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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1992
John E Aspenwall, Lehi, UT (US);
Jahabow Industries, Inc., Owensville, MO (US);
Abstract
A lighting system that includes an essentially oval housing with end caps arranged for snap fitting and binding therein, and a surface or which housing is somewhat flattened as a mounting surface with holes formed therethrough for receiving screw type fasteners. The housing contains a ballast, double fluorescent tube holder and wiring for connection to a source of electrical energy, and a switch arrangement. The double fluorescent tube holder is accessible through a rectangular opening formed through the housing outer surface for receiving a single coupling end of a double fluorescent tube. The housing rectangular opening is to receive a translucent rectangular lens that is bent into a bow for installation, such that the forked long sides of the rectangular lens each receive an edge of one of the rectangular opening long sides fitted therein. Additionally, the invention includes a tube extractor that consists of a thin flat section of a semi-flexible, electrically non-conductive material wherefrom a center area has been removed leaving parallel legs separated by a web, the open center area for fitting across, with the parallel legs straddling, the connector end of the double fluorescent tube and is sandwiched between the tube holder and the double fluorescent tube coupling end. The tube extractor to be manually flexed to slide or jack the double fluorescent tube coupling end out of the tube holder.