Support bar for suspended ceiling light fixture

Claim 1

The support bar for supporting a light fixture within a suspended ceiling system, the suspended ceiling system being composed of main runner structures which are generally of an inverted T shape with an upwardly extending vertical web, said support bar structure being of a length approximately that of the spacing between two adjacent main runner structures, said support bar having two pivotally-connected legs at the ends of the support bar structure, said pivoted legs having means on the ends of the legs for engaging the top ponly of the vertical web of the main runner structures to support the support bar in position on two adjacent main runner structures, said legs for the support bar are generally U-shaped with two sides and a connecting part and with the ends of the two sides of the U shape extending on either side of the main body of the support bar, each of the sides at their ends near the connecting part containing a notch which engages only the top of the vertical web of the main runner structure and the connecting part between the two sides of the Ushaped leg being positioned on one side of the vertical web of the main runner structure.