Patents Assigned to Kidde Consumer Durables Corporation
  • Patent number: 4856103
    Abstract: A luminaire for use in parking garages having a vertical reference axis, a horizontal driving lane axis, and a horizontal parking stall axis. The resulting asymmetry is such that there is a substantially greater throw of light along the parking stall axis than along the driving lane axis, with improved lighting for parking purposes, and glare free lighting for the driving lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Kidde Consumer Durables Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne W. Compton
  • Patent number: 4706331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hinge for pivotally mounting flood lamps. The hinge includes a first and second knuckle. The first knuckle has an internally threaded socket. The second knuckle includes a first part and a second part, and the parts are interlocked for simultaneous rotation. The first part further has a rotation resisting surface facing the first knuckle. The hinge further includes a pair of shroud members, which each have counterbored aperatures therethrough and are arrange on each side of the second knuckle. There is a pair of threaded hinge pins, one each passing through a shourd member and a part of the second knuckle and threadably received in the first knuckles threaded socket. Loosening the threaded hinge pins permits relative rotation of the knuckles while tightening of the threaded hinge pins fixer the angular orientation of the hinge. The counterbores of the shrouds make difficult uninvited (i.e. vandalism) tampering of the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: Kidde Consumer Durables Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne W. Compton
  • Patent number: 4688720
    Abstract: A nozzle for an architectural fountain which has fixed deflector surfaces that produce a plume divided into well-aerated drops of substantial size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: Kidde Consumer Durables Corporation
    Inventors: Richard L. MacDonald, Ernst von Winckelmann
  • Patent number: 4639843
    Abstract: A luminaire having a post and arm whose external surfaces are generally similar in cross-section. The arm extends away from the post and has a window through which light from a lamp passes. The lamp and associated circuit means are on a mount which is engageable by a tracer means of which internal parts of the luminaire can conveniently be installed, removed, and replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Kidde Consumer Durables, Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne W. Compton
  • Patent number: 4053194
    Abstract: An electrical junction assembly is disclosed for electrically coupling mating bus bars of two adjacent tracks having single or double sets of bus bars. The assembly may contain the electrical conductors for supplying current to the bus bars. The assembly may be L, I, T or X-shaped. The assembly is removably coupled to the tracks in a manner to facilitate ease of coupling and uncoupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: Kidde Consumer Durables Corporation
    Inventor: Lester Gilman
  • Patent number: D298656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Kidde Consumer Durables Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne W. Compton
  • Patent number: D312890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Kidde Consumer Durables Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne W. Compton
  • Patent number: D313482
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: Kidde Consumer Durables Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne W. Compton