Method and apparatus for constructing removable partition walls

Abstract

Abstract A WALL STRUCTURE IN WHICH CHANNEL-SHAPED STUDS ARE SUPPORTED IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP BY CHANNEL CEILING AND FLOOR RUNNERS, THE PARALLEL LEGS OF THE STUDS PROVIDING SIDE SURFACES HAVING LATERALLY SPACED PAIRS OF SLOTS AT LONGITUDINALLY SPACED INTERVALS, WALL FORMING PANELS BEING REMOVABLY MOUNTED ON THE STUDS WITH MARGINAL HOOK MEMBERS. THE PANELS ARE DELIVERED TO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE WITH THE HOOK MEMBERS COPLANAR WITH THE INNER SURFACE OF THE PANELS. THE HOOKS ARE THEN BENT AT THE SITE INTO INWARDLY PROJECTING POSITION TO EXTEND INTO ONE LONGITUDINAL SET OF THE SLOTS OF THE SLOT PAIRS ON THE STUDS, THE HOOK MEMBERS OF THE OTHER ADJACENT WALL PANEL BEING ARRANGED TO EXTEND INTO THE OTHER SET OF THE SLOTS OF THE SLOT PAIRS. THE STUDS REST UPON FLOOR WEDGES WHICH LOCK THE STUDS INTO REGISTRY WITH A CEILING RUNNER WHICH THUS BECOMES THE REFERENCE POINT FOR VERTICAL ALIGNMENT OF THE WALL PANELS. THE WALL STRUCTURE IS ASSEMBLED BY WEDGING A FIRST STUD IN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT IN REGISTRY WITH THE CEILING RUNNER, HANGING A FIRST WALL PANEL FROM THE STUD, PLACING A SECOND STUD ASKEW BETWEEN WALL AND CEILING RUNNERS AND ROTATING OR TWISTING THE STUD INTO FINAL POSITION BY ENGAGING THE UNATTACHED MARGINAL HOOKS OF THE FIRST PANEL IN THE SLOTS OF THE STUD AND THEN LIFTING THE STUD AGAINST THE CEILING RUNNER AND WEDGING THE STUD IN THAT REFERENCE POSITION, WHICH RELATES THE HOOKS AND THE STUD IN FINAL ENGAGEMENT. SUCCEEDING WALL PANELS ARE HUNG AND SUCCEEDING STUDS PUT IN PLACE IN LIKE MANNER, WHILE THE PANELS OF THE OTHER WALL FACE ARE ATTACHED DURING OR AFTER THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST WALL FACE.

Inventors

• 👤 David M Satkin
• 👤 Gene B Helvie
• 👤 Charles J Tillotson

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