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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1988
Filed:
May. 19, 1986
Jan S Gross, Atlantic Beach, FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
Decorative advertising cover for overhead fluorescent strip lighting, the cover having the general shape of a triangular prism, the cover including a rectangular sheet of flexible transparent plastic having two opposite sides slidingly engaged in channel recesses in two opaque triangular end caps having a top edge to fit closely adjacent a ceiling to which the fluorescent strip lighting is attached and two side edges joined in a rounded corner opposite to the top edge, a cutout portion in the central portion of the top edge and extending downwardly to fit closely adjacent the outside perimeter of the fluorescent strip lighting fixture, laterally slideable finger means to engage the upper side of the fluorescent lighting fixture to support the cover, laterally movable magnet means mounted on opposite sides of the cutout portion to fasten themselves to the raceway of the fluorescent strip lighting fixture by magnetic attraction, parallel lengths of two pairs of spaced sheet edge engaging clips attached to the inside of the flexible transparent sheet adapted to receive a translucent film panel with advertising thereon, the clips adapted to hold said panels on two sides of the prism, and decorative tapes attached to the outside of the sheet to hide said clips from view.