Wall-mounted over-bed lighting fixture
CA 1298573 C · Owner: Miller, David H. · Inventors: Miller, David H.
Overview
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The housing for the fixture is mounted on a wall over the patient's bed. The housing accommodates a first non-rotatable fixture which directs light from fluorescent tubes downward through a conventional flat prismatic lens. There is also a longitudinally extending lens mounted within the outline of the housing and rotatable by means of handles at either end so that light from a second set of fluorescent tubes may be adjusted to function as a reading lamp for the patient, as an examining light at different locations of the patient's body and as a room illumination source, the intensity of room illumination being adjustable. A safety switch is moved to "off" position when the housing is …
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- Granted April 7, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 7, 2009.
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