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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1974
John Calvin Jureit, Coral Gables, FL (US);
Roy Leutwyler, Miami, FL (US);
Larry Brodsky, Sunrise, FL (US);
Benjamin Kushner, Miami, FL (US);
Andrew G Seipos, Miami, FL (US);
Adolfo Castillo, Miami, FL (US);
Automated Building Components, Inc., Miami, FL (US);
Abstract
The apparatus includes a conveyor table mounting press assemblies above and below the table respectively. Coils of connector plate stock having prepunched integrally extending teeth feed upper and lower press platens of the press assemblies, the platens being movable toward one another to substantially simultaneously cut the connector stock to predetermined lengths to form connector plates and embed the teeth of the connector plates on opposite sides of a joint formed by a pair of wooden frame members disposed in end-to-end butting relation on the conveyor between the press assemblies. To join a pair of wooden members end to end in butting relation, the members are displaced forwardly along the conveyor table with the trailing member offset laterally from the leading member until the offset member butts a stop which locates the butt joint in accurate registration between the press platens. Clamp cylinders displace both members against a fence to longitudinally align the members. The press platens thereafter move to cut discrete plates from the coils and embed the teeth thereof into the opposite sides of the joint.