Torsion spring panel bars and construction method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9879424
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15615928

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A suspended ceiling system comprising a plurality of spaced parallel main runners, a plurality of spaced parallel panel support bars intersecting and being fixed to the main runners at an oblique angle, a plurality of rhomboidal panels having angles equal to said oblique angle suspended from the bars, the panels having nominal width dimensions that are equal to or whole fractions of a distance between adjacent runners, the panels having opposed first edges extending perpendicularly to a direction in which a width of a panel is measured and opposed second parallel edges extending in a direction that is at said oblique angle relative to a direction that the first edges extend, the second panel edges underlying respective bars and having attached torsion springs received in slots formed in the bars.

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USG INTERIORS LLC550 WEST ADAMS STREET #189 CHICAGO IL 60661-3676

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Gulbrandsen, Peder J Aurora, US 61 753
Underkofler, Abraham M Salem, US 51 542

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