Patents Assigned to ACI The Display People
  • Patent number: 5833358
    Abstract: An improved extruded track lighting system having a support rail with a pair of cylindrical conductors exposed on an insulating extrusion. Various light fixtures having clamp brackets may be easily snapped on and off the support rails. Each of the clamp brackets includes a pair of parallel flat legs having gripping portions to conform with exposed cylindrical conductors on either side of the support rail. Alternatively, the clamp brackets may include outwardly extending tangs which can be forced between a pair of conductors on the interior of the extrusion. The brackets are simply swiveled with respect to the rail to couple or remove. No independent fastening means are needed to tighten the clamp brackets to the support rails. In one embodiment a light fixture includes a single swivel axis, while in another embodiment a light fixture includes a universal joint providing two orthogonal swivel axes between the lamp and the support rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: ACI The Display People
    Inventor: Thomas G. Patik
  • Patent number: D454264
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: ACI The Display People
    Inventor: Thomas G. Patik
  • Patent number: D463181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: ACI The Display People
    Inventor: Thomas G. Patik
  • Patent number: D463695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: ACI-The Display People
    Inventor: Thomas G. Patik
  • Patent number: D463696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: ACI-The Display People
    Inventor: Thomas G. Patik
  • Patent number: D399594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: ACI The Display People
    Inventor: Thomas G. Patik