Patent ID: 7347030

Claim:
A truss span, comprising: at least three chords in a generally parallel orientation with respect to each other, wherein adjacent parallel chords provide a face of the truss span such that the at least three chords provide at least three faces; a web connecting two adjacent parallel chords corresponding to at least two of the at least three faces to provide the truss span with at least two webbed faces; and a first structural end bracket and a second structural end bracket connecting two adjacent parallel chords corresponding to at least one of the at least three faces without contacting any other of the at least three chords to provide the truss span with at least one open face, the first end bracket connecting a first end of the two adjacent parallel chords and the second end bracket connecting a second end of the two adjacent parallel chords to provide an open face area between the first and second structural end brackets; wherein the truss span has a tapered profile such that another identical truss span is capable of nesting within the open face area between the first and second structural end brackets; wherein the first structural end bracket has two end portions and a middle portion between the two end portions, and further has an inside edge and outside edge, the outside edge being approximately flush with the first end of the two adjacent parallel chords corresponding to the open face of the truss span, and the inside edge having a shape such that the middle portion has a width that is smaller than a width of the two end portions; and wherein the second structural end bracket has two end portions and a middle portion between the two end portions, and further has an inside edge and outside edge, the outside edge being approximately flush with the second end of the two adjacent parallel chords corresponding to the open face of the truss span, and the inside edge having a shape such that the middle portion has a width that is smaller than a width of the two end portions.