Assemblable and disassemblable lamp shade

• US 4,212,052 A
• Filed: 07/26/1978
• Issued: 07/08/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Carol K. Chambard
• Original Assignee: Carol K. Chambard
• Inventors: Chambard, Carol K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hix, L. T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tarcza, Thomas H.
• Application Number:
  US05/928,319
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• Field of Search: 362/351, 362/352, 362/358, 2/DIG. 6
• US Class Current: 362/352
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 1/06 foldable or collapsible
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/108 using hook and loop-type fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24017 Hook or barb

Abstract

The lamp shade comprises a cover fabricated from a generally rectangular sheet of flexible material to which composite tape units are attached adjacent the upper and lower edges thereof. Each tape unit includes a first pile-type fastener tape having its back side secured to the sheet adjacent the top edge thereof, a fabric tape attached to the first pile-type fastener tape and a second pile-type fastener tape attached to the fabric tape along the edge thereof opposite the edge to which the first pile-type fastener tape is attached so that the fabric tape can be looped or folded about a conventional lamp shade ring and the second pile-tape fastener tape then releasably engaged with the first pile-type fastener tape to maintain the sheet of flexible material in a generally cylindrical configuration. Adjacent the end edges of the sheet are additional Velcro tapes which are releasably engageable in order to retain the end edges in an overlapped relationship, thereby further assisting in maintaining the generally cylindrical configuration of the lamp shade.

Claims

1. An assemblable and disassemblable lamp shade comprising a sheet of flexible material having at least one edge, a first pile-type fastener tape having its back side secured to one side of said sheet adjacent said one edge thereof, a second pile-type fastener tape releasably engageable with said first pile-type fastener tape, and foldable means connected to and extending between adjacent edges of said pile-type fastener tapes, whereby said foldable means can be looped inwardly about a conventional lamp shade ring and said second pile-type fastener tape releasably engaged at said one side with said first pile-type fastener tape.

2. The lamp shade of claim 1 in which said foldable means includes a strip of fabric tape.

3. The lamp shade of claim 2 in which said pile-type fastener tapes are stitched to opposite marginal portions of said fabric tape.

4. The lamp shade of claim 3 in which the back side of said first pile-type fastener tape is adhesively secured to said one side of said sheet which one side is to constitute the inner surface of said lamp shade.

5. The lamp shade of claim 4 in which said sheet has second and third edges extending generally perpendicularly to said one edge, a third pile-type fastener tape having its back side adhesively secured to said inner surface of said sheet adjacent said second edge and a fourth pile-type fastener tape having its back side adhesively secured to the outer or other surface of said sheet adjacent said third edge.

6. An assemblable and disassemblable lamp shade comprising a generally rectangular panel of flexible material having generally parallel upper and lower edges and generally parallel opposite end edges, a first pile-type fastener tape having its reverse side thereof secured to one side of said panel adjacent its said upper edge, a fabric tape secured along the edge of said pile-type fastener tape adjacent the edge thereof nearer the upper edge of said panel, and a second pile-type fastener tape secured along the edge of said fabric tape remote from the edge thereof that is secured to said first pile-type fastener tape, whereby said fabric tape can be looped about a circular lamp shade ring and said second pile-type fastener tape releasably engaged at said one side with said first pile-type fastener tape to maintain said rectangular panel in a generally cylindrical configuration corresponding to the circular shape of said ring.

7. A lamp shade in accordance with claim 6 including a third pile-type fastener tape secured to said panel adjacent said lower edge thereof, a second fabric tape secured along the edge of said third pile-type fastener tape adjacent the edge thereof nearer the lower edge of said panel, and a fourth pile-type fastener tape secured along the edge of said second fabric tape remote from the edge thereof that is secured to said third pile-type fastener tape, whereby said fourth pile-type fastener tape can be releasably engaged with said third pile-type fastener tape to further assist in maintaining said rectangular panel in said generally cylindrical configuration.

8. A lamp shade in accordance with claim 7 including a fifth pile-type fastener tape having its back side secured to said rectangular panel adjacent one of said end edges and a sixth pile-type fastener tape having its back side secured to said rectangular panel adjacent said other end edge, whereby said sixth pile-type fastener tape can be releasably engaged with said fifth pile-type fastener tape to still further assist in maintaining said cylindrical configuration.

9. A lamp shade in accordane with claim 8 in which said first-mentioned ring includes a plurality of inwardly directed struts, said second pile-type fastener tape being provided with notches having a spacing corresponding to the spacing of said struts in order to accommodate outer end portions of said struts.