EP0816751A1 - Rotary luminaires - Google Patents

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EP0816751A1
EP0816751A1 EP97410068A EP97410068A EP0816751A1 EP 0816751 A1 EP0816751 A1 EP 0816751A1 EP 97410068 A EP97410068 A EP 97410068A EP 97410068 A EP97410068 A EP 97410068A EP 0816751 A1 EP0816751 A1 EP 0816751A1
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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
    • F21S10/00—Lighting devices or systems producing a varying lighting effect
    • F21S10/06—Lighting devices or systems producing a varying lighting effect flashing, e.g. with rotating reflector or light source
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    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
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    • 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
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    • F21S—NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS
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    • F21S8/085—Lighting devices intended for fixed installation with a standard of high-built type, e.g. street light
    • F21S8/086—Lighting devices intended for fixed installation with a standard of high-built type, e.g. street light with lighting device attached sideways of the standard, e.g. for roads and highways

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  • the present invention relates to a means of increasing the times shine, flicker and color changes that a luminaire can present, without any other intervention than the radiation from the light source (or light sources) of this fixture. For this it consists in provoking by the only effect of the luminaire radiation displacement relative to light sources therefrom non-luminous parts by themselves but likely to present bright flashes.
  • the single figure schematically represents the cross section a chandelier comprising at the end of a vertical tube 1, a bulb electric 2 surrounded by four crowns 3,4,5 and 6, load-bearing crystals cut in rhinestones or very transparent glass and very refracting. Above the crowns the figure represents the device which puts the chandelier in rotation. For the convenience of reading of the drawing we have shown in this figure only the crystals hanging at the ends, on the left and on the right, of the crowns which carry them
  • the crowns secured to each other are supported by a disc metallic 7 carrying narrow metallic arms 8 at the ends of which is fixed the crown 3 secured to the other three 4,5 and 6 by fasteners obliques which connect them together and which are represented by oblique lines not referenced.
  • the disc is centered on the carrier tube of the bulb 2, which is hung on the ceiling of the room to be lit. It can revolve around this frictionless tube as it rests firmly on the outer ring 9 of a ball bearing whose central hub 10 is made integral vertical tube 1.
  • the metal disc further carries glued on its upper face a disc 11 made of transparent material such as plexiglass and which is also centered on the tube 1 and movable without friction around it.
  • the bulb 2 passes through a photoelectric cell 12 which it illuminates the sensitive underside facing the bulb.
  • the poles of this cell are connected by two thin cables passing through the hollow tube 1 to a small 1.5 volt DC motor 13 secured to the tube vertical 1 and whose weight is balanced by a homogeneous block 14.
  • the layout of the cell constitutes an important point of the invention which consists of placing it on bulb 2 and not next to it so so that it does not shade the crystalline parts.
  • the cell is perforated and we pass in this hole the socket or the base of the bulb.
  • the motor 13 causes the rotation of a vertical axis 14 provided with a friction sleeve 15 which is in contact with the transparent disc 11 so as to cause it to rotate when the engine is running.
  • the disc 11 and the sleeve which drives it can be replaced by cogwheels playing the same role as them.
  • One of the thin cables running from the cell to the motor has a switch allowing the motor to be isolated from the cell at will.
  • the fine wire passes first inside the tube 1 like the bulb power cables. He comes out like them and follows them to one of the terminals of the small switch, the other of which terminal is connected to motor 13 by the other part of the fine wire which passes in tube 1 before being connected to the engine.
  • the engine 13 can be a motor powered by mains current.

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A hollow tube (1), concealing wiring, ends in an incandescent bulb (2), and supports, on a ball-bearing (9), a metal disk (7) with radial arms (8). These carry an outer array (3) of freely suspended transparent and highly refractive glass or paste elements, linked peripherally to similar, dependent, arrays below (4, 5, 6). The rotary assembly (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) is driven round by a motor (13), through a friction-drive shaft (16) bearing on the rim of a clear plastic disk (11) glued to the support disk (7). A counter-balance (14) prevents tilting. The motor is powered by an annular photo-electric cell (12) above the bulb - opt., from the mains. Opt., the drive (16, 11) is a by toothed gears. A cylindrical shade with painted views, or a miniature carousel is opt. added to the top rotary section (3).

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La présente invention est relative à un moyen d'auqmenter à la fois la brillance, le scintillement et les changements de couleur que peut présenter un luminaire, sans aucune autre intervention que le rayonnement de la source lumineuse (ou des sources lumineuses) de ce luminaire. Elle consiste pour cela à provoquer par le seul effet du rayonnement du luminaire le déplacement par rapport aux sources lumineuses de celui-ci des parties non lumineuses par elles-mêmes mais susceptibles de présenter des éclats lumineux.The present invention relates to a means of increasing the times shine, flicker and color changes that a luminaire can present, without any other intervention than the radiation from the light source (or light sources) of this fixture. For this it consists in provoking by the only effect of the luminaire radiation displacement relative to light sources therefrom non-luminous parts by themselves but likely to present bright flashes.

Elle porte aussi, accessoirement ou non, sur les effets que peut apporter la rotation en question si on associe aux parties en rotation un manège miniature qui tourne en même temps qu'elles.It also relates, incidentally or not, to the effects that can bring the rotation in question if we associate with the parts in rotation a miniature carousel which turns at the same time as them.

On trouve dans les magasins de luminaires des modèles de plus en plus nombreux de lustres constitués par un tube vertical solidaire d'une ou plusieurs couronnes porteuses de cristaux pendantifs taillés dans du verre ou du strass et élairés par une ou plusieurs sources lumineuses fixes placées à l'intérieur des dites couronnes.There are more models in the lighting stores in addition to numerous chandeliers constituted by a vertical tube integral one or more crowns bearing cut pendant crystals in glass or rhinestones and illuminated by one or more sources fixed lights placed inside said crowns.

La taille en facettes des cristaux et leurs différences de forme procure un éclat et des teintes qui varient à condition de se déplacer autour du luminaire. C'est un agrément qui fait souvent préférer les lustres ainsi constitués aux lustres comportant seulement un abat-jour opaque ou plus ou moins translucide.The faceted size of the crystals and their differences in shape provides a different shine and shade if you move around the fixture. It is an approval that often makes people prefer chandeliers thus made up of chandeliers with only one lampshade opaque or more or less translucent.

Grâce au moyen de la présente invention cet agrément est énormément augmenté sans qu'on ait besoin de se déplacer.Thanks to the means of the present invention this approval is enormously increased without the need to travel.

Pour celà les couronnes du luminaire en question sont rendues mobiles et rotatives par rapport au reste du luminaire. Dans ces conditions, même si l'on ne se déplace pas, quand les couronnes tournent sous l'effet du dispositif qu'on va décrire, les cristaux disposés en couronnes autour de la ou des sources lumineuses lancent des éclats changeants en intensité et en couleur pour un même cristal. L'attrait pour l'oeil est alors énormément augmenté.For this the crowns of the luminaire in question are returned movable and rotatable relative to the rest of the luminaire. In these conditions, even if you don't move, when the crowns turn under the effect of the device which we will describe, the crystals arranged in crowns around the light source (s) shine changing in intensity and color for the same crystal. The attraction for the eye is then enormously increased.

Voici, à titre d'exemple, comment on peut s'y prendre pour réaliser l'invention.Here, as an example, how we can go about achieving the invention.

Le nombre des figures est égal à 1.The number of figures is equal to 1.

La figure unique représente schématiquement la coupe transversale d'un lustre comprenant à l'extrémité d'un tube vertical 1, une ampoule électrique 2 entourée par quatre couronnes 3,4,5 et 6, porteuses de cristaux taillés dans du strass ou du verre très transparent et très réfractant. Au dessus des couronnes la figure représente le dispositif qui met le lustre en rotation. Pour la commodité de la lecture du dessin on n'a représenté sur cette figure que les cristaux accrochés aux extrémités, à gauche et à droite, des couronnes qui les portent The single figure schematically represents the cross section a chandelier comprising at the end of a vertical tube 1, a bulb electric 2 surrounded by four crowns 3,4,5 and 6, load-bearing crystals cut in rhinestones or very transparent glass and very refracting. Above the crowns the figure represents the device which puts the chandelier in rotation. For the convenience of reading of the drawing we have shown in this figure only the crystals hanging at the ends, on the left and on the right, of the crowns which carry them

Les couronnes solidaires entre elles sont supportées par un disque métallique 7 porteur de bras métalliques étroits 8 aux extrémités desquels est fixée la couronne 3 solidaire des trois autres 4,5 et 6 par des attaches obliques qui les relient entre elles et qui sont représentées par des traits obliques non référentiés.The crowns secured to each other are supported by a disc metallic 7 carrying narrow metallic arms 8 at the ends of which is fixed the crown 3 secured to the other three 4,5 and 6 by fasteners obliques which connect them together and which are represented by oblique lines not referenced.

Le disque est centré sur le tube porteur de l'ampoule 2, lequel est accroché au plafond de la salle à éclairer. Il peut tourner autour de ce tube sans frottement car il repose solidairement sur la couronne extérieure 9 d'un roulement à billes dont le moyeu central 10 est rendu solidaire du tube vertical 1.The disc is centered on the carrier tube of the bulb 2, which is hung on the ceiling of the room to be lit. It can revolve around this frictionless tube as it rests firmly on the outer ring 9 of a ball bearing whose central hub 10 is made integral vertical tube 1.

Le disque métallique porte en outre collé sur sa face supérieure un disque 11 en matière transparente telle que le plexiglass et qui est lui aussi centré sur le tube 1 et mobile sans frottement autour de lui.The metal disc further carries glued on its upper face a disc 11 made of transparent material such as plexiglass and which is also centered on the tube 1 and movable without friction around it.

L'ampoule 2 traverse une cellule photoélectrique 12 dont elle éclaire la face inférieure sensible tournée vers l'ampoule. Les pôles de cette cellule sont reliés par deux câbles fins passant dans le tube creux 1 à un petit moteur à courant continu 13 de 1,5 volt rendu solidaire du tube vertical 1 et dont le poids est contrebalancé par un bloc homogène 14.The bulb 2 passes through a photoelectric cell 12 which it illuminates the sensitive underside facing the bulb. The poles of this cell are connected by two thin cables passing through the hollow tube 1 to a small 1.5 volt DC motor 13 secured to the tube vertical 1 and whose weight is balanced by a homogeneous block 14.

La disposition de la cellule constitue un point important de l'invention qui consiste à la placer sur l'ampoule 2 et non à côté d'elle de façon à ce qu'elle ne porte pas ombre sur les parties cristallines. A cet effet la cellule est trouée et on fait passer dans ce trou la douille ou le culot de l'ampoule.The layout of the cell constitutes an important point of the invention which consists of placing it on bulb 2 and not next to it so so that it does not shade the crystalline parts. For this purpose the cell is perforated and we pass in this hole the socket or the base of the bulb.

Le moteur 13 entraine la rotation d'un axe vertical 14 muni d'un manchon de friction 15 qui est en contact avec le disque transparent 11 de façon à entrainer sa rotation quand le moteur fonctionne.The motor 13 causes the rotation of a vertical axis 14 provided with a friction sleeve 15 which is in contact with the transparent disc 11 so as to cause it to rotate when the engine is running.

Le disque 11 et le manchon qui l'entraine peuvent être remplacés par des roues dentées jouant le même rôle qu'eux.The disc 11 and the sleeve which drives it can be replaced by cogwheels playing the same role as them.

L'un des câbles fins qui vont de la cellule au moteur est muni d'un interrupteur permettant d'isoler à volonté le moteur de la cellule. Pour celà en venant de la cellule le fil fin passe d'abord à l'intérieur du tube 1 comme les câbles d'alimentation de l'ampoule. Il en sort comme eux et les suit jusqu'à l'une des bornes du petit interrupteur dont l'autre borne est reliée au moteur 13 par l'autre partie du fil fin qui repasse dans le tube 1 avant d'être relié au moteur.One of the thin cables running from the cell to the motor has a switch allowing the motor to be isolated from the cell at will. For coming from the cell, the fine wire passes first inside the tube 1 like the bulb power cables. He comes out like them and follows them to one of the terminals of the small switch, the other of which terminal is connected to motor 13 by the other part of the fine wire which passes in tube 1 before being connected to the engine.

Dans ces conditions losqu'on éclaire le lustre et qu'on ferme en même temps le petit interrupteur d'alimentation du moteur 13 les parties mobiles du lustre tournent sous l'effet de la lumière de l'ampoule, et, c'est là une des caractéristiques de l'invention, sans consommer d'avantage d'énergie que celle nécessaire à l'éclairage du lustre. Under these conditions when you light the chandelier and close it same time the small engine power switch 13 the parts the chandelier’s mobiles rotate under the effect of the light from the bulb, and, this is one of the characteristics of the invention, without consuming any advantage energy than that needed to light the chandelier.

Rien n'empêche en outre de coiffer la couronne 3 d'un cylindre opaque ou translucide décoré de dessins représentant les éléments d'un paysage, ou d'un disque supportant un manège miniature que l'on voit tourner en même temps que scintillent les cristaux : l'agrément ainsi apporté est alors amplifié par les éclats changeants et colorés des couronnes 3, 4, 5, et 6.In addition, nothing prevents the crown 3 from being crowned with a cylinder. opaque or translucent decorated with drawings representing the elements of a landscape, or of a disc supporting a miniature merry-go-round that we sees turning at the same time as the crystals sparkle: the pleasure thus brought is then amplified by the changing and colored flashes crowns 3, 4, 5, and 6.

L'exemple ici décrit n'est pas exclusif de tout autre mode de réalisation conforme à la description; en particulier le moteur 13 peut être un moteur alimenté par le courant du secteur.The example described here is not exclusive of any other mode of realization according to the description; in particular the engine 13 can be a motor powered by mains current.

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Un luminaire à cristaux transparents caractérisé en ce qu'il est formé de deux parties séparées mobiles l'une par rapport à l'autre, la première qui reste fixe étant constituée par une ou plusieurs sources lumineuses, la deuxième qui peut tourner autour de l'axe vertical de suspension du luminaire et de la partie fixe étant constituée par des couronnes de cristaux taillés très transparents et très réfringents.A transparent crystal luminaire characterized in that it is formed of two separate parts movable relative to each other, the first which remains fixed being constituted by one or more sources the second which can rotate around the vertical axis of suspension of the luminaire and of the fixed part consisting of crowns of very transparent and very refractive cut crystals. Un luminaire selon la revendication 1 caractérisé en outre en ce que la partie mobile est mise en rotation par un dispositif formé d'une cellule photoélectrique qui, recevant la lumière des sources lumineuses du luminaire, fournit un courant qui alimente un petit moteur dont la rotation entraine celle de la partie mobile.A fixture according to claim 1 further characterized in that the movable part is rotated by a device formed of a photocell which, receiving light from light sources of the luminaire, provides a current which powers a small motor whose rotation causes that of the moving part. Un luminaire selon l'une des revendications précédentes caractérisé en outre en ce que l'une des couronnes mobiles est placée au niveau du dispositif d'entrainement qu'elle cache à la vue.A luminaire according to one of the preceding claims, characterized further in that one of the movable crowns is placed at the level of the training device that it hides from view. Un luminaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes caractérisé en outre en ce que sa partie mobile comprend en outre un cylindre plus ou moins translucide sur lequel sont dessinés les éléments d'un paysage qui défilent sous l'oeil de l'observateur en même temps que les cristaux de la partie mobile.A luminaire according to any one of the preceding claims further characterized in that its movable portion further comprises a more or less translucent cylinder on which the elements are drawn of a landscape parading under the eye of the observer at the same time as the crystals of the moving part. Un luminaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes caractérisé en outre en ce que sa partie mobile comprend en outre un manège miniature qui tourne en même temps que les cristaux de la partie mobile.A luminaire according to any one of the preceding claims further characterized in that its movable portion further comprises a miniature carousel which turns at the same time as the crystals of the game mobile. Un luminaire selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entrainement de ces revendications est remplacé par un moteur alimenté par le courant du secteur.A luminaire according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the drive device of these claims is replaced by a motor powered by mains current. Un luminaire selon l'une des revendications précédentes caractérisé en ce que les parties mobiles peuvent avoir une forme quelconque.A luminaire according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the moving parts can have any shape.
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