Lighting fixture

Claim 1

A lighting fixture comprising a light socket, a frame on which said light socket is mounted, said frame having an aperture in the bottom thereof and having means for at least partially closing the aperture, a light bulb in said socket, a hollow unperforated opaque tube mounted on said frame and positioned around and spaced from said light bulb and extending to a position just above said light bulb, a bladed rotor rotatably mounted on said hollow tube above said light bulb and rotatable by the heated air rising through said tube around said light bulb, said rotor being positioned adjacent the top end of said hollow tube for interrupting the light radiating from said bulb, and an external tube of semitransparent material mounted on said frame having the lower end around and just below the upper end of said hollow tube, said external tube having substantially vertically extending sides which are bent zigzag along folds extendIng vertically along the tube, whereby the light radiating from the light bulb through the rotor produces a flamelike flickering light which appears to ascend along the external tube.