CONNECTING MEMBER Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: construction engineering. SUBSTANCE: this relates to devices intended for joining construction components and structures made primarily of wood. Connecting member is used for creation of butt joints in construction units primarily made of wood. Connecting member has metal strip with at least one elongated slot and pointed protrusion bent from plane of strip in longitudinal direction of elongated slot. Length of bent protrusion is not larger than thickness of structure. Height of bent protrusion is equal to 6-20 thicknesses of metal strip and is not larger than 15 lengths of maximal cross-sectional dimension of elongated slot. Protrusion is bent off so as to form bending radius at its base which is not larger than double thickness of metal strip. Pointed end of bent protrusion is oriented perpendicularly to metal strip with axial deviation not over 10 deg. Metal strip can be made with additional slots located in parallel to main slot. Axes of at least some of additional slots which are oriented at angle of 45 deg. with respect to longitudinal axis of metal strip or can be parallel to longitudinal axis of metal strip. Aforesaid connecting member affords improved reliability of butt joints in wooden structures and articles and is sufficiently easy to manufacture. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 4 cl, 8 dwg