US3781754A - Lighting device - Google Patents

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US3781754A
US3781754A US00205967A US3781754DA US3781754A US 3781754 A US3781754 A US 3781754A US 00205967 A US00205967 A US 00205967A US 3781754D A US3781754D A US 3781754DA US 3781754 A US3781754 A US 3781754A
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H Seelbach
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    • 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
    • F21V21/34—Supporting elements displaceable along a guiding element
    • 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
    • F21V21/14—Adjustable mountings
    • F21V21/30—Pivoted housings or frames

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  • the connection box is insertable with a set-off head part into the inner part of said carrier rail and carrying lighting members.
  • the connection box is equipped with a plurality of spring tongues constituting holdingand contact-tongues disposed in planes on top of each other and by means of a switching member operable from the outside selectively into an engagement and contact position with a poleand zeroconduit-rail and into an inoperative position, respectively, and with a grounding tongue cooperating with a special grounding rail.
  • the carrier rail receives at its insert side of the connection-box within a side stay of the carrying rail the grounding rail projecting onesided relative to the side-stay inwardly on parts of its cross-sectional width into the receiving channel of the connection box.
  • a grounding contact on the side of the connection box cooperates with the grounding rail as a sliding contact.
  • the sliding contact projects over parts of its total length on the side of the connection box pointing toward the grounding rail on the side of the carrier rail with a slide contact section laterally from the box, and biased in contact direction by a spring on the inside of the box outside of the sliding contact location.
  • the receiving grooves on the side of the carrier rail for the holding tongues are formed with the formation of line-engagement faces for supporting the holding tongues as undercut and freely cut grooves, respectively.
  • the carrier rail has on the insert side of the connection box, outside and on one side next to the receiving channel of the connection box a workedin, continuously passing-through guide groove and accessible from the side of the carrier rail, and a guide ledge projection cooperates with the guide groove on the corresponding side of the connection box.
  • the present invention relates to a lighting device, which comprises, on the one hand, a carrier rail to be secured in, on or at a distance of a securing face, and open towards one side, which carrier rail receives electric conduit rails, each in a conduit rail carrier at its inside on both sides of a receiving channel of a connection box holding tongues-receiving grooves, as well as a plurality of electrical conduit rails arranged in pairs and mirror-symmetrically to a longitudinal center plane extending from the insert side to the securing side of the carrier rail, and arranged on top of each other, accessible from the inside and forming a plurality of operating current circuits operating independently from each other.
  • connection box is equipped with a plurality of spring tongues constituting holding and contact tongues disposed on top of each other in planes and operable by means of a switch from the outside selectively into an engagementand contactposition with a poleand zeroconduit rail, or in the non-operative position, as well as equipped with a grounding tongue cooperating with a separate grounding rail.
  • the present invention differs from the lighting devices of the above described type at first in an advantageous manner substantially by the fact, that the carrier rail receives at its insert side of the connection box within a carrier rail-side stay, grounding rail projecting on one side relative to the side stay inwardly over parts of the cross-sectional width into the connection box receiving channel.
  • a grounding contact on the side of the connection box cooperateswith a sliding contact with the grounding rail.
  • the grounding contact projects over part ofits total length on the side of the connection box pointing towards the grounding rail on the side of the carrier rail with a sliding contact section laterally from the box and is charged outside of this sliding contact location by a spring disposed inside of the box in contact direction.
  • the receiving grooves on the side of the carrier rail for the holding tongues are formed by formation of line-engagement faces for the support of the holding tongues in the grooves as grooves which are under-cut or freely cut, respectively.
  • the latter has on the insertion side of the connection box outside and on one side adjacent the receiving channel of the connection box a worked in guide groove accessible from the bottom side of the carrier rail and continuously passing through, with which guiding groove cooperates a guide ledge protection at the corresponding side of the connection box.
  • grounding rail As Well as the constructive design of the grounding tongue in the connection box in the framework of the present invention, because, on the one hand, it has not only been obtained, to provide the grounding rail within the carrier rail in the proper arrangement to the electric conduit rails in a compact structure, rather also the grounding tongue causes by its structure and this arrangement a safe function concerning the sliding on the grounding rail and warrants a safe contacting in the contact position.
  • the grounding contact is formed as a flat contact spring, which is retained in the connection box, and projects above its securing location in the set off step range of the connection box, that means, that in transfer range between the box and the set off head part with a section of the sliding contact from the box and above the latter is transformed in the connection to a juggling step directed towards the inside of the box into a supporting stay, which enters into a pressure spring arrested in the head part in holders provided on the side of the connection box.
  • the receiving grooves are merely provided on their opening side pointing towards the receiving channel of the connection box within the range of the groove stay limiting on the underside the groove, a stay bead rising over a part of the groove height, seen in the width direction of the carrier rail, and extending relative to the stay over a part of the depth of the open groove height.
  • connection box can be inserted always only in a very predetermined position into the carrier rail, so that no wrong inserts can be produced.
  • connection box is equipped on the horizontally extending set off step part in the set off range towards the head part at the grounding contact side with a guide ledge extending at least over parts of the box length and rising into a height corresponding with the depth of the guide groove on the side of the carrier rail.
  • a lighting device of the first mentioned type in a highly advantageous and suitable manner, whereby, seen from the electrical point of view, the highest safety is offered and which complies with all requirements. It sets for the practice a technically highest usable solution and is far superior over the known devices.
  • FIG. 1 is front elevation of the lighting device designed in accordance with the present invention and consisting of the carrier rail, the connection box and a lighting unit.
  • FIG. 2 is a side elevation turned for 90 compared with the elevation shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is an elevation of the connection box whereby a housing portion has been removed, for the sake of a better showing
  • FIG. 4a is a longitudinal section of the connection box along the lines IVa-IVa;
  • FIG. 4b is a longitudinal section of the connection box along the lines IVb-lVb;
  • FIG. 5 is a section of the connection box along the lines V-V of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 6 is a section corresponding to that shown in FIG. 5 in the completely inserted end mounting position in the connection box. I
  • the lighting device desinged in accordance with the present invention, comprises substantially three main parts, namely, a carrier rail A, at least one connection box B, as well as a lighting unit C connected with the connection Box B.
  • the carrier rail A can be secured by any conventional securing means (not shown) on a securing fac'e, by example in a suspended arrangement and has a connection box-receiving chamber 10 formed inside in a longitudinal channel.
  • electric conduit rails namely pole rails R, S and T and a zero conductor rail Mb are provided in the carrier rail A in a conduit rail carrier D.
  • connection box B comprises two housing cups 11 and 12 which are connectable together by means of screws 13. It has a basic configuration of substantially parallelepiped shape and is formed at its end insertable into the hollow space 10 of the carrier ledge A as a head part B set off step like as to its width.
  • connection box itself are disposed holding tongues 14 and 15, which cooperate with the holding grooves 46, to be further explained below and disposed on the side, of the carrier rail, as well as contact tongues 16, 17 and 18, 19, respectively.
  • These resilient tongues are provided in form of grooves on switching elements E, which are provided crosswise displaceable in the connection box, and are operable by means of a switching device 20 over its shifting shaft 21.
  • a spring biased grounding tongue 22 which is still more clearly described below and which cooperates with a grounding conduit rail 23 of the carrier rail A.
  • connection box Within the connection box are disposed two friction elements E arranged in series in axial direction of the switching shaft 21 and effective in the sense of their cross movement in the connection box by eccentrics 24 and 25 running opposite to each other so that upon rotation of the switch member 20 clock-wise, the switching elements are moved such that the contact springtongues and the holding-tongues are brought into engagement with the carrier rail A, whereby the switching element adjacent the switch member moves towards the left on the drawing, while the switching element remote from the switching member is moved to the right of the drawing. Upon rotation of the switching member counter clockwise, a return movement of the switching element in opposite direction occurs.
  • Each switching element E is substantially a fork shaped structural body, in the head portion 26 of which in adjacent arrangement open insertion slots for contact springs are provided. Furthermore, a holding tongue 14 and 15 can be received between the holders 29. Laterally on opposite places this fork-shaped body E is equipped with guide ledges 30, over which the one guide of the switching elements E in a guide insert F is obtained.
  • the foot part 31 is formed as a fork, whereby a guide 32 is disposed between the fork arms 31, with which guide 32 cooperates an eccentric of the switching shaft 21.
  • the guide insert F has guide grooves 35, in which the guide ledges 30 of the switching element E can be received.
  • the guide insert can be extended one sided downwardly by formation of a switching socket 36 and has here fan-like disposed receptions for receiving contact stays 38 constituting electrical contact points.
  • the socket receives a switching shaft 40 of a switch consisting of a switching shaft 40, a switching bridge 41, a switch covering cup 42 and a switching member 43.
  • the switch covering cup 42 is retained together in the guide insert F by joint securing screws 44 in the housing cup 11.
  • the zero conduit contact tongue 16 has its own connection conduit to the lighting device C.
  • the grounding tongue 22 is effective in the present embodiment upon insertion of the box B as a sliding contact with the inside disposed grounding rail 23 arranged on the side of the carrier rail, which grounding rail 23 is arranged such, that it projects over parts of its length into the receiving channel 10 of the carrier rail.
  • the grounding tongue 22 is at one end secured at 47 inside of the connection box. Its contact end emerges at one side of the connection box in the transfer range to the head part B by a lateral opening 48 and is equipped also in this range with a juggling step 22a, which is directed towards the inside of the box.
  • this juggling step 22a is arranged the tongue 22 as a supporting stay 22b and enters thereby in a loadspring 50 retained in holders 49 of the box.
  • these receiving grooves 46 are designed under-cut such, that they have their side pointing towards the connection box-receiving channel 10 a stay bead 46a, which extends from the stay 51 limiting on the underside the groove 46 over part of the open height of the groove as well as over part of the depth.
  • the holding tongues are supported solely on the supporting beads 46a.
  • connection box B For the insertion of the connection box B for a determined position into the carrier rail A, the connection box has in the range of the set off step 52 a guide ledge projection 53, which rises relative to the set off step 52 and extends over part of the length of the box.
  • the carrier rail A on the other hand has in one of its foot stays, by example, in the foot part or side stay 51a having the grounding rail 23, a longitudinally extending guide groove 54, in which the ledge 53 is insertable. Only if the connection box B is inserted in this position shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 a Contact is obtained.
  • the switching bridge 41 of the selection switch brings about a contact connecting the pole-contact tongue 19, which in turn is a contact connection therewith in the inserted state with the pole-rail S, so that between the pole-rail S, the pole contact tongue 19 over the switching bridge 41, in connection with the zero conduit M, an operating current circuit for the lighting device is created.
  • a lighting device comprising a carrier rail open on one side forming a receiving channel and to be secured to a securing face and including a conduit rail carrier,
  • said carrier rail including on both sides of said receiving channel receiving grooves for holding tongues as well as a plurality of electric conduit rails, each in a conduit rail carrier arranged in pairs in planes and mirror symmetrically to a longitudinal center plane extending from an insert side to the securing side of said carrier rail and disposed on top of each other, accessible from the inside, and forming a plurality of current circuits operating independently from each other,
  • connection box having a set-off head part inserted into said receiving channel of said carrier rail and carrying lighting members
  • said carrier rail formed with a side stay at said insert side
  • connection box being equipped with a plurality of spring tongues constituting holding tongues and contact tongues disposed in planes on top of each other,
  • a switching means operable from the outside selectively positioning said tongues into an'engagement and contact position with said pole-rail and zeroconduit-rail, and into an inoperative position, respectively, and
  • grounding rail projecting on one-side relative to said side stay inwardly on parts of its crosssectional width into said receiving channel of said carrier rail
  • said grounding tongue constituting a grounding contact on a side of said connection box cooperating with said grounding rail as a sliding contact
  • said grounding contact having a slide contact surface, projecting laterally from said connection box over part of its total length on the side of said connection box extending toward siad grounding rail, said slide contact surface contacting said grounding rail while the connection box is non-rotatably inserted in a direction perpendicular to said receiving channel into said open end of said carrier rail, and
  • said flat contact spring is retained at one end thereof in said connection box and emerges from said box thereabove in said set-off head part of said connection box in at said slide contact surface, said flat contact spring is formed above said slide contact surface in connection with a joggling step directed towards the inside of said box into a supporting stay, and I said supporting stay operatively entering a pressure spring arrested in said head part in holder means on the side of said connection and biasing said flat contact spring toward said grounding rail.
  • a stay head formed on said groove stay at said receiving grooves on the side of said carrier rail on opening sides thereof pointing toward said receiving channel of said connection box and said stay bead each rising over a part of the height of the opening of the height of said receiving groove and extenda side thereof adjacent said grounding contact and formed on said horizontally extending set-off part with said guide ledge projection extending at least over parts of the length of said connection box and rising to a height corresponding with the depth of said guide groove on a corresponding side of said carrier rail.

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