Lighting fixture having unitary fold-out lamp sockets

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1989-10-04

1991-02-12

Husar, Stephen F.

Illumination

Elongated source light unit or support

Housing

362287, 362427, 439226, 439232, F21S 300

Patent

active

049929151

ABSTRACT:
A lighting fixture is disclosed with a U-shaped channel member having a first end and a second end including a web and first and second upstanding side walls with a first end joined to said web and a second end, and preferably including a pair of spaced-apart unitary socket members mounted at the first and second ends of the channel member for removably mounting a lamp therebetween, each of the unitary socket members including a base member between the first and second upstanding side walls of the channel member and normally located at a position spanning the second ends of the first and second upstanding side walls of the channel member, the base members including mounting means for mounting a lamp receptacle above the upstanding side walls, a pair of downturned side walls extending from the base member along the upstanding side walls of the channel member within the channel member, an end wall extending from the base member and located between the upstanding side walls at the first and second ends of the channel member, and pivoting means providing a pivot connection between the unitary socket members and the channel member, the pivoting means pivotally interconnecting the first and second upstanding side walls of the channel member with the pair of downturned side walls of the unitary socket members, whereby upon pivoting the unitary socket members about the pivoting means the socket assemblies can be disposed in a compact shipping position entirely within the channel member.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3176260 (1965-03-01), Pasucci
patent: 4422132 (1983-12-01), Towbridge
patent: 4772216 (1988-09-01), Szymanek
patent: 4881156 (1989-11-01), Schemitz et al.
Crownlite, Lighting, Feb. 1955, p. 39 (10 pages).

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