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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1976
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1973
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lee Charles Farrington, Auckland, NZ;
Edgar Edward Dagley, Auckland, NZ;
Assignee:
Automated Building Components, Inc., Auckland, NZ;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29526 ; 29429 ; 227113 ; 227152 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for end jointing timber members such as floor or ceiling joists by means of spiked timber connector plates, using apparatus incorporating equipment to position and hold the timber and automatically feed connector plates from cassettes or magazines holding a supply of connector plates onto magnetized pressing platens which then rotate to position the connector plates to span the joint to be made before passing the spikes into the relevant timber members.