Abstract: A floating fountain device for a swimming pool includes a fountainhead to create a water fountain and a lamp and generator to illuminate the fountain, the generator being sealed in an envelope and driven by a water turbine through a magnetic coupling.

Abstract: A mating terminal and socket assembly comprising a quartz lamp with at least one terminal means connected to and extending outwardly from the quartz lamp. The terminal means is inserted into a socket means adapted to receive and grip the first terminal means. The socket means is preferably movable and connected to an electrically conductive means such as a wire. This mating terminal and socket assembly can be contained within the housing of a luminaire fixture. This invention also relates to a quartz lamp comprising a bulb having first and second end portions, and first and second end terminal means extending outwardly from the end portions of the bulb.

Abstract: An illuminating optical device having an optical integrator capable of receiving a light flux from a light source and substantially forming a plane light source comprising a plurality of light source images and uniformly illuminating an object includes a square-pillar-like internal reflection type integrator having a plurality of reflecting surfaces capable of reflecting the light flux from the light source and forming a plurality of virtual images of the light source on a plane near the entrance surface thereof, a fly-eye type integrator comprising a plurality of lens elements receiving the light flux from the light source and capable of forming a plurality of light source images on a plane, the lens elements being juxtaposed in proximity to one another, and relay lens means provided between the two integrators so that the exit surface of one of the two integrators which is adjacent to the light source and the entrance surface of the other integrator which is adjacent to the object are substantially conjugat

Abstract: A photographic flash lighting unit includes a tubular housing which is preferably hexagonal in cross-section and is defined by a plurality of elongate side faces, each of the side faces are provided with a coupling formation and are divided into a first plurality of faces having a male coupling formation, and a second plurality of faces having a female coupling formation adapted to matingly engage the male formations of like flash units, the faces are arranged upon the housing so that the male and female coupling formations alternate thereon. Locking members are provided on selected faces of the housing to prevent relative movement of matingly engaged housings. The housing is further provided with a flash lamp and a connector and associated circuitry to enable a photographic power supply to be connected to the housing for energization of the flash. An optional adapter cord allows the unit to be powered by power supplies of domestic as well as foreign manufacture.

Abstract: A flashlight that is convertible between a hand-held form and a body-mountable form is disclosed. The flashlight includes a head assembly, which houses the light bulb and the switching mechanism, and a body assembly which houses the power cells. The body assembly includes a pair of articulated arms which are hinged to the head assembly for forming a handle in the hand-held form or a yoke in the body-mountable form. An integral switching and focusing mechanism is provided in the head assembly. Axial displacement of the mechanism switches the flashlight on or off, whereas rotation of the mechanism moves a parabolic reflector relative to the light bulb so as to vary the focus of the light. The head assembly includes a lamp housing which is tiltable for directing the light beam. An electric circuit is provided to permit recharging of the flashlight power cells.

Abstract: The invention relates to a personalized night-light having its user's name illuminated. The night-light comprises a canopy having the name engraved or cut into its face portion. The canopy is hollow and fits over a standard electrical night-light base, whose prongs plug into the socket of a wall outlet. The canopy has illuminated borders to highlight the illuminated name.

Abstract: In an illumination device comprising a light source and a light guide consisting of a flexible tube of fluoroplastic filled with liquid the filling liquid is a phenylmethyl silicone oil.

Abstract: An adjustable neck is provided for adjusting a lamp, in particular a lamp plugged onto a low-voltage rail, in as many alternative directions as possible. The adjustable neck is mounted between a clamping socket of the lamp and the replaceable incandescent body or bulb. The adjustable neck includes several joint members, each consisting of a ball portion that can be plugged into a corresponding joint seat portion of a next adjacent joint member and held there by a friction fit. The incendescent body can be surrounded by a lamp shade provided with ventilating slots. The clamping socket is embodied such that a positive anchoring is achievable even in the case of larger, heavier lamps.

Abstract: A light fixture having a flanged upper housing, a support arm on the housing, and a reflector below the upper housing designed to dissipate heat. The reflector has an upper planar surface that fits within the flange of the upper housing. The upper planar surface has a peripheral opening extending from the edge of the upper planar surface toward the center of the upper planar surface at the side of the upper planar surface that is adjacent the support arm. An enclosure box may be placed over the peripheral opening and attached to an enclosure plate that is located at the opening of the support arm into the housing.

Abstract: A fatigue reducing device for a driver of a motor vehicle is provided and consists of a structure for producing an indirect, soft, purple light which causes the pupils of the eyes of the driver to constrict so that blinding effects of approaching headlights is greatly reduced during night time driving conditions.

Abstract: A self-contained, low profile illumination device removably attachable to conventional remote controls. An elongate, low profile case is provided having an illumination source utilizing a lamp centered in an elongate reflector. Electrical batteries are provided within the case and are electrically connected with the lamp, through an electrical switch, for selective actuation of the lamp. A resilient strap is provided which is looped over the remote control housing at one end thereof so that the illumination source is directed toward the key pad of the remote control. By pressing the switch, the user may selectively actuate the illumination source, and thereby be able to visually identify the keys of the key pad of the remote control when ambient light levels would otherwise not permit. In an alternative embodiment, the case may be selectively elongated to match the width of a particular remote control housing.

Abstract: An illumination module comprising a housing having one or more cavities, each containing a source of illumination such as an incandescent lamp at its closed end. A housing mounting plate containing a window coextensive with the open end of the housing is affixed to the open end of said housing in such a way as to create a slot between the mounting plate and the housing. A movable mask containing one or more apertures to configure and position the light as it leaves the housing through the window is located in the slot so that one or more segregated targets can be illuminated by means of the single mask positioning of the apertures relative to the open end of the individual cavities.

Abstract: A fashionable bracelet having a series of running flash lights which comprises an annular body made of transparent or translucent material and having a channel grooved in an inner sidewall thereof for engaging a bulb belt having a plurality of flash bulbs of different colors connected to outlet legs of an integrated circuit and a power panel having at least a battery connected to an inlet end of the integrated circuit through a contact switch and a snap ring adapted to be engaged in the channel and positioned over the belt for holding the belt in place and actuating ON and OFF operation of the contact switch.

Abstract: An illuminated display unit such as a house number, traffic sign, advertisement carrier and the like comprises a fluorescing or photoconductive plate adjacent an edge of which is fitted at least one light-emitting element, in particular a light-emitting diode. The edge is provided with a reflecting layer to prevent emergence of light. Display symbols or their negatives are arranged, as viewed by the onlooker, on the rear face of the photoconductive plate. As a result of the total reflection for a photoconductive plate on the front and back and on the reflecting layer at the edges, the light produced by the light-emitting diode can issue only at the contact surface with the display symbols, so that the light is concentrated very strongly there and a great display brightness is produced. This is even more effective when a contrast surface is arranged behind the plate.

Abstract: A decorative trim lighting system comprises an elongated, extruded plastic retaining strip which is formed in a laterally folded configuration and is adhesively securable along an exterior edge portion of a building. A series of support tab members are insertable between the folded side portions of the retaining strip, at longitudinally spaced intervals along the strip, and are frictionally gripped and retained by the facing side portions of the strip. The tabs have outer end portions which support the light elements of a decorative light string along the building portion edge. The retaining strip may be left in place on the building when the light string and associated support tabs are removed, and permits rapid and easy reinstallation of the light string. Additionally, the spacing between the individual light elements may be easily adjusted simply by sliding their support tabs along the length of the retaining strip.

Abstract: An auxiliary turn signal indicating light attachment includes a generally rectangular housing having arcuate end walls. A pair of indicating light compartments are formed at opposite ends of the housing and each enclose a turn signal indicating light. A central section in the housing separates the two compartments. In a first embodiment an auxiliary brake indicating light may be disposed in the central section, and in a second embodiment the central section defines a recess dimensioned to straddle an existing auxiliary brake light mounted on the rear deck adjacent the rear window of a vehicle. A pair of spaced mounting brackets are pivotally secured to a pair of rods slidably received within a pair of apertured mounting tabs within the housing. A set screw associated with each mounting tab is utilized to secure the rods in a selected adjusted position.

Abstract: A mechanically motorized portable skewer/flashlight assembly comprising a housing, flashlight structure carried by the housing which serves as a handle for the skewer, the assembly also comprising a motor driven telescopic rod and a food-receiving tip. The motor may also comprise an audio source of advertising and/or music.

Abstract: An adjusting mechanism for a headlamp or the like is provided with a molded gear housing having a gear-journaling bore and an apertured cap portion closing the outer end of the bore. A drive gear is rotatably journaled in the bore and is coupled to a drive shaft extending through the apertured end cap portion. A retainer member is mounted within the bore and engages the shaft and bears against the interior surface of the cap portion in order to prevent correspondingly uncoupling and retraction of the shaft end from the housing and the drive gear. The drive gear is rotatably meshed with an adjusting gear which is journaled with a second bore integrally molded in the gear housing. The second gear has a nut portion which is threaded to a linearly movable screw which produces the pivoting torque for adjusting realignment of the headlamp.

Abstract: An illumination device for use with a hand-held remote control unit comprising a base and a projection extending from the base and the projection is exposed to a space formed by the base and contains an illumination source which is directed toward the space. The space is configured to accommodate receipt of at least a portion of the hand-held remote control unit in the space so as to return the hand-held remote control unit in a position to subject a selected surface thereof to the illumination source for facilitating illumination thereof while permitting actuation and operation of the hand-held remote control unit.

Abstract: An illuminating device for uniformly illuminating a planar object has a single light source and a reflecting mirror. The planar object is illuminated by light reflected from the reflecting mirror. The reflecting mirror has a reflecting surface shaped to cause the reflected light to uniformly illuminate the planar object dependent on whether the planar object is illuminated directly or through a transparent plane-parallel plate such as a glass plate, or dependent on the type of the light source.