Downsizer ring adapter for spackle frame and for larger ceiling hole

Abstract

With respect to ceiling recessed lighting applications that desire a flangeless trim finish, the present invention is an adapter, a downsizer-ring, that is used to bridge (span) a gap in a ceiling-hole when that ceiling-hole is too large to use a spackle-frame because the outside-diameter of that spackle-frame is less than a diameter of that ceiling-hole. The adapter is configured to: (1) attach to the ceiling centered around the ceiling-hole; and (2) attach to the spackle-frame. The spackle-frame, attached to the adapter, may then be used normally, receiving a flangeless-trim and a light-source into the flangeless-trim. Bottom surfaces of the adapter, with attached spackle-frame, may be plastered over. The adapter includes two main structures, a main-disc and a raised-platform extending from and above the main-disc. A bottom of the main-disc includes an interior-volume that fits at least a portion of the spackle-frame within.

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