Patent ID: 8196326

Claim:
A multi-frame groove-mount wall system comprising: (a) a multiplicity of closed frame sections, each of the closed frame sections having a plurality of frame members disposed about a frame axis, the frame members of each of the closed frame sections being interconnected, each of the closed frame sections further having a frame opening, each of the frame members being elongated and having a groove segment that opens generally parallel to the respective frame axis, the closed frame sections being configured to be releasably coupled to one another to form a multi-frame structure having an outer perimeter; and (b) a panel element having a substrate portion, a periphery and a multiplicity of edge gasket segments disposed about the periphery, the substrate portion being flexible, the panel element being configured to be removably and tensionally affixed to the multi-frame structure such that: (i) the substrate portion is simultaneously disposed across the frame opening of each of the closed frame sections by interengagement between a plurality of the edge gasket segments and a plurality of the groove segments that are proximate the outer perimeter; and (ii) none of the edge gasket segments are shared between one of the groove segments of one of the closed frame sections and one of the groove segments of another of the closed frame sections.