Patent ID: 7339488

Claim:
An emergency light system comprising: A) an emergency door mounted in a wall of a room and adapted to provide emergency egress from the room, the door including a first end which is a lower end when the door is mounted in the wall, and a width dimension; B) a threshold located immediately subadjacent to the lower end of the door and which is located in a floor associated with the room; C) an electrical system associated with the room; D) a lighting strip which includes (1) a flexible backing strip which is located in the threshold beneath the lower end of the door and which includes a first end, a second end and a length dimension that extends between the first end of the flexible backing strip and the second end of the flexible backing strip, the length dimension of the flexible backing strip being essentially equal to the width dimension of the door, (2) a plurality of lights mounted on the backing strip at locations that are spaced apart from each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the backing strip, the lights being located on the floor subadjacent to the lower end of the door, and (3) an electric lead electrically connecting the lights together; and E) a control circuit which includes (1) a switch electrically connected to the electric lead, (2) a power source electrically connected to the electric lead via the switch to supply power to the lights when the switch is activated, and (3) a flasher electrically connected to the electric lead to be activated when the switch is activated.