Patent ID: 7251918

Claim:
A fixing bracket for joining wooden building components to each other and to a substrate, said bracket comprising: a first section leg ( 3 ); a second section leg ( 3 ′), wherein the first vertical web section leg ( 3 ) is disposed adjacent to and contacting the second section leg ( 3 ′), and wherein the first section leg ( 3 ) and the second section leg ( 3 ′) form a web ( 5 ); a first angle flange ( 8 ) projecting perpendicularly outwardly at the bottom from a side of the first section leg ( 3 ) disposed remote from the second section leg ( 3 ′); a second angle flange ( 8 ′) projecting perpendicularly outwardly at the bottom from a side of the second section leg ( 3 ′) disposed remote from the first section leg ( 3 ); wherein the first section leg ( 3 ) and the first angle flange ( 8 ) form a first L-section ( 2 ); wherein the second section leg ( 3 ′) and the second angle flange ( 8 ′) form a second L-section ( 2 ′); wherein the first L-section ( 2 ) and the second L-section ( 2 ′) combined form the fixing bracket ( 1 , 15 , 18 , 20 , 35 , 42 ) as a double angle; a first fixing hole ( 9 ) furnished in the first angle flange ( 8 ); a second fixing hole ( 9 ′) furnished in the second angle flange ( 8 ′); a first essentially triangular pointed spike ( 6 or 7 ) projecting perpendicularly outwardly at the top of a first opening of the first section leg ( 3 ) from the side of the first section leg ( 3 ) disposed remote relative to the second section leg ( 3 ′); and a second essentially triangular pointed spike ( 6 ′ or 7 ′) projecting perpendicularly outwardly at the top of a second opening of the second section leg ( 3 ′) from the side of the second section leg ( 3 ′) disposed remote from the first section leg ( 3 ).