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US 5,180,224 AGranted
Tail light cover
OwnerOswald C. Svehauginventor
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Abstract
An interim tail light cover has a colored translucent body of red or amber, and snaps onto a taillight when the original lens or colored cover of the tail light has been broken or removed so that the light emitted light retains its red or amber color as is appropriate.
Claims11
A vehicular light cover to color light emitted from a vehicular lightbulb, said cover comprising:
- (a) a colored translucent body shaped and dimensioned to encircle a substantial portion of said lightbulb and color a substantial portion of light emitted from said lightbulb;
- (b) a bulb clamp for engaging said body directly onto said lightbulb;
- (c) said clamp defining a plurality of pass-through openings therethrough to ventilate heat from said lightbulb;
- and,
- (d) said body and bulb clamp comprising a unitary plastic molding, and said body including a forward substantially solid portion and a rearwardly directed portion comprising a plurality of separate bulb-engaging fingers defining said bulb clamp, and a plurality of interstitial slits defined between said fingers defining said pass-through openings.
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A vehicular light cover to color light emitted from a vehicular lightbulb, said cover comprising:
- (a) a colored translucent body shaped and dimensioned to encircle a substantial portion of said lightbulb and color a substantial portion of light emitted from said lightbulb;
- (b) a bulb clamp for engaging said body directly onto said lightbulb;
- (c) said clamp defining a plurality of pass-through openings therethrough to ventilate heat from said lightbulb;
- (d) said body including a forward substantially solid portion and a rearwardly directed portion comprising a plurality of separate bulb-engaging fingers defining said bulb clamp, and a plurality of interstitial slits defined between said fingers defining said pass-through openings;
- (e) said body and bulb comprising a unitary plastic molding;
- and
- (f) said body defining a longitudinal axis and each of said slits defining its own projected plane which does not intersect said axis such that light from said bulb cannot pass directly through said slits.
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A vehicle light cover to color light emitted from a vehicular lightbulb, said cover comprising:
- (a) a colored translucent body shaped and dimensioned to encircle a substantial portion of said lightbulb and color a substantial portion of light emitted from said lightbulb;
- (b) a bulb clamp for engaging said body directly onto said lightbulb;
- (c) said body being unitary and said bulb clamp comprising at least two opposed clips extending forwardly from said body to clamp opposed sides of said bulb;
- and,
- (d) each of said clips being a sheet metal stamping defining two parallel side rails, and said body defining a pair of parallel tracks seating said siderails therein.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.