Patent ID: 8276335

Claim:
An attachment profile for the upper and/or lower termination of a stud wall erected in balloon frame construction, said attachment profile adapted to be placed on upper and/or lower front sides of approximately vertically erected stud profiles of the stud wall, said attachment profile comprising: a profile web; two side webs spaced apart from one another and connected to the profile web, so as to form a U-shaped attachment profile, the side webs lacking any cuts that extend through an entire height of the side webs; wherein the profile web is notched so that fastening tabs are formed from the profile web, said fastening tabs being cut out of the profile web so that at least some of the cut edges of each of the fastening tabs are spaced apart from the remaining profile web, wherein the tabs are pivotable around a particular deflection edge connecting the side webs to the profile web, and wherein all fastening tabs of an attachment profile are pivotable around the same deflection edge.