Vertical ceiling assembly and clip elements therefor

摘要

A ceiling assembly including a plurality of suspended stringers parallel to each other and an array of horizontally elongated panels extending beneath and transversely of the stringers in spaced parallel relation to each other with major surfaces of the panels oriented vertically, wherein the panels are suspended from the stringers by means of clip elements each having an upper portion received in slots in a stringer and a lower, spring clip portion gripping an upper marginal portion of a panel. Each stringer is a downwardly-opening channel member having paired opposed slots formed therein. The upper portion of each clip element has a pair of opposed tabs respectively received in an opposed pair of such slots, and shaped so as to be readily insertable but to be effectively locked in place after insertion in the stringer slots. The clip elements can be bent intermediate their upper and lower portions for orienting the major surface planes of the panels at a desired angle to the stringers, so that the panel major surface planes are vertical when the stringers are pitched at an angle to the horizontal, as over a stairway.