AutoTight® by Commins
Manufacturing, Inc.
The Continuous Rod Holdown System

   Make Your Shearwalls Perform!

Simply the Best Building Holdown System
NO
Field Assembly of Take-Up Device
NO Field Cutting Rod to Fit Cages Every Floor
Tremendous Rod Holdown System Versatility

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Our new ICC Report ESR-1344, effective Nov. 1, 2006 is published. Our Auto Take-Up Devices (AT) are now ICC-ES compliant with 2003 IBC, 2003 IRC and ICC-ES Acceptance Criteria for Shrinkage Compensating (AC316), dated Oct. 2005. The new report replaces ICC ES ER-5889.

NEW FOR 2006
The AT 75-2.5
2 ˝" of Wood Shrinkage Capacity


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AutoTight® Rod Holdown Systems and components are covered by one or more of the following U.S. Patents 6,390,747; 6,585,469; 6,625,945, other patents both foreign and domestic are pending.