Patent ID: 7156537

Claim:
A one-piece molded light shade sized and shaped to fit over an existing elongated light fixture attached to a building wall, and attached directly to the building wall to which the fixture is attached, comprising: (a) a translucent or semi-transparent piece of moldable or stampable material having a general shape of a half-cylinder with a back rectangular opening substantially defining a rectangle the plane of which is parallel to the long axis of the half-cylinder, and having two closed end areas substantially in the shape of a semicircle, at each end of the half-cylinder, the planes of which are substantially perpendicular to the long axis of the half-cylinder, and (b) one or more arms at each end of the half-cylinder attached to or extending from the half-cylinder, attaching the half-cylinder directly to a building wall, wherein neither the shade as a whole, the half cylinder, nor the arms are attached to the existing elongated light fixture, and whereby the half-cylinder is placed over an existing elongated fixture, which is attached to wall, and is itself attached directly to the building wall by the arms and whereby the arms create a gap for heat and light to escape.