Patent ID: 7753551
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: F21S,F21V,F21Y

Abstract:
1. A lighting fixture assembly and suspension device for suspending adjacent end portions of first and second linear fixtures extending generally along a longitudinal axis from an overhead structure, the suspension device, comprising: a hanger member having a bridge member for suspension from the overhead structure; an elongated alignment member supported by the bridge member and having a pair of opposing tongue insert portions, each of the tongue insert portions to extend along a corresponding alignment receiving slot provided in a corresponding end portion, to engage a corresponding end portions of the first and second linear fixtures with the hanger member; at least one clamping member supported from the bridge member for relative vertical movement therewith, and the clamping member having two opposed wings, each to be located adjacent a clamping surface formed on the corresponding end portion the tongue insert portions are inserted into the alignment receiving slots; the clamping member being movable, in use, to bring each wing member into clamping engagement with the corresponding clamping surface and to move the end portions of the linear fixtures towards each other into locking engagement.