US3362122A - Construction of sub-ceilings - Google Patents

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US3362122A
US3362122A US437706A US43770665A US3362122A US 3362122 A US3362122 A US 3362122A US 437706 A US437706 A US 437706A US 43770665 A US43770665 A US 43770665A US 3362122 A US3362122 A US 3362122A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B9/00—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation
    • E04B9/04—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation comprising slabs, panels, sheets or the like
    • E04B9/0428—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation comprising slabs, panels, sheets or the like having a closed frame around the periphery
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R25/00—Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B9/00—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation
    • E04B9/003—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation with movable parts, e.g. pivoting panels, access doors
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B9/00—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation
    • E04B9/04—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation comprising slabs, panels, sheets or the like
    • E04B9/0478—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation comprising slabs, panels, sheets or the like of the tray type
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B9/00—Ceilings; Construction of ceilings, e.g. false ceilings; Ceiling construction with regard to insulation
    • E04B9/22—Connection of slabs, panels, sheets or the like to the supporting construction

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  • the invention relates to the method of forming a sub-ceiling and the structure involved therein comprising, alternate rows of flanged support panels and flanged cladding panels, the support panels are arranged in reinforced units of two or more, attached to hangers extending downwardly from the ceiling.
  • the cladding panels are secured between and to the flanges of the support panels.
  • the securing means comprise spring metal clips with tapered ends which pass through aligned openings in adjacent face contacting flanges and lock the cladding panels to the sides of the suspended support panels.
  • the invention relates to the construction of sub-ceilings, i.e., ceiling liners for rooms, halls and the like.
  • the supporting structure in the form of laths, profiled rails, tubular frames or the like to be mounted on the ceiling structure of the building, to which the individual panels are then attached.
  • the individual panels are applied to the supporting structure such as by screwing.
  • the thin-walled sheets of metal are used as the panels, the sides thereof are clamped into specially designed metal sections of the supporting structure.
  • the sub-ceiling comprises supporting units and cladding units.
  • the supporting units are assembled from a plurality of panels and are suspended from the ceiling structure so as to leave gaps which are subsequently covered by the cladding units. It is desirable for the supporting units to be formed by joining two or more panels into a rigid assembly by connecting bars.
  • the connecting bars can comprise flat strips of sheet metal with perforations to receive countersinkable fastening rivets and they contain notches which are engaged over adjacent flanges on the panels.
  • the supporting units are preferably provided near the corners with connecting devices or, the lower portions of which are recessed at both sides to accommodate the flanges on the supporting unit when the latter is hanging vertically during assembly. For this pur pose the flanges are preferably also recessed at the corners.
  • the cladding units may be fixed to the supporting units by spring hinges.
  • These springs can comprise a curved strip of sheet metal with one end bent to U-shape and containing a hole and the other end terminating in a tongue.
  • the U-shaped end is attached to the inside of a flange on the cladding unit by rivets or the like and in such a way that the tongue passes through to the outside through a hole in the flange.
  • the supporting unit is attached to the ceiling structure by the connecting device and wire rods and/or slotted band iron; the connecting device is used for accurate adjustment of the level of suspension, i.e., the spacing between the sub-ceiling and the ceiling structure and also to join juxtaposed supporting units.
  • the turnbuckle has an adjusting screw for the wire rod and/ or slotted band iron at the top to adjust the level and securing means at the bottom to join the adjacent units.
  • the cladding unit is attached to the supporting units by screws or the aforementioned horizontally movable spring hinges.
  • the projecting tongue acts as a support in a corresponding aperture in the flange of the adjacent panel of the supporting unit. If the spring is flexed back, the cladding unit is released and swings down in the manner of a flap without dropping out When the panel is pushed back into position to reclose the gap in the ceiling the spring hinge snaps back.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a supporting unit made up of three panels
  • FIG. 2 shows a strip of sheet metal for the supporting units
  • FIG. 3 shows in perspective some of the supporting and cladding units in the final position and in a hanging position
  • FIG. 4 illustrates part of two adjacent supporting units joined by a connecting device with a wire for attachment to the ceiling structure
  • FIG. 5 is a similar view but with one of the supporting units still in a hanging position
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a spring hinge
  • FIG. 7 is a plan view of the connection provided by the spring hinge between a cladding unit and a supporting unit
  • FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the same connection with the cladding unit in a hanging position.
  • the sub-ceiling 1 is formed by supporting units 2 and cladding units 3.
  • the supporting unit comprises three flanged panels 4, while in FIG. 3 each said unit is made up of two panels.
  • the panels 4 are joined to form the supporting unit 2 by a strip 5 as illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • This strip of sheet metal contains slots or notches 6 and holes 7.
  • the slots 6 are placed over the adjacent flanges 8 of the adjoining panels 4, and the holes 7 correspond to holes 9 in the flanges 10 of the panels 4.
  • the strips of sheet metal 5 are joined to the panels 4, for example by rivets passing through the holes 7, 9.
  • the supporting units 2 are then suspended from the ceiling structure 13 by means of connecting devices 11 and hanging wires 12.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 the adjacent panels 4 of two supporting units are interconnected by the connecting devices 11 by means of a screw 14 which is applied to the lower region of the connecting devices 11 and which pass through openings 9a.
  • FIG. 4 the two supporting units are in their final horizontal position.
  • FIG. 5 shows them during assembly, that is to say, one of the supporting units is already in the final position but the other is still in the hanging position. Corner recesses 15 in the flanges then fit into recesses 16 in the connecting devices 11.
  • the cladding units in this case single panels 3, are then inserted in the gaps 17. This is done by means of the spring hinges 18 shown in FIG. 6.
  • the spring comprises a U-shaped portion 19 with a slot 20 and a bent end 21 terminating in a tongue 22.
  • the hinge 18 is fixed to the flange 24 of the cladding panel 3 by a rivet 23.
  • the tongue 22 of the hinge passes through the hole 25 in the cladding panel 3.
  • the free end of the spring 18 is first flexed back far enough to bring the tongue 22 of the hinge out of the way of the panel 4 of the supporting unit.
  • the spring 18 is released, so that the tongue 22 of the hinge snaps into the perforation 26 in the panel of the supporting unit under its own resilience and thereby establishes the desired releasable connection.
  • a sub-ceiling for a ceiling structure comprising alternate rows of support panels and cladding panels, each of said panels being rectangular and having upstanding flanges along each of its four sides, means securing the adjacent flanges of at least three support panels together to form a support unit, said means securing said adjacent support panels comprising two metal strips extending longitudinally of the unit along the inner sides of the upstanding flanges and secured thereto and bridging the joints between adjacent panels, vertically extending connecting devices positioned at the ends only of said units for supporting said units from said ceiling, said connecting devices also securing the ends of adjacent units together to form a row, a spring hinge having a U-shaped end attached to the inside of a flange on the cladding panel and a tongue passing through a hole in said last named flange to the outside for engagement in a hole in the supporting unit and thereby pivotally connecting the cladding panels between and to adjacent flanges of adjacent rows of sup port units for vertical swinging movement to form a row of
  • a sub-ceiling according to claim 1, wherein the vertically extending connecting devices include turnbuckles, the lower portions of which are recessed on both sides to accommodate the flanges of the supporting unit where the latter is hanging vertically.

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US4665669A (en) * 1985-10-04 1987-05-19 Gema Bauelemente Ag Rectangular ceiling panels for false ceilings
US5050360A (en) * 1990-04-18 1991-09-24 Alcan Aluminum Corporation Suspended ceiling panel
CN107687222A (zh) * 2017-10-19 2018-02-13 浙江德清森朗装饰材料有限公司 一种多功用铝天花板

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US2698071A (en) * 1949-11-14 1954-12-28 Cepco Inc Light control fixture
US2648102A (en) * 1950-11-03 1953-08-11 Level Line Ceilings Inc Ceiling construction
US2710175A (en) * 1952-02-18 1955-06-07 Burgess Manning Co Heat exchange panel structure
GB941911A (en) * 1959-03-19 1963-11-13 Schmitt Hans Julius Improvements in suspended ceilings
US3121259A (en) * 1959-04-17 1964-02-18 Richard C Anisfield Ceiling mounting for recessed lighting fixtures
FR1227659A (fr) * 1959-06-16 1960-08-22 G Barbier & Cie Sa Plafond métallique suspendu
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US3828507A (en) * 1973-05-07 1974-08-13 Burgess Products Co Ltd False ceiling systems
US4665669A (en) * 1985-10-04 1987-05-19 Gema Bauelemente Ag Rectangular ceiling panels for false ceilings
US5050360A (en) * 1990-04-18 1991-09-24 Alcan Aluminum Corporation Suspended ceiling panel
CN107687222A (zh) * 2017-10-19 2018-02-13 浙江德清森朗装饰材料有限公司 一种多功用铝天花板
CN107687222B (zh) * 2017-10-19 2023-08-01 湖北登冠装饰材料有限公司 一种多功用铝天花板

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