Patent ID: 6357190
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: E02D,E04G

Abstract:
A wall bracing system installed with a basement masonry wall that is adjacent a basement floor, supports at least one floor joist and a floor of a building, and has buckled inward from external forces so that an interior surface of the wall has a horizontal displacement point, the wall bracing system comprising:a beam elastically deformed to make continuous contact with and apply pressure against the horizontal displacement point of the wall and at least an adjacent portion of the interior surface of the wall so as to inhibit further inward movement of the horizontal displacement point and the adjacent portion though the wall remains buckled; means for securing a lower end of the beam adjacent the wall; and means for securing an upper end of the beam to the at least one floor joist, the upper securing means being operative to apply a sufficient force against the upper end of the beam toward the wall to elastically deform the beam against the interior surface of the wall while the lower end of the beam remains secured adjacent the wall.