Abstract: A lighting fixture for mounting from a suspensory surface, such as a ceiling, wall, or the like, includes a counterweight for balancing or equalizing the weight in the fixture resulting from a ballast being positioned within the frame of the fixture. The weight of the frame is adjusted to equalization relative to the ballast for proper alignment during mounting of the lighting fixture.

Abstract: A flourescent lighting fixture includes a secondary housing member for ballast laterally offset from and to one side of a primary housing member for flourescent bulbing. A bridge assembly extends between the housing members. A dead air enclosure may be positioned to one side of the bridge assembly and within the primary housing member for heat transfer abatement purposes. A metallic diverter panel may be provided within the primary housing member, for example, as one wall of the dead air enclosure. The housing members include a series of exteriorly protruding fin plate means for defusing heat generated by the flourescent bulbing throughout and across the exterior of the housing members and away from the interior of the ballast assembly.

Abstract: A connector is provided for securing a fluorescent light bulb having a given length into a lighting fixture having spaced apart bulb-receiving members, with the space between the bulb-receiving members being longer than the length of the bulb. The connector also has fluorescent bulb pin openings at one end which receive a lighting bulb pin or pins at one end and connector pins at the other end of the connector for receipt within a companion opening or slots within the bulb-receiving members of the lighting fixture.

Abstract: An electric lighting fixture for mounting relative to a ceiling is disclosed. An enhanced light deflecting louver system is also disclosed in which the louvers provide enhanced light deflection.

Abstract: A lighting fixture consisting of a downwardly opening housing having a plurality of fluorescent lamps mounted therein, a louver assembly substantially closing the open bottom of the housing and dividing its area into vertically open cells only certain of which receives light from each of the lamps, the louvers being of sufficient vertical height to restrict light passing directly through the cells to a restricted primary area of brighter illumination in the room below, and a translucent light-diffusing panel covering the cells of the louver assembly receiving light from each of the lamps. The lamps may be selected to emanate light of respectively different colors, and both the louvers and the light-diffusing panels may be of selectively different tints and colors, so as to impart a novel, decorative appearance to the louver assembly when viewed from outside of the primary lighting area.