Spa fixture lighting system

• US 10,145,523 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: B & R Plastics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: B & R Plastics Incorporated
• Inventors: Hillyard, Jason W., Fuentes, Luis E
• Primary Examiner(s): CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY
• Application Number:
  US14/666,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20150267883A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,352 Days
• Field of Search: 45461
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2033/0083 Illumination
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0111 watertight
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0188 Illumination related features
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 33/005 Electrical circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 33/0087 Therapeutic baths with agitated or circulated water
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 33/6005 Special constructive structural details of the bathtub, e.g. of the walls or supporting structure
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/024 intended to be recessed in a wall or like vertical structure, e.g. building facade
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 31/005 Sealing arrangements therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/401 for swimming pools
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0006 Coupling light into the fibre in general G02B6/4298

Abstract

A spa fixture lighting system assembly includes a wall-fitting nut having a threaded inner circumferential portion and an interior radial seat, and a light source disposed on a light source seat selected from the group consisting of the interior radial seat, an exterior radial sidewall of the wall-fitting nut, or an exterior circumferential sidewall of the wall-fitting nut.

Claims

1. A spa fixture lighting system assembly, comprising:

a spa shell wall having a water side and a backside;

a light transmissive wall fitting extending through the spa shell wall from the water side to the backside, the light transmissive wall fitting having a circumferential recess;

a plurality of lights spaced circumferentially in the circumferential recess, wherein the plurality of lights are spaced circumferentially immediately adjacent to the water side, wherein the plurality of lights are spaced circumferentially on a side of the light transmissive wall fitting that is opposite from the water side of the spa shell wall, and wherein the light transmissive wall fitting is a spa shell wall grommet; and

a spa fixture seated in the spa shell wall grommet with a friction fit;

wherein the friction fit provides the spa shell wall grommet with a friction fit with the spa shell wall.

2. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the spa fixture is a jet body.

3. The assembly of claim 2, wherein the spa fixture is a diverter valve.

4. The assembly of claim 3, wherein each of the plurality of lights are spaced circumferentially about a longitudinal axis of the spa shell grommet.

5. A spa fixture lighting system assembly, comprising:

a spa shell wall having a water side and a back side;

a light transmissive grommet extending through the spa shell wall from the water side to the back side, the light transmissive grommet having a plurality of ports extending into an exterior side of the light transmissive grommet;

a plurality of lights extending into the respective plurality of ports; and

a spa fixture extending through the spa shell wall and seated in the light transmissive grommet with a friction fit.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of lights extending into the respective plurality of ports is an LED port.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein each of the plurality of LED ports is a grommet sidewall diagonal slot.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein each of the plurality of LED ports is a grommet sidewall diagonal port.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein each of the plurality of LED ports is a grommet side wall vertical port.

10. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

an interior circumferential mating surface on an interior circumferential side of the light transmissive grommet.

11. The system of claim 5, wherein the spa fixture is a jet body.

12. The system of claim 5, wherein the spa fixture is a diverter valve.

13. The system of claim 5, wherein the plurality of lights are disposed on a flexible disk.

14. The system of claim 5, wherein the plurality of lights are disposed on an inner diameter of a flexible ring.

15. The system of claim 5, wherein the plurality of lights are disposed on a flexible cable.

16. The system of claim 5, wherein the spa fixture is formed of a color pigmented plastic.

17. The system of claim 5, wherein the spa fixture is formed of a clear plastic.