Structural support element

Abstract

A device for providing a flat surface on a deformed wooden stud, joist or rafter where said device has two elongated members where the first member is sized so that the first member is fastened to a surface of a stud, joist or rafter and a second member is fastened to said second member whereby said second member forms a level surface on said stud, joist or rafter.

1 . A device for providing a flat surface on a deformed wooden stud, joist or rafter where said device comprises two elongated members where the first member is sized so that the first member is fastened to a surface of a stud, joist or rafter and a second member is fastened to said second member whereby said second member forms a level surface on said stud, joist or rafter. 
     
     
         2 . The device of  claim 1  where said two elongated members each have a U shaped cross sectional profile where the first member and second member comprise a flat center section placed between two laterally arranged side sections where the first member is sized so that the first member fits over the stud, joist or rafter, both members being adapted to be affixed to a wooden structural element using conventional fasteners. 
     
     
         3 . An elongated S-shaped metal element which comprises an elongated vertically positioned center section having at a top edge, an upper orthogonal section and at a bottom edge, a lower orthogonal section, where said upper and lower sections extend in opposite directions from the vertical center section and the device is sized for application to a bowed floor joist so that the floor engaging surface of the joist is modified so that it has a level metal surface that is formed by the upper orthogonal section while the lower orthogonal section forms a level surface for the ceiling of the space below the floor that is supported by the bowed floor joist.