Title: Structural member for load-bearing partitions or walls of buildings

Abstract: A load bearing partition for a wall is formed by a structural member of skeleton construction consisting of a frame formed of laterally spaced vertical uprights and vertically spaced horizontal cross members with the uprights and cross members formed of a sole tubular metal metal section which is bent at the corners of the frame and butt welded at its ends with vertical struts connecting the cross members of the frame and formed of the same type of tubular metal section as the uprights and cross members with their ends welded to the cross members, the uprights, the cross members and the struts being of rectangular shape in cross-section rounded at their edges and reinforced by longitudinal depressions on all four sides intermediate of the rounded corners.

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Inventors: Marchot, Jules Albert

Application Number: 610370
Filing Date: 1975-09-04
Publication_date: 1977-07-05
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Primary Class(es): 52/656.1
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1376895	May, 1921	Murname	52/657.
2529008	Nov, 1950	Flory	52/658.
2562022	Jul, 1951	Duer	248/188.
2634867	Apr, 1953	Shields	52/658.
3243051	Mar, 1966	Ruhnke	211/182.
3332374	Jul, 1967	Ferdinand et al.	211/182.
3713474	Jan, 1973	Orlando	52/239.
3725995	Apr, 1973	Sharp et al.	52/656.
3863875	Feb, 1975	Olson	211/182.

Other Refs: 503,350

Apr, 1939	UK

Primary Examiner: Bell, J. Karl
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Sughrue, Rothwell, Mion, Zinn & Macpeak