Patent ID: 8359814

Claim:
A pultruded pullwound lighting apparatus, comprising in combination: a vertical pullwound pultruded cylindrical means with a pre-determined inner and outer shape and first radius and first diameter for providing vertical support for the lighting apparatus and allowing the lighting apparatus to be attached to a surface, wherein the pullwound pultruded cylindrical means includes longitudinal reinforcements with a plurality of helical-wound layers, the plurality of helical-wound layers and pre-determined inner and outer shape providing maximum tensile strength, torsional strength and hoop strength and wherein the vertical pullwound pultruded cylindrical means is connected to a horizontal pullwound pultruded cylindrical means; the horizontal pullwound pultruded cylindrical means with the same pre-determined inner and outer shape and a second radius and second diameter for providing horizontal support for the lighting apparatus connected to a pullwound pultruded support frame means and to a lighting means; the pullwound pultruded support frame means for providing horizontal and vertical support for the lighting means and for connecting the horizontal pullwound pultruded cylindrical means to the vertical pullwound pultruded cylindrical means; the lighting means for providing a light source to a selected area of the surface; a mounting component means with a horizontal mounting component portion for mounting the vertical pullwound pultruded cylindrical means to the surface and connected to a vertical mounting component portion including a pullwound pultruded cylindrical means with the same pre-determined inner and outer shape and a third radius and a third diameter for mounting the vertical pullwound pultruded cylindrical means to the mounting component means and for proving additional vertical support for the pultruded pullwound lighting apparatus.