Patent ID: 7874116
Filing Date: 2011-01-25
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
1. A suspended ceiling grid comprising a wall molding, grid tees having an upper hollow reinforcing bulb, vertical web and lower face flange, and clips attaching the grid tees to the wall molding, the wall molding being an elongated roll-formed sheet metal part having the general cross-section of a right angle with horizontal and vertical legs joined at a corner, the horizontal and vertical legs at their free edges terminating with a re-entrant hem on a side of the respective leg facing the other leg, each hem having a free edge facing the corner and lying immediately adjacent its leg, the tees having ends supported on the wall molding, a clip being directly connected to its respective tee end by receiving and laterally constraining the lower face flange of a grid tee to restrict the tee end against lateral movement, each clip being retained in a selected position along the wall molding by an interference fit wherein a part of the clip is compressed between the hem of the horizontal leg and the vertical leg, the clip having integral gripping members that engage the lower face flange of its respective tee end, the gripping members forming opposed channels on opposite sides of the lower face flange, the channels being proportioned to allow the tee end to slide longitudinally within said channels, and wherein said channels are formed on the part of said clip that provides said interference fit.