Patent ID: 6088986
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: E04G

Abstract:
A wallboard clip for securing a patch wallboard to an existing wallboard to repair the existing wallboard, the wallboard clip comprising:patch wallboard receiving structure constructed and arranged to receive a patch wallboard so as to capture a peripheral portion of inner and outer opposing surfaces of the patch wallboard;an existing wallboard receiving member constructed and arranged to contact a peripheral portion of an outer surface of an existing wallboard to be repaired, said existing wallboard receiving member being coupled to said patch wallboard receiving structure such that the peripheral portion of the outer surface of the patch wallboard and the peripheral portion of the outer surface of the existing wallboard are arranged substantially in a common plane when the patch wallboard is in a repaired position within the existing wallboard; andlocking structure spaced from and coupled to said wallboard receiving member, said locking structure being constructed and arranged to move between an insertion position, wherein a sliding surface of said locking structure is constructed and arranged to contact and slide against an end of the existing wallboard to place the patch wallboard in the repaired position, and a locking position, wherein said sliding surface of said locking structure is in a relaxed position permitting a securing surface of the locking structure to contact a peripheral portion of an inner surface of the existing wallboard that is opposed to the peripheral portion of the outer surface of the existing wallboard thereby capturing the peripheral portions of inner and outer surfaces of the existing wallboard when the patchboard is in the repaired position.