Retrofit pendant light fixture

• US 7,311,425 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2005
• Issued: 12/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Worth Home Products LP (Worth Home Products)
• Original Assignee: Worth Home Products LP (Worth Home Products)
• Inventors: Jervey, Edward Darrell III
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Shea, Sandra
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAN, JASON
• Application Number:
  US11/295,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20070127234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 748 Days
• Field of Search: 362/147, 362403-408, 362/650, 362/391
• US Class Current: 362/407
• 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: F21S 8/06 by suspension
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/02 Wall, ceiling, or floor bases; Fixing pendants or arms to the bases F21V21/08 takes precedence; bases for movable standing lamps F21V21/06
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/03 Ceiling bases, e.g. ceiling roses F21V21/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/04 Recessed bases
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 27/00 Cable-stowing arrangements structurally associated with lighting devices, e.g. reels storing lengths of cable in general B65H; the lighting devices being vehicle headlamps F21S41/192; the lighting devices being vehicle lights F21S43/195
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/72 Means for accommodating flexible lead within the holder
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/94 Holders formed as intermediate parts for linking a counter-part to a coupling part

Abstract

A retrofit pendant light fixture that is adapted to be hung from a ceiling and readily installed in a socket normally carried within a recessed housing in the ceiling. A lamp is carried on a lower end of an electrical cord extending from an adapter housing.

Claims

1. A pendant light fixture comprising:

an adapter housing having an upper end and a lower end,

threads carried on an upper end of said housing,

electrical connectors provided on said housing for making electrical connections through said housing when energized, and

an elongated electrical wire having an upper end electrically connected to said connectors and a lower end extending out said adapter housing,

a length adjusting mechanism,

said elongated wire being operatively connected to said length adjusting mechanism for selectively varying the effective length of said wire; and

a light bulb socket electrically attached to a lower end of said electrical wire, wherein said wire bearing the weight of said light bulb socket when the fixture is installed in a ceiling.

2. The pendant light fixture as set forth in claim 1 provided for being hung from a recessed socket carried within a ceiling further comprising:

a canopy cover plate carried on said electrical wire for covering said recess socket in said ceiling when said adapter housing is threaded into said recessed socket.

3. The pendant light fixture as set forth in claim 2 further comprising:

an adjustable locking mechanism engaging said wire for adjustably positioning said canopy cover plate on said wire.

4. The pendant light fixture as set forth in claim 1 further comprising:

a lamp shade carried on said wire extending downwardly to cover said light bulb socket.

5. The pendant light fixture as set forth in claim 3 wherein said adjustable locking mechanism includes a compression collar carried on said wire below said canopy cover plate and abutting against said cover plate for holding said canopy cover plate in position on said wire.

6. The pendant light fixture as set forth in claim 1 wherein said length adjusting mechanism includes a spindle around which said elongated electrical wire is wound for adjusting the distance that said light bulb socket hangs below said adapter housing.

7. A pendant light fixture adapted to be screwed into an electrical socket carried in a housing recessed in a ceiling comprising:

an adapter having an upper end and a lower end,

threads carried on an upper end of said adapter,

an elongated multi-strand electrical wire having an upper end electrically connected to said adapter for making electrical connection with said socket when said adapter is screwed into socket carried in said recessed housing,

a light bulb socket,

a lower end of said electrical wire being electrically connected to said light bulb socket and;

a canopy carried on said wire and configured to extend over said recessed housing for enclosing said adapter in said housing.

8. The pendant light fixture as set forth in claim 7 further comprising a length adjusting mechanism, said elongated wire being operatively connected to said length adjusting mechanism for varying the effective length of said elongated wire for adjusting the distance that said light bulb socket hangs below said adapter.