Patent ID: 8042962

Claim:
A lighted fitting for through hole mounting to a panel in a bathing installation, comprising: a flange structure fabricated of a translucent material, the flange structure including a shoulder portion protruding from a body portion adapted to extend through a mount opening in the panel, the panel having a panel structure thickness at the mount opening, and a transverse flange portion having an outer size larger than the mount opening, so that a periphery flange portion overlaps the panel surrounding the opening when the flange structure is installed in the panel opening; wherein the shoulder portion has an outer dimension smaller than a dimension of the mount hole opening, said outer dimension larger than an outer dimension of a periphery of the body portion of the flange structure, the shoulder portion having a depth dimension substantially equal to or slightly less than the panel structure thickness, the shoulder portion defining a shoulder surface generally parallel to the transverse flange portion; a light source attachment portion configured to direct light emitted from a light source mounted in the light source attachment portion outside the periphery of the body portion through the shoulder surface so that at least some of the emitted light passes into the flange portion to illuminate the flange portion, said light source attachment portion configured to be carried by or attached to said body portion so that an installation of said lighted fitting in said panel opening is accomplished without forming a light source opening in the panel separate from the mount opening.