Linear metal ceilings
The invention provides a carrier adapted to be fixed to the face of a grid tee, such as by screws, with spaced depending flanges that are formed with panel supporting hooks. The hooks are configured to support a variety of panel cross-sections and provide a strong coupling with complementarily shaped panel flanges.
1 . In combination, a carrier and a pair of non-reveal panels carried by the carrier, longitudinal edges of the panels abutting each other below a pair of oppositely extending hooks of a depending projection of the carrier, the panels having upstanding flanges with outturned lips, the lips of each panel engaged with an associated hook of the pair of oppositely extending hooks, an imaginary unobstructed straight line existing between a lowermost line of contact between the panels and a distal part of a flange of the upstanding flanges adjacent a juncture with its associated lip, whereby the flange can be removed with a flat tool inserted between the line of contact between panels.