Wooden truss fabricating jig

Claim 1

An assembly jig for fabricating wooden trusses having a moving platform on which components are assembled with toothed gusset plates on each side of the joints of the wooden members, and then the assembled truss is moved by the platform so as to be passed through means to embed the plates in the trusses, the improvement of: a. a first and second pressure roll station spacedly arranged adjacent one end of the platform, each said roll station having a small diameter upper pressure roll juxtaposed above the top surface of the platform and each having a lower pressure means below the platform aligned with said upper pressure roll providing pressure back for the upper roll; b. slide plate means mounted between said first and second upper pressure roll with its lower surface approximately on a tangent line between the lowermost surfaces of said roll, and closely adjacent the tangent line of a vertical line through the first upper roll's axis, arranged to prevent metal, toothed gusset plates on assembled trusses passing through the first pressure station from curling, and; c. a third pressure roll station having a lower roll and a juxaposed upper roll, spaced from and adjacent said one end of the platform in position to receive a truss issued from said first and second pressure roll stations and complete the embedding of the toothed gusset plates into a truss.