Patent ID: 7797903

Claim:
A suspended ceiling grid tee, the tee having a vertical generally planar web portion formed of multiple layers of a single metal strip, the web portion being lanced through the multiple layers to form a tab at a plurality of locations along its length, the tab having an uncut anchored side and diverging cut sides that diverge from said uncut side, at least one of the cut sides forming an obtuse angle with the uncut side, a cut side generally opposed to the anchored side bridging the diverging sides, the tab being bent between the anchored side and the opposed side whereby it is foreshortened with reference to a plane parallel to the plane of the web portion, each of the layers of the tab being first displaced from the plane of its respective layer of the web portion and thereafter being pressed back towards the plane of its respective layer of the web portion whereby the obtuse edge of the tab is put in tight engagement with the corresponding edge of the web portion because of the foreshortening of the tab produced by the bend.