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(11) EP 0 129 325 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
27.12.1985 Bulletin 1985/52

(43) Date of publication A2:
27.12.1984 Bulletin 1984/52

(21) Application number: 84303291

(22) Date of filing: 16.05.1984
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE CH DE FR GB IT LI SE

(30) Priority: 17.05.1983 GB 8313528

(71) Applicant: Forward Technology Industries PLC
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(72) Inventor:
  • Tooth, James Antony
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(54) Track lighting


(57) A low voltage track lighting system has a track 2 and a lamp fitting 4. The track 2 is a plastics material extrusion 7,8 with conducting rails 5 on either side. The fitting 4 has a pair of contacts 14 cam driven in the direction of arrows A for low ohmic loss contact with the rails 5. The sandwich arrangement of the rails 5 on either side of a central web 7 of the extrusion 7, 8 allows the compressed sandwich to resist the earning action. The contacts 14 have a shape complementary to that of the rails 5.










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