Patent ID: 7992352
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: E04B,E04C

Abstract:
1. A device for securing portions of a metal building frame in place, comprising: a hold-down device for cooperating with an anchor in a building foundation to secure frame modules of a metal building frame together and to said foundation, said hold-down device including a base plate oriented to lie flat against a horizontal surface of said foundation, said base plate having an opening for receiving said anchor and engaged by a nut threaded onto said anchor for securing said hold-down to said foundation; and a pair of spaced opposed side plates spaced apart to straddle adjacent uprights of said frame modules; said side plates each having at least one bolt hole aligned with a corresponding bolt hole in the opposed side plate for receiving bolts through said bolt holes and through a hole drilled in frame modules adapted to be straddled by said side plates, and said side plates also each having a cut-out at a bottom outside corner to allow said side plates to lie over a base tube of a metal frame module of a metal building frame to hold said base tube down.