Ceiling paneling system
AssigneeHunter Douglas Industries BV
InventorWei Zhan Hang
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Abstract
A paneling system for ceilings of a building structure in which the panels are suspended by hook shaped flanges, on opposite sides of each panel from flat arms of L- or Z-shaped panel carriers or support rails. One flange of each panel extends over the flange of a neighboring panel atop the horizontal arm of a panel carrier.
Claims6
A paneling system having panels with improved hook shaped flanges on opposite sides of the panels and panel carriers with improved arms adapted to hold the panels' flanges, so as to enable easy installation and removal of individual panels;
- the system comprising:
- a plurality of adjacent, longitudinally-extending panels;
- each panel having a pair of hook-like flanges on longitudinally-opposite sides;
- each hook-like flange forming a downwardly-open U-shaped channel above the bottom of the panel;
- a first hook-like flange of each panel having an inwardly-extending first top portion and, at its free end, a downwardly-extending first rim;
- a second hook-like flange of each panel having an outwardly-extending second top portion and, at its free end, a downwardly-extending second rim, the second top portion being of substantially the same length, but slightly longer, than the first top portion;
- and the first rim being longitudinally spaced away from an adjacent side of the panel;
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- a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart, parallel panel carriers, each carrier having a longitudinally-extending are with an upstanding free end forming an upwardly-open U-shaped channel;
- both the first top portion of a first flange on one longitudinal side of a first panel and the second top portion of a second flange on the opposite longitudinal si9de of an adjacent second panel being atop the arm of the carrier to attach the first and second panels to the carrier;
- the second top portion being atop the first top portion.
A panel, particularly a ceiling panel, of the system of any one of claims 14, having on longitudinally-opposite sides the first hook-like flange and the second hook-like flange.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.