Multiple color light with structure to prevent color bleeding

• US 4,839,779 A
• Filed: 12/08/1987
• Issued: 06/13/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Stealth Light Corporation
• Original Assignee: Quintech Corporation
• Inventors: Kasboske, George C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazarus, Ira S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cole, Richard R.
• Application Number:
  US07/129,841
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 362/211, 362/212, 362/214, 362/231, 362/293, 362/298, 362/304, 313/112
• US Class Current: 362/214
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/125 Coloured light
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/164 having two or more filaments
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/168 having a filament arranged transversally to the optical axis of the illuminating device
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 41/55 Attachment thereof

Abstract

A light apparatus has a first source of light, a first surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the first source to have a first color, a second source of light, a second surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the second source to have a second color, and a coating on the second surface to prevent light from the first source that is transmitted through the first surface from passing through the second surface.

Claims

1. A lighting apparatus comprising:

a first source of light;

a first surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the first source to have a first color;

a second source of light;

a second surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the second source to have a second color; and

coating means on said second surface to prevent light from the first source that is transmitted through the first surface from passing through the second surface.

2. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1 wherein a reflector is provided to direct light transmitted through the first surface by the first source toward the second surface.

3. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said first and second colors are different.

4. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1 including a light blocking baffle and means mount the baffle between the first and second light sources to block transmission of light from said first source through said second surface and from said second source through said first surface.

5. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said first surface is on a first bulb, said second surface is on a second bulb, said first and second bulbs each have a cylindrical portion and means mount the first and second bulbs to each other with the cylindrical portions of the first and second bulbs situated one within the other.

6. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1 wherein a bulb defines at least one of the first and second surfaces, and means are provided on the bulb to direct light from at least one of the first and second light sources back to the reflector.

7. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1 wherein means are provided to selectively power said first and second light sources.

8. A lighting apparatus with multiple color light projection capability, said lighting apparatus comprising:

a support;

a first source of light;

a first surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the first source to have a first color;

a second source of light;

a second surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the second source to have a second color;

means mounting the first and second light sources and first and second surfaces in fixed relative relationship on said support; and

coating means on said second surface to prevent light from the first source that is transmitted through the first surface from passing through the second surface.

9. The lighting apparatus according to claim 8 wherein said support comprises a reflector with a concave reflective surface opening toward said first and second light sources.

10. The lighting apparatus according to claim 9 wherein each of said first and second surfaces is substantially cylindrical.

11. The lighting apparatus according to claim 8 wherein means are provided to selectively power said first and second light sources.

12. The lighting apparatus according to claim 8 wherein said support has a concave reflector surface opening toward said second light source, there is a bulb defining said second surface and said bulb has a reflective convex surface.

13. The lighting apparatus according to claim 12 wherein said convex reflective surface has a curvature corresponding to the curvature of the concave reflective surface to reflect light from the second source back to the concave reflective surface.

14. A lighting apparatus comprising:

a first source of light;

a first surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the first source to have a first color;

a second source of light;

a second surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the second source to have a second color; and

coating means on said second surface to prevent light from the first source that is transmitted through the first surface from passing through the second surface,

wherein said coating means comprises a coating that permits transmission of light in only one direction through said second surface.

15. A lighting apparatus with multiple color light projection capability, said lighting apparatus comprising:

a support;

a first source of light;

a first surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the first source to have a first color;

a second source of light;

a second surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the second source to have a second color;

means mounting the first and second light sources and first and second surfaces in fixed relative relationship on said support; and

coating means on said second surface to prevent light from the first source that is transmitted through the first surface from passing through the second surface,

wherein said coating means comprises a coating that permits transmission of light in only one direction through said second surface.

16. A lighting apparatus with multiple color light projection capability, said lighting apparatus comprising:

a support;

a first source of light;

a first surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the first source to have a first color;

a second source of light;

a second surface for causing light transmitted therethrough from the second source to have a second color;

means mounting the first and second light sources and first and second surfaces in fixed relative relationship on said support; and

coating means on said second surface to prevent light from the light source that is transmitted through the first surface from passing through the second surface,

wherein there is a first bulb defining said first surface, a second bulb defining the second surface, each of said first and second bulbs has a cylindrical portion and said mounting means includes means mounting the cylindrical portions of the first and second bulbs in axial overlapping relationship, one with the other.