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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2006
Alan C. Wendt, Inverness, IL (US);
Gerald L. Koski, Parma, OH (US);
Alan C. Wendt, Inverness, IL (US);
Gerald L. Koski, Parma, OH (US);
USG Interiors, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A suspended ceiling system comprising grid runners and downwardly accessible generally planar tiles mounted on the grid runners, peripheral tile edges having portions extending horizontally underneath an adjacent grid runner, opposed tile edges having a downwardly facing support surface, said opposed edges having a generally vertical abutment surface above its support surface and resting on an adjacent horizontal flange portion of a grid runner, the runners having locating surfaces of limited height above said flange portions and engageable with the abutment surfaces, the runners and tiles being arranged to permit one of the opposed tile edges to be lifted so that its abutment surface can be raised and thereafter be shifted towards the runner adjacent the lifted edge a distance sufficient to allow the opposite edge to drop below the flange portion of its associated runner.