Combined lamp and fan assembly

• US 5,664,872 A
• Filed: 04/10/1996
• Issued: 09/09/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: VENT AXIA Limited
• Original Assignee: Smiths Industries Public Limited Company
• Inventors: Vincent, David, Howie, Alasdair Buchanan, Spearman, Robert Don Aldo
• Primary Examiner(s): Sember, Thomas M.
• Application Number:
  US08/624,521
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 362/96, 362/147, 362/148, 362/149, 362/364, 362/365, 362/373, 362/294
• US Class Current: 362/96
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/02 of recess-mounted type, e.g. downlighters specially adapted for vehicle exteriors F21S41/00-F21S45/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/67 characterised by the arrangement of fans
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 29/83 the elements having apertures, ducts or channels, e.g. heat radiation holes
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/0096 Fans, e.g. ceiling fans forced cooling of lighting devices characterised by the arrangement of fans F21V29/67
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/078 combined with lighting fixtures
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2026 Gas discharge type light sources, e.g. arcs

Abstract

A combined lamp and fan assembly has a housing with a central enclosure within which a low-voltage lamp is mounted. Air flow passages extend along the housing around the outside of the enclosure. The passages are open at their lower end and communicate at their upper end with a low-voltage fan removably secured to the upper end of the housing.

Claims

1. A combined lamp and fan assembly comprising:

a first housing of substantially circular shape containing a lamp unit and having an air flow passage extending along the housing and opening at a lower end of the assembly, said first housing including a fixing by which the assembly can be mounted in a hole in a ceiling panel in a room so that light from the lamp unit illuminates the room, said assembly also including a fan unit having a second housing which is of substantially a same diameter as the first housing, the first and second housings having cooperating catches and notches whereby a lower end of the second housing can be releasably retained at an upper end of the first housing to form an extension thereof, the cooperating catches and notches providing a sole mounting for the second housing, and the second housing being open at an upper end such that air can be drawn from the room through the ceiling panel axially through the assembly.

2. An assembly according to claim 1, wherein the lamp unit is located substantially centrally across a width of the first housing.

3. An assembly according to claim 2, wherein said air flow passage extends around an outside of the lamp unit.

4. An assembly according to claim 2 or 3 wherein said lamp unit is located within an enclosure that is supported within the first housing by means of a plurality of radial supports.

5. An assembly according to claim 4 wherein said lamp unit is supported within said enclosure on a flange extending traversely of the enclosure, said flange having a vent aperture therethrough.

6. An assembly according to claim 1, wherein said fan unit and said lamp unit are controllable separately.

7. An assembly according to claim 1, wherein said fan unit and lamp unit both operate at not more than 50 volts.

8. An assembly according to claim 1, wherein said fixing includes an externally-extending flange arranged to engage art underside of the ceiling panel.

9. An assembly according to claim 1, wherein the assembly includes a removable bezel arranged to be retained to the lower end of the first housing, and wherein there is an air flow passage into the first housing via the bezel.