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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:
Aug. 19, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Raymond J Peterson, Selden, NY (US);
George C Harris, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
52417 ; 52460 ; 52463 ; 527334 ;
Abstract
A dry wall butt stud which comprises a structure between two upright wall studs, for back blocking short vertical butt edges of two horizontally aligned rectangular plasterboard sheets, which are mounted to the wall studs offset from an upper horizontally positioned rectangular plasterboard sheet and a lower horizontally positioned rectangular plasterboard sheet. The back blocking structure will form a recessed area at the short vertical butt edges, allowing a person to apply tape and a joint compound thereto to maintain a flat smooth front surface therebetween in the recessed area.