INTERIOR CORNER MOUNTING MODULE FOR ROPE LIGHT SYSTEM

• US 20100127139A1
• Filed: 11/22/2008
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innovative Lighting, LLC
• Original Assignee: Innovative Lighting Incorporated
• Inventors: Bauer, Joshua G.
• Granted Patent: US 8,251,543 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/220.100
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/26 of rope form, e.g. LED lighting ropes, or of tubular form
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/037 for mounting in a corner, i.e. between adjacent walls or wall and ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/01 Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts F21V15/02 takes precedence housings forming signs or letters G09F13/04
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/015 Devices for covering joints between adjacent lighting devices; End coverings
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/004 mounted on the exterior of houses or other buildings to illuminate parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A mounting module for a rope light system which easily attaches to the surfaces of an interior corner of a structure that can retain and support a rope light without the need of a junction or brake in the rope light by holding the rope light in a flexure curve that does not stress the LEDS or electrical conductors of the rope light.

Claims

1. An interior corner mount module, comprising:

a pair of matching surfaces conforming to the angles of an interior corner;

a channel extending the length of said interior corner mount module;

a rail face extending the length of said interior corner mount module; and

a fastener accommodation located in a matching surface.

2. The interior corner mount module of claim 1, wherein a pair of rail faces are included, one on each side of said channel.

3. The interior corner mount module of claim 2, wherein the pair of rail faces are symmetrically similar.

4. The interior corner mount module of claim 2, wherein the pair of rail faces are symmetrically dissimilar.

5. The interior corner mount module of claim 1, further comprising a coupling extension attached to one of the proximal end of said rail faces.

6. The interior corner mount module of claim 1, further comprising a receiving cavity attached to one of the proximal ends of said rail faces.

7. The interior corner mount module of claim 1, wherein the pair of conforming angles constitutes a substantially ninety degree angle.

8. The interior corner mount module of claim 1, wherein the channel conforms to the design of a rope light.

9. The interior corner mount module of claim 8, wherein the channel is designed to retain a rope light.

10. The interior corner mount module of claim 8, wherein the fastener accommodations are substantially occluded by the rope light when the rope light is installed in the channel

11. The interior corner mount module of claim 1, wherein the fastener accommodation comprises a hole.

12. The interior corner mount module of claim 1, wherein the interior corner mount module is comprised by a pair of twin sections.

13. The interior corner mount module of claim 12, wherein the twin sections are identical.

14. The twin section of claim 13, further comprising an alignment guide.

15. The twin section of claim 13, further comprising a tension tab and catch.

16. A rope light system, comprising:

a corner mount module comprising a pair of matching surfaces conforming to the angles of an interior corner, a channel extending the length of said interior corner mount module, and a rail face extending the length of said interior corner mount module;

a pair of linear rails one each of which is attached to either end of the corner mount module; and

a rope light received in the linear rails and the corner mount module.

17. The rope light system of claim 16, further comprising an end cap attached to each of the linear rails.