Dual lampshade system with motion effects

• US 20030016523A1
• Filed: 07/11/2002
• Published: 01/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Timothy James Pickens
• Original Assignee: Timothy James Pickens
• Inventors: Pickens, Timothy James
• Application Number:
  US10/192,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20030016523A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/35
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 1/10 Rotating shades
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/00 Use or application of lighting devices or systems for decorative purposes, not provided for in codes F21W2102/00 – F21W2107/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/04 Signs, boards or panels, illuminated from behind the insignia

Abstract

A decorative display device comprising an electrically energized lamp, a pair of concentric lampshades surrounding the light bulb. The pair of concentric lampshades are configured so as to create a continuous airspace between the inner and outer lampshades. The outer lampshade has one or more apertures at predetermined locations, the apertures being shaped for a desired design. The outer lampshade has pictorial representation representing a predetermined theme. Inner lampshade pictorial representations are located so as to be viewable through the apertures in the outer lampshade. The inner or outer lampshades are configured with support arms to rotate relative to each other. Caricatures can be supported on arms and located in between the inner and outer lampshades for rotation therebetween to enhance the desired theme. The caricatures can also be made to oscillate up and down.

Claims

1. A decorative display device comprising:

a lamp having a base portion, the base portion further including a horizontal portion and a vertical member extending from the horizontal portion of the base portion to a light bulb socket, the light bulb socket for receiving a light bulb;

means for electrically energizing the lamp; and

a pair of concentric lampshades surrounding the light bulb, the pair of concentric lampshades comprising an outer and an inner lampshade and configured so as to create a continuous airspace between the inner and outer lampshades.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the outer and inner lampshades are symmetrically shaped to be of similar configuration so as to maintain a uniform spacing between the inner and outer lampshades.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the outer lampshade has one or more apertures at predetermined locations, the apertures being shaped for a desired design.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the outer lampshade has pictorial representation representing a predetermined theme.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein the inner lampshade has one or more pictorial representations at predetermined locations, the inner lampshade pictorial representations being located so as to be viewable through the one of more apertures in the outer lampshade.

6. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for rotating one of the inner and outer lampshades relative to the other.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the means for rotating one of the inner and outer lampshades relative to the other further comprises:

a plurality of support arms radially extending from a location near the light bulb socket to the one of the inner and outer lampshades.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein the means for rotating one of the inner and outer lampshades relative to the other includes an electric motor in mechanical communication with a hollow tube rotatably mounted over said vertical member.

9. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for rotating one or more caricatures in between the inner and outer lamp shades.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the outer lampshade has one or more apertures at predetermined locations, the apertures being shaped for a desired design.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein the outer lampshade has one or more pictorial representations representing a predetermined theme.

12. The device according to claim 10, wherein the inner lampshade has one or more pictorial representations at predetermined locations, the inner lampshade pictorial representations being located so as to be viewable through the one of more apertures in the outer lampshade.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the means for rotating the one or more caricatures in between the inner and outer lampshades further comprises:

a plurality of support arms radially extending from location near the light bulb socket to the one or more caricatures.

14. The device according to claim 9, wherein the means for rotating the one or more caricatures includes an electric motor in mechanical communication with a hollow tube rotatably mounted over said vertical member.

15. The device according to claim 13, wherein the one or more caricatures are located so as to be viewable through the one or more apertures in the outer lampshade when rotating by said one or more apertures.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein the outer lampshade has one or more pictorial representation representing a predetermined theme.

17. The device according to claim 15, wherein the one or more pictorial representations on the inner and outer lampshades and the one or more caricatures represent a predetermined theme.

18. The device according to claim 16, wherein the one or more pictorial representations on the inner and outer lampshades and the one or more caricatures represent a predetermined theme.

19. The device according to claim 13, wherein the means for rotating the one or more caricatures in between the inner and outer lampshades further comprises:

means for oscillating the one or more caricatures up and down as the one or more caricatures rotate between the inner and outer lampshades.

20. The device according to claim 7, wherein the means for rotating the one or more caricatures in between the inner and outer lampshades further comprises:

means for oscillating the one or more caricatures up and down as the one or more caricatures rotate between the inner and outer lampshades.