks or the like, said tying device comprising an elongate, flat, rectangular, vertically extending body member having upper and lower ends and front and rear faces, said body member positioned in the joint between adjacent confronting ends of a pair of the concrete blocks or the like with the plane of the body member extending substantially perpendicular to the plane of the wall, the lower end of the body member bent horizontally defining a flat, rectangular anchoring foot extending perpendicularly from one of said faces and positioned between adjacent upper and lower concrete blocks or the like, the upper end of the body member split longitudinally defining a pair of tying arms each having a width one half as great as the width of the body member and each having a free end, said arms integrally joined at their other ends to the body member by coplanar, triangular webs extending perpendicularly from the other face of said body member, one of said arms extending horizontally from one side edge of the body member at the upper end of the body member and between the bottom surface of said wooden plate and the top of said tiers of bricks or the like and bent upwardly at the free end thereof against one side surface of the wooden plate, the other of said arms extending upwardly from the other side edge of the body member at the upper end of the body member and against the other side surface of said plate and bent horizontally at the free end thereof across the top surface of said plate, openings in said arms, and fastening means extended through said openings into said plate to tie said plate to said wall.

Claim 10

A tying device as in claim 6, wherein said plate has a width at its bottom surface greater than the horizontal length of said one tying arm and the other side surface of said plate is angularly inclined toward the one side surface, said plate extending over said webs and said other tying arm extending angularly upwardly against said inclined side surface of said plate.