Suspended ceiling segment
AssigneeWorthington Armstrong Venture
InventorWilliam J. Platt
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Abstract
A horizontally extending suspended ceiling segment that appears to float in space. Support hangers in an upper tier connect to a grid that forms a lower tier, and cantilever the outward ends of the beams in the lower tier. A perimeter trim strip surrounds the suspended ceiling segment, on the outward ends of the beams in the grid. The support hangers, and hanger wires that support the suspended ceiling segment, are hidden behind the line of sight of a viewer positioned below the segment.
Claims8
In a suspended ceiling segment with a horizontal grid of intersecting main and cross beams, with openings in the grid that support ceiling panels, and a perimeter trim strip that extends around the ends of the beams in the grid, and wherein the grid is supported from above by hanger wires,
- the improvement comprising
- a support hanger having a first end, a second end, and an extended body
- wherein
- said first end of said support hanger is provided for attachment to a first cross beam and terminates short of the length of said first cross beam;
- said second end of said support hanger is provided for attachment to a second cross beam and terminates short of the length of said second cross beam;
- said extended body of said support hanger is provided for attachment to a third cross beam;
- and,
- said support hanger extends through a first intersection of a first main beam and said first and third cross beams and a second intersection of a second main beam and said second and third cross beams;
- so that each of said first and said second cross beams have a cantilevered section extending outwardly from said first and said second ends respectively of said support hanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.