Mounting assembly for light fixture

• US 10,527,265 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2014
• Issued: 01/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting, LLC (Ideal Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting, LLC (Ideal Industries Incorporated)
• Inventors: Hobson, Charles O., Creasman, Ethan, Goelz, David P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weinhold, Ingrid M
• Application Number:
  US14/252,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20140218944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,094 Days
• Field of Search: 2482306, 2482301, 2482304, 2482305, 2482184, 2482193, 2482308, 362431, 362418, 362154, 362427, 362430, 362432, 403289, 4033591, 4033595
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/06 external, i.e. with contracting action F16B2/14 - F16B2/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/10 using pivoting jaws
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/005 of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/086 with lighting device attached sideways of the standard, e.g. for roads and highways
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/013 the housing being an extrusion
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/14 Adjustable mountings
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/26 Pivoted arms

Abstract

A mounting assembly for securing a light fixture to a static structure. The mounting assembly includes a bar and a securing member which has a bar-gripping portion and an arm portion extending from the bar-gripping portion and attachable to the static structure. The bar is secured with respect to a main body portion of the light fixture. The bar has an axis. The arm portion has an arm axis which is substantially orthogonal to the bar axis. In another aspect of this invention, the mounting assembly includes a fixture-holding portion and an arm portion secured to the fixture-holding portion. The fixture-holding portion is secured with respect to the light fixture. The arm portion configured for selective attachment to a substantially cylindrical static structure and a substantially planar surface.

Claims

1. A light-fixture mounting assembly comprising:

a bar having opposite bar ends and extending therebetween, each of the opposite bar ends being secured to respective bar supports extending from with a main body portion of a light fixture, the bar comprising exterior anti-rotational surface features including parallel flutes and grooves along a gripping region between the opposite bar ends, the bar spaced from the main body portion of the light fixture; and

a bar-gripping portion including first and second bar-grippers removably attached to one another and fully encircling and interlocking with the gripping region of the bar between the first and second bar-grippers, each of the bar-grippers having a bar-engaging surface with anti-rotational features including parallel flutes and grooves inter-engaged with and complementary to the exterior anti-rotational surface features along the gripping region of the bar; and

an arm portion extending from the bar-gripping portion and comprising a sleeve and a fitter at least partially enclosing the sleeve, the fitter having a distal end surface configured for abutting attachment to a substantially planar surface of a static-structure wall.

2. The mounting assembly of claim 1 wherein the sleeve is substantially cylindrical.

3. The mounting assembly of claim 1 wherein the arm portion has a mounting plate configured to be positioned against another surface of the static-structure wall, such surface being opposite the planar surface such that the static-structure wall is sandwiched between the mounting plate and the distal end surface.

4. The mounting assembly of claim 3 wherein the first bar-gripper holds the second bar-gripper when the second bar-gripper is moved from facing the first bar-gripper.

5. The mounting assembly of claim 4 wherein the bar-gripping portion has a front region forming a retaining feature which comprises a cross member and a hook hingedly engaging the cross member, each of which is formed by one of the first and second bar-grippers, the retaining feature permitting forward rotation of the second bar-gripper about the front region of the bar-gripping portion for engagement/disengagement of the securing member with/from the bar.

6. The mounting assembly of claim 5 wherein the bar-gripping portion has an arm-adjacent region defining mounting cavities in one of the first and second bar-grippers, the mounting cavities accepting fasteners which extend through the other of the first and second bar-grippers, thereby securing the bar-grippers together.

7. The mounting assembly of claim 3 wherein the bar-gripping portion holds the bar such that the light fixture is positionable to a selected one of a plurality of possible orientations.

8. The mounting assembly of claim 7 wherein:

the bar is substantially cylindrical; and

each of the bar-grippers has a semi-cylindrical bar-engaging surface, the semi-cylindrical bar-grippers surfaces together encircling and engaging the bar.

9. The mounting assembly of claim 1 wherein the distal end surface of the fitter has a flat surface portion for abutting attachment to the substantially planar surface of the static-structure wall.

10. The mounting assembly of claim 1 wherein the distal end surface of the fitter has a concave portion bordered by a pair of flat portions.

11. The mounting assembly of claim 1 being configured for adjustment of the light fixture to a selected one of a plurality of possible orientations.

12. A light-fixture mounting assembly comprising:

a bar secured with respect to a main body portion of a light fixture, the bar having opposite bar ends and extending therebetween, each of the opposite bar ends being supported between spaced supports extending from the main body portion of the light fixture, the bar comprising a gripping region between the opposite bar ends of the bar, the bar spaced from the main body portion, an exterior surface of the gripping region comprising exterior anti-rotational surface features; and

a securing member comprising a bar-gripping portion and an arm portion extending from the bar-gripping portion, the bar-gripping portion including first and second bar-grippers facing one another with the bar therebetween, each of the grippers comprising a semi-cylindrical bar-engaging surface with anti-rotational features including parallel flutes and grooves inter-engaged with and complementary to the exterior anti-rotational surface features along the gripping region of the bar, the second bar-gripper being removably attached to the first bar-gripper together fully encircling and interlocking with the gripping region of the bar, the arm portion comprising a sleeve and a fitter at least partially enclosing the sleeve, the fitter being a separate piece forming a fitter cavity receiving the sleeve and being secured thereto with fasteners extending through the fitter into the sleeve, the fitter having a distal end surface configured for abutting attachment to an exterior surface of a wall of a static structure.

13. The mounting assembly of claim 12 wherein the distal end surface has a concave portion for abutting attachment to the exterior surface which is substantially cylindrical.

14. The mounting assembly of claim 13 wherein the distal end surface also has flat portions bordering the concave portion for abutting attachment to a substantially planar exterior static-structure surface.

15. The mounting assembly of claim 12 wherein the distal end surface of the fitter has a flat surface portion for abutting attachment to the exterior surface which is substantially planar.

16. The mounting assembly of claim 12 wherein the arm portion has an enclosure wall defining an enclosure for electrical elements and wiring, the enclosure being accessible through an enclosure opening closed by a cover assembly.

17. The mounting assembly of claim 12 wherein the bar-gripping portion adjustably holds the bar such that the light fixture is positionable to a selected one of a plurality of possible orientations.

18. The mounting assembly of claim 12 wherein the arm portion has a mounting plate configured to be positioned against a surface of the static structure which is opposite the exterior surface such that the wall of the static structure is sandwiched between the mounting plate and the distal end surface.