System, device, and method for suspending decorative string lights
View Patent ↗A system, device, and method for suspending a decorative light strand, wherein the device embodies a drop suspender having a top support portion providing orthogonal through holes running parallel and perpendicular relative to the wiring of the light strand. Notched along a ceiling of each of the through holes are intersecting tracks, respectively. The ceiling tracks are cutout from the top support portion and thus have a continuous upper bound, except where the perpendicular ceiling track is bisected by the parallel ceiling track. The parallel track notch is shaped and dimensions to nest a guidewire running through the parallel support through hole.
1. A device for hanging a suspended drop light string, the device comprising:
a support portion connected to an upper surface of a drop suspender;
the support portion comprising a first through hole extending in a direction parallel with the suspended drop light string;
a first track superjacent the through hole, wherein the track has a continuous uninterrupted first upper bound for engaging a guidewire for the suspended drop light string; and
a second through hole oriented substantially perpendicular to the direction of the first through hole, wherein a second track superjacent the second through hole has a continuous uninterrupted second upper bound except at an intersection with the first track.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein a domain of the first upper bound is at least twenty percent less than a diameter of the through hole.
3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the first upper bound is U-shaped.
4. A method for hanging a suspended drop light string, the method comprising:
engaging a supporting structure to the suspended drop light string by fastening an elongated fastener through a second track of a device comprising:
a support portion connected to an upper surface of a drop suspender;
the support portion comprising a first through hole extending in a direction parallel with the suspended drop light string;
a first track superjacent the through hole, wherein the track has a continuous uninterrupted first upper bound for engaging a guidewire for the suspended drop light string; and
a second through hole oriented substantially perpendicular to the direction of the first through hole, wherein the second track superjacent the second through hole has a continuous uninterrupted second upper bound except at an intersection with the first track.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the elongated fastener engages a guidewire nested in the first track.