Patent ID: 7287733
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
1. A suspended ceiling coupling for positioning a suspended ceiling grid-work from an overhead support structure, comprising: a suspended ceiling grid-work member having an open channel portion including an opening in a top portion thereof for receiving a connector nut for use in suspending said grid-work member from an overhead support structure; a connector nut having a substantially “D”-shaped cross section and positionable in said open channel of said grid-work member by passage through said opening in the top portion of said open channel portion of said grid-work member; said opening in said top portion of said open channel being at least as wide as a first cross-sectional dimension of said connector nut, but less than a second cross-sectional dimension of said connector nut; and said open channel portion having a width and a depth at least as great as said second cross-sectional dimension of said connector nut.