Boat light having resiliently flexible and adjustable mount

Abstract

A boat light includes a shield recessed within the hull of a vessel. A conventional sealed beam head-lamp unit seats in an exteriorly spherically shaped lamp unit retaining member formed of a resiliently flexible soft material such as rubber. The retaining member and shield have mating spherically shaped surfaces so that the retaining member can be angularly adjusted, within a pre-determined, limited range, to any of various selected positions within the shield, thus to correspondingly adjust and hence correctly aim, the head-lamp unit. The retaining member is quickly and firmly secured, in each position to which it is adjusted, through the provision of a soft rubber mounting ring, which fits over the inner end of the shield, and is spherically shaped interiorly thereof, to form a ball-and-socket mounting cooperating with the shield and the retaining member. Upon tightening of a metal clamping ring that extends around the mounting ring, the mounting ring is resiliently contracted in a radially inward direction, to tightly grip the retaining member and in this way secure the retaining member firmly in the selected position of adjustment.

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