Patent ID: 8904731

Claim:
A column anchor for anchoring a wall and adjacent building columns, each of the building columns having a central web disposed substantially parallel to the face plane of the wall and two parallel flanges disposed substantially perpendicular to the face plane of the wall, the wall having bed joints of mortar between volumetric construction units (VCU's), the column anchor comprising: a plate member having a thickness, the plate member comprising: an insertion portion at one end thereof, the insertion portion being sized and shaped to be received in a bed joint of the wall, the insertion portion having one or more apertures therethrough disposed to permit the mortar of the bed joint to flow through and surround the plate member; an attachment portion at the end of the plate member opposite the insertion portion and configured to anchor the wall to one of the building columns, the attachment portion comprising a hook portion configured to surround an edge of one of the flanges of the building column and a rotated portion contiguous with the insertion portion, the rotated portion enabling the insertion portion to maintain parallelism with the bed joint, the attachment portion defining a slot medial the plate member; and an L-shaped clamp for securing the wall to the other one of the two parallel flanges, whereby mortar surrounding and flowing through the one or more apertures provides a column anchor with high pullout resistance.