Fluorescent fixture housing
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1. A fluorescent fixture housing including:
- a truncated pyramid shaped body including a downwardly opening bottom, walls upwardly and inwardly sloping from said bottom, and a top parallel to said bottom, a periphery of said top engaging an upward and inward portion of said walls;
ceiling-mounting means engaging said body; and
a plurality of apertures on said walls, said apertures designed to engage ends of fluorescent bulbs.
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Abstract
The apparatus is a nestable fluorescent fixture housing of a truncated pyramid shape with "knock-out" apertures provided on the sloping walls thereof to engage the ends of fluorescent bulbs. A wedge-shaped separate ballast/socket assembly is provided for each fluorescent bulb, preferably a "biax" bulb. The slope of the wedge shape of the ballast/socket assembly is complementary to the slope of the walls of the fixture.
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11 Claims
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1. A fluorescent fixture housing including:
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a truncated pyramid shaped body including a downwardly opening bottom, walls upwardly and inwardly sloping from said bottom, and a top parallel to said bottom, a periphery of said top engaging an upward and inward portion of said walls; ceiling-mounting means engaging said body; and a plurality of apertures on said walls, said apertures designed to engage ends of fluorescent bulbs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A fluorescent fixture housing including at least one sidewall having a means therein to support a ballast/socket assembly adapted to be mounted to said sidewalls, said ballast/socket assembly including therein at least one lamp socket;
- and at least one fluorescent bulb having at least one end passing through said sidewall to engage the socket of said ballast/socket assembly.
- View Dependent Claims (11)
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