Patent ID: 7594331

Claim:
A method of forming a joining profile in a stud member for a wall such that the stud member may detachably engage a horizontal member having a corresponding mating profile, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a forming assembly having a base member and including a forming body and at least one side anvil having at least one anvil profile formed therein and a protrusion disposed adjacent to the anvil profile; b) mounting the stud member on the base member, the stud member having a web and at least one flange extending generally perpendicularly from the web; c) advancing the forming body toward the stud member until the web is clamped between the forming body and the base member; d) urging the side anvil toward an external face of the flange along a first direction substantially perpendicular to a plane of the flange; e) engaging the anvil profile to the flange for forming the joining profile in the flange, the joining profile having a gender opposite that of the anvil profile; and f) during the engaging the anvil profile to the flange step, engaging the protrusion with the web, the protrusion pushing a portion of the web in a second direction which is substantially perpendicular to the first direction for accommodating formation of the joining profile.