Patent ID: 6058668
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
In a building interior head-of-wall structure for a nonload-bearing wall in which a plurality of vertical metal wall studs are arranged in a straight horizontal line and project upwardly and terminate beneath a ceiling formed of a metal deck having an exposed undersurface that defines a plurality of mutually parallel, concave downwardly facing flutes, the improvement comprising a pair of sheet metal angle strips that join said wall studs to said ceiling deck,wherein said angle strips each include a vertical leg secured to said metal wall studs and a horizontal leg having an outer edge remote from said vertical leg, and said horizontal leg is scored toward said vertical leg at longitudinally spaced intervals along said outer edge to define a plurality of pop-up tabs that are bent to project upwardly into and block said flutes on both sides of said line of metal wall studs.