Apparatus for Creating a Storage Compartment in a Flashlight and Method of Its Use
AssigneeMag Instrument, Inc.
InventorAnthony Maglica
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Abstract
A storage compartment for a flashlight with a cylindrical barrel, a tail cap and a conductive spring fitted to the tail cap. The conductive spring is removed from the tail cap and fitted to the barrel end of a cylindrical compartment which has an outer diameter substantially the same as that of the barrel and then the tail cap is threaded into a tail cap end of the cylindrical compartment, thus sealing off an inner compartment
Claims14
An apparatus for creating a storage compartment in a flashlight with a cylindrical barrel for housing one or more batteries, a tail cap which is removably threaded into the cylindrical barrel, and a conductive spring removably fitted to the tail cap for biasing said one or more batteries within the cylindrical barrel and completing an electrical circuit when the flashlight is switched on, comprising a cylindrical storage compartment having a barrel end and a tail cap end, wherein the barrel end is configured to receive the conductive spring and is configured with one or more sets of threads that allow the barrel end to be removably threaded into the cylindrical barrel so that the conductive spring will complete the electrical circuit when the flashlight is switched on when the barrel end is fitted with the conductive spring and removably threaded into the cylindrical barrel, wherein the tail cap end is configured so that the tail cap can be removably threaded into the tail cap end, wherein the cylindrical storage compartment has an inner storage compartment which is accessed via the tail cap end when the tail cap is not removably threaded to the tail cap end but which is sealed off by the tail cap when the tail cap is removably threaded to the tail cap end, wherein the cylindrical storage compartment has a second outer diameter which is substantially the same as a first outer diameter of the cylindrical barrel;
- and wherein the inner storage compartment is located between the conductive spring and the tail cap end.
A method for creating a storage compartment in a flashlight with a cylindrical barrel for housing one or more batteries, a tail cap which is removably threaded into the cylindrical barrel, and a conductive spring removably fitted to the tail cap for biasing said one or more batteries within the cylindrical barrel and completing an electrical circuit when the flashlight is switched on, comprising the steps of:
- removing the tail cap from the cylindrical barrel;
- removing the conductive spring from the tail cap;
- removably fitting the conductive spring on a barrel end of a cylindrical storage compartment;
- removably threading the barrel end of the cylindrical compartment to the cylindrical barrel;
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- removably threading the tail cap to a tail cap end of the cylindrical storage compartment;
- wherein the cylindrical storage compartment has an inner storage compartment which is accessed via the tail cap end when the tail cap is not removably threaded to the tail cap end but which is sealed off by the tail cap when the tail cap is removably threaded to the tail cap end;
- wherein the cylindrical storage compartment has a second outer diameter which is substantially the same as a first outer diameter of the cylindrical barrel;
- and
- wherein the inner storage compartment is located between the conductive spring and the tail cap end.
A flashlight, comprising:
- a cylindrical barrel for housing one or more batteries, said cylindrical barrel having a first end and a second end;
- a lighting assembly located at the first end;
- a conductive spring;
- a cylindrical storage compartment having a barrel end and a tail cap end, wherein the barrel end receives the conductive spring and is configured with one or more sets of threads by which the barrel end is removably threaded into the second end of the cylindrical barrel so that the conductive spring completes an electrical circuit when the flashlight is switched on and light is emitted from the lighting assembly;
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- a tail cap which is removably threaded into the tail cap end of the cylindrical storage compartment;
- wherein the cylindrical storage compartment has an inner storage compartment which is accessed via the tail cap end when the tail cap is not removably threaded to the tail cap end but which is sealed off by the tail cap when the tail cap is removably threaded to the tail cap end;
- wherein the cylindrical storage compartment has a second outer diameter which is substantially the same as a first outer diameter of the cylindrical barrel;
- wherein the inner storage compartment is located between the conductive spring and the tail cap end;
- and
- wherein the conductive spring can be removed from the barrel end, the cylindrical storage compartment can be removed from the second end, the conductive spring can be fitted to the tail cap and the tail cap can be removably threaded to the second end so that the conductive spring completes the electrical circuit when the flashlight is switched on and light is emitted from the lighting assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.