LED illuminated decorative mesh assembly

Abstract

A mesh assembly having a flexible mesh sheet, said sheet defining two opposite main faces, at least one elongated sock extending along said mesh and each sock defining a tubular hollow, each of said at least one sock is loosely connected to said mesh sheet at selected intervals by attachment means; a number of light emitting means are mounted into each sock hollow at selected intervals along the length thereof, and light reflecting means being provided on at least one of said two main faces of said mesh sheet, wherein said mesh assembly generate decorative visual effects upon said light emitting means being activated.

Claims

1. A mesh assembly having an elongated flexible planar mesh sheet made of yarns, said sheet defining two opposite main faces, at least one elongated translucent sock extending along said mesh sheet and each sock defining a tubular hollow, each of said at least one sock is connected to said mesh sheet; a number of light emitting means are mounted into each sock hollow at selected intervals along the length thereof, and light reflecting means being provided on at least one of said two main faces of said mesh sheet, wherein said mesh assembly generates decorative visual effects upon said light emitting means being activated, wherein each said sock is connected to said mesh sheet by attachment means comprising a number of stitching lines, loosely connecting said at least one sock at selected spaced intervals to a few of said sheet yarns, wherein each sock has a semi-flexible memory shape construction, and wherein compressive transverse pressure will collapse the sock but release of the compressive pressure will allow the sock to spring back and automatically return to its original tubular shape.

2. A mesh assembly as in claim 1, wherein each sock extends spacedly from the plane of said mesh sheet and generally parallel thereto.

3. A mesh assembly as in claim 2, wherein said light emitting means consists of light emitting diodes (LEDs), said LEDs powered by power means.

4. A mesh assembly as in claim 3, wherein said power means includes an elongated flexible electrical wiring with double copper threads and with common insulating sheath, running through the hollow of each of said at least one sock, and operatively connected to the electrical wiring threads of a corresponding elongated other electrical wiring having opposite one and another ends, with said one end of the other electrical wiring operatively connected to a power source.

5. A mesh assembly as in claim 4, wherein said power source is a portable battery power pack having an operative control knob.

6. A mesh assembly as in claim 1, wherein said mesh sheet is also translucent.

7. A mesh assembly as in claim 1, wherein said mesh sheet is made from a material selected from the group comprising polypropylene polyester and plastic.

8. A mesh assembly as in claim 6, wherein said light emitting means are reflecting bands of a variety of different colors.

9. mesh assembly as in claim 1, wherein there are three said tubular elongated socks.

10. A mesh assembly as in claim 1, wherein said mesh sheet is made of weaved fibers defining weft yams and warp yams with the well yarns drawn through the warp yarns to create the sock.

11. A mesh assembly as in claim 10, wherein said each said sock is connected to said mesh sheet by having each said sock extending generally parallel to and located in between two corresponding successive warp yarns, wherein weft yarns are drawn through the warp yarns and associated warp sock to create the weaved fiber mesh sheet, so that each sock fauns a wrap sock that undulates through the mesh sheet by moving up and down like waves through the weaved fiber mesh sheet.

12. A mesh assembly as in claim 11, wherein said mesh sheet is translucent.

13. A mesh assembly as in claim 12, wherein said light emitting means consists of light emitting diodes (LEDs), said LEDs powered by power means.

14. A mesh assembly as in claim 13, wherein said power means includes an elongated flexible electrical wiring with double copper threads and with common insulating sheath, running through the hollow of each of said at least one sock, and operatively connected to the electrical wiring threads of a corresponding elongated other electrical wiring having opposite one and another ends, with said one end of the other electrical wiring operatively connected to a power source.

15. A mesh assembly as in claim 14, wherein said power source is a portable battery power pack having an operative control knob.

16. A mesh assembly as in claim 13, wherein said mesh sheet is made from a material selected from the group comprising polypropylene, polyester and PVC plastic.

17. A mesh assembly as in claim 16, wherein said light emitting means are reflecting bands of a variety of different colors.

18. A mesh assembly as in claim 12, wherein there are three said tubular elongated socks.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of partly deployed mesh sheet roll, showing the LED wires array and associated battery power pack;

(2) FIG. 2 is an enlarged partly broken view of the area circumscribed within ellipse 2-2 of FIG. 1;

(3) FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along line 3-3 of FIG. 1;

(4) FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 1, but showing a second embodiment of the invention; and

(5) FIGS. 5 and 6 are enlarged views taken within the areas circumscribed by arrows 5 and 6 respectively of FIG. 4.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

(6) As illustrated in the embodiment of FIG. 1, the mesh assembly 10 may include an elongated flexible planar mesh sheet 12, made for example from polypropylene, polyester or PVC plastic. Mesh 12 is for example rectangular, preferably made from weaved fibers, and can be rolled around a cardboard tube 13. At least one tubular elongated flexible sock 14, and for example three tubular elongated socks 14, 16, 18, respectively, as shown, are provided , extending along the rectangular mesh 12, for example one along each opposite longitudinal edge portions thereof and one along the central longitudinal portion thereof. Each sock 14, 16, 18, is for example made from the same material as the mesh, preferably polypropylene. In this embodiment, each sock 14, 16, 18, extends spacedly over the plane of mesh sheet 12.

(7) In one embodiment, each sock 14, 16, 18, has a semi-flexible memory shape construction, wherein compressive transverse pressure will collapse the sock but release of this compressive pressure will allow the sock to automatically spring back and return to its original tubular shape. In one embodiment, each sock 14, 16, 18, is tubular, and loosely connected to the rectangular mesh sheet 12 spacedly from the plane thereof at selected intervals, for example at 20 cm lengthwise intervals, for example by manually stitching same at stitch lines 20 to one or a few yarns from the weaved fiber mesh sheet.

(8) As seen in FIGS. 1-3, in one embodiment, an elongated flexible electrical wiring 22, 24, 26, each e.g. with double copper threads 28, 30, and with common insulating sheath 32, runs through the hollow 14A, 16A, 18A, of each tubular sock 14, 16, 18, respectively. LED diodes 34 are mounted into the sock hollows 14A, 16A, 18A at selected spaced intervals along the length thereof, for example at 4, 6, 8 or 10 cm lengthwisely spaced intervals, and operatively connected to the electrical wiring threads 28, 30 of corresponding electrical wiring 22, 24, 26. The outer ends 22A, 24A, 26A, of all electrical wirings 22, 24, 26, may be operatively connected to a battery power pack 36, having for example two AA batteries, or to an adaptor connected to wall plug.

(9) It is noted that such hollow socks 14, 16, 18, provide unexpected results when made from a translucent material, in that they allow light to pass outwardly through the tubular socks, with stunning visual light effects, and also allow memory based collapse under transverse biasing pressure that will return to its original tubular shape once the biasing pressure has been released.

(10) In an alternate embodiment shown in FIGS. 4-6 of the drawings, there is provided at least one elongated sock 114, not excluding a second sock 116, and a third sock 118, similar to socks 14, 16, 18, with each sock 114, 116, 118 having electric wires and LED diodes as with socks 14-18. However, instead of securing the socks 114, 116, 118, . . . by stitch lines to the yarns of sheet 112, each sock 114, 116, 118, is made integral and generally coplanar to the sheet by forming warp socks. That is to say, each warp sock (e.g. 118) extends generally parallel to and located in between two successive warp yarns A, A, wherein weft yarns E, E, E, . . . are drawn through the warp yarns and associated warp sock 118 to create the weaved fiber mesh sheet 112. A second sock 116 is similarly made to extend generally parallel to and located in between two other successive warp yarns, spacedly from sock 118, wherein weft yarns are drawn through the warp yarns and associated second sock 116 to create the weaved fiber mesh sheet 112. And so on with sock 114 and other socks if desired. In this way, socks 114, 116, 118, . . . undulate through the weaved fiber mesh sheet, i.e. moves up and down like waves through the weaved fiber mesh sheet.

(11) In one embodiment, a single electric wire 122 projects at one end from battery power pack 136, and comprise a male-female adaptor 150 at the end opposite said one end thereof. Another electric wire 125 is also provided, having at one end thereof a male-female adaptor 152 complementary to and releasably engageable by the first adaptor 150, and having the end thereof opposite said one end thereof being operatively interconnected to said electric wires that extend lengthwisely through socks 114, 116, 118, . . . A control knob 156 on power pack 136 may be provided, to enable selection of various types of dynamic lighting patterns for LED diodes 34, 134, for example, constant, blinking, time-lapse, etc.

(12) One or both of the two opposite main faces of the mesh sheet 12, 112, may carry integral light reflecting bands 60, 160, of varying colors, for improved decorative effect, for example: red, with red gold threads; white, with gold threads; white, with silver threads; and green, with green gold threads. Also, two or more mesh sheets 12, 12, or 112, 112, can be edgewisely interconnected to form an extended elongated mesh assembly.