Overhead electrical fixture and portable lowering tool therefor
CA 2101288 A1 · Owner: Hinds, Richard A. Jr. · Inventors: Hinds, Richard A. Jr.
Overview
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Abstract of the Disclosure, An overhead electrical fixture including a lowerably serviceable fixture portion that may be readily lowered by a portably lowering tool to facilitate servicing by a technician at ground level. The overhead fixture includes a mounting base adapted to be secured relatively high above ground level such as in, a church. In the normal operating position the, serviceable fixture portion is releasably secured to the mounting base by a relatively short length of cable secured at one end to the serviceable fixture portion and at the opposite end to a cable connector such as a, ring. The ring rests against the mounting base adjacent a slotted opening in the normal …
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- Filed July 26, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 26, 2013.
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