Patent ID: 6345800
Filing Date: 2002-02-12
Classification: E04B,F21V,Y10S

Abstract:
A load-bearing hanger bracket for suspending a lighting fixture from on-grid and off-grid locations within a grid ceiling system having a T-bar grid formed by connected T-bar members to which accessory mounting rails can optionally be attached and having ceiling tiles supported by the T-bar grid, said hanger bracket comprisingan elongated baracket body having a base end, a top end, a top end, and at least one load wire attachment point, a lighting fixture attachment at the base end of said bracket body, a first attachment structure at the base end of said bracket body for attaching the hanger bracket to a T-bar member of a grid ceiling system at a selected location along said T-bar member, and a second attachment structure on said bracket body above said first attachment structure for attaching the hanger bracket to an accessory mounting rail connected between opposed T-bar of the grid ceiling system at a selected location along the mounting rail, whereby the hanger bracket can be used to hang a lighting fixture from a T-bar member of the ceiling grid or from a mounting rail attached between T-bar members in order to place the lighting fixture at desired locations within the grid ceiling system.