Patent ID: 8443564

Claim:
A clip for use in a suspended ceiling grid to join a pair of grid runners intersecting a third grid runner from opposite sides of the third grid runner, the clip being formed of bendable sheet metal and being symmetrical about a central vertical plane, the clip having a saddle portion with a seat and generally planar flaps depending from opposite sides of the seat, the clip including a pair of generally planar wings adjacent and extending past one end of the saddle with each cantilevered from a respective one of the flaps, an end of the saddle opposite said one end and being devoid of wings, the seat extending along a horizontal line, the seat having a width corresponding to the width of a hollow reinforcing bulb of a conventional grid runner having a height greater than the width, the saddle portion having a configuration such that the flaps are adapted to extend over the sides of the reinforcing bulb as well as a web below the reinforcing bulb of the third grid runner, the wings being integral with respective ones of the flaps, a flap and respective wing being joined at a vertical bend line located exclusively below the seat and spaced rearwardly of an end of the seat, the bend line being weaker than each adjacent area of the flap and wing whereby the wing can be manually bent to a desired angle relative to the flap, the wings having an upper edge spaced from the plane of the saddle seat a distance greater than the width of the seat such that the upper edge is adapted to fit below a reinforcing bulb of an intersecting grid runner when attached thereto.