Suspension stabilizers for overhead lighting fixtures
AssigneeRuud Lighting, Inc.
InventorsEric Haugaard, Kurt Wilcox
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Abstract
An overhead industrial light fixture suspended by a hook from a support assembly having a suspension stabilizer that engages the hook and is attached to the support assembly. The suspension stabilizer has two slots sized to receive and frictionally hold the upward and downward portions of the hook individually. A method for stabilizing the orientation of a suspended overhead industrial light fixture.
Claims20
In an overhead industrial light fixture of the type suspended in the air from an overhead ceiling structure by means of a hook from a support assembly, the hook having an upward portion and a downward portion, a suspension stabilizer comprising:
- a stabilizer body having a first slot end a second slot wherein each slot is sized so that the upward portion is received in the first slot and the downward portion is received in the second slot;
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- a device for attaching the stabilizer body to the support assembly,
- whereby the light fixture maintains a particular orientation.
A method for stabilizing the orientation of an overhead industrial light fixture suspended in the air from an overhead ceiling structure comprising:
- suspending the light fixture by a hook with upward and downward portions from a support assembly in a desired orientation;
- placing a stabilizer body with a first slot and a second slot over the hook;
- engaging the upward portion of the hook with the first slot;
- engaging the downward portion of the hook with the second slot;
- securing the stabilizer body to the support assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.