EP0242002A2 - Système comprenant des éléments allongés réunis bout à bout, tels que des éléments lumineux tubulaires, et leurs organes de connexion - Google Patents

Système comprenant des éléments allongés réunis bout à bout, tels que des éléments lumineux tubulaires, et leurs organes de connexion Download PDF

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EP0242002A2
EP0242002A2 EP87200694A EP87200694A EP0242002A2 EP 0242002 A2 EP0242002 A2 EP 0242002A2 EP 87200694 A EP87200694 A EP 87200694A EP 87200694 A EP87200694 A EP 87200694A EP 0242002 A2 EP0242002 A2 EP 0242002A2
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joining member
ball
segment
bushing
elongated elements
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Thomas Lydiksen
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ELTEVA DANMARK AS
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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
    • 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
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a modular construction of elements, consisting of endwise joined, elongated elements, such as tubular lighting units with endwise interposed joining members shaped as balls or ball segments and operable to hold the adjoining elements with these projecting in any selected, arbitrary directions. It is possible with such a system to build up a row of elongated tubular lighting units which project through both horizontal and vertical shifts of direction, which is often desirable in modern lighting installations.
  • the joining members just as joining members e.g. for gutters, may be provided with connector stubs projecting in different directions such that for a given joining prescription it is required to use a correspondingly preshaped or preadapted joining member. While this is an advantageous possibility it is nevertheless troublesome to provide the associated high number of different joining members.
  • the ball shaped joining members may be provided with the said segment plates only adjacent a few selected places near the ends of the associated elongated elements, and these ends may then, by actuation of the corresponding protruding fastening bolt means, be tightened against the surface of the joining member.
  • This tightening may be effected both centrally and pronounced decentrally relative the fastening bolt, inasfar as the segment plate member itself may be located within a relatively large area about the fastening bolt means, viz. with the latter located anywhere along the said slot of or in the segment plate.
  • the associated segment plate may thus be located anywhere inside the circular area defined by the area which will be covered or described by the segment plate when the latter is rotated about the fastening bolt with this bolt located at an outermost end portion of the slot.
  • the tightening force as hereby applicable adjacent one end of the slot will reveal itself with reduced strength adjacent the diametrally opposite area of the segment plate, the more larger the plate is, and for this reason there is practical limit for the size of the segment plates. It has been found, however, that it is possible to make use of each and very mounting place, all over the surface of the ball member, with the use of segment plates cooperating with fastening bolts located in only the six main directions of the ball member.
  • the fastening bolts should not necessarily be materially present at places other than those where they are required for the actual mounting, and a standard ball member for connecting the elongated elements with any mutual directions, therefore, may be shaped e.g. with discrete reception holes for the bolts or similar members, which should be used for each single mounting.
  • the elongated elements may be joined with mutually arbitrary directions without the free surface portions of the ball members being disfigured by essentially visible holding means.
  • Fig. 1 The construction shown in Fig. 1 is a fraction of a row of elongated lighting units 2, which are illustrated only by their outer shell portions, these elements being joined end to end by means of ball shaped joining elements 4.
  • the elongated elements as shown in full lines are joined flush with each other, but it is shown in dotted lines that the ball member 4 may be connected with an additional, orthogonally projecting lighting unit 6 or a corresponding rod or tubular element, and that in stead of two fully aligned elements 2 the ball member may join elements 2 and 8, which are directionally mutually deviating, horizontally of vertically or in any inclined plane therebetween.
  • the joint is illustrated in a more detailed manner in Fig. 2.
  • the ball member is provided with threaded holes 10 in each of its six main directions, and some of these holes will be unused and thereby be either open or filled out by a cover screw 12.
  • Two opposite holes 10 are provided with holding bolts 14, which are used for the fastening of the respective ends of the elements 2.
  • By means of screws 16 these ends are connected to a diametrically extending cross piece 18 on a tube bushing 20 forming an intermediate connector member between the element 2 and the ball 4.
  • the bushing 20 is first connected to the ball, whereafter the element 2 is secured to the outer end of the bushing.
  • each bushing 20 facing the ball 4 is shaped with a spherical edge area 22, which continues inwardly in a circumferential interior nose flange 24, which cooperates with the edge area of a spherical segment plate 26 as also shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
  • the segment plate is shaped with a slot 28, which is crossing almost over the entire width of the plate, through the center thereof, and which received the fastening bolt 14.
  • Each of the segment plates will be usable for the tightening of the bushing to the ball 4 in any arbitrary or desired directional position inside an area as covered or described by the segment plate when it is rotated about the bolt 14 with the latter engaged adjacent one end of the slot 28, i.e. the operationally usable area around each of the bolts 14 may be rather large.
  • the operationally usable area around each of the bolts 14 may be rather large.
  • the spherical segment plates 26 may be constituted by rigid end wall portions on the bushings 20, but in that case it shall have to be acceptable that the bushings may have to assume positions in which they are turned differently about their own axes all according to their mounting location relative the ball member. This may be acceptable in many cases, but not where the outer shape of the bushings is adapted to match with some non-circular shape of the associated elongated elements 2.
  • the end surface region of the bushing adjacent the ball member may be obliquely cut off, and in the left hand side it is shown that the bushing may be shaped as an irregular trasition element connecting the ball member with the elongated element 2, which may then have any arbitrary cross sectional shape.
  • segment plates would not really need to be spherical, when they are only shaped so as to make sure that by the tightening of the bolts 14 they will not be tightened against the surface of the ball element. It will be an associated drawback, however, that planar tightening plate portions will stand obliquely relative the tightening bolts 14 whenever the bushings are secured to the ball member in offcentered positions.
  • the invention also comprises the disclosed ball joining members.
  • the slots 28 extend radially to one side of the central area, and these plate members should not necessarily be of the illustrated regular disc shape; they may be substituted by a cross strip member having a middle slot, or they may be shaped as star members.

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  • Battery Mounting, Suspending (AREA)
EP87200694A 1986-04-14 1987-04-14 Système comprenant des éléments allongés réunis bout à bout, tels que des éléments lumineux tubulaires, et leurs organes de connexion Withdrawn EP0242002A3 (fr)

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DK1680/86 1986-04-14
DK168086A DK168086A (da) 1986-04-14 1986-04-14 Kugleledssamleorgan til fortrinsvis belysningslegemer

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EP0242002A2 true EP0242002A2 (fr) 1987-10-21
EP0242002A3 EP0242002A3 (fr) 1989-06-28

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DK (1) DK168086A (fr)
FI (1) FI871608A7 (fr)
NO (1) NO871548L (fr)

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FR2642506A1 (fr) * 1989-01-27 1990-08-03 Sari Luminaire a regles lumineuses orientables

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CH647853A5 (en) * 1979-06-11 1985-02-15 Georg A Steiner Illuminating arrangement in a modular system
FR2558543B1 (fr) * 1984-01-19 1987-07-10 Ruiz Henri Dispositif d'assemblage d'elements longilignes avec variation angulaire

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FR2642506A1 (fr) * 1989-01-27 1990-08-03 Sari Luminaire a regles lumineuses orientables

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FI871608A7 (fi) 1987-10-15
NO871548D0 (no) 1987-04-13
DK168086A (da) 1987-10-15
DK168086D0 (da) 1986-04-14
NO871548L (no) 1987-10-15
EP0242002A3 (fr) 1989-06-28

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