IP Library Granted Patent US 10,036,529
Granted Patent B2
US 10,036,529 · App. 15/212,836 · Granted Jul 31, 2018

Lamp shade

Inventor: Dennis K. Swanson (Woodland Hills, CA)
Assignee: LAMPS PLUS, INC.
F21V1/04F21V3/00
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Patent No.
US 10,036,529
App. No.
15/212,836
Granted
Jul 31, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A lamp shade including a standard lampshade secured to a wire frame having a top ring and a bottom ring and a curtain secured to a curtain shade ring which is supported by being affixed to the terminus of sider wires extending beyond the top ring so that the top and bottom of the curtain extends above and below the top and bottom rings.

Claims (14)

1. A lamp shade having a curtain shade comprising:

(A) a lamp shade wire frame including a top and a bottom ring;

(B) a lamp shade having a top and a bottom secured to said wire frame;

(C) a spider including four equiangularly spaced apart wires each having a terminus extending beyond said top ring;

(D) a curtain shade ring secured to the terminus of two of said spider wires which are spaced 180° apart;

(E) first and second short metal tubes secured respectively to the terminus of the remaining two spider wires;

(F) said curtain shade ring being detachably disposed within each of said first and second metal tubes; and

(G) a curtain having a top and a bottom secured on said curtain shade ring and extending downwardly beyond the bottom of said lamp shade.

2. A lamp shade as defined in claim 1 wherein each of said spider wires is secured to said top ring at a point displaced from the terminus thereof.

3. A lamp shade as defined in claim 1 wherein, when said curtain shade ring is detached from said short metal tubes, said curtain shade ring is divided into four ninety degree discrete sections.

4. A lamp shade as defined in claim 3 wherein said curtain includes four discrete sections, each curtain section being secured on a separate curtain shade ring discrete section.

5. A lamp shade as defined in claim 1 wherein said curtain defines a plurality of openings along one edge thereof and said curtain shade ring is threaded through said openings to secure said curtain to said shade ring.

6. A lamp shade as defined in claim 4 wherein each discrete section of said curtain defines a plurality of openings along one edge thereof and one said discrete section of said curtain shade ring is threaded through the openings in one discrete section of said curtain to secure said discrete section of said curtain to said discrete section of said curtain shade ring.

7. A lamp shade as defined in claim 1 wherein each said spider wire is bent upwardly at a point adjacent said top ring so that the top of said curtain extends beyond said top of said lamp shade.

Assignments (3)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 12, 2025
From: LAMPS PLUS, INC.
To: GATEWAY ILLUMINE FINCO LLC
Reel/Frame 073200/0426 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 24, 2022
From: LAMPS PLUS, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
Reel/Frame 060304/0756 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2016
From: SWANSON, DENNIS K.
To: LAMPS PLUS, INC.
Reel/Frame 039180/0250 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180017229A1 · Jan 18, 2018