Dual hook clamp
View Patent ↗A hook clamp has surfaces allowing the clamp to be placed on a support and clamped thereto. The surfaces are such that the clamp can be placed on the support and its weight held by the support prior to tightening. The clamp has a built-in connector for supplying power to the lamp. The clamp has one or more fail-safe holes for securing the clamp to the support with a safety cable. The clamp also has one or more flanges that can be received by a separate mounting bracket, for mounting the clamp and any attached element during storage, staging, or when otherwise not being used.
1. A method, comprising:
mounting a plurality of truss mounted lamps by attaching each of said truss mounted lamps of the plurality of lamps to supporting trusses, wherein at least one of said supporting trusses extends in a different direction than another of said supporting trusses, wherein said truss mounted lamps are formed on a bracket which includes a truss mounted portion and lamp mounted portion;
using a graduated scale on each of a plurality of lamps to adjust a base position of each lamp, wherein said using comprises moving a truss mounted portion of the bracket relative to said lamp-mounted portion;
said graduated scale configured for allowing each of the plurality of lamps to point in the same direction,
wherein said using comprises using said graduated scale when said each of the plurality of lamps points in the same direction to have at least one value on one graduated scale of one of the lamps being different than a value on a graduated scale than another one of the lamps by an amount set on said graduated scale, whereby said graduated scales are arranged such that said mounting and said using controls all the lamps in the plurality of lamps to point in a common direction; and
receiving an electronic control signal which controls the plurality of lamps to move commonly as though each lamp was mounted on trusses extending in the same direction.
2. A method as in claim 1 , further comprising securing said truss mounting portion relative to said lamp mounting portion after adjusting the lamp.
3. A method, comprising:
attaching a plurality of lamps to a plurality of trusses wherein at least one of said trusses extends in a different direction than another of said trusses, wherein said lamps are formed on a bracket which includes a truss mounted portion and a lamp mounted portion;
loosening a connection between a connection to a truss and a connection to the lamp;
adjusting an angle between the connection to the truss and the connection to the lamp for at least some of the plurality of lamps, by moving a truss mounted portion of the bracket relative to said lamp-mounted portion, said adjusting causing a group of said lamps to point in the same direction even though at least one of the trusses holding said group of lamps extend in different directions than another of the trusses holding said group of lamps; and
subsequently tightening the connection between the connection to the truss and the connection to the lamp; and
receiving an electronic control signal which controls different lamps in the plurality of lamps to move commonly based as though each of the plurality of lamps was mounted oriented on a truss that extended in the same direction.
4. A method as in claim 3 , wherein said adjusting comprises adjusting each of the plurality of lamps to point in the same direction their basic state.
5. A method as in claim 3 , further comprising controlling the plurality of lamps as a group which are all controlled to point in the same direction.
6. A method as in claim 3 , further comprising, prior to said attaching, maintaining the lamps in a reset position.
7. A method as in claim 3 , further comprising limiting an amount of adjustment in said adjusting to an amount which prevents cables from being overtwisted.