Patent ID: 6523974
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: F21S,F21V,F21Y

Abstract:
A lamp comprising a housing having opposing first and second, spaced-apart housing walls; a lamp mounted to the housing and extending in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the housing walls; each housing wall including at least one cut-out extending in the longitudinal direction; and a cover for the lamp comprising at least one resiliently deformable areal element and terminating in end edges which are parallel to the housing walls, each end edge including at least one lug formed to be extendable through the openings in the housing walls, a spacing between ends of the lugs being greater than a spacing between the housing walls so that installation of the areal element in the housing requires a resilient deformation of the areal element about an axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction to thereby reduce the spacing between ends of the lugs to enable the insertion of the lugs into the openings in the housing walls; whereby the release of the deformed areal element extends the lugs through the openings in the housing walls and thereby mounts the areal element to the housing and the areal element covers the lamp.