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US 5,328,385 AGranted
Lamp socket
OwnerTseng-Fan Cheuinventor
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Abstract
A lamp socket which includes a socket cap fastened to a socket shell by hook to carry a hot wire and a neutral wires, ring contact fastened inside the socket shell to hold the ring contact of a lamp bulb and having a tip inserted through a slot on the socket shell and pierced through the neutral wire to make an electric contact, a tip contact having one end inserted through another slot on the socket shell and connected to the tip contact of the lamp bulb and an opposite end pierced into the hot wire to make an electric contact.
Claims1
A lamp socket comprising:
- a socket shell, said socket shell comprising an inside annular flange upstanding from a horizontal bottom wall thereof and spaced from a vertical side rib thereof, a bottom flange projected downwards from said horizontal bottom wall, a first slot through said horizontal bottom wall between said inside annular flange and said vertical said rib, a second slot through said horizontal bottom wall within said inside annular flange;
- a socket cap fastened to said socket shell at the bottom, said socket cap comprising an elongated block having two parallel grooves along the length to carry a neutral wire and a hot wire, and two opposite hooks separated by said elongated block and hooked on said bottom flange of said socket shell;
- a ring contact fastened inside said socket shell to hold the ring contact of a lamp bulb, said ring contact comprising a notched tip inserted through said first slot and pierced into said neutral wire to make an eletric contact;
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- a tip contact having one end inserted through said second slot and disposed in contact with the top contact of said lamp bulb, and an opposite end pierced into said hot wire to make an electric contact.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.