Patent ID: 8898986

Claim:
A suspension ceiling runner hanger comprising an elongated malleable sheet metal strip having a plurality of spaced holes adjacent an upper longitudinal margin, a lower portion including a lower edge and a longitudinal bend above the lower portion, the lower edge being interrupted by a series of regularly spaced notches disposed along substantially the full length of the hanger, the notches being configured to receive a hollow reinforcing bulb of a grid runner extending transversely to the hanger, the notch having a pair of longitudinally spaced ledges configured to support the bottom sides of a reinforcing bulb received in the notch, each of the plurality of notches having a precision machine bent tab for carrying one of the ledges, the precision machine bent tabs being disposed at an angle relative to a plane of the lower portion that allows a grid runner reinforcing bulb to be inserted when tilted in the associated notch by lateral movement of the runner from a position below the lower edge upwardly into the notch, the tab in the precision machine bent position preventing the reinforcing bulb from falling out of the notch when the runner is upright, the tab being joined to the hanger lower portion proper at a line of weakness that allows the tab to be manually bent back into a plane of the hanger lower portion.