Brooder lamp fixture with power cord suspended enclosure
OwnerRichard L. Kartoninventor
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Abstract
The present invention shows an improved brooder for use in providing heating in brooder operations by infrared radiation, such as in swine and poultry breeding. The brooder has an integral electrical plug, cord and bulb socket, holding an infrared bulb. A frame member has two interlocking semi-circular components surrounding the cord proximate the socket, with the frame member extending radially outward from the socket a distance approximately equal to the width of the infrared bulb. A protective shade is attached to the outer rim of the frame member, and extends downward at least approximately the length of the infrared bulb.
Claims7
An improved brooder lamp fixture for use in providing infrared radiation in brooder operations, such as for swine and poultry breeding, said brooder lamp fixture comprising:
- an integral electrical plug, cord and bulb socket, said socket being provided with means to engage an infrared radiation-generating bulb;
- a infrared radiation-generating bulb engaged in said socket and depending therefrom, said infrared bulb having a narrow first end adapted to engage said socket and a broad second and opposite end of larger dimension adapted to provide infrared radiation therefrom, said first end and said second and opposite end being separated by a length;
- an interlocking mating frame member engagedly surrounding said electrical cord proximate to said socket, said mating frame member comprising a first and second interlocking semi-circular frame member component which frame member components are adapted to combine together to surround and engage said electrical cord, said frame member extending radially outward from said electrical cord proximate to said socket a distance of at least approximately equal to said larger dimension of said infrared bulb, and terminating in a circular outer rim;
- and,
- a depending protective shade/enclosure member adapted to fixedly engage said circular outer rim of said mating frame member and depend therefrom, and extending downward therefrom a distance of at least approximately equal to said length of said infrared bulb.
An improved brooder lamp fixture for use in providing infrared radiation in brooder operations, such as for swine and poultry breeding, said brooder lamp fixture comprising:
- an integral electrical plug, cord and bulb socket, said socket being provided with means to engage an infrared radiation-generating bulb having a narrow first end adapted to engage said socket and a broad second and opposite end of larger dimension adapted to provide infrared radiation therefrom, said first end and said second and opposite end being separated by a length;
- an interlocking mating frame member engagedly surrounding said electrical cord proximate to said socket , said mating frame member comprising a first and second interlocking semi-circular frame member component which frame member components are adapted to combine together to surround and engage said electrical cord, said frame member extending radially outward from said electrical cord proximate to said socket component a distance of at least approximately equal to said larger dimension of an infrared bulb, and terminating in a circular outer rim;
- and;
- a depending protective shade/enclosure member adapted to fixedly engage said circular outer rim of said mating frame member and depend therefrom, and extending downward therefrom a distance of at least approximately equal to said length of an infrared bulb.
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