Acoustic baffle assembly
AssigneeUSG Interiors, Inc.
InventorsRana Ahmadi, Stephen Hettwer
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Abstract
A circular multi-panel acoustic baffle assembly for suspending above an occupied space, the assembly including a plurality of baffle panel units each radiating away from a common center and generally lying in a vertical plane, upper edges of the baffle panel units lying in a common imaginary surface of revolution about the center, the baffle panel units being joined by common inner and outer arcuate ribs concentric with the center, radially inner ends and radially outer ends of the baffle panel units lying on imaginary circles concentric with the center.
Claims11
A circular multi-panel acoustic baffle assembly for suspending above an occupied space, the assembly including a plurality of baffle panel units each radiating away from a common center and generally lying in a vertical plane, upper edges of the baffle panel units lying in a common imaginary surface of revolution about the center, the baffle panel units being joined by common inner and outer arcuate ribs concentric with the center, radially inner ends and radially outer ends of the baffle panel units lying on imaginary circles concentric with the center, sections of the inner and outer arcuate ribs being fixed to a fraction of the total number of the baffle panel units to form an angular segment, the angular segments being arrangeable side-by-side to form an annular pattern, ends of said arcuate rib sections of one angular segment being joined to ends of said arcuate rib sections of an adjacent angular segment, said arcuate rib section ends being joined with arcuate splice elements, said arcuate rib sections and/or said splice elements having vertical legs.
A kit for assembling a circular multi-panel acoustic baffle for suspension over an occupied space comprising a plurality of baffle panel units including an inverted metal channel encasing an upper edge of each of said plurality of baffle panel units, a plurality of arcuate ribs to be affixed to the metal channels of the baffle panel units to form angular segments, the angular segments being arrangeable side-by-side to form an annular pattern, ends of said arcuate rib sections of one angular segment to be joined to ends of said arcuate rib sections of an adjacent angular segment;
- arcuate splice elements having vertical legs to be joined with said arcuate rib section ends, said arcuate rib sections and said splice elements having vertical legs including apertures to receive suspension wires.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.