Lighting apparatus for a museum display case
AssigneeLuxam, Inc.
InventorsJean Hocquard, Richard Jellow, Eric Desvallees, Bruno Sauvage
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Abstract
A support grid, formed as a grid including a number of longitudinal support rods and a number of transverse support rods, is used to support a number of lighting fixtures, each of which projects light emitted from an end of a fiber optic tail. The fiber optic tails are joined into a fiber optic bundle illuminated by a light source. The support grid allows placement of the fixtures to be located in the longitudinal and transverse directions to light various objects within chamber of a museum display case, while the light source is held outside the chamber.
Claims19
A support grid for supporting fiber optic lighting fixtures within a display case, wherein the support grid comprises
- a first plurality of longitudinal support rods extending in a longitudinal direction;
- and
- a second plurality of transverse support rods extending in a transverse direction, perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
Lighting apparatus for a display case, wherein the lighting apparatus comprises:
- a support grid including a plurality of longitudinal support rods extending in a longitudinal direction and a plurality of transverse support rods extending in a transverse direction, perpendicular to the longitudinal direction;
- a light source;
- a fiber optic bundle including a first end illuminated by the light source and a plurality of tails;
- and
- a plurality of fixtures, wherein each of the fixtures projects light from an end of a tail within the plurality of tails, and wherein each of the fixtures includes a clamp holding the fixture to a support rod within the support grid.
A display case comprising:
- a lighting chamber holding a light source;
- a fiber optic bundle including a first end illuminated by the light source and a plurality of tails;
- a display chamber holding a support grid and a plurality of fixtures, wherein the support grid includes a plurality of longitudinal support rods extending in a longitudinal direction and a plurality of transverse support rods extending in a transverse direction, perpendicular to the longitudinal direction;
- wherein each of the fixtures projects light from an end of a tail within the plurality of tails, and wherein each of the fixtures includes a clamp holding the fixture to a support rod within the support grid.
The display case of claim 136, wherein the support grid includes a plurality of support grids supported by at least one intervening support beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.