Patent ID: 8136968

Claim:
Apparatus to attach a shade or skirt to a hanging light fixture, the apparatus comprising: an upper retaining means attachable around a portion of the fixture connecting the fixture to a junction box in a ceiling without the need to detach the fixture from the ceiling and/or to disassemble a body of the fixture, the upper retaining means having a peripheral wall defining a centrally disposed U-shaped opening open through a side of the peripheral wall, the peripheral wall of the upper retaining means having a flat, three quarters moon shaped section and a depending peripheral flange extending around an outer edge of the three quarters moon shaped section and a plurality of holes extending through said peripheral wall for attachment to one end of each of a series of guide wires; a height adjustment means; and the series of guide wires having another end connected to the shade or skirt, said shade or skirt having a covered peripheral frame defining an open interior.