Abstract: A drawer illuminating device utilizing a housing having a pair of compartments therein. One compartment houses a lamp which provides illumination passing through a transparent sheet-like lens covering a portion of the lamp compartment. The other compartment includes a battery and a normally closed switch. A switch operating lever passes through the housing and maintains the lamp in an un-energized state when the drawer, to which the housing is secured, is in a closed position. A bar is pivotably secured to the housing and is biased in a preferred direction, preventing the drawer from being opened by small children and accidentally causing the lamp to energize when the operating lever ceases to contact portions of the frame surrounding the drawer.

Abstract: A desk level work area and its immediate environment are lighted with reduced or eliminated glare and veiling reflections from the task, by a lighting fixture mounted between seated eye height and standing eye height. The lighting fixture comprises an elongated housing, a light source within the housing providing illumination longitudinally of the housing, and a refractor plate capable of distributing luminous flux from the light source in a bat wing configuration. The plate is mounted on the housing such that the bat wing configuration of the luminous flux is directed essentially to the right and left of a viewer transversely facing the light source.