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Decorative lighting system

  • US 4,994,944 A
  • Filed: 03/24/1989
  • Issued: 02/19/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A lighting system including a plurality of modular components comprising a plurality of elongate strips of different finite lengths, each strip having an elongate lighting circuit extending along the strip, which lighting circuit provides a pair of voltage supply lines extending along the length of the strip and ann electrical connecting line for connecting at least one illuminating device in parallel between said pair of voltage supply lines, said lighting circuit of at least one of said strips being adapted to connect at least one predetermined resistor in series with said at least one illuminating device thereof so that the total electrical resistance of said at least one illuminating device and said at least one resistor of each of the strips is substantially the same to provide a set of voltage compatible elongate strips;

  • connector means for engaging juxtaposed ends of said strips to connect the strips end to end, said connector means comprising at least one connector element for location between a pair of adjacent strips and having means for resiliently gripping each of said juxtaposed ends of the strips and means for making an electrical connection between the voltage supply lines at the adjacent ends of said electrical lighting circuits associated with the strips; and

    a voltage supply connector means for connecting to one end of one of said strips to provide an electrical connection between the voltage supply lines associated with that particular strip and a voltage supply.

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