Patent ID: 8166724

Claim:
A wooden joist comprising: a wooden top chord; a wooden bottom chord; wooden boards adhesively connected to the wooden top chord and to the wooden bottom chord to form an I-joist section along a portion of the wooden joist; wooden webs adhesively connected to the wooden top chord and to the wooden bottom chord to form an open-joist section along another portion of the wooden joist; a bearing extension defined by the wooden top chord extending beyond any one of the wooden boards and the wooden webs at an end of the wooden joist; at least a pair of metal webs in alignment on opposed sides of the wooden joist, each metal web comprising a top connector end fixed to the bearing extension, a bottom connector end fixed to the bottom chord, and a structural arm between the connector ends, the metal webs being solely provided in an end region along the wooden joist; whereby the wooden joist is adapted to be in a top-chord bearing relation with a beam by the bearing extension and the top connector ends being on top of the beam.