Patent ID: 8615947
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
1. A sheet metal yoke for supporting a pair of main runners of a suspended ceiling grid in parallel alignment with a relatively narrow spacing, the yoke having an inverted U-shape with a horizontal span and a depending leg adjacent each end of the span, a lower end of each leg having a tab extending towards the other leg, the tab being arranged to fit in a cross runner slot of a respective one of said pair of main runners and being capable of vertically supporting the one main runner at a desired elevation, each leg having a depending catch comprising an integrally connected vertical element that extends perpendicularly to the leg, a zone between the catch and the leg configured to receive a reinforcing bulb of the main runners, the catch being arranged to restrain a main runner from falling off an associated one of said tabs when said one tab is received in a cross runner slot and when the main runner is vertically oriented, the tab having a vertical fold line established by a weakened zone whereby the tab can be permanently bent towards a web of the main runner to lock the main runner on the yoke.