Interlocking lighting fixture

摘要

A lighting fixture includes a hexagonal housing having six side walls. Each side wall has a slot formed therein. Two or more lighting fixtures may be joined together to form a modular arrangement of lighting fixtures in a plurality of configurations by using an interlock piece which slides into channels formed in facing side walls of adjacent lighting fixtures to hold the lighting fixtures together.

主权项

1. A lighting fixture, which comprises:
a housing, the housing including a main body having an overall polygonal shape and including a plurality of generally planar side walls, the main body defining an interior space, each side wall of the polygonally-shaped main body of the housing having an outer surface and an elongated channel formed in the outer surface; and an interlock piece, the interlock piece having an elongated member which is at least partially receivable by the elongated channel formed in each side wall of the main body of the housing to interconnect the lighting fixture with another, similarly-structured lighting fixture; wherein the elongated channel formed in the outer surface of each side wall of the main body of the housing includes a dovetail transverse cross-sectional shape, each side wall of the main body having a recessed portion formed in the outer surface thereof and two laterally opposite portions which face each other and partly overhang the recessed portion, whereby the recessed portion of each side wall and the two laterally opposite portions of the each side wall at least partially define the elongated channel formed in the outer surface of each side wall of the main body.