Abstract: A holder for circular fluorescent lamps has a central body with a pair of arms terminating in lamp holding means. The lamp holding means include lamp receiving openings which are arrayed orthogonal to one another.

Abstract: An adjustable floor or table lamp has a diffuser globe surrounding a light source for providing general diffuse light in a room, and an adjustable reflector above the diffuser for reflecting a portion of the light and thereby intensifying the light in a reading area. The diffuser may be open at its top for directing brighter light to the reflector and thus to the reading area. The reflector may be a two-sided mirror, with one side planar and the other non-planar, with the mirror mounted on a horizontal pivot axis over the diffuser and light source. In other embodiments an adjustable lamp includes multiple mirrors receiving light from a single source and reflecting it in concentrated beams in different directions. A small mirror may be positioned between a larger mirror and the light source, or the mirror closer to the source may be partially transmissive, or both mirrors may be together in a compound gimbaled apparatus, with the mirrors separately adjustable.

Abstract: A fluorescent lamp conversion unit for use in combination with the residential incandescent-type lamp fixture. The fixture is of the type intended for operation with a lamp shade of predetermined dimensions. The fluorescent lamp conversion unit includes lamp and lamp shade supporting means including a rigid hollow elongated member for supporting a fluorescent lamp of the compact type having an elongated envelope which has a double-U-bend to present a compact design thereby enabling the lamp to be enclosed by the lamp shade.

Abstract: A system and method of mounting a lamp holder on a support in such manner that the fasteners or other securement means are hidden from view. Specifically, the system includes a pair of wedge-locking mounting brackets, one of which is secured on place on the support (e.g., on a vertical lamp post or on the outer end of a horizontal support arm) and the other of which is secured on a lamp holder (e.g., either on a horizontal lamp support arm which is to be secured to the post or on a lamp which is to be secured to the horizontal support arm) so that upon bringing the lamp holder into abutting relation with the support and upon effecting relative vertical movement between the lamp holder and the support, the former is wedgingly drawn into secure abutting relation with the latter and so that the mounting bracket is hidden from view. A method of mounting a lamp holder is also disclosed.

Abstract: A vertical indicia displaying and electric energy supply column which includes a tubular column, a light fixture carried by the column and which is formed at least in part of a light transmitting material having indicia thereon. Electric wiring for the light fixture as well as energy supplying and communication outlets on the column is positioned within the column and partitions are provided to physically and electrically isolate the communication wiring from the wiring for the light fixture and the energy supplying outlet.

Abstract: A family of modular lamps for indirect lighting, each comprised of stacked modules connected with spaces between the bottoms and tops of adjacent modules, the bottom of the lowest module of a stack of modules providing a base upon which the stand rests and the top of the uppermost module containing a recess and support therein for receiving an indirect lighting unit which directs light upwardly through the open top of the top module.

Abstract: A light conductive element comprising a portion of the outside visible surface of an article of furniture deflects light from the interior of the article to the exterior of the article. Deflecting the light can be achieved by light reflecting surfaces formed at the interior of the light conducting element. The light conductive elements are positioned adjacent assembly members having different light conducting characteristics to assemble the article of furniture. The light conducted through the light conductive elements in conjunction with the assembly members of the article of furniture create a unique and attractive visual effect.

Abstract: A free standing indirect lighting fixture utilizing a one-piece molded reflector and a diagonally mounted high intensity discharge lamp has a frosted diffuser over the lamp. Acoustic material on the fixture absorbs ballast hum as well as adding acoustic absorbtion to the room. A back lighted information strip may optionally be included.

Abstract: A lamp for illuminating, storing and displaying small objects is disclosed and includes at least one tray for supporting the small objects and means for supporting the tray selectively in either a position nesting adjacent a tray receiving means or a position spaced below the tray receiving means.

Abstract: An electric lamp stand which is made of elongated and longitudinally bored sections and characterized by a connection between two sections which is strong and relatively inexpensive with a connect that acts as a bolt rather than a screw. This electric lamp stand comprises a pair of lamp stand sections, made of wood turnings, each having a bore therethrough and both operatively abutting each other with the bores in endwise alignment and communication. This electric lamp stand distinctively includes a counterbore in one of the lamp stand sections, a first nut pressed in the counterbore, an externally threaded tube having one end screwed in this nut and having the other end extending in the bore of the other lamp stand section, and a second nut screwed on this other end of the tube and with the first nut and tube cooperativey bolting the two lamp stand sections in firm abutment with each other.