Abstract: A ring-shaped brace or frame for supporting the ribs of a knockdown-style lamp shade includes a plurality of rigid, elongated members which are formed to lie in a plane and interconnect end-to-end to form a rigid, closed polyagonal ring. Means are provided which receive ends of adjacent members and connect them in rigid, snap-together, pull-apart, locking engagement. Because the ring frame is quickly and easily assembled or disassembled by the consumer without the use of tools, it can be packed, along with the shade, in a compact, disassembled condition for shipment and sale.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for threading a lamp cord through links in a lamp-supporting chain, for example, swag lamps. Selected links may be chosen to receive the lamp cord, that is, every fourth link, for example.

Abstract: An improved audio chandelier that has, in addition to its conventional illuminating purpose, an audio system such as a stereophonic radio or a security system incorporated into its structure, the former to furnish, for example, music, while the latter has as its purpose to warn of unwanted intrusions and disasters, for example, such as fires, by means of stimulus-responsive warning signals. Ventilation is provided for cooling the various systems components. Control, sensing and energizing means may be provided within a common housing. The modular construction of the device makes assembly and disassembly convenient without the use of special or any other kinds of tools. Ventilation by natural convection maintains electronic and electrical systems within acceptable operating temperatures.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for threading a lamp cord through links in a lamp-supporting chain, for example, swag lamps. Selected links may be chosen to receive the lamp cord, that is, every fourth link, for example.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in the assembly of a lighting fixture. A retaining spring clip bracket serves as releasable locking support and positioning constraint for elongated arcuate lamp shade panels peripherally encased in a plastic molding, and usually of transparent or translucent material. Brackets may be removed so as to remove the panels for transport, cleaning or for other purposes. Panles are suspended from a panel supporting structure. The structural spring means of the spring clip bracket releasably grasps the plastic molding covered edges so as to hold parts together by the frictional forces resulting from the spring tension in the retaining spring clip bracket in contact with the plastic covered edges of the panels.

Abstract: A chandelier that has, in addition to its conventional illuminating purpose, an audio system such as a stereophonic radio or a security system incorporated into its structure, the former to furnish, for example, music, while the latter has as its purpose to warn of unwanted intrusions and disasters, for example, such a fires, by means of stimulus-responsive warning signals. Control, sensing and energizing means may be provided within a common housing. The modular construction of the device makes assembly and disassembly convenient without the use of special or any other kinds of tools.