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US 5,359,506 AGranted
All occasion lights
OwnerEdward J. Kolenoinventor
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Abstract
In a preferred embodiment, an all occasion light system providing for a permanent installation at a preferred location, the system including: a plurality of spaced apart, electrically connected base members, having structure to insert therein a plurality of light bulbs; structure to removably attach ornaments over the light bulbs with the ornaments to be illuminated thereby; and structure to individually conceal each of the light bulbs when the ornaments are removed.
Claims3
An all occasion light system providing for a permanent installation at a preferred location, said system comprising:
- (a) a plurality of spaced apart, electrically connected base members, having means to insert therein a plurality of light bulbs;
- (b) means to removably attach ornaments over said light bulbs, with said ornaments to be illuminated thereby, comprising:
- a plurality of sockets, each one of said sockets attached to one of said base members and having an outer circumference provided with a first screw thread;
- and
- a plurality of mounting stems, each one of said mounting stems disposed on a bottom of one of said ornaments and having an inside circumference containing a second screw thread matable with said first screw thread to removably attach said one of said ornaments to said one of said sockets;
- and
- (c) means to individually conceal each of said light bulbs, when said ornaments are removed, comprising:
- a plurality of opaque covers;
- and
- means to removably attach each of said opaque covers, to each of said base members when said ornaments are removed from said base members, comprising
- two, parallel, space apart, U-shaped channels which are formed as extensions of bottom edges of side surfaces of said opaque cover, said extensions being bent inwardly and upwardly to form said U-shaped channels;
- and
- two, parallel flanges depending from outer edges of an upper portion of said base member and spaced apart from a lower portion of said base member, said side flanges and said U-shaped channels forming complementary mating structures.
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An all occasion light system providing for a permanent installation at a preferred location, said system comprising:
- (a) a plurality of spaced apart, electrically connected base members, having means to insert therein a plurality of light bulbs;
- (b) means to removably attach ornaments over said light bulbs, with said ornaments to be illuminated thereby, comprising:
- a plurality of sockets, each one of said sockets attached to one of said base members and having an outer circumference provided with a first screw thread;
- and
- a plurality of mounting stems, each one of said mounting stems disposed on a bottom of one of said ornaments and having an inside circumference containing a second screw thread matable with said first screw thread to removably attach said one of said ornaments to said one of said sockets;
- and
- (c) means to individually conceal each of said light bulbs, when said ornaments are removed, comprising:
- a plurality of opaque covers;
- and
- means to removably attach each of said opaque covers, to each of said base members when said ornaments are removed from said base members, comprising
- two, parallel, spaced apart, U-shaped channels which are formed as extensions of bottom edges of side surfaces of said opaque cover, said extensions being bent inwardly and upwardly to form said U-shaped channels;
- two, parallel flanges depending from outer edges of an upper portion of said base member and spaced apart from a lower portion of said base member;
- said side flanges and said U-shaped channels forming complementary mating structures;
- and
- said side flanges and said U-shaped channels are sufficiently different in dimensional relationship so as to provide slight frictional engagement therebetween when said side flanges are mated to said U-shaped channels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.