Patent ID: 7832889

Claim:
A recessed lighting assembly, comprising: an enclosure fixable to a support structure of a dwelling, said enclosure having a wall with an opening therethrough; an illumination element disposed within said enclosure; a rotating aperture plate having an illumination aperture; said opening and said illumination aperture forming a passageway to permit light emitted from said illumination element to exit said enclosure; said illumination aperture having an area less than an area of said opening in said wall of said enclosure and having a non-round shape substantially different than a shape of said opening in said wall of said enclosure; a base of said rotating aperture plate having a substantially circular periphery that is within a substantially rectilinear periphery of said wall of said enclosure, and said base being disposed on an exterior surface of said wall of said enclosure; means for selectively permitting and preventing rotation of said rotating aperture plate relative to said enclosure; a rotational alignment of said illumination aperture relative to said enclosure being adjustable by selective rotation of said rotating aperture plate relative to said enclosure; said rotating aperture plate having a plurality of arcuate slots, each arcuate slot having an associated adjustable fastener directed therethrough into said wall of said enclosure; each adjustable fastener being directed through said associated arcuate slot from an exterior surface of said base of said rotating aperture plate and being accessible and adjustable from an exterior of said recessed lighting assembly; selective engagement and disengagement of said adjustable fasteners providing selective fixation and rotation, respectively, of said rotating aperture plate relative to said enclosure; said adjustable fasteners being operable to maintain a connection between said rotating aperture plate and said enclosure when said adjustable fasteners are disengaged, whereby a rotational alignment of said rotating aperture plate may be safely and conveniently adjusted; said rotating aperture plate having a center of rotation, relative to said enclosure, that lies on or substantially on a center of said illumination aperture; said illumination element being mounted for rotation with said rotating aperture plate and being suspended from an illumination element support which extends into an interior of said enclosure and which is fixed to an interior surface of said rotating aperture plate; a periphery of said opening in said wall of said enclosure being disposed radially outwardly from said illumination element support to permit insertion of said illumination element support into said enclosure and to permit rotation of said rotating aperture plate relative to said enclosure; said rotating aperture plate having first and second rotational alignment positions with respect to said enclosure; and said rotating aperture plate being adjustable to any position between and including said first and second rotation alignment positions.