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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1982
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
J Lynn Gailey, Newton Falls, OH (US);
Carl A Wollam, Cortland, OH (US);
Assignee:
Alcan Aluminum Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
52488 ; 52667 ; 403347 ;
Abstract
In a suspended ceiling assembly of panels carried by spaced, elongated stringers, stabilizer bars interconnecting the stringers for maintaining the stringers fixed in position relative to each other and preventing racking of the assembly. Each stabilizer bar is a rigid element having a tab at each end for snap-fitting insertion into a slot formed in a stringer, and also having flange portions adjacent each end for bearing against a stringer surface along spaced extended lines of contact, when the tab at that end is inserted in the stringer, to prevent angular movement of the stringer relative to the stabilizer bar.