Patent ID: 8484923

Claim:
A suspended ceiling comprising a grid formed of intersecting slot style grid runners and snap-up panels supported on the grid runners, the grid runners dividing a ceiling area into standard modules, the panels being formed of sheet material and each being fit within a module while having sides with lengths proportioned to leave a gap at visible faces of the panels between adjacent panels when in an installed position on the grid, at least one adjacent pair of panels being displaceable in a hinge-like manner from their installed positions, the gap between a pair of displaceable panels being closed by a runner removable while allowing slot style runners which it intersects to remain in normal assembled positions for supporting snap-up panels or by the displaceable panels so that when the displaceable panels are displaced from their installed position and any removable runner is removed, an access opening of twice the standard module is made available for accessing the area above the ceiling while adjacent panels at longitudinal ends of the gap between the displaceable panels can remain in respective installed positions, the removable runner having two connectors at each end, each connector having a tab that indexes to a respective opening in a web of an intersecting grid runner, the tabs of at least one pair of the connectors being arranged to be withdrawn from the respective openings while adjacent panels installed on the grid on a side of the intersecting grid runner opposite a side of the intersecting grid runner at which the connectors associated with the tabs are assembled from remain installed on the grid.