Solar light apparatus and system
AssigneeJeffrey T. Holman
InventorsJeffrey T. Holman, W. Shane Willard
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Abstract
A sign light to illuminate a sign such as a real estate sale sign. The sign light is configured to suspend between the crossarm of a sign post and the sign. The sign light includes a housing, a light source, and sign mounting hardware. The housing allows the sign light to suspend from a crossarm of a sign post. The housing includes an internal compartment. The light source is located within the internal compartment of the housing. The sign mounting hardware is directly coupled to the housing to provide a mounting location for a sign to hang from the mounting hardware. The housing and mounting hardware facilitate suspending the sign light between the crossarm of the sign post and the sign.
Claims19
An apparatus, comprising:
- a housing to suspend directly below a bottom surface of a crossarm of a sign post so that the housing is completely below the crossarm of the sign post in a mounted position, the housing comprising an internal compartment and a top surface, wherein the top surface of the housing is below the crossarm of the sign post in the mounted position;
- wherein the housing comprises a pair of adjacent slide channels in the top surface of the housing to accommodate light mounting hardware to movably couple the housing to the crossarm of the signpost, wherein each slide channel comprises a substantially linear channel opening through the top surface of the housing;
- a light source within the internal compartment of the housing;
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- sign mounting hardware directly coupled to the housing to provide a mounting location for a sign to hang below the housing, directly from the sign mounting hardware, so that the housing is between the bottom surface of the crossarm of the sign post (which is above the housing) and the sign (which is below the housing) in the mounted position.
A system, comprising:
- a sign post having a crossarm, wherein the crossarm comprises a bottom surface;
- light mounting hardware coupled to the bottom surface of the crossarm;
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- a lighting apparatus coupled to the light mounting hardware to hang the lighting apparatus from the mounting hardware so that the housing is completely below the crossarm of the sign post in a mounted position, wherein the lighting apparatus comprises sign mounting hardware to hang a sign below the lighting apparatus, so that the lighting apparatus is completely between the bottom surface of the crossarm of the sign post (which is above the lighting apparatus) and the sign (which is below the lighting apparatus);
- wherein the lighting apparatus comprises a housing with a pair of adjacent slide channels in a top surface of the housing, wherein each slide channel comprises a substantially linear channel opening through the top surface of the housing.
A system, comprising:
- means for movably mounting a lighting apparatus to suspend completely below a bottom surface of a crossarm of a sign post to allow relative movement between the lighting apparatus and the crossarm of the sign post;
- means for movably mounting a sign to suspend below the lighting apparatus to allow relative movement between the sign and the lighting apparatus, so that sign is indirectly coupled to the bottom surface of the crossarm with the lighting apparatus completely between the bottom surface of the crossarm of the sign post (which is above the lighting apparatus) and the sign (which is below the lighting apparatus);
- means for defining a pair of adjacent slide channels in a top surface of the lighting apparatus, wherein each slide channel comprises a substantially linear channel opening in the top surface of the lighting apparatus;
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- means for generating light from electrical energy to at least partially illuminate the sign.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.