Patent ID: 6266936
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
A sound attenuating wall or ceiling assembly comprising:a plurality of wall or ceiling boards; the boards having major surfaces;a series of parallel spaced apart, elongated framing members; each of the framing members having longitudinal centerlines; each of the framing members having first end surfaces which oppose the major surfaces of the boards; the first end surfaces of the framing members lying substantially in a common plane; anda first series of sound attenuating members, for securing the boards to the framing members, secured to the framing members; each of the sound attenuating members being elongated and having a longitudinal centerline extending parallel to the longitudinal centerline of the framing member to which the sound attenuating member is secured; and each of the sound attenuating members having resilient cantilevered means to which the boards are secured extending outward beyond the framing member to which the sound attenuating member is secured toward an adjacent framing member and outward beyond the plane of the first end surfaces of the framing members whereby the boards are resiliently secured to the framing members and spaced outwardly from the framing members to attenuate sound; and the resilient cantilevered means of each of the sound attenuating members having a first section extending outward from the plane of the first end surfaces of the framing members at an acute angle to the plane of the first end surfaces of the framing members and a second section extending from the first section generally parallel to and spaced outwardly from the plane of the first end surfaces.