System and method for securing power and communications cables and associated hardware within crown molding
OwnerJeremy P. Hoffmaninventor
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Abstract
A system for crown molding that enables safely incorporating electrical and communications cabling within crown molding by creating one or more protected paths which inherently prevent overly sharp bends in crown molding corners and by mitigating damage from penetrating punctures through a decorated face designed to fracture when improperly penetrated by a screw or nail, and enables the secure installation of hardware either concealed within the molding or securely and favorably positioned through the decorative face to view or sense a room, and enables additional cable capacity that is concealed within a light reflector to increase lighting efficacy as well as power and data delivery capacity.
Claims17
An indirect lighting luminaire comprising:
- a linear light source for indirectly lighting a space;
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- a light reflector assembly including a reflector for reflecting light emitted from the linear light source towards the space to increase the efficacy of the luminaire, and a cable support device positioned behind the reflector for supporting electrical and communications cables extending longitudinally behind the reflector, supplying electrical and communications capacity to the space along a length of the light reflector assembly, wherein when the light reflector assembly is mounted on a perimeter wall surface of the space the reflector is movable independent of the cable support device to allow access to the cable support device and supported cables.
A longitudinally extending light assembly comprising:
- an indirect lighting source mounted to a support structure configured to be secured to a wall surface, the indirect lighting source oriented on the support structure to emit light in an upward direction;
- a light reflector assembly configured to be secured to the wall surface at a location above the indirect lighting source support structure, said light reflector assembly including a movable reflector oriented to redirect light emitted from the indirect lighting source away from the wall surface to increase the efficacy of the indirect lighting source, and periodically longitudinally spaced brackets supporting the reflector;
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- a cable support device for holding electrical and communications cables coupled to the light reflector assembly extending longitudinally behind the reflector which is selectively movable to provide access to the cable support device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.