SUSPENDED OUTDOOR LIGHTING FIXTURE

• US 3,683,172 A
• Filed: 08/14/1970
• Issued: 08/08/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eliot F. Noyes
• Original Assignee: Eliot F. Noyes
• Inventors: Eliot, F. Noyes
• Primary Examiner(s): Richard C. Queisser
• Assistant Examiner(s): C. E. Snee, III
• Application Number:
  US05/063,795
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 240/1R,1.1,2SL,25,41.1,51.12,78LF,78LG,78LH,81R,81LD,81BS,81BA,81BC,81BD,81BE,84,103R,104 40/130R,131R,132R,133R,134,145R
• US Class Current: 362/147
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/088 with lighting device mounted on top of the standard, e.g. for pedestrian zones
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 7/0008 providing for indirect lighting
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/10 Outdoor lighting

Abstract

A lighting fixture for illuminating an outdoor area such as a gasoline service station island, comprising a vertical center post, an annular housing supported on said post and spaced concentrically around and away from said post, a plurality of lights enclosed on the bottom and on the sides by said annular housing and positioned to cast their rays upwardly, and a canopy positioned on said center post above said annular housing and having a lower reflective surface to reflect the light rays onto the outdoor area to be illuminated.

Claims

1. An outdoor lighting fixture comprising a vertical center post, an annular housing having an inner diameter substantially larger than the outer diameter of said center post suspended concentrically around and away from said center post, support means to fasten said annular housing to said center post below the upper end of said center post, said housing having light impermeable bottom and inner and outer side walls, said housing having upper light transmitting portions, a plurality of lamps positioned in said housing to cast their rays upwardly through said light transmitting portions and a canopy secured to said center post substantially above said housing, said canopy extending radially outwardly far beyond the outer periphery of said housing, said canopy having a light reflective undersurface for reflecting light rays from said lamps downwardly onto an area to be illuminated.

2. An outdoor lighting fixture comprising a vertical center post, an annular housing having an inner diameter substantially larger than the outer diameter of said center post suspended concentrically around and away from said center post, said housing comprising a pair of substantially equal sized arcuate sections, said housing having upper light transmitting portions, means securing said arcuate sections to each other comprising a pair of support bars having arcuate center sections disposed around and supported by said center post, said support bars further having substantially straight abutting portions disposed between the facing portions of said arcuate sections, means to secure said arcuate sections to said substantially straight portions of said support bars, said housing having light impermeable bottom and inner and outer side walls, said housing having upper light transmitting portions, and a plurality of lamps positioned in said housing to cast their rays upwardly through said light transmitting portions.

3. A lighting fixture according to claim 2, further comprising a canopy secured adjacent the top end of said center post, said canopy having an upwardly and outwardly inclined light reflective lower surface to reflect light rays from the lamps in said housing downwardly onto an area to be illuminated.

4. A lighting fixture according to claim 3, further comprising a gasoline service station island, the lower end of said center post being embedded in said island, and said canopy extending over said island.

5. A lighting fixture according to claim 2, further comprising electrical conduit means disPosed within said center post, and duct means extending radially outwardly from said center post to said housing for the passage of electrical conduit means from said post into said housing, said duct means including means also functioning as support means for said housing.

6. A lighting fixture according to claim 2, further comprising arcuate inner and outer channel members for detachably connecting the light transmitting portions to the remainder of said housing.

7. A lighting fixture according to claim 2, further comprising an arcuate opaque band disposed at the inner periphery of said light transmitting portions.