Patent ID: 9200441
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
1. A seismic duty support system for a suspended ceiling at a wall intersection, the support system comprising an elongated roll formed sheet metal wall molding, the wall molding having a vertical element and a horizontal element unitary with the vertical element at an upper edge of the vertical element, a plurality of sheet metal supports regularly spaced along a length of the wall molding, the supports being cutouts of the vertical element and being attached to and extending perpendicularly from the vertical element a distance greater than a width of the horizontal element, each of said supports lying in a vertical plane perpendicular to the vertical element, each support having a hole distal from the vertical element for cooperating with a tension element connected to the end of an underlying grid runner, each of said supports being attached to said vertical element at locations vertically spaced a distance that is a majority of a distance of the hole from the vertical element.