Suspended ceiling grid system

Claim 1

In a suspended ceiling system having spaced, parallel main runners and spaced, parallel cross runners positioned perpendicularly to said main runners to define a rectangular grid pattern for supporting rectangular ceiling tiles, each of said runners having a pair of webs and tile supporting flanges extending outwardly from the lower end portions of each of said webs to peripherally support said rectangular panel members, each of said runners further having a downwardly opening recessed area between said webs, the combination therewith of clip means carried by said main runners in underlying relationship at the intersection of said main and cross runners, said clip means being capable of spacing the tile supporting flanges of the main runners a predetermined distance apart, each clip means including normally horizontally disposed sections extending below said flanges of said main runners, an inverted upwardly extending substantially U-shaped portion between the horizontally disposed sections, said U-shaped portion engaging the inner surfaces of said webs above said flanges of said main runner, and upwardly extending fingers at the outer end of each of said horizontally disposed sections, said fingers being provided with engaging means capable of engaging the outer edges of the outwardly extending tile supporting flanges to hold the clip means in its assembled position.