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US 4,060,372 AGranted
Self-defense apparatus comprising flashcube light source
OwnerWalter Beck, Werner Burkinventors
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Abstract
A self-defense apparatus has a hand-held housing formed with thin neck adapted to be held between two fingers and provided on its back with a button that when depressed fires one or all of the photoflash lamps of a nonbattery type flash cube. Means is provided for preventing inadvertent actuation of this firing button. The housing is provided on its front end with a transparent lens and inside this lens and surrounding the flash cube with a reflector for directing the flash generated by the flash cube away from the user.
Claims4
A self-defense apparatus comprising:
- a housing having a handle on one side dimensioned to be held in the hand;
- a flash cube mount in said housing;
- a light source on said mount in said housing capable of generating a flash of strength sufficient to temporarily blind a person;
- means on said housing for firing said light source and causing same to generate at least one such flash;
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- a reflector in said housing adjacent said source for directing said flash in a general direction away from said handle, said light soruce being a four-bulb flash cube and said means being constructed and arranged to fire all of the bulbs of said cube simultaneously.
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A self-defense apparatus comprising:
- a housing dimensioned to be held in the hand;
- a flash-cube light source in said housing having a plurality of flash lamps capable of generating flash of strength sufficient to temporarily blind a person;
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- means on said housing for firing all of said lamps simultaneously, said housing, being axially symmetrical, has a narrow neck adapted to be held between two fingers on the same hand, said means for firing includes a button on one axial end of said housing operable by the thumb of a user of the apparatus, said housing being provided on the opposite end with a transparent lens and wherein said housing is provided internally with a frustoconical mirror tapering away from said lens.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.