Lamp

• US 4,178,625 A
• Filed: 05/25/1978
• Issued: 12/11/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marcus T. Schudel
• Original Assignee: Marcus T. Schudel
• Inventors: Schudel, Marcus T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lechert, Jr., Stephen J.
• Application Number:
  US05/909,198
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 362/413, 362/418, 362/414, 362/131, 362/427, 362/396, 362/431, 362/269, 362/307
• US Class Current: 362/131
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/10 Parts, details or accessories

Abstract

A lamp is made from a tubular element having the bottom end disposed at an angle and flattened for receiving a mounted element having a flat finger. The opposite end of the tube has a flexible tube in the nature of a BX wire section extending from the tube and bendable relative thereto. The lamp is shown in one form as being mounted on a tubular frame element of a wheelchair to provide illumination for the occupant. The flat finger is offset outwardly from the securing portion which is of arcuate construction to fit upon the chair tubing and be secured thereon by an adjustable clamping ring. Stability is provided to the tube by angle shaped elements, the horizontal portion being joined to a vertical portion which is of arcuate shape so that it may be clamped, one on the solid tubular element, the other on a tubular element of the upper portion of the chair to fix the lamp to the chair frame at remote points. The clamp with the flattened finger may be mounted on different chairs or on a base to form a floor lamp disposable adjacent to a chair or table.

Claims

1. A lamp unit embodying a solid tube section, a flexible tube section extending from within said solid tube section outwardly thereof, the bottom of the solid tube section being bent at an angle and flattened, a flat finger extendable into the tube flattened end, a support for said flattened finger, said support being engageable with a supporting element, and means for securing said support in fixed relation to said supporting element with the flat finger parallel to and spaced from said support.

2. A lamp unit as recited in claim 1, wherein a pair of apertures through said finger and said flattened portion of the solid tube section are in aligned relation, and a bolt extending through said apertures for securing the lamp unit in fixed relation to said support.

3. A lamp unit as recited in claim 1, wherein the aperture in said finger is a slot to permit the bolt when extending through the apertures of the flattened portion of the solid tube section to be moved therewithin.

4. A lamp unit as recited in claim 1, wherein said supporting portion of the flat finger is of arcuate shape to fit a tubular portion of a wheelchair frame, and said means is an adjustable securing ring.

5. A lamp unit as recited in claim 4, wherein a bracing means connects the solid tube section to the upper portion of the chair frame to secure the lamp unit in fixed position.

6. A lamp unit as recited in claim 4, wherein a reflector is supported on the end of the flexible tube, wires through said tubes, a socket on the end of said flexible tube within the reflector to which the top ends of the wires are connected, and a plug on the bottom end of the wires which extend from an aperture through the wall of said solid tube section.

7. A lamp unit as recited in claim 1, wherein said supporting element is a base for forming a floor lamp to which the flat finger is secured, said solid tube section being located substantially central of said base.

8. A lamp unit as recited in claim 7, wherein bracing means retains said solid tube section substantially in vertical position.

9. A lamp unit as recited in claim 8, wherein said bracing means are tubular elements secured to said base and to said solid tubular element.

10. A lamp unit as recited in claim 8, wherein said bracing means includes a rigid vertical element on said base, and means connecting said solid tube section to said element.

11. A lamp unit as recited in claim 6, wherein a magnifying glass is adjustably supported on said reflector.

12. A lamp unit as recited in claim 11, wherein said magnifying glass is removably supported on said reflector.

13. A lamp unit as recited in claim 1, wherein said supporting element is a cross member at the bottom of a chair, said support being an extension at right angles to said finger, a bracket element secured in spaced relation to said right-angle extension, and bolts clamping said extension and bracket together and about said cross member.