JOHN M LUCAS
Electrician in Cadyville, NY

5567468, Oct 22, 1996

Oct 11, 1994

8/322008

John M. Lucas - Cadyville NY

Schonbek Worldwide Lighting Inc. - Plattsburgh NY

B05D 122, B05D 104

427 9

An apparatus and method for powder coating the surfaces of objects provides a spray source of charged powder coat particles that engage the surface of the object. The thickness of the layer of particles can be regulated by measuring the resulting electrostatic surface potential generated by the particles. The layer of particles is treated by applying a balanced air flow positively and negatively-charged air ions that neutralize and transport surface particles from the object. The resulting surface has an electrostatic surface potential that is substantially equal thereon. This equal electrostatic surface potential translates into an even thickness coating along the object's surface. The treated surface is then cured by conventional heating and cooling processes to form a finished powder coat finish.

5577838, Nov 26, 1996

Jul 7, 1993

8/088670

John M. Lucas - Cadyville NY

Schonbek Worldwide Lighting, Inc. - W. Plattsburgh NY

F21S 106

362405

A chandelier frame provides, in one embodiment, a first frame member and a second frame member that are connected by a plurality of arms at joints. The joints are plastically and asymmetrically deformed to locate each of the frame members in axially remote planes. In another embodiment, this invention provides a first and second frame member having arms therebetween that are rotated from a first plane defined by the frame members into a second plane that is substantially transverse to the first plane. The arms are joined to a locking structure that enables the first and second frame members to be maintained in an elastically deformed shape defining, in one preferred embodiment, a bowl-like shape. In another embodiment, a frame member is held in an elastically deformed, stressed state by an arm interconnected with interengaging locking structures on the arm. The spacing between arm locking structures is different from the spacing of interengaging a frame member locking structures to enable formation of the plastically deformed shape.

5588744, Dec 31, 1996

Jan 6, 1995

8/369384

John M. Lucas - Cadyville NY
Arnold Schonbek - Plattsburgh NY
Georg Bayer - Plattsburgh NY

Schoenbek Worldwide Lighting, Inc. - Plattsburgh NY

F21S 106

362405

A gallery ring assembly includes a plurality of decorative members, such as glass leaves, mounted around the periphery of a gallery ring. Each of the glass leaves is mounted to the gallery ring with a single mounting screw. Each glass leaf and each mounting location on the gallery ring are provided with interlocking elements to prevent rotation of the glass leaf about the mounting screw. The interlocking elements preferably include an integral dimple on the gallery ring and an indentation on the outer periphery of the glass leaf. The gallery ring may have a truncated conical shape and may be fabricated by laser cutting an arc-shaped flat blank, and rolling the flat blank into a truncated conical shape.

D373441, Sep 3, 1996

Jan 6, 1995

D/033240

John M. Lucas - Cadyville NY

Schonbek Worldwide Lighting Inc. - Plattsburgh NY

D26156

5573330, Nov 12, 1996

Jun 16, 1995

8/491264

John M. Lucas - Cadyville NY

Schonbek Worldwide Lighting Inc. - Plattsburgh NY

F21S 1306

362405

A joining device for a chandelier ornaments provides a pair of retaining plates, typically cut from flat stock material, having ornaments located therebetween. The ornaments are secured against radial movement relative to the retaining plates by a series of retaining pins that pass through holes in the ornaments and holes in the plates. The plates are compressed so that it least one of the plates is in elastic deformation and the plates are secured to each other in a compressed, elastically deformed, state, by a grommet.

5567046, Oct 22, 1996

Jun 16, 1995

8/491265

John M. Lucas - Cadyville NY

Schonbek Worldwide Lighting Inc. - Plattsburgh NY

F21V 506, F21V 1700

362405

A stretchable chandelier ornament string assembly provides a plurality of elongated spring elements joined by a common runner and formed from a continuous piece of flat spring material stock. The runner is attached to a chandelier frame and each of the spring elements engages a chandelier ornament string. Displacement of the spring elements generates tension in the ornament strings to maintain the ornament strings in substantial predetermined alignment. The spring assembly can be formed into a non-planar orientation by the chandelier frame to generate a variety of shapes and patterns of chandelier string attachment locations.