Modular, composable lighting projector for illumination from the ground

• US 4,707,766 A
• Filed: 06/05/1985
• Issued: 11/17/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Quarzcolor Ianiro SPA
• Original Assignee: Quarzcolor Ianiro SPA
• Inventors: Bertozzi, Marcello, Casamento, Roberto
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Carl Stuart
• Application Number:
  US06/741,683
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 362/11, 362/238, 362/239, 362/249, 362/250, 362/281, 362/252, 362/236, 362/237, 362/268, 362/362, 362/367, 362/427, 362/368, 362/310, 362/294, 362/226
• US Class Current: 362/11
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/00 Systems of lighting devices, not provided for in main groups F21S4/00 - F21S10/00 or F21S19/00, e.g. of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 2/005 of modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/00 Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices F21V17/00, F21V19/00 take precedence; arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general B60Q, stands for supporting apparatus or articles in general F16M11/00; Hand grips
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/30 Pivoted housings or frames
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/406 for theatres, stages or film studios

Abstract

A modular, composable lighting projector for illumination from the ground in theatres, or in photographic, motion-picture and television studios, and the like, said lighting projector consisting of a housing that shows a small window in its front side, which window incorporates the bulb-mirror set, as well as louvers for ventilation in its top side, said projector being characterized in that it comprises hinge receiving means on a back upright edge, hinge insertion means on the other back upright edge, a hooking device fastened near a lower front corner and hooking means complementary to said hooking device at a position close to the other lower front corner.

Claims

1. A plurality of lamp housing modules particularly for lighting in theaters, photographs, motion picture or television studios, the housing modules each having a front side, a top side, a back wall, and a pair of first and second end walls, the back wall joining said end walls along first and second back upright edges, said housing modules each having a lighting window on said front side and ventilation louvers on said top side and containing a bulb and mirror set, a flange member at said first upright edge of each housing module having slots forming hinge receiving means, tab members extending from said second upright edge forming hinge insertion means insertable into said slots of the flange members of an adjacent like housing module to form a hinge therewith, a hook device extending from and close to a lower portion of said front side and a hook receiving means complementary to said hook device at a lower portion of said front side of an adjacent like housing module, whereby a plurality of said housings may be connected into a housing row of desired configuration.

2. A lamp housing as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hook device consists of a resilient clip plate having one end riveted to the housing and a hooked other end projecting outside the housing, said hook receiving means consisting of a recess provided at the lower portion of said front side of the housing and adapted to engage said hooked end of the resilient clip plate of the adjacent housing.