Projector Lights

• US 10,156,777 B1
• Filed: 10/10/2017
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seasonal Specialties LLC (Seasonal Specialties)
• Original Assignee: Seasonal Specialties LLC (Seasonal Specialties)
• Inventors: Altamura, Steven J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dowling, William C
• Application Number:
  US15/729,137
• Time in Patent Office: 434 Days
• Field of Search: 362431
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/10 with light sources attached to loose electric cables, e.g. Christmas tree lights
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/0824 Ground spikes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/14 Adjustable mountings
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/10 Outdoor lighting
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/001 Slide projectors
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/142 Adjusting of projection optics
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/145 Housing details, e.g. position adjustments thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/20 Lamp housings
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2033 LED or laser light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2053 Intensity control of illuminating light controlled by video signal processing H04N5/74 or H04N9/31
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 33/08 Sequential recording or projection G03B33/02, G03B33/04, G03B33/06 take precedence

Abstract

A projection light source system and method of manufacture are shown in various embodiments. In one embodiment a single projector head (12) includes a light source (95) which projects through a condenser lens (90) and then an image transparency 120 which may be film or other digital media, and through an imaging lens 140 which is adjustable by rotation of a threaded cap 150. Adjustment of the image target location is achieved in part via an adjustment in the flange (20) which is rotatably connected to the head. Sequencing of images from a plurality of heads which are internally, remotely or IP controllable creates the ability project a succession of fixed images from a succession of heads either overlapping their target point or adjacent to create the effect of motion.

Claims

1. A projector lamp for projecting an image on a target, comprising:

a projection head, having circular housing;

a yoke having two circular arms joined at one end and open at the other end, the arms being resilient;

a planar extension from said yoke extending from where the arms are joined toward a distal end thereof, the extension including;

a sloping land projecting from said extension, the slope rising from the distal end of the extension;

a ground stake having an extension receiver, said receiver including an opening sized to receive a portion of said planar extension therein, said receiver including a face with a slot sized to receive said sloping land therethrough, said receiver being sufficiently deflectable to allow said sloping land to fit into said receiver and pass through said opening when said extension is received within said receiver, thereby removably locking the land in said slot;

said stake and said head being rotationally connected to each other through a rotational connection between said yoke and planar extension.

2. The projector lamp of claim 1 wherein said yoke includes a flange with an aperture and wherein said planar extension includes a flange with an aperture and wherein said flanges are rotationally joined through said aperture and fixable in position by a fastener through said apertures.

3. The projector lamp of claim 1 further including:

a housing;

a light condenser in said housing, said condenser having a recess on one faces, said received sized to receive at least part of the light source therein and surrounding at least part of the light source, the other face of the condenser including a domed projection surrounded by a circular recessed region;

a film transparency optically aligned with said light source;

an adjustable focusing head also optically aligned with said light source and said transparency, said focusing head by positionable along the focal axis to adjust the focus of said light source on the target.

4. The projection head of claim 3 with a controllable light source within the housing.

5. The projection head of claim 3 further including a programmable controller for actuating said light source with respect to any or all of the following parameters:

color, intensity, flashing, fading, latency or frequency of illumination.

6. The projector head of claim 3 wherein the circular recessed region on the condenser includes a peripheral edge, a concave sloped circular region and a spherical domed region centrally within and extending outwardly from the concave region, to disburse the light source output evenly through the film.

7. The projector head system of claim 3 wherein the individual projection heads contain controllers and timing is maintained by the frequency of the AC power, a carrier signal on a DC source, or a carrier signal on an AC source.

8. The system of claim 3 wherein each of said heads are positioned to point to substantially the same target and wherein the heads are sequentially activated to project different images, resulting the a visual effect of a moving image.

9. The system of claim 3 wherein each of said heads are positioned to point to sequentially adjacent targets and wherein the heads are sequentially activated to project different images, resulting the a visual effect of a moving image across the adjacent targets.