Illumination – With furniture – Plural diverse type article holders
Patent
1997-09-29
1999-10-05
Tso, Laura
Illumination
With furniture
Plural diverse type article holders
362127, 362133, 362234, 362249, A47B 9700
Patent
active
059612002
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a lamp for use in connection with an object storage system. The object storage system is for instance a storage cabinet for books, i.e. a bookcase, for records or tapes, and particularly for CD-cassettes or cartridges.
In general, lamps of this type serve the purpose of illuminating the back side of the objects, when inserted. This back side is often used for information purposes, viz. as to the contents of the object. This information is usually very compact and printed in small types. Therefore, in order to read this information, the back side has to be well illuminated. The room illumination as such does usually not suffice, and still further, the reader himself will shade the information.
Although intended for, i.e. usable for, the said use, the lamp of the invention is mountable in connection with kitchen cabinets, video players, car glove compartments, caravans or mobile homes and yachts, for the purpose of providing an information illumination.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A storage cabinet for CD-discs comprising a built-in, i.e. fixedly integrated, lamp is disclosed in EP-A1-0 229 937, said lamp comprising a light source, viz. a light bulb connected to a light conducting member. While primarily intended for the indication of whether a certain box does already contain a CD-disc or not, a special embodiment is also disclosed, in which the lamp serves the purpose of illuminating the front side of the storage cabinet. The light bulb is placed at the rear side of the storage cabinet, and in this special embodiment the light conducting member is passed, embedded in a housing member, across the upper side of the storage cabinet. The light conducting member protrudes slightly as compared to the front side of the cabinet and it is obliquely or slantingly cut with a view of providing a reflection in the direction along the front side of the cabinet. Accordingly, the house member is prolonged or extended as compared to the storage cabinet, and a light opening is also provided in said housing member.
A cassette tape storage cabinet for use in vehicles is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,231,625. One variant of this cabinet has a fixedly integrated lamp with a light bulb, which is mounted in an extension of the cabinet with a view to illuminating the exposed back sides of the cassettes through a light opening. No reflector is mentioned in connection with this known lamp.
These known storage systems having built-in light are complicated and therefore expensive to manufacture. Still further, they are intended only for the storage and illumination of a rather limited number of objects. Considering for instance storage of such objects as CD cassettes, a private collector of which might very well own hundreds of CD's, these known illuminated storage systems would be too expensive to buy. Besides, no simple and smart way of extending to a larger storage system seems readily apparent.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The above problems are remedied with the lamp according to the invention. The fact, that an external width and height of the lamp housing is proportioned corresponding to the dimensions of such objects as are intended for being stored in said object storage system, means, that the external dimensions of the lamp as such are within, i.e. smaller than or equal to, the corresponding dimensions of such objects, as are intended to be stored in said storage system.
Because of this characterising feature, the lamp of the invention is of the insert type and thereby removable, i.e. it may be placed at any position in the storage system, substituting an object. For instance, if desired, the lamp may also be moved from place to place. Accordingly a rather flexible system is provided, applicable in connection with any storage system without any constructional modifications, and besides the manufacturing costs are rather low, i.e. because of each and every electrical constituent part being a commercially available standard item. The incorporation of a circuit board further red
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