Patent ID: 7797901
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: E04B,E04C

Abstract:
1. In a demountable wall of the type having vertical support members mounted between horizontal header and footer members to define a rigid frame on which wall panels are supported to cover at least a portion of said frame, the improvement comprising: a plurality of rigid, similarly configured channel segments, each having a hat-shaped central portion defined by a flat web, a pair of legs extending outwardly from opposite sides of said web and a pair of center flanges disposed generally parallel with said web and extending from outer ends of said legs, as well as a pair of L-shaped outer portions having end flanges disposed generally perpendicular with said web, and inwardly turned connector flanges projecting inwardly from interior sides of said end flanges and including fastener portions formed therein; a rigid vertical stud having a generally I-shaped plan configuration and comprising a pair of said channel segments disposed in a back-to-back relationship with said webs laterally aligned and rigidly interconnected, such that the adjacent ones of said end flanges of said pair of channel segments define outer stud faces against which said wall panels are supported, and the adjacent ones of said fastener portions on said connector flanges of said pair of channel segments define therebetween connector channels in which associated connector portions of said wall panels are securely, yet detachably, retained; and a rigid horizontal track shaped for connection with one of the ends of said stud, and comprising one said channel segment and a generally flat base strip, which are disposed in a back-to-back laterally aligned relationship, with said base strip rigidly connected with said web of said one channel segment.