Patent ID: 7125136

Claim:
A lighting system for illuminating a point of egress comprising: an egress doorframe including egress side frame members and an egress overhead lintel, each having an outwardly facing U-shaped channel attached to, or integrally formed with, said side frame members and said egress overhead lintel, for mounting electroluminescent strips about the periphery of said egress doorframe such that when said electroluminescent strip in said U-shaped channel is activated by a power source, said egress doorframe is lighted peripherally about said frame members and said egress overhead lintel; a plurality of electroluminescent strips within a first set of transparent or translucent raceway tube segments attachable to structures leading to said egress doorframe; and a bypass doorframe including bypass side frame members and a bypass overhead lintel, each having metal channel raceways inside for receiving electrical wiring, said channel raceways carrying said electrical wiring in from an aperture through one of said bypass frame members through said bypass overhead lintel and out an aperture of another of said bypass frame members; such that when said power source is applied, said electroluminescent strips illuminate a path on said structures leading to said egress doorframe, said egress doorframe periphery is illuminated, and doorways not providing egress are configured with said bypass doorframes to maintain electrical continuity for said electroluminescent strips on each side of said doorways.