US1751042A - Lighting fixture for show cases - Google Patents

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March 18, 1930; o. w. KLINGSICK 1,751,042

LIGHTING FIXTURE FOR SHOW CASES Filed April 21, 1927 1106 7 7- TO RA E ms.

Patented Mar. 18, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE oswALn w. KLIN'GSICK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AsSre-iuon 'IO DAY-BRITE REFLECTOR COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION on MISSOURI LIGHTING FIXTURE non sIIow oAsns Application filed April 21,

My invention relates to electric lighting fixtures for show cases and the like and has for its principal object a fixture that is simple in construction, easy to assemble and disassemble and neat in appearance. The-invention consists partly in the means for holding the light socket members and reflector members in position in the trough or body member. The invention further consists in the lighting fixture and in the parts and combinations and arrangements of parts and in the process hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein like reference characters indicate like parts Wherever they occur,

Fig. 1 is a bottom view of a lighting fixture embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the socket members; and

Fig. 3 is a partial longitudinal view thereof on the line 33 in Fig. 2.

A trough or body member 1 adapted to be mounted in a show case or the like is provided with inturned flanges 2 along its edges. Disposed in said trough 1 are a plurality of double socket members 3 each adapted to receive an electric light bulb 4 on each side thereof. In the drawing are illustrated bulbs of the kind commonly used in illuminating show cases, namely: bulbs that are'relatively long and of relatively small diameter. In one end of the trough 1 is a single socket mem: her 5 adapted to receive an electric light bulb 4. Each socket member (3 and 5) is held in the trough or body member 1 by means of a strip of spring metal 6 disposed in the recessed middle portion of said socket member and having flanged ends 7 that fit in the inwardly bent flanges 2 of the edges of the trough. The socket members 3 and 5 are thus held against longitudinal movement.

A socket member may be removed by disengaging the retaining member 6 from the flanges of the trough.

The socket members 3 and 5 have spring clips 8 secured thereto as by screws 9 and extending along the portion that fits in the interior or rear portion of the trough 1. F itting over each end of the double socket mem- 50 ber 3 and over one end of the single socket through one 1927.' Serial No. 185,449. Y

member 5 is a reflector member 10 that has a cross-sectional shape roughly approximating that of the trough member, but spaced away at the rear portion from the rear of the trough so as to leave a channel 11 to receive the electric wiring 12. The socket members have shoulders 13 against which said reflector members-1O abut. Each reflector 10 is provided with an-opening 14 adjacent to each. socket memberand each spring clip8 has a tongue 15 at the end fitting in anopening 14 of a reflector member 10, thus preventing accidental disengagement of the reflector member from the socket member but permitting separation of thetwo when desired.

Eaehspring clip, 8 has rebent flange portions 16 that are bent around the electric wiring .12that,suppliescurrent for the lights,

thus holding said wiring imposition.

The above described construction permits the assembling of a plurality of socket members and reflector members with the necessary electric wiring extending along the backs of the reflector members and socket members and held in place by the rebent flanges of said clips and the installation thereof as a unit in the trough member. Preferably at least one edge of the reflector members fits in a flanged edge of the trough member. The joints between reflector members occur at the socket members, thus giving the fixture a very neat appearance. The fixture may easily be assembled and disassembled and various combinations and arrangements may be made by using different sizes of reflectors and greater or smaller numbers of socket members. Obviously numerous changes may be made without departing from the invention, and I 'do not wish to be limited to the precise construction shown.

What I claim is: V

1. In a device of the kind set forth, a socket member for an electric light bulb, a reflector fitting over the end portion of said socket member, electric wiring for said socket member extending along the back of said reflector member and a clip on said socket member overlapping the end of said reflector memher, said clip having rebent flange members engaging said wiring to hold it in place.

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'2. A lighting fixture comprising a trough member having inwardly flanged edge portions,' a light supporting member therein having a recessed middle portion and a-re-' Y staining member for said light supporting members, said retaining memberbeing disa posed in said recessed middle portion of said light supporting member and having up- A standing edge portions fitting in the flanged edges of'sai'dtrough,"

3. A lighting fixture comprising a trough I member having inwardly fianged-edgeportion s, light supporting members therein and I retaining members forsai'd light; supporting a v .members, said retainlng members having upstanding edge portions fitting in the'fianged edges of said trough;-' V

4. A lighting'fixture'comprising a trough -member having inwardly flangededge portions, light supporting members therein having recessed middle portions and retaining members forsaidlight supporting members, said retaining members being disposed-in "said recessed middleportions oft-said light supporting members andhaving' edge flanges fitting in thefianged edges of said trough.

7 member, a plurality of light socket members i Y therein having shouldersthereon andi a plu- J 5. A lighting fixture-comprising atrough ralityof reflector members having their end portions fitting over said socket members and V abutting against said shoulders.v

' V Signed at St. Louis, M'ssouri; this 18th dav ofApri1,1927.:""

OSWALD w. KLINGSVIIGKT.

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