Patent ID: 8511849

Claim:
A system for mounting perimeter lights to a body having straight and curved surfaces, comprising: a plurality of straight and bent elongated perimeter lights, each of which comprises: an array of light sources that are capable of being illuminated by an electric power; an elongated transparent tube fabricated such that when heated, said tube is pliable and can be bent along at least a vertical plane and a horizontal plane; said array of light sources disposed within said tube and said tube acting as a lens for said array, said tube capable of transmitting and dispersing the light from said array such that the individual light sources within said array are not visible as individual light sources when illuminated, giving the appearance that said array of light sources is a continuous light source, said tube further comprising a filter material to primarily transmit the wavelength of light emitted from said light sources, wherein said tube for said bent perimeter lights comprises a material bent into a fixed position via a heating process, which retains said fixed position at room and operating temperatures and in the absence of a bending force or mounting component; and said array of light sources being cuttable at intervals to shorten said array while allowing the remaining light sources in said array to emit light, said tube being cuttable to match the length of said array; said plurality of perimeter lights electrically coupled in a daisy-chain with the electrical power at each of said plurality of perimeter lights transmitted to the successive of said plurality of perimeter lights; and an anchoring system for mounting each of said straight and curved perimeter lights to said structure, each of said plurality of straight perimeter lights anchored to a straight portion of the body and each of said plurality of bent perimeter lights anchored to a curved portion of the body, wherein said anchoring system comprises a longitudinal anchoring track running along said tube and a plurality of anchoring buttons mounted to the structure, the anchoring slot of each of said plurality of perimeter lights capable of mating to the anchoring buttons.