Christmas decorative lighting concealing device

• US 6,474,840 B2
• Filed: 01/02/2001
• Issued: 11/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robin B. Padermos
• Original Assignee: Robin B. Padermos
• Inventors: Padermos, Robin B.
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Shea, Sandra
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALAVI, ALI
• Application Number:
  US09/752,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20020085380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• Field of Search: 362/145, 362/248, 362/249, 362/374, 362/240, 362/391, 362/225, 362/147, 362/375, 362/806, 362/396
• US Class Current: 362/145
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/20 with light sources held by or within elongate supports
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 15/01 Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts F21V15/02 takes precedence housings forming signs or letters G09F13/04
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 17/007 with provision for shipment or storage
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/00 Use or application of lighting devices or systems for decorative purposes, not provided for in codes F21W2102/00 – F21W2107/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/004 mounted on the exterior of houses or other buildings to illuminate parts thereof

Abstract

The invention is a device attaching to a building structure wherein decorative seasonal lighting may be installed, the device having a front cover member which conceals and protects the installed seasonal lighting when the user deems it inappropriate to display such lighting, so that such installed seasonal lighting does not need to be removed from the building structure.

Claims

1. A decorative lighting display device for the installation and display of seasonal lighting, the device comprising:

a. a rear panel having a front surface, a rear surface, an upper edge and a lower edge and a plurality of spaced hooks securing strands of lights against the front surface;

b. a bottom panel attached to the lower edge of the rear panel;

c. a top panel attached to the upper edge of the rear panel; and

d. a hinged front cover attached to the top panel by at least two hinges, the hinged front cover extending from the top panel to the bottom panel when the hinged front cover is in a lowered position, which, with the inclusion of the rear panel, forms a linear cavity having two ends, the rear surface of the rear panel attaching to the side of a building.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the bottom panel includes at least one hole to allow access of the secured strand of lights to an electrical power source.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein the hinged front cover has a plurality of interchangeable front panels of varied color and transparency.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising end caps which may be installed in the ends of the linear cavity to close the linear cavity from outside the device.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein several of the devices are installed together with the linear cavities of the several devices connected for the continuation of multiple strands of lights.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of spaced hooks are provided in decorative patterns, the secured strands of lights forming shapes, designs, patterns and verbal messages.