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2. Truss connector plate - Wikipedia

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   Metal connector plates are manufactured with varying length, width and thickness (or gauge) and are designed to laterally transmit loads in wood. They are also known as stud ties, metal connector plates, mending plates, or nail plates. However, not all types of nail plates are approved for use in trusses and other structurally critical ...

3. Simpson Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   Simpson Manufacturing Company is an engineering firm and building materials producer in the United States that produces structural connectors, anchors, and products for new construction and retrofitting. The company was founded by Barclay Simpson in Oakland in 1956, as a successor to his father's window screen company. [1]

4. Tie (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   Hurricane ties are in place at the top of the wall as the roof trusses are being placed. A hurricane tie (also known as hurricane clip or strip) is used to help make a structure (specifically wooden structures) more resistant to high winds (such as in hurricanes), resisting uplift, racking, overturning, and sliding. [3]

5. Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. - Wikipedia

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   Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. was a cutlery and silver hollowware manufacturer in Wallingford, Connecticut, founded in 1866. [1] By c. 1895, the company operated large factories in Wallingford and Montreal, Canada. [2] In 1898, Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. became part of the International Silver Company headquartered in neighboring Meriden. [3]

6. Dutchman (repair) - Wikipedia

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   A dutchman, or in some uses graving piece, is a matching piece of good material used to replace a relatively small damaged area that has been cut out of a larger item, to avoid having to replace the entire item; or, any of various techniques for accomplishing such a repair.

7. The Man Who Came to Be Dinner - Wikipedia

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   The Rigelians decide to eat the rest of the family and glaze them over giant plates with some lettuce and tomato. When Homer offers to be eaten instead, he gets put on a similar plate with the Rigelians now refusing to spare the others. The Rigelian Queen then eats Homer's severed buttock and gets fatally poisoned.