Light fixture and tool for installing light fixture
OwnerBruce Young Arnoldinventor
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Abstract
A combination is disclosed that includes: a shipping box containing a light fixture globe and base, the base having two mounting apertures, each having a slot contiguous thereto, with the width of the slots being smaller than the mounting apertures; a mounting bracket for mounting the base to a junction box; two screws for attaching the mounting bracket to the junction box; two mounting screws for mounting the base to the mounting bracket, with each mounting screw having a head larger than the width of the slot; and an elongated tool that is made of a flexible material, is hollow at one end, and can frictionally engage a mounting screw's head when the mounting screw is forced head-first into the hollow end to the point only its tip end protrudes from the elongated tool.
Claims3
A combination comprising:
- a shipping box that includes the following items;
- a light fixture base, said base having two mounting apertures, each mounting aperture having a slot contiguous thereto, with the width of each slot being smaller than its contiguous mounting aperture;
- a mounting bracket;
- two mounting screws for attaching the base to the mounting bracket, each mounting screw having a head larger than the width of the slots;
- and
- an elongated tool that is made of a flexible material, said elongated tool being hollow at one end;
- a hollow end of the elongated tool has an inside dimension that is smaller than a head of at least one of said mounting screws but large enough to allow forceful insertion of that mounting screw's head into the hollow end so as to expand a portion of the flexible material of the elongated tool that contacts the head to thereby frictionally engage the head of that mounting screw;
- the expanded portion of the elongated tool with frictionally engaged mounting screw has a dimension that is smaller than a mounting aperture in the base so as to enable the expanded portion that contacts the head of the mounting screw to be passed through a mounting aperture in the base;
- and
- the flexible material that forms the hollow end of the elongated tool has a wall thickness and flexibility that allows a shaft portion of the mounting screw and the hollow end of the elongated tool surrounding it to fit within a slot of the base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.