US2810820A - Planter lamp - Google Patents

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PLANTER um? Filed Oct. 6, 1954 650/265 NELSON United States Patent PLANTER LAB/11 George Nelson, New York, N. Y., assignor to Price Brothers, Inc., Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application October 6, 1954, Serial No. 460,560

3 Claims. (Cl. 2402) The invention relates to improvements in lamps and is more particularly concerned with the novel, rugged construction and assembly of a planter lamp or lighting fixture.

More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel display and lighting fixture of a kind that has a light source arranged within a shell-like housing in a manner to direct light rays upwardly and downwardly and said housing has an adjustable canopy spaced thereabove, preferably perforated, so that light rays may pass therethrough. The shell-like housing is provided also with novel means to receive and support the stems of flowers, leaves or the like, which may be arranged in the space between the top of the housing and the canopy or otherwise disposed to present an attractive display. It is, therefore, an object of the invention to provide a novel display and lighting fixture of the character referred to.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel canopy for a lighting fixture.

Another object is to provide means for adjusting the height and angular disposition of the canopy.

Another object of the invention is to provide a lighting fixture with novel means to retain flowers, leaves, or other auxiliary ornamental devices in any selected arrangement. g

Another. object is to provide a novel housing for a lighting fixture which is open at its top and bottom and has an illuminated advertising displayin its front wall.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, arrange ment and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of the structure may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

For the purpose of facilitating an understanding of my invention, I have illustrated in the accompanying drawings a preferred embodiment thereof, from an inspection of which, when considered in connection with the following description, my invention, its mode of construction, assembly and operation, and many of its advantages, should be readily understood and appreciated.

Referring to the drawings in which the same characters of reference are employed to indicate corresponding or similar parts throughout the several figures of the drawmgs:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a lighting fixture embodying the features of the present invention, showing a portion broken away.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevational view of the lighting fixture.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the lighting fixture, taken substantially on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional View, taken substantially on line 44 of Fig. 1.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawings,

the lighting fixture includes a shell-like housing 11 preferably fabricated from sheet metal stock and it includes a front wall 12, a back wall 13 and connecting end walls 14. All of these walls are inclined inwardly downwardly to reduce the size of the open bottom 15. Preferably the top and bottom edges of the walls 12, 13 and 14 are folded over inwardly as at 16 and 17 respectively, to provide inturned flanges and also to afford a finished rolled edge to said walls. Arranged within the shell-like housing is a lamp bulb 18 which may be mounted in any conventional type of lamp socket 19 firmly secured as by an ear 21 to a bracket 22 firmly mounted, as by welding, to the inside face of the back wall 13 adjacent one of the end walls 14.

The back wall 13 preferably is dished or otherwise formed, as at 23, to provide a wall portion 24 having an aperture 25 through which the electric wires 26, leading to the lamp socket 19 from any suitable source of supply, may extend. This dished portion 23 of the back wall 13 also preferably is provided with a pair of hanger openings 27, each adapted to receive a hanger therein for mounting the shell-like housing upon a vertical surface, such as a wall. In order to prevent marring of the wall surface against which the dished portion 23 rests, said dished portion may have secured to its outside face, preferably around the marginal area thereof, a felt or other resilient washer or pad 28.

A canopy 29 is mounted on and spaced above the housing 11. This canopy preferably is fabricated from sheet stock suitably shaped in the manner illustrated and provided on its under face with U-shaped brackets or journals 31, one adjacent each end thereof, for receiving therein horizontally disposed end portions 32 of rods 33. The rods have their lower free ends each slidably mounted in a bracket or socket 34, secured, as by welding, one to the inside face of each end wall 14 adjacent the upper edge thereof. This mounting of the rods 33 permits vertical adjustment of the canopy 29 relative to the housing 11. Such adjustment is effected easily by manually engaging either the rods or the canopy and moving the same downwardly or upwardly. As is perhaps best illustrated in Fig. 1, the brackets.31 receiving the rod end portions32 are located inwardly of the vertical portions of said rods and provide a slide fit for said end portion 32 to adapt'the rods for conformance with the spacing requirements depending upon the vertical position of the canopy.

The canopy 29, in addition to being bodily adjusted vertically relative to the housing 11, may be swung angularly into any desired position about the horizontal end portions 32 to thereby adapt the lighting fixture to disseminate more or less light upwardly through the open top of the housing 11. Additionally, the canopy 29 has an over-all pattern of perforations 35 therein. These perforations permit tiny rays of light to pass through the otherwise opaque canopy to greatly enhance the esthetic effect of the lighting fixture both when illuminated and when not illuminated.

Means is provided in the housing 11 to facilitate selective arrangement of real or artificial flowers, leaves or like articles 36, and to this end the inturned flanges 16 on the upper edges of the housing walls have spaced struckout portions 37, each of which defines a socket or receptacle to receive the stem or stems of such ornamentation. The front wall 12 of the housing may have a cut-out portion 33 of any desired configuration to receive therein a transparent or translucent panel 39 bearing a pictorial representation or advertising matter which will be illuminated when the lamp is on.

It is believed that my invention, its mode of construction and assembly, and many of its advantages, should be readily understood from the foregoing without further Patented Oct. 22, 1957 V 3 description, and. itushould. also be manifest that while a preferred embodiment of the invention has been shown and described for illustrative'purposes, the structural details are nevertheless. capable of. wide variation within.-

the purview of my invention as defined in-the'appended claims.

What I- claim and desire to secure lay-Letters Patent of theUnit'ed States is: p

1 A lighting fixture comprising, in combination, a

substantially rectangular housing having asource of ilinside faces of 'said. wa'lls, ornament'receiving pockets in said inwardly turned margins, apair of --substantially vertically disposed sockets one on the inside face of each 4 aninverted. substantially flat dished canopy, and a. pair of axially aligned bearings on the bottom face of sa1d canopy adjacent to one longitudinal edge each to shdingly receive the teminal portion of one of said rods, said rods being vertically adjustable in their sockets and the canopy being tiltable about the terminal rod portions.

3. A lighting fixture comprising, in combination, a

' substantially rectangular housing having a source of i1- endiwall, said-sockets being located substantiallym-idway between the frontand back walls and closely adjacent to the top of said housing, a-rod. telescoped a't-it's lowerend in each socket and extending upwardly therefrom, the

upperterminal portion of each-rod extending perpendicular'thereto one in axial alignment with-the other, an inverted substantially fiat dished canopy, said canopy having an area greater than the-area of the open upperend 'of the housing, and a pair-of axially aligned bearingson the bottom' face of said canopy adjacent to one longitudinal edge each to slidingly receive the terminal portion-of one of said rods, said rods being vertically adjustable in their sockets-and the canopy being tiltable about the ter-,

mina'l-r'od-portions: V V 7 22 A lighting fixture comprising, in combination, a

substantially rectangular housing having 'a'source of 'il--- lumina'tion" therein, said housing including 'front,back, and connecting end walls and being'opcn at its top and bottom. The uppermargin s of the end walls being turned inwardly finto substantially face-to-face contact withthe ihside faces-of'said Wall'sjto define flanges, or'namentrecivin'g po'ckets-in-said flanges, apair of substantially vertieafl'y disposed sockets one on the-inside race of 'each between the front and back walls and closelyadjacent to the top ofs'aidfhousing, a rod telescoped at itsjlower end in each. socket and" extending upwardly therefrom, theuppert'erminal portion of each r'od extending perpenj end wan; said socketsheing'loca'ted substantiallylmidway dicula-r thereto'one' inaxial alignment with the other,

lumination therein, said housing including front, back, I and connecting end Walls and being open atits top and bottom, at least the end walls being inclined upwardly outwardly, ornamentreceiving pockets on the inside faces of the side and front walls, a pair of substantially 'vertically disposed sockets one .on the inside-face of each end wall, said sockets being located closely adjacent to the top of said housing, a rod telescoped at its lower end in'each socket and extending upwardly therefrom, the upper terminal portion of each-'rod fextendin'g peipehdicular thereto one-in axial alignment with the other, am

inverted substantially fiatdishedcanopy, saidcanopy hawing an area greater than the area of the open upperfend' of the housing; and-a-pair ofaxially aligned bearings on the bottom face of said canopy adjacent to -one longitudinal edge eaehto-slidingly receive the terminal portion-cf one of said rods, said rods'heing vertically adjustable in their sockets-and horizontally adjustable in'their bearings and the canopy being tiltable about the terminal rod portions, 7 7

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i FOREIGN PATENTS M 944,833 France Nev- 15, 1943;

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