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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2024
Bluescope Buildings North America, Kansas City, MO (US);
Richard Grabmeier, Kansas City, MO (US);
BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc., Kansas City, MO (US);
Abstract
A system for assembling continuous overlapping purlins into position upon a plurality of roof beams without having to remove fasteners securing a first installed purlin into position. The system includes a purlin clip with a lower flange and an upper flange. The second purlin overlapping the first purlin, the first and second purlins each comprising first and second longitudinally disposed ends and at least one keyhole disposed within each longitudinally disposed end. The purlin clip is mounted with fasteners to a roof beam proximate the second end of the first purlin and a primary fastener is passed through the at least one keyhole of the first purlin into the secondary fastener, wherein the primary fastener is not fully received into the secondary fastener and remains available for hanging thereon of the keyhole in the first end of the second purlin.