Lock-A-Lite mounting bracket

• US 6,824,298 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2002
• Issued: 11/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Henry Turner Childs
• Original Assignee: Henry Turner Childs
• Inventors: Childs, Henry Turner
• Primary Examiner(s): Cariaso, Alan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tsidulko, Mark
• Application Number:
  US10/233,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20040042222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 819 Days
• Field of Search: 362/432, 362/147, 362/148, 362/404-408, 362/453, 362/454, 362/457, 362/365, 362/366, 248/207
• US Class Current: 362/432
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/06 by suspension
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/03 Ceiling bases, e.g. ceiling roses F21V21/04 takes precedence

Abstract

A designed mounting bracket and method for quick coupling a hanging type light fixture to an electrical ceiling box. The designed mounting bracket serves as a lintel across the open base ceiling box by being securely fastened at each end. The bracket, having parallel sides, is sufficient in width and thickness to support the light fixture'"'"'s weight, and contains parallel perpendicular flanges extending down each side, for rigidity. A slot containing a 180 degree arc, positioned near the center edge, is sufficient in size for immediate acceptance of the light fixture'"'"'s nipple and nut, thus quick coupling the hanging fixture to the ceiling box.

Claims

1. A method for quick coupling light fixture to a ceiling box, comprising the steps of:

removing a supporting bracket from the ceiling electrical box;

installing near the center of the bracket an open slot containing 180 degrees arc on a flat body of the bracket and sized to accept a nipple of a hanging light fixture;

installing perpendicular coinciding flanges down opposite lineal sides of the bracket;

re-attaching the supporting bracket to the respective ceiling box, thus establishing a method of quick coupling a hanging ceiling light fixture.

2. An apparatus for quick coupling a light fixture to a ceiling box, comprising:

a supporting bracket removed from the ceiling box;

the support bracket comprising a flat body having an open slot containing 180 degrees arc constructed near the center of the supporting bracket and sized to accept a nipple attached to a light fixture;

perpendicular coinciding flanges positioned down opposite lineal sides of the bracket;

the supporting bracket being re-attached to the respective ceiling box, thus forming an apparatus for quick coupling a hanging light fixture.