Resilient furring member

Claim 1

A sheet metal resilient runner for the attachment of gypsum wallboard to substantially vertical stud members, said runner comprising a base attaching flange disposed in a first plane, a turned over curved section integral with the base flange and merging into a flexible web having a width substantially equal to said base flange and laterally offset from the base flange thereby being disposed in a second plane in generally parallel spaced relation to said base flange, wherein said flexible web is provided with cut-out portions at longitudinally spaced intervals to expose a portion of said base attaching flange and said base attaching flange is provided with longitudinally spaced groups of attachment holes coinciding with said intervals of the cut-out portions in said flexible web, a first flange integral with said flexible web extending laterally at an obtuse angle from a continuous longitudinal edge of said web, a support portion coextensive and integral with the opposite edge of said first flange and disposed in a third plane in laterally offset generally parallel relation to said web, and a stop flange extending laterally from the opposite longitudinal edge of the support portion, said stop flange being disposed at an obtuse angle and inclined in a direction opposite to the inclination of said first flange so that the stop flange and said first flange incline toward each other.