US 4,360,862 AGranted

Nautical light

AssigneeGulf & Western Manufacturing Company

InventorsFrederick G. Strasser, Elwood R. Horwinski

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Abstract

A nautical light for watercraft includes a cylindrical metal housing having opposite ends, one of which includes a collar for mounting the light on a tubular mast or pole. The housing includes a pair of vertically tiered light chambers each having a lamp bulb coaxial with the housing axis and a window opening radially thereinto through the housing. A cylindrical closed end lens is axially received over the housing with the closed end of the lens overlying an end wall of the housing opposite the mounting end. The lens member is sealed with respect to the housing, and the closed end of the lens member is fastened to the end wall of the housing to facilitate removal of the lens for access to the light chambers. The housing and mounting collar provide a path for heat transfer to the mast on which the light is mounted, thereby providing thermal protection for the lens.

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Dependent claims

A nautical light comprising housing means including a cylindrical tubular metal body portion having an axis and axially opposite ends, mounting means for said housing means at one of said opposite ends thereof, said housing means further including transversely extending metal wall means axially spaced apart from one another and interconnected with said tubular metal body portion, said tubular metal body portion and wall means together providing cylindrical light chamber means in said housing, means supporting lamp bulb means in said light chamber means coaxial with said axis, said tubular metal body portion having window means opening radially therethrough into said light chamber means, said window means including circumferentially spaced apart side edges, cylindrical lens means surrounding said tubular metal body portion between said opposite ends thereof, sealing means between said lens means and housing means, and means removably mounting said lens means on said housing means.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.