Decorative light assembly

• US 6,386,728 B1
• Filed: 11/10/2000
• Issued: 05/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John P. Colonna
• Original Assignee: John P. Colonna
• Inventors: Colonna, John P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Laura K.
• Application Number:
  US09/710,428
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 362/277, 362/280, 362/282, 362/322, 362/323, 362/324, 362/806, 362/565, 362/568, 362/564, 362/123
• US Class Current: 362/123
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 10/005 using light guides light guides specially adapted for lighting devices G02B6/0001
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 10/007 using rotating transparent or colored disks, e.g. gobo wheels
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/10 with light sources attached to loose electric cables, e.g. Christmas tree lights
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/04 for Christmas trees
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0006 Coupling light into the fibre in general G02B6/4298
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/806 Ornamental or decorative

Abstract

A decorative light assembly for illuminating Christmas trees and the like having a ring shaped housing containing a DC light source and a motor drive for rotatably driving one of a series of interchangeable disks disposed in the path of the light source and providing variable light patterns through the disk which communicate with fiber optic strands to receive and distribute light received through the disks from the light source.

Claims

1. An electrical light set for decorating and illuminating a Christmas tree and the like comprising:

a) a ring shaped housing adapted to be mounted near the top of said tree;

b) a DC light source disposed within said housing;

c) a plurality of fiber optic strands each having an end attached to said housing to receive light emitted from said light source and adapted to extend downwardly from said ring shaped housing to illuminate said tree or the like.

2. The light set as defined in claim 1 and further comprising:

a) a motor mounted to said housing and a disk rotatably mounted in said housing intermediate said light source and said fiber optic strands;

b) said disk having a plurality of openings to sequentially block and open light communication between said light source and said fiber optic strands as said disk rotates; and

c) means to selectively rotate said disks.

3. The light set as defined in claim 2 and in which a plurality of disks are provided;

said disks each having different patterns of openings to provide different sequences of light emitted by said fiber optic strands and said disks being interchangeable within said ring shaped housing.