EP0241402B1 - Lighting installation with a plurality of lighting units - Google Patents

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EP0241402B1
EP0241402B1 EP87500014A EP87500014A EP0241402B1 EP 0241402 B1 EP0241402 B1 EP 0241402B1 EP 87500014 A EP87500014 A EP 87500014A EP 87500014 A EP87500014 A EP 87500014A EP 0241402 B1 EP0241402 B1 EP 0241402B1
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Carlos Alvarez Delegido
Jordi Mallorqui Graupera
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S2/00—Systems of lighting devices, not provided for in main groups F21S4/00 - F21S10/00 or F21S19/00, e.g. of modular construction
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S2/00—Systems of lighting devices, not provided for in main groups F21S4/00 - F21S10/00 or F21S19/00, e.g. of modular construction
    • F21S2/005—Systems of lighting devices, not provided for in main groups F21S4/00 - F21S10/00 or F21S19/00, e.g. of modular construction of modular construction
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
    • F21S8/00—Lighting devices intended for fixed installation
    • F21S8/04—Lighting devices intended for fixed installation intended only for mounting on a ceiling or the like overhead structures
    • F21S8/06—Lighting devices intended for fixed installation intended only for mounting on a ceiling or the like overhead structures by suspension
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V15/00—Protecting lighting devices from damage
    • F21V15/01—Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts
    • F21V15/013—Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts the housing being an extrusion
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V15/00—Protecting lighting devices from damage
    • F21V15/01—Housings, e.g. material or assembling of housing parts
    • F21V15/015—Devices for covering joints between adjacent lighting devices; End coverings
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V21/00—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips
    • F21V21/005—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips for several lighting devices in an end-to-end arrangement, i.e. light tracks
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V23/00—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices
    • F21V23/06—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices the elements being coupling devices, e.g. connectors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V17/00—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages
    • F21V17/10—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages characterised by specific fastening means or way of fastening
    • F21V17/16—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages characterised by specific fastening means or way of fastening by deformation of parts; Snap action mounting
    • F21V17/164—Fastening of component parts of lighting devices, e.g. shades, globes, refractors, reflectors, filters, screens, grids or protective cages characterised by specific fastening means or way of fastening by deformation of parts; Snap action mounting the parts being subjected to bending, e.g. snap joints
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V23/00—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices
    • F21V23/02—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices the elements being transformers, impedances or power supply units, e.g. a transformer with a rectifier
    • F21V23/026—Fastening of transformers or ballasts
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V27/00—Cable-stowing arrangements structurally associated with lighting devices, e.g. reels 
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED
    • F21Y2103/00—Elongate light sources, e.g. fluorescent tubes
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED
    • F21Y2113/00—Combination of light sources

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  • the present invention relates to a lighting installation with a plurality of lighting units, with the use of which it is possible to implement installations that can be suited to the specific requirements of every case of application, starting from some components allowing several combinations to be performed.
  • French Patent FR-A-2.335.720 discloses a similar modular lighting installation, with similar end pieces and special interconnecting components, where each unit can furthermore consist of complementary members which together form a hollow body.
  • the lighting installation according to the invention comprises a plurality of lighting units, which can be assembled in a number of different ways due to special end lids of each unit and special intermediate distribution junctions, each unit comprising two complementary channel profile members with means for engagement with each other to form a box-like hollow body, said lids and said intermediate distribution junctions being provided with means for mechanical interconnection of two or more units in a plurality of desired layouts, and is characterised in that the end lids and the intermediate distribution junctions further comprise means for electrical interconnection of two or more adjacent units, said means for mechanical interconnection comprising, on the outer faces of the end lids and the intermediate distribution junctions, mutually complementary and outwardly protruding half-sleeves, surrounding two sets of protruding tubular housings for said electrical interconnection means, in the form of connection sockets and pins, the socket and pins of one end lid or intermediate distribution junction engaging with those of an adjacent lid or junction, and at the same time the half-sleeves and the two sets of protruding tubular housing of
  • said box-like hollow bodies comprise means for fastening within them electrical components for holding and feeding lamps.
  • one of the half-sleeves of the lids has mating semicircular cutouts at diametrically opposite points, so that, when the lid of a box is coupled with the lid of an adjacent one with all of the half-sleeves coaxial, the cutouts of one lid match with those of the other lid and define openings through which removable locking pins are threaded to ensure the lid engagement.
  • the locking pins are of a tubular structure to form a passageway for supporting struts.
  • the terminal lid itself shows a protruding, closed extension having an outline similar to that of the half-sleeves of the connection and assembling lids, with opposite circular holes for engagement of a tubular locking pin intended to receive a supporting strut.
  • connection and engagement lids as well as the terminal lids have projections on their internal face in order to facilitate centering of the lid as regards the end of the box where they are fixed to, as well as holes for securing screws, the said holes being faced to housings formed in the profiled members making up the box and arranged for threaded engagement of the above screws.
  • lids for assembling between two boxes have the sets of pins and sockets offset 90° as regards the sets of the other boxes, in order to locate said boxes in a position offset to an angle as well.
  • the boxes may, likewise, be rotationally movable for directing the light as desired.
  • figure 1 is a perspective view of the channeled profiled members making up the luminous boxes or container boxes for the electrical components of the equipment, the lids for assembly or engagement of the boxes and a terminal lid, in dismantled showing;
  • figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the boxes with neither lids nor electrical components inside them;
  • figure 3 is an elevation view of the outer face of one of the assembly and connection lids, the figure showing as well, in dotted lines, the position of one lid with the same half-sleeves and connection, though in a position which is offset 90° as regards the position shown in solid lines;
  • figure 4 is a view in longitudinal section of two assembly and connection lids shown in separated relation;
  • figure 5 is a similar view of the two lids assembled with one another;
  • figure 6 is a perspective view showing a mounted set of equipment components;
  • figure 7 is an elevation view of several components in assembled condition, and
  • figure 8 is a diagrammatic plan view of the equipment as installed according to an optional layout.
  • the lighting installation shown in the drawings is made up of boxes generally referred to with 1 and formed of two profiled members 2 and 3, of generally channeled shape and mutually complementary, the edges of the said members having sets of ribs and grooves 4 for their mutual pressure fitting (Fig. 2).
  • the profiled member 3 may be translucent in the case that a luminous tube is housed therein.
  • a lid 7 is engaged at each end of the boxes 1 and is formed with ribs 8 for guiding their position, as well as holes 9 through which screws 10 are passed for screw threaded engagement with the ends 5a of the grooves 5, in order to secure the lids.
  • the outer face of the lids 7 has two mutually complementary, diametrically opposite half-sleeves 11 and 12 of different radius, which surround sets of mutually complementary sleeves or tubular housings 13 and 14 which receive, respectively, connection sockets 15 and pins 16 provided with tongues 17 directed towards the center of a central opening 18 of the respective lid for connecting to the electric installation cables.
  • the half-sleeves 11 have pairs of semicircular, complementary and opposite cutouts 19 and 20 which mate with one another when the half-sleeves of one lid are fitted or assembled with those of a like lid (Fig. 5).
  • the openings formed by the mated cutouts 19 and 20 serve to form a passageway for locking pins 21 and 22 having axial holes through which supporting cables or struts 23 can be inserted.
  • the locking pins 21,22 play the role of a linkage between two contiguous lids and ensure the stillness of these later.
  • the equipment comprises as well terminal lids 25 having an outline which is analogous to that of the lids 7, and a small closed outer box 26 of a shape similar to that of the half-sleeves 11 and 12, and formed with openings 27 which are similar to the openings 19 and 20 to provide for the insertion of locking pins 21 and 22 in order to secure the ends of suspending struts 23.
  • the half-sleeves 11 and 12 are located offset 90° as regards their usual position, for example as indicated with doted lines in figure 3, to place a box 1a in a position which is offset 90° as regards the other boxes (Fig. 6 and 7).
  • the equipment comprises as well distribution or junction bodies 28 provided with connection sleeves 29 having a shape which is complementary to that of the half-sleeves 11 and 12 of the assembly lids 7, and provided with electric connection sockets and pins.
  • the connection sleeves 29 have a tail 30 shaped so that it can be removably trapped in the junction body 28 and allow the sleeve 29 to be placed in the suitable position.
  • the body 28 can trap two or more tails 30 of respective sleeves 29, according to the needs of the installation (Fig. 8).
  • the above junction body 28 comprises means for securing a suspending strut 23, as well as for mounting a swinging spotlight 31 of a conventional shape (Fig. 6).
  • the lighting installation allows multiple combinations to be effected in order to attain an illumination layout which is distributed in a manner suitable to the features of the site to be lighted, starting from a small series of invariable components featuring an ability for being assembled in different ways.
  • This equipment can be completed with an articulation device joined to the profiled members so that these latter can be directed in whatever direction. It is foreseen as well a flexible articulation that can be assembled to the profiled members in order to place the luminous tubes in a vertical plane.

Abstract

A set of assemblable components for lighting installations comprises complementary channel profiled members (2,3) with sets of ribs and grooves (4) for engagement with one another to form a box-like hollow body (1) having within it ribs or wings (6) for fastening electrical components for feeding and assembling lamps, a lid (7) being mounted at the ends of the assembled profiled members (2,3) and having outer assembly and electrical connection means (10) for engagement and means (11,12) for electrical connection with the lids (7) of adjacent box-like hollow bodies and in respect to assembly and connection bodies mounted in intermediate distribution junctions (28) located at desired points of the layout, the assembly lids (7), as well as the distribution junctions (28), having means for fastening suspension struts (23).

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  • The present invention relates to a lighting installation with a plurality of lighting units, with the use of which it is possible to implement installations that can be suited to the specific requirements of every case of application, starting from some components allowing several combinations to be performed.
  • With some of the lighting means hitherto known, laying down of lighting apparatus that must assume a modular and compact structure becomes intricate and costly. In fact, such installations must be performed starting from components specially manufactured for every application, and this complicates the installation and puts the price of this latter up. Otherwise, one must resort to the use of commercially available components, but this has the drawback that these available components usually do not afford the ensemble image that can be attained with the equipment making the subject of the invention.
  • It is known from DE-A-3.014.241 a lighting installation comprising a plurality of modular units, which can be assembled in a number of different ways due to special end pieces of each unit and special interconnecting components between adjacent units.
  • French Patent FR-A-2.335.720 discloses a similar modular lighting installation, with similar end pieces and special interconnecting components, where each unit can furthermore consist of complementary members which together form a hollow body.
  • Both these known modular lighting installations allow the formation of a desired layout, but the electrical interconnection between units has to be made through fixed wire conductors, and this prevents the lighting installation and its layout from being easily and readily assembled and changed if desired.
  • The lighting installation according to the invention comprises a plurality of lighting units, which can be assembled in a number of different ways due to special end lids of each unit and special intermediate distribution junctions, each unit comprising two complementary channel profile members with means for engagement with each other to form a box-like hollow body, said lids and said intermediate distribution junctions being provided with means for mechanical interconnection of two or more units in a plurality of desired layouts, and is characterised in that the end lids and the intermediate distribution junctions further comprise means for electrical interconnection of two or more adjacent units, said means for mechanical interconnection comprising, on the outer faces of the end lids and the intermediate distribution junctions, mutually complementary and outwardly protruding half-sleeves, surrounding two sets of protruding tubular housings for said electrical interconnection means, in the form of connection sockets and pins, the socket and pins of one end lid or intermediate distribution junction engaging with those of an adjacent lid or junction, and at the same time the half-sleeves and the two sets of protruding tubular housing of adjacent lids or junctions being coupled with each other for their assembly.
  • In a preferred embodiment, said box-like hollow bodies comprise means for fastening within them electrical components for holding and feeding lamps.
  • It is foreseen that one of the half-sleeves of the lids has mating semicircular cutouts at diametrically opposite points, so that, when the lid of a box is coupled with the lid of an adjacent one with all of the half-sleeves coaxial, the cutouts of one lid match with those of the other lid and define openings through which removable locking pins are threaded to ensure the lid engagement.
  • To advantage the locking pins are of a tubular structure to form a passageway for supporting struts.
  • The terminal lid itself shows a protruding, closed extension having an outline similar to that of the half-sleeves of the connection and assembling lids, with opposite circular holes for engagement of a tubular locking pin intended to receive a supporting strut.
  • The connection and engagement lids as well as the terminal lids have projections on their internal face in order to facilitate centering of the lid as regards the end of the box where they are fixed to, as well as holes for securing screws, the said holes being faced to housings formed in the profiled members making up the box and arranged for threaded engagement of the above screws.
  • It is foreseen that some lids for assembling between two boxes have the sets of pins and sockets offset 90° as regards the sets of the other boxes, in order to locate said boxes in a position offset to an angle as well. The boxes may, likewise, be rotationally movable for directing the light as desired.
  • For a better understanding of this specification, the enclosed drawings show, only by way of example, one case of practical embodiment of the lighting installation.
  • In said drawings, figure 1 is a perspective view of the channeled profiled members making up the luminous boxes or container boxes for the electrical components of the equipment, the lids for assembly or engagement of the boxes and a terminal lid, in dismantled showing; figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the boxes with neither lids nor electrical components inside them; figure 3 is an elevation view of the outer face of one of the assembly and connection lids, the figure showing as well, in dotted lines, the position of one lid with the same half-sleeves and connection, though in a position which is offset 90° as regards the position shown in solid lines; figure 4 is a view in longitudinal section of two assembly and connection lids shown in separated relation; figure 5 is a similar view of the two lids assembled with one another; figure 6 is a perspective view showing a mounted set of equipment components; figure 7 is an elevation view of several components in assembled condition, and figure 8 is a diagrammatic plan view of the equipment as installed according to an optional layout.
  • The lighting installation shown in the drawings is made up of boxes generally referred to with 1 and formed of two profiled members 2 and 3, of generally channeled shape and mutually complementary, the edges of the said members having sets of ribs and grooves 4 for their mutual pressure fitting (Fig. 2). The profiled member 3 may be translucent in the case that a luminous tube is housed therein.
  • The inside of the profiled members 2 and 3 is formed with longitudinal grooves 5 in ribs or wings 6 where the screws for securing the electrical components such as lamp carriers, ballasts, primers and other, are fastened to. The profiled members have, as well, lips 6a for housing the electrical cables.
  • A lid 7 is engaged at each end of the boxes 1 and is formed with ribs 8 for guiding their position, as well as holes 9 through which screws 10 are passed for screw threaded engagement with the ends 5a of the grooves 5, in order to secure the lids.
  • The outer face of the lids 7 has two mutually complementary, diametrically opposite half- sleeves 11 and 12 of different radius, which surround sets of mutually complementary sleeves or tubular housings 13 and 14 which receive, respectively, connection sockets 15 and pins 16 provided with tongues 17 directed towards the center of a central opening 18 of the respective lid for connecting to the electric installation cables.
  • The half-sleeves 11 have pairs of semicircular, complementary and opposite cutouts 19 and 20 which mate with one another when the half-sleeves of one lid are fitted or assembled with those of a like lid (Fig. 5). The openings formed by the mated cutouts 19 and 20 serve to form a passageway for locking pins 21 and 22 having axial holes through which supporting cables or struts 23 can be inserted. The locking pins 21,22 play the role of a linkage between two contiguous lids and ensure the stillness of these later.
  • The equipment comprises as well terminal lids 25 having an outline which is analogous to that of the lids 7, and a small closed outer box 26 of a shape similar to that of the half- sleeves 11 and 12, and formed with openings 27 which are similar to the openings 19 and 20 to provide for the insertion of locking pins 21 and 22 in order to secure the ends of suspending struts 23.
  • It may be foreseen that the half- sleeves 11 and 12 are located offset 90° as regards their usual position, for example as indicated with doted lines in figure 3, to place a box 1a in a position which is offset 90° as regards the other boxes (Fig. 6 and 7).
  • The equipment comprises as well distribution or junction bodies 28 provided with connection sleeves 29 having a shape which is complementary to that of the half- sleeves 11 and 12 of the assembly lids 7, and provided with electric connection sockets and pins. The connection sleeves 29 have a tail 30 shaped so that it can be removably trapped in the junction body 28 and allow the sleeve 29 to be placed in the suitable position. The body 28 can trap two or more tails 30 of respective sleeves 29, according to the needs of the installation (Fig. 8).
  • The above junction body 28 comprises means for securing a suspending strut 23, as well as for mounting a swinging spotlight 31 of a conventional shape (Fig. 6).
  • As appears from the above description and looking to the drawings, the lighting installation allows multiple combinations to be effected in order to attain an illumination layout which is distributed in a manner suitable to the features of the site to be lighted, starting from a small series of invariable components featuring an ability for being assembled in different ways.
  • This equipment can be completed with an articulation device joined to the profiled members so that these latter can be directed in whatever direction. It is foreseen as well a flexible articulation that can be assembled to the profiled members in order to place the luminous tubes in a vertical plane.

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  1. Lighting installation, comprising a plurality of lighting units (1), which can be assembled in a number of different ways due to special end lids (7) of each unit (1) and special intermediate distribution junctions (28,29), each unit (1) comprising two complementary channel profile members (2,3) with means for engagement (4) with each other to form a box-like hollow body, said lids (7) and said intermediate distribution junctions (28,29) being provided with means for mechanical interconnection of two or more units (1) in a plurality of desired layouts, characterised in that the end lids (7) and the intermediate distribution junctions (28,29) further comprise means for electrical interconnection (15,16) of two or more adjacent units, said means for mechanical inter-connection comprising, on the outer faces of the end lids (7) and the intermediate distribution junctions (28,29), mutually complementary and outwardly protruding half-sleeves (11,12), surrounding two sets of protruding tubular housings (13,14) for said electrical interconnection means (15,16), in the form of connection sockets (15) and pins (16), the socket and pins of one end lid (7) or intermediate distribution junction (28,29) engaging with those of an adjacent lid or junction, and at the same time the half-sleeves (11,12) and the two sets of protruding tubular housing (13,14) of adjacent lids or junctions being coupled with each other for their assembly.
  2. Lighting installation as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said box-like hollow bodies (1) comprise means (5,6) for fastening within them electrical components for holding and feeding lamps.
  3. Lighting installation as in claim 1, characterized in that at least one of the channel profiled members (2,3) forming the box-like hollow bodies (1) is translucent.
  4. Lighting installation as in claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the complementary profiled members (2,3) constituting the box-like bodies (1), have inner grooves (5) which the electrical components of the equipment are fastened to by means of screws, and the ends (5a) of such grooves receive in threaded engagement the lid securing screws (10).
  5. Lighting installation as in claims 1 and 2, characterized in that at least one of the profiled members (2,3) has longitudinal internal lips (6a) for housing electrical cables.
  6. Lighting installation as in claim 1, characterized in that, according to a specific embodiment, each assembling lid (7) and body related to the distribution junction (28,29) has two opposite half-sleeves (11,12) of different diameter and adjustable, the ends of the half-sleeve of greater diameter (11) being provided with semi-circular cutouts (19,20) mating with the cutouts (19,20) of the greater half-sleeve (11) of another assembly lid (7) or body (28,29) when both half-sleeves (11) engage with one another, said cutouts (19,20) forming together passageways for a removable locking pin (21,22) ensuring connection of the two assembled bodies.
  7. Lighting installation as in claim 1, characterized in that the terminal lids (25) have an outer, box-shaped protrusion (26) with diametrically opposite openings (27) in which a removable locking pin (21,22), advantageously tubular, may be fitted.
  8. Lighting installation as in claims 1 and 7, characterized in that the removable locking pins (21,22) are of tubular construction.
  9. Lighting installation as in claims 1, 7 and 8, characterized in that the tubular locking pins (21,22) have means for fastening suspension struts (23).
  10. Lighting installation as in claim 1, characterized in that some of the lids (7) which are engageable to the ends of the profiled members (2,3) have assembly and connection means (11,12) offset to an angle as regards the position that such means have in the remainder of the lids.
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