ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT FOR LIGHT FIXTURES

• US 3,710,096 A
• Filed: 12/07/1971
• Issued: 01/09/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Wide-Lite International
• Original Assignee: Ralph M. Mcfarlin
• Inventors: McFarlin, Ralph M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Matthews, Samuel S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harris, Michael
• Application Number:
  US05/205,579
• Time in Patent Office: 399 Days
• Field of Search: 248/207,244,245,223 240/67
• US Class Current: 248/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/04 Recessed bases
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/145 for portable lighting devices

Abstract

A substantially L-shaped supporting member 31 is mounted in a slot 67 in a light fixture. Both legs are wider than the slot. Recess 71 which forms a web to connect the legs is slightly wider than the thickness of the fixture wall. The web is narrower than the slot. The support can be rotated 90* when the nut 74 is withdrawn from hole 68 at the end of the slot.

Claims

1. Apparatus for suppoRting a housing for a light fixture or the like within a recess, wherein opposite walls of the housing each has a slot therein and an enlarged hole at one end of the slot, a substantially L-shaped supporting member for each slot, both legs of the member being wider than the slot, and one of said legs being thinner than the slot and having recesses in each side edge thereof to provide a web at its end connected to the other leg, said recesses being slightly wider than the wall thickness and said web being slightly narrower than the slot, so that said one leg may be passed edgewise through the slot from the inner side of the wall to dispose said recesses within said slot and the support member rotated 90* and moved in a direction to cause the web to slide longitudinally within the slot, a pin extending through the other leg and being of smaller diameter than the slot for passage therethrough, a head on the end of the pin which faces the wall when the one leg has passed through the slot, said head being larger than the slot but smaller than the hole at one end thereof, so that after the one leg has been passed edgewise through the slot and the support member has been turned 90*, said support member can be moved in a direction toward the end of the slot to dispose the head on the pin opposite the hole and the head may then be turned through the hole, and a nut threaded onto the other end of the pin for manipulation from said inner side of the wall to tightly engage the other leg and wall between the nut and head on the pin for locating the support member in a desired position longitudinally of the slot.