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A wall or partition system in which panels are supported by structural members to make up a full height wall or a low partition space divider, in which structural members embrace the margins of the panels, in which the structural members are useable with glazing stops to mount glass panels or panes,

A wall or partition system in which panels are supported by structural members to make up a full height wall or a low partition space divider, in which structural members embrace the margins of the panels, in which the structural members are useable with glazing stops to mount glass panels or panes, and in which the structural members have unique physical configuration which carry out the assembly schemes of simplicity and economy.

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A structural member for supporting a plurality of panels in a panel wall lay up: each structural member comprising a body formed of substantially rigid material having uniform thickness and having a base wall formed with spaced apart side walls at the opposite margins, a rib on said base wall, said

A structural member for supporting a plurality of panels in a panel wall lay up: each structural member comprising a body formed of substantially rigid material having uniform thickness and having a base wall formed with spaced apart side walls at the opposite margins, a rib on said base wall, said rib being of less length than said side walls and said rib and side walls projecting to the same side of said base wall and forming a pair of adjacent channels, said rib having an apex positioned for directing margins of a pair of wall panels into said channels, said rib holding the wall panels against said side walls in spaced relation; and means cooperating and being integral with each of said side walls for forming other channels for receiving the margins of additional wall panels, each said cooperating means being formed with a face wall engaged with said side wall and a flange spaced outwardly from a side wall and directed reversely thereto to form said other channels opening oppositely to the first mentioned channels, said side walls being angularly divergent as measured from said base wall so as to present to the margins of the wall panels a wedging surface on its opposite sides common to all of the channels, each of said flanges being of less dimension than said side walls to expose a portion of said side walls for directing the margins of a pair of wall panels into said other channels, each of said face walls engaged with said side walls being formed with a lip extending into the adjacent channel of said pair of adjacent panels to compensate for the angular divergence of said side walls and close the gap with an adjacent panel.