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US5104608:
Programmable Christmas tree
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Pickering, Harold J.; Lafayette, LA 70508
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1992-04-14
/ 1991-08-12
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| Application Number: |
US1991000743925
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A47G 33/06;
F21S 4/00;
F21S 10/00;
F21V 8/00;
F21W 121/04;
F21Y 111/00;
IPC-7:
F21V 7/04;
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| ECLA Code: |
A47G33/06; F21S4/00E; F21S10/00B; G02B6/00L4; R21W121/04;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
362/568;
362/123;
Original:
362/032;
362/123;
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| Field of Search: |
362/032,123
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| Priority Number: |
| 1991-08-12 |
US1991000743925 |
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| Abstract: |
An artificial Christmas tree including a tree trunk extending from an aperture in an upper wall of a hollow tree base and having a plurality of optical fibers extending internally from the aperture in the base to light emitting points within simulated tree branches attached to the tree trunk by hinged tubular branch connectors. The base includes a light source and a removable cartridge-like disc holding tray for holding and rotating an infinite number of different selected user programmable colored discs between the light source and the optical fibers to create an infinite number of user created light displays within the tree.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Dority, Carroll B.;
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. An artificial Christmas tree comprising:
- a base including a compartment having an aperture in an upper wall opening into said compartment;
- a tree trunk including at least one internal passage and a plurality of holes disposed along its length opening into said at least one internal passage, said tree trunk mounted to said base with said at least one internal passage opening into said aperture in the upper wall of said base;
- a light source mounted in said compartment of the base;
- a plurality of tree branches mounted to said tree trunk at said openings in said tree trunk;
- a plurality of optical fibers in said at least one internal passage in said tree trunk each having one end opening to said aperture in said upper wall of the base, at least one optical fiber extending through each opening in said trunk along each branch and including at least one light emitting point on said branch;
- a replacable light transparent selected colored disc having a color pattern, said disc selected from a plurality of programmable colored discs each being colored in a desired pattern to produce a desired light emitting display at said light emitting points; and
- disc drive means for holding and rotating said selected colored disc between said light source and said aperture in said upper wall of the base said disc drive means including a drive motor mounted in said compartment of the base and a disc holding member including a cartridge or tray removably mounted in said compartment of the base adapted to removably hold said replacable selected colored disc and wherein said drive means includes means in said cartridge or tray to be rotatably driven by said drive motor when mounted in said compartment of the base.
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