Illumination – With furniture
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-01
2001-08-21
Tso, Laura K. (Department: 2875)
Illumination
With furniture
C362S125000, C362S812000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06276810
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a lighting fixture for/on a display stand for articles of merchandise to illuminate each level of shelving.
2. Prior Art
A lighting fixture for display stands has become known, for example, from DE 295 15 221 U1, in which the display stand lighting fixture is firmly integrated into each level of shelving to illuminate the merchandise placed on the shelves. To achieve this effect, the lateral support arms for the display shelves are extended towards the front, and extended at their ends, at a distance from the front edge of the shelf, by a cross-profile inside which illumination means are housed.
For this type of lighting each level of shelving, i.e., each individual shelf panel must, therefore, be specially equipped, which results in a complex and expensive construction and does not permit retroactive mounting or retrofitting of the lighting.
From GB-PS 1 136 188 an adaptable lighting fixture has furthermore become known. In this adaptable lighting fixture the light channel profile is formed by a closed, hollow holder, which is secured to a bracket by means of a connecting strip and/or a hook, houses a lighting fixture mounting strip in its interior and carries a lamp on its outside.
The fastening method in the above design is complex and also not very easy to implement with the shelving used in display stands for articles of merchandise.
Furthermore, no specific illumination of the front and the next lower level of shelving is achieved, instead light is projected onto individual areas.
Furthermore, this known lighting fixture, due to its lack of a profile area, does not permit an advantageous affixing of price indicator labels, etc.
OBJECT AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the present invention to create a lighting fixture with a simple and inexpensive design, which can be easily, securely and removably fastened to the front edge of the shelving levels of the display stand for articles of merchandise and has advantageous illumination areas for the shelf below and towards the front of the display stand in such a way that this lighting does not require any special arrangements at the level of shelving to illuminate same.
This object is met according to the invention with the light channel profile having on its back side a hook-on type ledge fitted into a U-shaped mold of the display shelf which, together with the back panel of the light channel profile, forms a holding and position-fixing clamp for the adaptable lighting fixture that hooks over the unattached upright web of the mold, and incorporates at its front and underside a profile area that allows the light beams through.
The inventive lighting is advantageously designed as an adaptable lighting fixture, which can be secured, without special arrangements at the display shelf, directly to the front edge of the shelf, which may be done either during manufacturing of the display stand or as a retrofit part.
The display shelves each have at their front edge along the width of the display stand a U-shaped mold into which the adaptable lighting fixture is removably hung as a light channel that extends along the entire width of the display shelf. The light channel is thus located immediately at the front edge of the display shelf, and this light channel is provided with a transparent or see-through area that illuminates the next lower display shelf, i.e., at least the front area of the merchandise placed on the next lower display shelf, and also projects light beams toward the front of the display stand so that a relatively large illuminated area is created at the front and below. The light channel is made of an advantageously designed plastic profile, inside which the actual lamp casing in the shape of a rectangular tube is held by simple means, with the rectangular tube housing in its interior the electrical lighting fixture components and holding exchangeably inside sockets on its underside the lamp, especially a fluorescent lamp.
At the same time, this adaptable lighting fixture also permits a product advertising and merchandising by illuminating the lower display shelves and has, based on its design and its function, gained an increased usefulness, particularly in view of fact that it is arranged in front of the actual display shelf and forms a separate modular unit.
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Browdy and Neimark
decor metall GmbH + Co. KG
Tso Laura K.
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