Personal alarm light apparatus and method
AssigneeOutback Flashlights, LLC
InventorWayne Stewart
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Abstract
A personal alarm light operates as a multi-purpose emergency tool having a power pack of batteries powering a white light beam, as well as a radially emanating red light ring. An audible alarm has a loud, typically high-pitched oscillating sound. A resonance chamber amplifies the sound, which emanates from apertures delivering sound radially away from the resonance chamber. Crowns on each end of the tool provide regions of reduced area and alternating relieved sections about the circumference thereof, in order to provide increased impact pressure from the points when used as hammers to break glass, or as strikers to cut through fabric or other sheet materials.
Claims18
A tool comprising:
- a base containing a closure and at least one of an audible alarm and a plurality of points;
- a crown having alternating reduced axial cross sectional area and axial relief around the circumference thereof;
- a body configured to support a power source of power portable therewith, and secured to be closed by the base;
- a head attached for securing the source within the body and containing a light powered by the power source;
- at least one of the head, body, and base further containing an actuator;
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- at least one of the head, body, and base further containing a controller operably connected to the source, the alarm, the light source, and the actuator for actuating the light and alarm in response to an actuation procedure executed through the controller by operation of the actuator.
A tool comprising:
- a base containing a closure, an audible alarm, and a plurality of points, wherein a coupler is connected to the base for amplifying the sound of the alarm, between bulkheads forming a resonance chamber by being spaced a selected distance apart to optimize a particular frequency generated by a transducer, the transducer being operably connected to the resonance chamber to broadcast sound from an aperture in resonance chamber;
- a crown having scalloped relief around the circumference thereof;
- a body configured to support a source of power portable therewith, and secured to be closed by the base;
- a head attached for securing the source within the body and containing a light powered by the source, wherein the head further comprises a collar connected to the head with flats integrally formed in the collar;
- at least one of the head, body, and base further containing an actuator;
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- at least one of the head, body, and base further containing a controller operably connected to the source, the alarm, the light, and the actuator for actuating the light and
- alarm in response to an actuation procedure executed through the controller by operation of the actuator.
A method comprising:
- providing a tool having a light, an alarm audible in the range of human hearing, and a body;
- the providing the tool, wherein the tool further comprises an actuator, a power supply, and a controller, operably interconnected;
- activating the light by the controller to operate continuously in response to a first procedure applied to the actuator;
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- activating the alarm by the controller to operate in an alarm mode in response to a second procedure, distinct from the first procedure, applied to the actuator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.