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US 11,378,301 B2Granted
Access panel and diffuser installation
AssigneeInvi USA LLC
InventorRon Zauderer
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Abstract
A method includes providing a diffuser that has a frame with a base portion and an outer perimeter portion that protrudes outwards from the base portion. The outer perimeter portion includes a metal flange. A portion of the metal flange is attached to a ceiling stud of a ceiling. The method includes forming an opening in a gypsum board to accommodate the diffuser, and assembling the gypsum board with the ceiling stud so that a bottom surface of the frame of the diffuser is flush with the gypsum board.
Claims7
A method comprising:
- providing a diffuser that has a frame which comprises a base portion and an outer perimeter portion that protrudes outwards from said base portion, said outer perimeter portion comprising a metal flange;
- attaching a portion of said metal flange to a ceiling stud of a ceiling;
- forming an opening in a gypsum board to accommodate said diffuser;
- and
- assembling said gypsum board with said ceiling stud so that a bottom surface of said frame of said diffuser forms a continuous plane with said gypsum board, and applying drywall finishing compound on said bottom surface of said frame of said diffuser and on said gypsum board so that said drywall finishing compound applied to said gypsum board and to said frame of said diffuser forms a continuous plane with said gypsum board and said frame of said diffuser, and said diffuser forms a continuous plane with said gypsum board.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.