Spa fixture lighting system

• US 10,378,707 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2018
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• 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 D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Crane, Lauren A
• Application Number:
  US16/160,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20190086042A1
• Time in Patent Office: 302 Days
• 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, comprising:

a light transmissive grommet configured to extend through a spa shell wall from a water side to a backside, the light transmissive grommet having a light reflection cavity;

a plurality of lights disposed in the light reflection cavity of the light transmissive grommet; and

a spa fixture seated in the light transmissive grommet with a first friction fit;

wherein the first friction fit provides the light transmissive grommet with a second friction fit with the spa shell wall.

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

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the spa fixture is a diverter valve.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein each light of the plurality of lights is spaced circumferentially about a longitudinal axis of the light transmissive grommet.

5. A spa fixture lighting system, comprising:

a light transmissive grommet configured to extend through a spa shell wall from a water side to a backside; and

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

wherein the first friction fit provides the light transmissive grommet with a second friction fit with the spa shell wall.

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

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

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the spa fixture is formed of at least one of:

a color pigmented plastic and a clear plastic.

9. The system of claim 5, further comprising a plurality of lights.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of lights are disposed on at least one of:

a flexible disk, a flexible ring, and a flexible cable.

11. The system of claim 9, further comprising a plurality of ports extending into the light transmissive grommet.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein each light of the plurality of lights extends into a respective port of the plurality of ports, and wherein each light of the plurality of lights is an LED port.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the plurality of LED ports comprise at least one of:

a grommet sidewall diagonal slot, a grommet sidewall diagonal port, and a grommet sidewall vertical port.

14. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

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

15. A spa fixture lighting system, comprising:

a grommet for extending through a spa shell wall with a first friction fit;

said grommet configured to transmit light from a light source; and

a spa fixture for extending through the spa shell wall, the spa fixture configured for seating in the grommet with a second friction fit.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the light source is disposed on the grommet.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the grommet is a light transmissive grommet configured to transmit light from the light source.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the light source comprises a plurality of lights.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein each light of the plurality of lights is spaced circumferentially about a longitudinal axis of the grommet.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the plurality of lights are disposed on at least one of:

a flexible disk, a flexible ring, and a flexible cable.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein the light source is disposed on an axial bottom surface of said grommet.

22. The system of claim 15, wherein said grommet comprises a plurality of holes along an axial bottom surface of said grommet.