Clip for steel building construction, & c.

(Application filed Mar. 17, 1900.) (No Model.)

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THE NOFiRlS PETERS CO.. PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

United States Patent Office.

HERBERT A. STREETER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLIP FOR STEEL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION;, 84,0.

SPECIFICATION· forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,274, dated August 21, 1900.

Application filed March 17, 1900. Serial No. 9,021. (No model,)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Herbert A. Streeter, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illi5 nois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clips for Steel Building Construction and other Steel Framework, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in io construction of iron or steel buildings or structures wherein the roofs, floors, or ceilings are formed of or supported by iron or steel beams or bars crossing each other, and more particularly to improvements in the 15 metal clips heretofore patented to me in Letters Patent of the United States No. 459,051, of September 8,1891, and No. 555,981, of March 10, 1896, by which the crossing beams or bars are firmly spaced and secured together and 20 supported or suspended one from another.

The object of my present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of said clips and increase their efficiency and strength, and at the same time enable them 25 to be made without waste of metal.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the clips. 30 Fig. 3 is a detail view of the double-eye clip employed where the ends of two bars meet, and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 illustrate the application of the invention to different shapes of beams.

In the drawings, A and B represent two 35 iron or steel beams of a building or other structure crossing each other, the same being of any suitable or customary form—as, for example, I-beams, T-beams, angle-beams, channel-beams, or other desired shape in 40 cross-section and one supported on or suspended from the other. As illustrated in the drawings, some of the beams or bars are represented as being suspended from the beam A.

D is a metal strap-clip made of strap or 45 band metal—that is to say, iron or steel rolled into narrow strips. The clip D has a fold or folds d d at each end, embracing the edges or flanges of one of the two beams—for example, the beam A. The clip D is further provided 50 with flanges d'd⁴, through which an eye or opening d² is punched or formed to receive and support the crossing beam or bar B and through which said beam or bar may be slipped. As shown in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, the two flanges d' and d⁴ are closely adjacent to 55 each other and folded flat together.

At points where the ends of two beams or bars B B meet I prefer to slit the ends of the strap-clip D and form the flanges d'd⁴ at a distance apart, so that the meeting end of one 60 bar B may rest in the eye d² of one flange d', while the end of the other beam may rest in the eye d² of the other flange d⁴. In this construction the folds d d, which are folded about and embrace the beam A, are not the full 65 width of the steel strap-clip.

As my improved clip is formed of comparatively narrow strips of rolled steel and the bends or folds therein are all formed across the length of the strip—that is to say, across 70 the fiber of the metal—it possesses great strength for the weight of metal employed therein, and this construction overcomes the weaknesses or imperfections in steel clips resulting from bending lips or folds thereon in 75 the direction of the fiber of metal.

My invention may be applied to and used in connection with beams or bars of any suitable or desired shape in cross-section, as will be readily understood from the drawings, in 80 which I have illustrated it as applied to beams or bars of a few different shapes.

In Fig. 6 the flange d’ is shown as being made in a separate piece. In this construction it is secured to the clip by any suitable 85 means—for example, by rivets d^s.