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US 12,692,701 B2Granted
Elongated ceiling grid member and ceiling grid assembly including a plurality of the elongated ceiling grid member
AssigneeTate Access Floors, Inc.
InventorsMaksym Bielkov, Christopher Buss, Lucas Michael Fox
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Abstract
An elongated ceiling grid member including (1) a threaded member receptacle having a pair of parallel, spaced side walls that are threaded to receive and retain a first threaded member, (2) a vertical wall parallel to and spaced laterally from the pair of side walls, (3) a slanted wall extending outwardly and downwardly from the pair of side walls and joined to the vertical wall and (4) a lower portion at the bottom of the vertical wall and configured to support a ceiling tile.
Claims4
An elongated ceiling grid member having a longitudinal axis in a longitudinal direction and comprising:
- a threaded member receptacle having a pair of spaced side walls (a) extending in parallel in the longitudinal direction and spaced in a lateral direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and (b) threaded to threadedly receive and retain a first threaded member;
- a vertical wall (a) parallel to the pair of spaced side walls and (b) spaced from the pair of spaced side walls in the lateral direction;
- a first slanted wall (a) extending outwardly in the lateral direction and downwardly in a vertical direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction from one of the pair of spaced side walls and (b) joined to the vertical wall;
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- a lower portion (a) at a bottom of the vertical wall in the vertical direction, (b) extending inwardly from the vertical wall in the lateral direction and (c) configured to support a ceiling tile.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.