Patent ID: 8276333

Claim:
An assembly for anchoring a wall frame to the foundation of a building having a foundation wherein the wall frame includes a bottom member which is positionable upon the foundation and a top member which is vertically disposed above the bottom member, the top and bottom members defining substantially aligned openings therein and there is provided a threaded shank which is embedded within the building foundation so that when the wall frame is positioned upon the foundation, the threaded shank extends upwardly through the opening defined in the bottom member, the assembly comprising: an anchor member which can be threadably secured to the threaded shank; a cable having two opposite ends; a first cable vice which is connectable to one end of the cable and being anchorable to the top member of the wall frame through the opening defined therein; a second cable vice which is connectable to the other end of the cable; and a cap member, the second cable vice being anchorable to the cap member, and the cap member being connectable to the anchor member so that when the anchor member is threadably secured to the threaded shank and the cable is anchored between the top member of the wall frame and the cap member by way of the first and second cable vices, the cap member can be directed against and rotated relative to the anchor member through several angular degrees into interlocking relationship therewith for tensioning the cable between the top member of the wall frame and the foundation; wherein one of the anchor member and the cap member defines a set of grooves in the surfaces thereof and the other of the cap member and the anchor member defines a set of tabs which are adapted to be accepted by and slide along the set of grooves defined in the one of the anchor member and the cap member when the cap member is directed against and rotated relative to the anchor member into interlocking relationship therewith; and so that while the cable is maintained in a taut condition between the first and second cable vices and the tabs of the cap member are guided along the grooves into said interlocking relationship with the anchor member, the tabs are moved in sequence through a location disposed at a first planar level to a position of rest disposed at a second planar level wherein the first planar level is lower than the second planar level and thereby further from the first cable vice than is the second planar level so that when the tabs of the cap member are disposed in said position of rest, thereby the cap member will move out of interlocking relationship with the anchor member is reduced.