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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2001
Howard Yaphe, Ville St-Laurent, CA;
Pascal Toupin, Cornwall, CA;
Canlyte Inc., Quebec, CA;
Abstract
A fixture bracket suspension assembly is mounted directly to a drop ceiling runner. The runner has a stem and a base wall with a pair of flanges extending out from the stem in a generally inverted T shape. The flanges are adapted to support ceiling tiles and the stem has cross member positioning slots located along its length. The bracket assembly comprises a screw and a bracket. The screw has a head portion and a stem portion for supporting a suspension wire adapted to be mounted to a fixture. The bracket has a base plate with an opening through which the screw stem portion passes. The base plate has a top surface for supporting the screw head adjacent the base wall of the runner. The bracket has two pair of spaced apart opposing legs. Each pair of legs has a shape that conforms to the shape of the flanges and stem of the runner and are adapted to bend at respective joints with the base plate wrapping around the runner to present minimal encumbrance to the runner and to support the base plate and the screw below the runner. Each of the pairs of legs has end portions with a locking tab and recess. One of the legs of each pair has a tab member adapted to pass through one of the positioning slots in the runner to secure the bracket member from movement along the runner. The bracket assembly is a simple and direct drop ceiling suspension system for linear lighting fixtures eliminating anchoring of the linear fixtures above the runner of the drop ceiling.