Solely wall mounted drop ceiling structure
US5157884A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 23, 1991 |
| Grant date | Oct 27, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 23, 2011 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC E)Fixed Constructions
- CPC primaryE04B9/30
- WIPO fieldCivil engineering
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A simplified drop celing room conversion is accomplished without, in any manner, disturbing the original ceiling of an office or room by providing integral, generally angle-shaped, longitudinally-extending structural members that are to be securely and fully mounted in an endwise-aligned relation on and about walls of the room at a desired lower ceiling height and, in such a manner as to fully and exclusively serve to support and carry a so-called drop ceiling. Each member has a horizontally-outwardly-extending upper shelf part for fully supporting and carrying cross-extending rail members that define open spaces therebetween with the sidewall-mounted supporting structural members, and which with the supporting members, are adapted to tilt-in receive dry wall ceiling panels in the spaces therebetween. The structural members are of a unique construction embodying a horizontally extending ceiling-receiving shelf part, an intermediate connecting tool-guiding part or bead, and a downwardly extending wall mounting vertical leg part. Each support member is self-sufficient in that the exposed underside of the upper shelf part is provided with a finish strip, and the bead has a slightly ba…
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