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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 1984
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edison A Price, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Edison Price, Incorporated, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B / ; F16B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
403168 ; 362220 ; 362226 ;
Abstract
In a lighting system having lighting fixtures including end plates and a method of assembling same with rigid conduit connectors therebetween, each end plate is formed with at least one alignable key hole thereon having a substantially circular Archimedean spiral circumference and each conduit connector comprises a tube having a substantially circular Archimedean spiral surface configured to be longitudinally slidably received in each key hole in one given angular orientation and to provide a friction-tight fit in the key hole in response to rotation of the tube around its longitudinal axis is one direction from said one given angular orientation.