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US 6,601,975 B1Granted
Overhead industrial light fixture with two-piece housing
AssigneeRuud Lighting, Inc.
InventorsEric Haugaard, Kurt Wilcox
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AssigneeRuud Lighting, Inc.
InventorsEric Haugaard, Kurt Wilcox
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An overhead light fixture including a housing with top and bottom walls and sidewalls forming a substantially enclosed space, power-related components and a lamp-mounting socket. The housing is in two pieces—a top member forming the top wall and downwardly-extending sidewall portions and a bottom member forming the bottom wall and upwardly-extending sidewall portions to complete the sidewalls. The top-member sidewall portions preferably form endwalls terminating in flanges engaged with the bottom wall. Preferably, the top member includes a central top-wall portion and lateral top-wall portions below and on opposite sides of the central portion. The lateral top-wall portions have side flanges engaging the sidewall portions of the bottom member. The top and bottom members are preferably bent sheet metal.
In an overhead industrial light fixture of the type including a housing with top and bottom walls and surrounding sidewalls therebetween together forming a substantially enclosed space, power-related components, a lamp-mounting socket, the improvement wherein the housing consists essentially of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.