LIGHTING FIXTURE UNIT

• US 3,692,993 A
• Filed: 10/12/1970
• Issued: 09/19/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samuel H. Robinson
• Original Assignee: Samuel H. Robinson
• Inventors: Robinson, Samuel H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Capozi, Louis J.
• Application Number:
  US05/079,814
• Time in Patent Office: 708 Days
• Field of Search: 240/9,2BV,10,2B,1T,51.11
• US Class Current: 362/249.07
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/20 with light sources held by or within elongate supports
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/028 being retractable, i.e. having two fixed positions, one recessed, e.g. in a wall, floor or ceiling, and one extended when in use
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/007 with provision for shipment or storage
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/107 using hinge joints
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/30 Pivoted housings or frames
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/004 mounted on the exterior of houses or other buildings to illuminate parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/806 Ornamental or decorative

Abstract

A lighting fixture unit having a housing adapted to be mounted on a building or similar structure, the housing having an opening in a wall on which a door is mounted for movement between open and closed positions. Electric lights are carried in a holder which is swingable in the housing for moving the lights between a hidden portion in the housing and an exposed position extending through the opening.

Claims

1. A lighting fixture unit including:

a. a housing having an opening, b. a light holder carrying a string of interconnected electric lights, swingably mounted in the housing for swinging the lights between a hidden position in the housing and an exposed position projecting through the opening, c. a door connected to the housing at the opening for movement between an open positIon and a closed position, d. means responsive to movement of the door for automatically moving the lights from their hidden to their exposed positions when the door is moved from its closed position to its open position, and for returning the lights to their hidden positions when the door is moved from its open to its closed position.

2. A lighting fixture unit including:

a. a housing having a bottom wall and opposite end walls, the bottom wall having an opening, b. a light holder carrying an interconnected string of electric lights hingedly connected to the bottom wall at the opening for swinging the lights between a hidden position in the housing and an exposed position in which the lights project through the opening, c. a door connected to the bottom wall at the opening for swinging movement between a fully closed position extending across the opening and a fully closed position against the bottom wall, d. means for releasably holding the door in its fully open and fully closed position.

3. A lighting fixture unit as claimed in claim 2 in which the means (d) includes spring clips connected to the housing for releasably engaging the door in its fully opened and its fully closed positions.

4. A lighting fixture unit as claimed in claim 2 including:

e. means operable when the door is moved between its open and its closed position for swinging the holder and the lights between the hidden position and the exposed position.

5. A lighting fixture unit as claimed in claim 4 in which the means (e) includes an operator grasping the holder, the operator having projecting tabs, one of the tabs being disposed so as to be engaged by the door when the latter is swung from its closed to its open position for moving the holder and lights to the exposed position, and one of the tabs being disposed so as to be engaged by the door when the latter is swung from its open to its closed position for moving the holder and lights to the hidden position.

6. A lighting fixture unit as claimed in claim 2 including:

f. spring means engaging the door and the bottom wall of the housing normally urging the door from its open to its closed position.

7. A lighting fixture unit as claimed in claim 2 including:

g. electrical connecting means at opposite end walls of the housing of the unit for electrically interconnecting the strings of lights of a plurality of units extending in end to end relationship.