US 11,680,405 B2
Glued timber truss
Tuomo Poutanen, Tampere (FI)
Appl. No. 15/503,337
Filed by PATENTTITOIMISTO T. POUTANEN OY, Tampere (FI)
PCT Filed Aug. 10, 2015, PCT No. PCT/FI2015/000034
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 10, 2017,
PCT Pub. No. WO2016/024040, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 18, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 20140217 (FI), filed on Aug. 11, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2017/0234011 A1, Aug. 17, 2017
Int. Cl. E04C 3/16 (2006.01); E04C 3/02 (2006.01); E04C 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC E04C 3/16 (2013.01) [E04C 3/02 (2013.01); E04C 3/122 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A glued timber truss comprising a top chord, a bottom chord, two truss ends, and between the truss ends there are a plurality of ascending and descending elongated webs between the top chord and bottom chord and adhesively connected to said chords;
wherein lower ends of said webs are fixed in the bottom chord, and upper ends of said webs are fixed in the top chord;
wherein the truss has at least one crosswise opening having a height that is a distance between a lower face of the top chord and an upper face of the bottom chord, and;
wherein on at least one side of said opening along the length of the truss, the webs are arranged to make an X-pattern.