Snap-on light socket
AssigneeVista Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorDwayne A. Tieszen
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Abstract
A snap-on light socket for a flexible light strip assembly includes a plurality of sockets which are removably and randomly fixed to a standard insulated wire (conductor). The socket is, in affect, comprised of a primary chamber into which is inserted a pair of cooperating contacts which serve to grip a conventional wedge base lamp and which have sharply pointed portions extending therefrom which pierce the insulation of the wire to effect the electrical connection. A lower tunnel-like channel is formed to accept and to grip the insulated wire and includes slotted means permitting the said sharply pointed portions of the contacts to extend partially into said channels to be in position to pierce the insulation when the socket is affixed to the insulated wire.
Claims7
A lamp assembly, comprising:
- a lamp housing molded from an electrically non-conductive plastic,
- an electrically conductive insulated wire,
- an elongatued U-shaped portion in said lamp housing receiving said electrically conductive insulated wire,
- a chamber above and adjacent said U-shaped portion, said chamber having an open and a closed end and being slotted and channelled to recieve an electrical contact member,
- said electrical contact member fitted into said chamber an having means at one end thereof to grip said lamp housing chamber when inserted therein, means at the opposite end thereof for receiving and making electrical contact with a lamp and means intermediate thereof which extends into said U-shaped means,
- said open end of said chamber adapted to accommodate said lamp-receiving means and to receive a lamp,
- said intermediate means extending into said U-shaped means being of sufficient length as to pierce the insulation of said electrically conductive wire when said wire is inserted into said U-shaped means, to establish electrical contact between said wire and said lamp.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.