Patent ID: 8061088

Claim:
A tie guide for trusses and rafters, the tie guide comprising: a support plate with an elongate vertical flange having a planar body disposed entirely in a first plane and fixable to an exterior portion of a vertical support wall and a pair of spaced apart horizontal flanges each having a planar body disposed entirely in a second plane oriented transverse to the first plane and fixable to a horizontal portion of the support wall, the vertical and horizontal flanges joined together along a common longitudinal edge; said vertical flange further comprising a pair of opposing slanted flanges disposed between the spaced apart horizontal flanges, each slanted flange of said pair having a third planar body disposed entirely in the same first plane as the first planar body of the vertical flange and extending from the common longitudinal edge, each slanted flange defined by one edge normal to the common longitudinal edge and one edge transverse to the common longitudinal edge, said normal edges disposed opposite each other and partially defining an opening for receiving a cross member and said transverse edges extending between a normal edge and the common longitudinal edge; and fixing members disposed entirely in a plane substantially perpendicular to the vertical and horizontal flanges, the fixing members facing each other, extending from each of the normal edges of the slanted flanges to about the common longitudinal edge to further define the opening for a cross member and said fixing members being fixable to opposite sides of a cross member passing through the opening defined by the normal edges and the fixing members of the slanted flanges.