Patent ID: 6132056
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: B05B,F21W,G02B

Abstract:
An apparatus for creating an illuminated waterfall comprising;means for changing a columnar flow of incoming water from a water inlet pipe into a shallow stream of water having a predetermined breadth greater than the breadth of the inlet pipe so that a waterfall effect is created, wherein said means has a first end and a second end, each end having apertures therethrough axially aligned with each other and each end further being aligned with a direction of flow of the shallow stream;a side-light emitting fiber optic cable, the cable being disposed through said first end aperture, through said means for creating the waterfall effect transversely disposed across the direction of water flow, and extending through said second end aperture;means for providing a light source, an end of the light source being juxtaposed to an end of the side-light emitting fiber optic cable at said first end aperture;a mirror juxtaposed to an end of the side-light emitting fiber optic cable extending outside said second end aperture, the mirror reflecting toward the end of the cable extending outside said second end aperture;means for receiving an end of the side-light emitting fiber optic cable and the mirror at said second end aperture and for preventing water leakage between said cable and said second end aperture to the environment;means for sealingly engaging the side-light emitting fiber optic cable passing through said first end aperture and for preventing water leakage between said cable and first end aperture; anda plurality of tangential inward cuts in an outside sheathing of said cable, the cuts alternating approximately 90.degree. to 180.degree. apart along a portion of the cable disposed between said first and second ends of the means for creating the waterfall effect.