Low energy sign illumination system
A low energy sign contruction is illustrated for illumination of signs of the type having translucent illuminated faces. An opaque sign border is bridged by a reflector extending generally parallel to the illuminated face and having a truncated sawtooth profile. For single sided signs, one set of sawtooth points is truncated; for dual sided signs, both set of sawtooth points are truncated. Bayonet mounted lighting sockets are mounted at apertures in the respective truncations and utilize the metallic reflective surface as one side of a low voltage (10.5-volt) ac circuit. The reflector forms a cooled heat sink mounting the bulbs as well as a supporting matrix. The lamps, as mounted to this supporting matrix, are typically spaced at distances which do not exceed twice the distance of the lamp filament to the translucent face. By the expedient of using 14-V lamps, prolonged lamp life with low energy illumination results.
- Assignee:
- Federal Signal Corp.
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4139957
- OSTI ID:
- 6285042
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 22 Mar 1977
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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