Sealed lamp socket
AssigneeVossloh-Schwabe Deutschland GmbH
InventorsJurgen Thiele, Hans-Peter Mews
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Abstract
A novel lamp socket finding application with a type of increased protection, has a housing part (13) in which a one-piece elastomer sealing sleeve (20) is preferably rotatably held. The sealing sleeve (20) is at its lamp-side end preferably slightly radially compressible, while it is stiffer in the axial direction. As a result, it yields inward when axially pressed by the frustoconical inner side of the housing part (13). The one-piece construction of the sealing sleeve (20) from a single material, on the one hand, ensures a simple manufacture and, on the other hand, prevents a faulty mounting caused by slipped seals or the like.
Claims16
A lamp socket (1) for a light means, particularly for fluorescent lamps, comprising a socket housing (2) including a stationary first housing part (12) and a second housing part (13) which may be screwed together with the first housing part (12);
- the first and second housing parts (12,13) enclose an inner space (4) in which a connecting device (5) is accommodated and a throughout one-piece, flexible sealing sleeve (20) which at one end is provided with an axial sealing face (26) associated with a sealing face (17) of the socket housing (2) and which at the other end is provided with a radial sealing face (25) which is associated with the light means.
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