Patent ID: 7730690
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
1. A suspended soffit installation comprising a suspended rectangular grid and a compression post assembly, the rectangular grid being formed by runners including an inverted tee runner having an upper bulb and a cross runner intersecting the tee runner, the grid supporting underlying panels forming a soffit surface, the compression post assembly including a main strut and a saddle coupling, the main strut having upper and lower ends, the saddle coupling connecting the lower end of the strut to the grid tee runner by separate self-tapping screws, one received in each of the main strut and grid tee runner, the saddle coupling having a pair of spaced depending legs, the legs being spread apart by a distance sufficient to straddle the bulb of the grid tee runner and having a length sufficient such that it engages upper surfaces of a lower flange of the grid tee runner and thereby stabilizes the grid tee runner against pivotal motion about a horizontal axis.