Flexible lighting system
AssigneeITC Incorporated
InventorRichard J. Camarota
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Abstract
A flexible lighting system and method of making same is disclosed. The flexible lighting system includes a flexible translucent rod and an attachment flange. Preferably, the outer casing and the attachment flange are integrally formed to facilitate installation. The flexible translucent rod includes an outer casing and a lighting core. The lighting core is disposed within an axial aperture defined by the outer casing and contains a series of lighting elements. In the preferred embodiment, a texture, such as axial grooves, is applied to a surface of the flexible translucent rod. This texture may be applied to the outer surface of the lighting core or the inner surface of the outer casing to diffuse the light emitted by the discrete lighting elements, thereby providing an appearance similar to a solid bar of light.
Claims11
A flexible lighting system comprising:
- a plurality of sets of electrically interconnected lighting elements, said sets being electrically coupled to one another;
- a flexible translucent rod containing said plurality of sets of electrically interconnected lighting elements, said rod having a circumference and an axis;
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- an attachment flange axially connected to said flexible translucent rod, said attachment flange being formed integrally with said flexible translucent rod and facilitating installation of said flexible translucent rod,
- whereby said flexible translucent rod and said integrally formed attachment flange can be cut in regions intermediate of respective ones of the sets of electrically interconnected lighting elements without affecting the electrical interconnection within any such sets of electrically interconnected lighting elements.
A method of making a flexible lighting system comprising the steps of:
- extruding an inner lighting core, said inner lighting core formed of flexible translucent material and containing a plurality of lighting elements;
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- extruding an outer casing for said inner lighting core, said outer casing having inner and outer surfaces and including an attachment arrangement integrally formed therewith.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.