EP2559823B1 - Suspended ceiling comprising a noise damper - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to noise control in suspended ceilings.
- suspended ceilings have a grid of intersecting metal beams that are suspended by hangers from a structural ceiling. Panels or drywall sheets are supported on the grid.
- Noise generated in the structural ceiling which is frequently a floor for the space above, is transmitted by sound vibrations passing downward through the hangers, which form a sound path, to the grid of the suspended ceiling.
- the suspended ceiling which includes panels or drywall sheets attached to the beams in the grid, forms a receiver for the sound vibrations, which broadcasts the resulting unwanted noise to the space below.
- the invention deals with deadening such sound vibrations coming down the hangers.
- Suspended ceilings are constructed in a special way so that the ceilings are extremely stable. Over many years, a standard way of constructing such ceilings has evolved. Suspended ceilings are constructed at a building site by individually explosively embedding an anchor such as an eye bolt, into the structural ceiling, and then attaching a hanger, such as a wire, to the anchor, by twisting the wire about the anchor. The lower end of the hanger is attached to a metal beam in a grid that supports panels, or drywall sheets, by looping the hanger through a hole in the web of the beam and twisting the loop closed around the bulb and a segment of the beam.
- an anchor such as an eye bolt
- a hanger such as a wire
- the substantial weight of the suspended ceiling is spread among numerous hangers that are spaced every few feet along the main beams in the grid. Each hanger must be individually secured to the structural ceiling, and to the grid beam, by an installer who must keep the grid of interconnected main and cross beams level at a desired height. Much time and effort is required to hang a suspended ceiling grid from a structural ceiling.
- a noise attenuator is individually inserted by the installer, about midway in the length of a wire hanger -that is cut into two segments.
- An upper segment of the wire hanger is first secured at its top to the structural ceiling, and at its bottom, to a top terminal in the attenuator.
- a lower segment of the wire hanger is connected at the top to a bottom terminal in the attenuator, and then, at the bottom of the lower segment, to the grid beam.
- the upper and lower metal terminals are separated from each other by a suitable amount of sound vibration damping material, such as gum rubber. Sound vibrations coming down the wire hanger sound path from the structural ceiling, which frequently serves as a floor for the building level above, are absorbed in the noise attenuator.
- CA 2 586 524 A1 discloses a suspended ceiling having grid beams suspended from the ceiling structure by hangers.
- the hangers comprise a star-shaped element made of metal having three extensions.
- the grid beam is suspended on two of the extensions.
- a sleeve made of isolating material extends through the third extension.
- a wire is passed through the sleeve. The wire is fixed to the ceiling structure.
- US 4 624 088 A discloses a suspended ceiling comprising elongated support members securely attached to joists.
- the support members include slots in which wishbone-shaped springs extend with two legs.
- the third leg extends downwards and has a ring-shaped head on its end.
- a grid beam is attached to the head by a wire extending through the head and an opening though the grid beam.
- WO 90/15204 A1 discloses a suspension device for ceiling sheets comprising carrying bars which are suspended in a ceiling platform by means of carrying straps.
- the carrying bars are U-shaped and open at the top.
- the sides of the U-shaped carrying bars are kept together by means of through pins to which the carrying straps are attached.
- JP 2005 030167 A a ceiling structure is described comprising hangers which are suspended from beams.
- the hangers have mounting sections at which they are mounted to the beams and supporting sections which are fixed to grid beams.
- a suspended ceiling according to claim 1 in which a noise damper, of material that deadens sound vibrations coming down a hanger, is inserted between the grid beam and a hanger in the construction of the suspended ceiling.
- the noise damper insulates the entire hanger attached to the structural ceiling from contact with the metal grid beam in the suspended ceiling, so the sound vibrations passing down the hanger are deadened in the noise damper.
- the noise damper does not interfere with the structural support of the grid beam and suspended ceiling by the hangers, which are generally of wire, but permissibly of other material having adequate tensile strength to support the suspended ceiling.
- the time required to install a suspended ceiling with the present invention is virtually the same as the time required to install a prior art suspended ceiling without any noise damping.
- the noise damper which is of a resilient, sound vibration deadening material, can be merely inserted into place, and the hanger attached to the beam by looping a wire hanger through a knock-out in the beam, as done in the prior art in a suspended ceiling that is not sound dampened.
- the knock-out can be shaped so the stress that the suspended ceiling imparts to the hanger where it passes through the knock-out is distributed over a section of the noise damper, rather than concentrated at the site of the hanger.
- hangers of wires which is the predominant material used to suspend present day ceilings
- the invention can be used with other forms of hangers, such as rods, or chains.
- FIG. 2 there is shown comparatively (a) a prior art ceiling without noise damping; (b) a prior art ceiling with noise damping; and (c) the noise dampened suspended ceiling of the present invention.
- the suspended ceiling 43 In a prior art suspended ceiling installation without noise damping, ( Fig. 2a ), the suspended ceiling 43, is hung from a structural ceiling 22, by wire hangers 40 embedded in the structural ceiling at the top, and looped through about the grid beam 21 at the bottom. A single length of wire hanger 40 is used.
- a wire hanger is cut into two segments, 23 and 24, and secured to the structural ceiling 22 and suspended ceiling 43 as shown.
- a grid beam 21 is suspended from structural ceiling 22 by an upper wire segment 23 and a lower wire segment 24, connected to a sound attenuator 25.
- the upper wire segment 23 is looped through an eye bolt 26 explosively embedded in the structural ceiling 22, and manually twisted to close the loop 27. Similar connections are made to sound attenuator 25 at the bottom of segment 23 and at the top of the lower segment 24.
- a single length of wire hanger 40 is used to suspend a beam 21 at suspension points along the beam 21.
- a noise damper 41 is inserted onto grid beam 21 between the suspension loop 42 at the bottom of wire hanger 40 and the grid beam 21, to insulate the beam 21 from the wire hanger 40.
- the noise damper 41 of the invention deadens the sound vibrations from structural ceiling 22 as they travel down the wire hanger 40, before the vibrations reach the metal grid beam 21, in the suspended ceiling 43, which would serve as a receiver that would broadcast the noise to the space below.
- wire hanger 40 is looped through eye bolt 26 explosively embedded in structural ceiling 22, and the loop 44 is twisted closed.
- the lower end of wire hanger 40 is passed through hole 61 in noise damper 41 on grid beam 21, and passes through knock-out 46.
- Noise damper 41 has an inverted U-shaped upper portion 47 conforming in cross section to the bulb 48 of the grid beam 21, as seen particularly in Figure 5 .
- a flat lower portion 51 is intended to lie along the web 29 of the grid beam 21 as seen in Figure 5 .
- a raised insert 53 on flat lower portion 51 is shaped to conform to a knock-out 46, desirably with the shape of an arch 56 at the top. Lip retainers 57 hold the raised insert 53 firmly in the knock-out 46. An angled lip 58 on the U-shape clip portion 47 retains such U-shaped portion 47 of the noise damper 41 on the bulb 48 of the grid beam 21. A hole 61 that receives wire hanger 40 extends through the raised insert 53 and knock-out 46.
- the noise damper 41 is injection molded into one resilient integral piece from a vibration deadening material.
- a vibration deadening material is thermoplastic vulcanizate, an elastomer, that includes carbon black and a paraffin wax.
- Such material in pellet form, is injection molded into the form of the noise damper 41 insert of the invention.
- the noise damper 41 when molded, is flexible, and can readily expand when being inserted onto the grid beam 21, to envelope the grid beam 21 as depicted in the drawings.
- the noise damper 41 is inserted onto the beam by passing the inverted U-shape portion 47 vertically downward over the bulb 48 of grid beam 21 to seat raised insert 53 in knock-out 46.
- the noise damper 41 expands while being inserted onto the grid beam 21, and contracts to the position about the beam 21, and into knockout 46, as shown particularly in Figures 3 and 5 .
- a single length of wire hanger 40 which has been embedded previously in the structured ceiling, is then looped through the hole 61 in the noise damper 41, as shown in Figure 5 , and then twisted at 62 to close the loop.
- the metal wire hanger 40 is insulated from metal grid beam 21, while still structurally supporting the grid beam 21.
- a series of wire hangers 40 and noise dampers 41 are applied at, for instance, four (4) foot intervals along the main grid beams 21.
- the knock-outs 46 may be pre-punched at more frequent intervals, along the beam, and the noise dampers inserted selectively.
- the knock-outs 46 do not appreciatively affect the strength of the grid beams 21.
- the hanger 40 which acts as a sound path from the structural ceiling 22 noise source to the suspended ceiling 43 which acts as a receiver is interrupted and dampened by the noise damper 41 of the invention.
- the noise dampers 41 can be inserted at the job site as the grid beams 21 are being hung, or in the alternative, the noise dampers 41 can be inserted on the grid beams 21 before the grid beams 21 themselves are shipped to the job site.
- wire hangers 40 In case of a fire, even though the noise dampers 41 of the invention are destroyed, wire hangers 40 continue to support the grid beams 21, since the wire hangers 40 remain attached to the grid beams 21.
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Description
- The invention relates to noise control in suspended ceilings. Such suspended ceilings have a grid of intersecting metal beams that are suspended by hangers from a structural ceiling. Panels or drywall sheets are supported on the grid.
- Noise generated in the structural ceiling, which is frequently a floor for the space above, is transmitted by sound vibrations passing downward through the hangers, which form a sound path, to the grid of the suspended ceiling. The suspended ceiling, which includes panels or drywall sheets attached to the beams in the grid, forms a receiver for the sound vibrations, which broadcasts the resulting unwanted noise to the space below.
- The invention deals with deadening such sound vibrations coming down the hangers.
- Suspended ceilings are constructed in a special way so that the ceilings are extremely stable. Over many years, a standard way of constructing such ceilings has evolved. Suspended ceilings are constructed at a building site by individually explosively embedding an anchor such as an eye bolt, into the structural ceiling, and then attaching a hanger, such as a wire, to the anchor, by twisting the wire about the anchor. The lower end of the hanger is attached to a metal beam in a grid that supports panels, or drywall sheets, by looping the hanger through a hole in the web of the beam and twisting the loop closed around the bulb and a segment of the beam.
- The substantial weight of the suspended ceiling is spread among numerous hangers that are spaced every few feet along the main beams in the grid. Each hanger must be individually secured to the structural ceiling, and to the grid beam, by an installer who must keep the grid of interconnected main and cross beams level at a desired height. Much time and effort is required to hang a suspended ceiling grid from a structural ceiling.
- Much more time and effort is required where sound attenuator devices that dampen the vibrations coming down a hanger sound path, from noise generated in a structural ceiling, are used.
- In the prior art, to control noise in a suspended ceiling, a noise attenuator is individually inserted by the installer, about midway in the length of a wire hanger -that is cut into two segments. An upper segment of the wire hanger is first secured at its top to the structural ceiling, and at its bottom, to a top terminal in the attenuator. A lower segment of the wire hanger is connected at the top to a bottom terminal in the attenuator, and then, at the bottom of the lower segment, to the grid beam.
- In such prior art attenuator, the upper and lower metal terminals are separated from each other by a suitable amount of sound vibration damping material, such as gum rubber. Sound vibrations coming down the wire hanger sound path from the structural ceiling, which frequently serves as a floor for the building level above, are absorbed in the noise attenuator.
- The insertion of such prior art noise attenuators in a wire hanger that must be divided into two segments is time and labor consuming, since the normally single segment of a wire hanger must not only be divided into two segments, but each segment must then be secured to the noise attenuator by passing the hanger through an attenuator terminal, and then twisting the hanger back around the segment. Thus, instead of just two attachments of a single segment of a wire hanger at an upper end to the structural ceiling, and at its lower end to a grid beam itself, as in prior art suspended ceilings with no noise attenuation, there are two additional attachments involving threading the wire hanger through a hole, and then twisting the wire hanger back upon itself, to the noise attenuator.
- Such manual cutting, threading, and twisting must be individually custom performed by the installer of the grid in the field during the construction of the ceiling, since good judgment must be exerted at each wire hanger to keep the grid level, through controlling the length of the wire hanger suspensions.
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CA 2 586 524 A1 discloses a suspended ceiling having grid beams suspended from the ceiling structure by hangers. The hangers comprise a star-shaped element made of metal having three extensions. The grid beam is suspended on two of the extensions. A sleeve made of isolating material extends through the third extension. A wire is passed through the sleeve. The wire is fixed to the ceiling structure. -
US 4 624 088 A discloses a suspended ceiling comprising elongated support members securely attached to joists. The support members include slots in which wishbone-shaped springs extend with two legs. The third leg extends downwards and has a ring-shaped head on its end. A grid beam is attached to the head by a wire extending through the head and an opening though the grid beam. -
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DE 100 15 477 A1 discloses a suspended ceiling according to the preamble of claim 1 having hangers to which attachment parts are mounted which encompass a supporting beam. In the area of the attachment parts an isolation layer of fire-retardant material is arranged such that a direct metal contact between the hangers and the supporting beam is interrupted. - A suspended ceiling according to claim 1 in which a noise damper, of material that deadens sound vibrations coming down a hanger, is inserted between the grid beam and a hanger in the construction of the suspended ceiling.
- The noise damper insulates the entire hanger attached to the structural ceiling from contact with the metal grid beam in the suspended ceiling, so the sound vibrations passing down the hanger are deadened in the noise damper. The noise damper, however, does not interfere with the structural support of the grid beam and suspended ceiling by the hangers, which are generally of wire, but permissibly of other material having adequate tensile strength to support the suspended ceiling.
- The time required to install a suspended ceiling with the present invention is virtually the same as the time required to install a prior art suspended ceiling without any noise damping. In the present invention, the noise damper, which is of a resilient, sound vibration deadening material, can be merely inserted into place, and the hanger attached to the beam by looping a wire hanger through a knock-out in the beam, as done in the prior art in a suspended ceiling that is not sound dampened.
- The knock-out can be shaped so the stress that the suspended ceiling imparts to the hanger where it passes through the knock-out is distributed over a section of the noise damper, rather than concentrated at the site of the hanger.
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Figure 1 is a perspective view of the noise damper of the invention. -
Figure 2 is an elevational view comparing- (a) a prior art suspended ceiling segment without noise damping;
- (b) a prior art ceiling segment with noise damping; and
- (c) a suspended ceiling with the noise damper of the invention
Figure 3 is a side elevational view of a noise damper in place on a grid beam with a wire hanger looped through the noise damper and beam.
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Figure 4 is an exploded perspective view of a section of a grid beam showing a knock-out that seats a conforming raised section of a noise damper. -
Figure 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 5-5 inFigure 3 . - Although the invention is illustrated with hangers of wires, which is the predominant material used to suspend present day ceilings, the invention can be used with other forms of hangers, such as rods, or chains.
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Figure 2 , there is shown comparatively (a) a prior art ceiling without noise damping; (b) a prior art ceiling with noise damping; and (c) the noise dampened suspended ceiling of the present invention. In a prior art suspended ceiling installation without noise damping, (Fig. 2a ), the suspendedceiling 43, is hung from astructural ceiling 22, bywire hangers 40 embedded in the structural ceiling at the top, and looped through about thegrid beam 21 at the bottom. A single length ofwire hanger 40 is used. - In
Figure 2b , a wire hanger is cut into two segments, 23 and 24, and secured to thestructural ceiling 22 and suspendedceiling 43 as shown. Agrid beam 21 is suspended fromstructural ceiling 22 by anupper wire segment 23 and a lower wire segment 24, connected to a sound attenuator 25. Theupper wire segment 23 is looped through aneye bolt 26 explosively embedded in thestructural ceiling 22, and manually twisted to close the loop 27. Similar connections are made to sound attenuator 25 at the bottom ofsegment 23 and at the top of the lower segment 24. At the bottom of the lower segment 24, there is formed a loop 27 that passes through ahole 28 in theweb 29 ofgrid beam 21. The loop 27 is closed by twisting the wire hanger segment 24. - In the present invention, as shown in
Fig. 2c , a single length ofwire hanger 40 is used to suspend abeam 21 at suspension points along thebeam 21. Anoise damper 41 is inserted ontogrid beam 21 between the suspension loop 42 at the bottom ofwire hanger 40 and thegrid beam 21, to insulate thebeam 21 from thewire hanger 40. Thenoise damper 41 of the invention deadens the sound vibrations fromstructural ceiling 22 as they travel down thewire hanger 40, before the vibrations reach themetal grid beam 21, in the suspendedceiling 43, which would serve as a receiver that would broadcast the noise to the space below. - At the top, the
wire hanger 40 is looped througheye bolt 26 explosively embedded instructural ceiling 22, and theloop 44 is twisted closed. The lower end ofwire hanger 40 is passed throughhole 61 innoise damper 41 ongrid beam 21, and passes through knock-out 46. -
Noise damper 41 has an inverted U-shapedupper portion 47 conforming in cross section to thebulb 48 of thegrid beam 21, as seen particularly inFigure 5 . A flatlower portion 51 is intended to lie along theweb 29 of thegrid beam 21 as seen inFigure 5 . - A raised
insert 53 on flatlower portion 51 is shaped to conform to a knock-out 46, desirably with the shape of an arch 56 at the top.Lip retainers 57 hold the raisedinsert 53 firmly in the knock-out 46. Anangled lip 58 on theU-shape clip portion 47 retains suchU-shaped portion 47 of thenoise damper 41 on thebulb 48 of thegrid beam 21. Ahole 61 that receiveswire hanger 40 extends through the raisedinsert 53 and knock-out 46. - The
noise damper 41 is injection molded into one resilient integral piece from a vibration deadening material. An example of such a material is thermoplastic vulcanizate, an elastomer, that includes carbon black and a paraffin wax. Such material, in pellet form, is injection molded into the form of thenoise damper 41 insert of the invention. Thenoise damper 41, when molded, is flexible, and can readily expand when being inserted onto thegrid beam 21, to envelope thegrid beam 21 as depicted in the drawings. - The
noise damper 41 is inserted onto the beam by passing the invertedU-shape portion 47 vertically downward over thebulb 48 ofgrid beam 21 to seat raisedinsert 53 in knock-out 46. Thenoise damper 41 expands while being inserted onto thegrid beam 21, and contracts to the position about thebeam 21, and intoknockout 46, as shown particularly inFigures 3 and 5 . - A single length of
wire hanger 40, which has been embedded previously in the structured ceiling, is then looped through thehole 61 in thenoise damper 41, as shown inFigure 5 , and then twisted at 62 to close the loop. - In this manner, the
metal wire hanger 40 is insulated frommetal grid beam 21, while still structurally supporting thegrid beam 21. - A series of
wire hangers 40 andnoise dampers 41 are applied at, for instance, four (4) foot intervals along the main grid beams 21. The knock-outs 46 may be pre-punched at more frequent intervals, along the beam, and the noise dampers inserted selectively. The knock-outs 46 do not appreciatively affect the strength of the grid beams 21. - By means of the present invention, as set forth above, the
hanger 40 which acts as a sound path from thestructural ceiling 22 noise source to the suspendedceiling 43 which acts as a receiver is interrupted and dampened by thenoise damper 41 of the invention. - The noise dampers 41 can be inserted at the job site as the grid beams 21 are being hung, or in the alternative, the
noise dampers 41 can be inserted on the grid beams 21 before the grid beams 21 themselves are shipped to the job site. - In case of a fire, even though the
noise dampers 41 of the invention are destroyed,wire hangers 40 continue to support the grid beams 21, since thewire hangers 40 remain attached to the grid beams 21.
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- A suspended ceiling having grid beams (21) comprising a web (29) suspended from a structural ceiling (43) by hangers (40), wherein a noise damper (41) of resilient sound vibration damping material is in contact with the grid beam (21) that insulates a hanger (40) from the grid beam (21), characterized in that the noise damper (41) extends through a knock-out (46) in the web (29) of the beam (21).
- The suspended ceiling according to claim 1, wherein the shape of the knock-out (46) has an arch at the top that distributes force on the beam (21) imparted by a hanger (40) extending through the knock-out (46).
- The suspended ceiling according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the hangers are wire hangers (40) being capable of continuing to support the ceiling (43) during a fire.
- The suspended ceiling according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the noise damper (41) is in a form capable of being inserted onto a grid beam (21), and retained on the grid beam (21) by angled lips (58) on the wrap.
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