Patent ID: 7578106

Claim:
A wall molding formed of an elongated metal body comprising a generally planar vertical leg and a generally horizontal leg integral with the vertical leg, the legs having a thickness substantially less than their respective vertical and horizontal widths, the legs intersecting and being joined at a longitudinally extending corner with the vertical leg extending upwardly from the horizontal leg, the horizontal leg having a longitudinally extending stiffening element adjacent a free edge spaced from the corner, the stiffening element being generally vertically disposed and extending vertically a distance substantially greater than the thickness of the horizontal leg, the width and configuration of the horizontal leg being arranged to support a grid tee at a distance of about at least 2″ from a wall on which the molding is mounted with the vertical leg against the wall, the vertical stiffening element being effective to resist extensive buckling or bending deformation of a free edge of the horizontal leg remote from the corner when the vertical leg is secured against a non-flat wall and is thereby distorted, the shapes of the vertical and horizontal legs both being capable of being formed from a single strip of metal, being free of double layers in areas remote from their longitudinal edges, and being free of locations where the metal diverges in more than two directions whereby it can be easily field cut to length by hand using aviation shears, tin snips or like cutting tools.