Ceiling tile system
OwnerWolfgang W. Moellerinventor
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Abstract
An improved ceiling tile system comprising a molding member within which is disposed at least one ceiling tile is disclosed wherein means are provided to urge the ceiling tile downwardly and/or in a direction away from the molding member. According to the invention, the urging means comprises a unitary resilient spring clip, a resilient portion of which engages a vertical wall of the molding and then engages an opposed vertical edge of a ceiling tile and simultaneously, while in engagement with said opposed vertical edge of said ceiling tile, bears against a surface of said molding above said tile and opposed thereto.
Claims16
In an acoustical ceiling tile system comprising a molding member within which is disposed at least one fibrous acoustical ceiling tile of the type which can be pierced by a prong wherein urging means are employed to urge said fibrous acoustical ceiling tile downwardly and/or in a direction away from said molding, the improvement to simultaneously urge the fibrous acoustical ceiling tile downwardly and away from a vertical wall of said molding wherein said urging means comprises a unitary resilient spring clip, a resilient portion of which engages against a vertical wall of said molding and thence against an upper surface of a fibrous acoustical ceiling tile and simultaneously, while in engagement with said upper surface of said ceiling tile, against a surface of said molding above said tile and opposed thereto.
In an acoustical ceiling tile system comprising a channel molding which channel molding comprises an upper generally horizontal wall, a vertical wall integral therewith and a lower horizontal wall, at least one fibrous acoustical ceiling tile of the type that can be pierced with a prong or fork, a portion of which ceiling tile rests on said lower horizontal wall, and an urging means to urge said ceiling tile downwardly against said lower horizontal wall and away from said vertical wall, the improvement for simultaneously urging said fibrous acoustical ceiling tile in the intended directions by a single urging means wherein said urging means comprises a springingly resilient sheet material which engages said vertical wall at a point opposed from a vertical edge of said fibrous acoustical ceiling tile, which sheet material is bent and springingly engaged at the bend against said upper horizontal wall, said sheet material engaging the material of said ceiling tile at its end opposed from that which engages said vertical wall.
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