Ceiling system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9637919-B2
Application number	US-201615048094-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2016
Priority date	Sep 29, 2014
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

A ceiling system is disclosed in which two type of ceiling panels are mounted in a support grid. In one embodiment, the ceiling system may comprise: a support grid defining a plurality of grid openings; a plurality of grid-concealment ceiling panels mounted to the support grid and disposed in the grid openings, each of the grid-concealment ceiling panels comprising peripheral edge portions which extend beneath and at least partially conceal the support grid; and one or more tegular ceiling panels mounted to the support grid and disposed within the grid openings, wherein the one or more tegular ceiling panels do not extend beneath the support grid.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A ceiling system comprising:
a support grid defining a rectilinear array of grid openings;
a plurality of grid-concealment ceiling panels mounted to the support grid and disposed in the grid openings;
a plurality of tegular ceiling panels mounted to the support grid and disposed in the grid openings; and
wherein the grid-concealment ceiling panels and the tegular ceiling panels are mounted to the support grid in a checkerboard pattern of the grid-concealment ceiling panels and the tegular ceiling panels; and
wherein the grid-concealment ceiling panels have a different edge profile than the tegular ceiling panels.

2. The ceiling system according to claim 1 , wherein each of the grid openings of the rectilinear array is circumscribed by downward facing grid faces of the support grid.

3. The ceiling system of claim 2 , wherein each of the grid-concealment ceiling panels include peripheral edge portions which extend beneath and at least partially conceal the downward facing grid faces of the support grid that circumscribe the grid opening of the rectilinear array in which the grid-concealment ceiling panel is disposed.

4. The ceiling system of claim 3 , wherein for each of the grid-concealment ceiling panels, the peripheral edge portions conceal at least majority of a width of the downward facing grid faces of the support grid that circumscribe the grid opening of the rectilinear array in which the grid-concealment ceiling panel is disposed.

5. A ceiling system comprising:
a support grid defining a rectilinear array of grid openings;
a plurality of grid-concealment ceiling panels mounted to the support grid and disposed in the grid openings;
a plurality of tegular ceiling panels mounted to the support grid and disposed in the grid openings; and
wherein the grid-concealment ceiling panels and the tegular ceiling panels are mounted to the support grid in a checkerboard pattern of the grid-concealment ceiling panels and the tegular ceiling panels; and
wherein each of the grid-concealment ceiling panels comprises a top surface, a bottom surface, a first peripheral edge, a second peripheral edge opposite the first peripheral edge, a third peripheral edge, a fourth peripheral edge opposite the third peripheral edge, a first corner region extending between the first and third peripheral edges, a second corner region extending between the second and fourth peripheral edges opposite the first corner region, a third corner region extending between the third and second peripheral edges, and a fourth corner region extending between the fourth and first peripheral edges opposite the third corner region; and wherein for each of the grid-concealment ceiling panels, the first corner region has a shape that is configured to mate with a shape of the second corner region, and the third corner region has a shape that is configured to mate with a shape of the fourth corner region.

6. The ceiling system of claim 5 , wherein for diagonally adjacent ones of the grid-concealment panels in the checkerboard pattern, either the first and second corner regions mate with one another or the third and fourth corner regions mate with one another.

7. The ceiling system of claim 6 , wherein for each of the grid-concealment ceiling panels, the first, second, third, and fourth corners regions are linear and the first, second, third, and fourth peripheral edges are linear.

8. The ceiling system of claim 1 , wherein each of the grid-concealment ceiling panels comprises a bottom surface and each of the tegular ceiling panels comprises a bottom surface; and wherein the bottom surfaces of the grid-concealment ceiling panels and the bottom surfaces of the tegular ceiling panels all lie in the same plane.

9. The ceiling system of claim 1 , wherein each of the grid openings of the rectilinear array is circumscribed by downward facing grid faces of the support grid; wherein each of the grid-concealment ceiling panels include peripheral edge portions which extend beneath and at least partially conceal the downward facing grid faces of the support grid that circumscribe the grid opening of the rectilinear array in which the grid-concealment ceiling panel is disposed; and wherein the tegular ceiling panels do not extend beneath the downward facing grid faces of the support grid that circumscribe the grid openings of the rectilinear array in which the filler ceiling panels are disposed.

10. A ceiling system comprising:
a support grid defining an array of grid openings;
a plurality of first type ceiling panels mounted to the support grid and disposed in the grid openings, the first type ceiling panels arranged in diagonal rows in the support grid; and
a plurality of second type ceiling panels mounted to the support grid and disposed in the grid openings, the second type ceiling panels arranged in diagonal rows between the diagonal rows of the first type ceiling panels, and the first and second type ceiling panels being different from one another;
wherein each of the first type ceiling panels comprises a bottom surface and each of the second type ceiling panels comprises a bottom surface; and wherein the bottom surfaces of the first type ceiling panels and the bottom surfaces of the second type ceiling panels all lie in the same horizontal plane.

11. The ceiling system of claim 10 , wherein each of the first type ceiling panels comprises peripheral edge portions which extend beneath and at least partially conceal the support grid.

12. The ceiling system of claim 10 , wherein the peripheral edge portions of diagonally adjacent ones of the first type ceiling panels meet beneath the support grid at mutually configured corner regions, each defining an outward angled corner surface.

13. The ceiling system of claim 11 , wherein the corner surfaces having a linear profile.

14. The ceiling system of claim 10 , wherein each of the grid openings of the array is circumscribed by downward facing grid faces of the support grid; wherein each of the first type ceiling panels include peripheral edge portions which extend beneath the downward facing grid faces of the support grid that circumscribe the grid opening in which the grid-concealment ceiling panel is disposed; and wherein for each of the first type ceiling panels, the peripheral edge portions conceal at least majority of a width of the downward facing grid faces of the support grid that circumscribe the grid opening in which the first type ceiling panel is disposed.

15. The ceiling system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of grid-concealment ceiling panels have a first thickness and each of the plurality of tegular ceiling panels have a second thickness, and wherein the first thickness and the second thickness are not equal.

16. The ceiling system of claim 10 , wherein each of the plurality of first type ceiling panels has a first thickness and each of the plurality of second type ceiling panels have a second thickness wherein the first thickness and the second thicknesses are not equal.

17. The ceiling system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of grid-concealment ceiling panels have a bottom major surface having a first surface area and each of the plurality of tegular ceiling panels have a bottom surface having a second surface area, wherein the first surface area is greater than the second surface area.

18. The ceiling system of claim 1 , wherein the support grid comprises at least one grid support member comprising:
a web; and
a bottom flange comprising a first portion and a second portion, where the first portion and the

Assignees

• Armstrong World Ind Inc
• Awi Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Bergman Todd M
• Vernau G Douglas
• Hanuschak Ryan D

Classifications

• E04B9/06

  characterised by constructional features of the supporting construction {, e.g. cross section or material of framework members} · CPC title

• E04B9/0435

  having connection means at the edges · CPC title

• E04B9/245

  by means of screws, bolts or clamping strips held against the underside of the supporting construction (E04B9/26 takes precedence) · CPC title

• E04B9/30

  characterised by edge details of the ceiling; e.g. securing to an adjacent wall · CPC title

• E04B9/26 Primary

  by means of snap action of elastically deformable elements {held against the underside of the supporting construction} · CPC title