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US 5,347,439 AGranted
Flashlight holder
OwnerJames A. Warreninventor
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Abstract
A flashlight holder, particularly adapted to aid small children entering a darkened room, which comprises an elongated base member having a flashlight removeably mounted on one end thereof and means mounted on the other end thereof to engage a conventional vertically operating electrical toggle switch to aid in turning such switch on or off, and to provide a way of storing such holder for easy access to a child.
Claims4
A new and improved flashlight holder which comprises:
- an elongated base member;
- said elongated base member having first and second opposed ends orthogonally related to a longitudinal axis defined by said elongated base member, said base member further having upper and lower opposed sides extending in the direction of said axis between said opposed ends thereof;
- means proximal to said first end of said base member to removeably affix a flashlight to said upper side thereof;
- and means on said second end of said base member to operatively engage a vertically-mounted electrical toggle switch;,
- wherein said means to operatively engage said switch comprises an arcuate recess in said second end of said base member and a depending projection on said lower side of said base member, said depending projection having a first edge proximal to said arcuate recess, said depending projection having a second distal edge extending angularly rearwardly toward said first end of said base member transversely of said base member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.