Electrical lighting system for rotating chair

• US 4,217,628 A
• Filed: 04/03/1978
• Issued: 08/12/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kenneth R. Windom
• Original Assignee: Kenneth R. Windom
• Inventors: Windom, Kenneth R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hayes, Monroe H.
• Application Number:
  US05/893,046
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 362/61, 362/73, 362/74, 362/75, 362/131, 362/364, 339/1 R, 339/6 R, 339/8 R, 339/2 A
• US Class Current: 362/483
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/04 Signs, boards or panels, illuminated from behind the insignia
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2023/0025 on containers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2023/005 on seats
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 23/00 Advertising on or in specific articles, e.g. ashtrays, letter-boxes on or in vehicles G09F21/00

Abstract

A lighting system for installation in a swivel chair of the type commonly found in van vehicles. The system is to display the van owner'"'"'s CB "handle" or code designation and includes a bracket, attached insulated box, a nested metal container to which is mounted three bulbs and a cover with a light diffuser. The handle is painted or silked screened on the diffuser and is positioned to be seen from outside the vehicle. The system also includes an electrical connector which is used to complete an electrical circuit without interfering with the rotation of the chair.

Claims

1. A lighted identification system for incorporation with a chair comprising:

(a) a swivel chair having a back portion and a seat portion, said chair being of the type having a high styled back as often used on van-type vehicles;

(b) a lighted display mounted in the back portion of said chair;

(c) a base for said chair, including a mounting seat plate, said seat portion of said chair being linearly movable relative to said mounting seat plate and said stand having an opening;

(d) a mounting stand connected to said base, said stand adapted to be attached to the floor of the vehicle, and having an opening alignable with the opening in said base;

(e) a tube connected in a generally vertical disposition to said mounting stand;

(f) a bolt positioned through said opening in the stand and the base for rotatably connecting said chair and stand;

(g) a nut attached to said bolt;

(h) a washer positioned about said bolt and located between said nut and said plate;

(i) a connector including an electrically conductive element embedded within an insulative synthetic resin, said connector having upper and lower arms and an arcuate body being somewhat less than semi-cylindrical whereby an electrically conductive path may be formed between the lighted display and the power source while allowing said chair to swivel;

(j) a first electrical conductor disposed between said lighted display and said connector and located within the back portion of said chair; and

(k) a second electrical conductor disposed between said connector and a power source, said second conductor positioned through said tube.

2. A lighted identification system as claimed in claim 1, including:

a pair of parallel rails attached to said plate which allows linear chair motion.

3. A lighted identification system as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said chair includes a U-shaped support bracket in the back portion; and

said lighted display includes;

(a) a rectangular insulated box having four side walls and a back wall and forming an interior space;

(b) two laterally extending arms attached to two of said side walls of said box, said arms being fastened to said U-shaped brackets;

(c) two oppositely disposed U-shaped fillet beads disposed within the interior space of said box in which the arms of the U are situated along an intersection of two side walls and the base of the U is situated along an intersection between a side wall and the back wall of said box;

(d) a rectangular reflector container having four side walls and a back wall, said back wall supporting at least one light source and two threaded elements;

(e) at least one socket mounted to said container;

(f) a light source mounted to each socket;

(g) a light diffuser pane;

(h) a frame attached to said light diffuser pane, having two openings; and

(i) two elongated screw bolts received by said openings and threadedly engaged with said two threaded elements.