Patent ID: 6282862
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: E04C

Abstract:
An elongated structural member having a cross-section including a minor flange, a major flange, and a web interconnecting said flanges and having a section axis at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the structural member and wherein:said web includes a linear portion, which extends substantially coincident with the section axis, and a divergent portion which extends to one side of said section axis;said minor flange laterally extends from said section axis to said one side;said major flange extends from said divergent portion to the opposite side of said section axis and includes a major flange return which is spaced from the opposite side of the section axis by an amount substantially corresponding to the minor flange extends from the one side of the section axis, andthe section configuration of the structural member being shaped such that a correspondingly shaped structural member can be inverted, inclined and nested with said structural member with the respective linear portions abutting each other and with each minor flange in an abutting relationship with the adjacent major flange whereat it is partially confined by the corresponding major flange return such that separation of the abutting linear portions is prevented.