Lighting display and assembly kit

• US 6,015,218 A
• Filed: 07/03/1998
• Issued: 01/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lloyd D. Snell
• Original Assignee: Lloyd D. Snell
• Inventors: Snell, Lloyd D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schuberg, Darren E.
• Application Number:
  US09/111,254
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: 362/121, 362/227, 362/249, 362/252, 362/806, 362/807, 362/808
• US Class Current: 362/235
• CPC Class Codes: B44F 3/00 Designs characterised by outlines
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/20 with light sources held by or within elongate supports
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/28 Signs formed by filament-type lamp by selective lighting G09F9/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/806 Ornamental or decorative

Abstract

A versatile lighting decoration has a display sheet fabricated from a transparent and resilient film. An outline of a predetermined shape is marked on the film and a plurality of apertures placed through and along the outline. A string of lights having multiple bulbs, each bulb fitted within a socket adapted for gripping the display sheet, is releasably secured in the apertures to generate a lighted image of the predetermined shape that may be highlighted by one or more additional strings of lights.

Claims

1. A versatile lighting decoration, comprising:

a) a display sheet comprising;

i) a transparent and resilient film;

ii) an outline of a predetermined shape denoted on said transparent and resilient film;

iii) a plurality of first apertures positioned along said outline of said predetermined shape; and

b) at least one string of primary lights comprising;

i) a plurality of bulbs connected together by wiring terminating in a plug and

ii) a plurality of film gripping sockets for holding said plurality of bulbs, wherein each said film gripping socket comprises;

a bulb and wire receiving body having first and second ends, wherein said bulb extends from said first end and said wire extends from said second end;

a first film gripping means protruding from said bulb and wire receiving body; and

a second film gripping means protruding from said bulb and wire receiving body.

2. A versatile lighting decoration according to claim 1, wherein said first film gripping means comprises a first set of ribs proximate said first bulb and wire receiving body end and said second film gripping means comprises a second set of ribs positioned toward said second bulb and wire receiving body end, wherein a distance between said first and said second set of ribs releaseably accomodates said transparent and resilient film.

3. A versatile lighting decoration according to claim 2, wherein said first and said second set of ribs each include an outer angled border.

4. A versatile lighting decoration according to claim 1, wherein said first film gripping means comprises a plurality of first ribs proximate said first bulb and wire receiving body end and said second film gripping means comprises a plurality of second ribs positioned toward said second bulb and wire receiving body end, wherein a distance between said first and said second ribs releaseably accomodates said transparent and resilient film.

5. A versatile lighting decoration according to claim 4, wherein said pluralities of first and second ribs include for each of said first and said second ribs an outer angled border.