Decorative light mount
OwnerDonald Rumpelinventor
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Abstract
A decorative lighting mount is described, including a plastic body with a flexible integral mounting clip for attaching the mount to a support, and an integral flexible socket receiving clip for reception of a decorative light bulb socket. The mounting clip includes a pair of opposed yieldable clip arms forming a support receiving opening therebetween. The socket receiving clip defines a socket receiving opening and includes an axially split side wall in a frusto-conical configuration to releasably receive a portion of a decorative light bulb socket. The socket receiving clip includes a retainer projecting radially into the socket receiving opening to abut a decorative light bulb socket to prevent axial motion of the bulb socket within the socket receiving clip in one direction.
Claims19
A decorative lighting mount, comprising:
- a body including a mounting clip for attaching the mount to a support, and a socket receiving clip for reception of a decorative light bulb socket;
- wherein the mounting clip includes a pair of opposed yieldable clip arms forming a support receiving opening therebetween;
- wherein the socket receiving clip is formed along a socket axis and is shaped with an opening to releasably receive portion of a decorative light bulb socket;
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- wherein the socket receiving clip includes a retainer thereon positioned to abut a top edge surface of the decorative light bulb socket to prevent axial motion of the socket within the socket receiving clip in one direction.
A decorative lighting mount, comprising:
- a plastic body including a flexible integral mounting clip for attaching the mount to a support, and an integral flexible socket receiving clip for reception of a decorative light bulb socket;
- wherein the mounting clip includes a pair of opposed yieldable clip arms forming a support receiving opening therebetween along a mounting clip axis;
- wherein the socket receiving clip defines a socket receiving opening formed along a socket axis with opposed open ends along the socket axis;
- the socket receiving clip including an axially split side wall extending between an upper section and an integral lower section, the upper section being flared radially outward in a frusto-conical configuration to releasably receive a portion of the decorative light bulb socket;
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- wherein the socket receiving clip includes a retainer thereon projecting radially into the socket receiving opening to abut the decorative light bulb socket held within the socket receiving clip to prevent axial motion of the decorative light bulb socket within the socket receiving clip in one axial direction.
A mount for decorative lights including a bulb socket and a wire leading to the bulb socket, comprising:
- a body including a mounting clip for attaching the mount to a support, and a socket receiving clip for reception of the decorative light bulb socket;
- wherein the mounting clip includes a pair of opposed yieldable clip arms forming a support receiving opening therebetween;
- wherein the socket receiving clip is formed along a socket axis and is shaped with an opening substantially parallel to the support receiving opening to releasably receive a portion of the decorative light bulb socket;
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- a wire receiving slot formed in the body substantially parallel to and adjacent the support receiving opening to releasably receive a decorative light wire with the decorative light bulb socket received within the socket receiving opening.
A decorative light bulb mount, comprising:
- a body including a bulb socket;
- the bulb socket having a elongated recess for receiving a decorative light bulb;
- the bulb socket including electrical contact mounts formed within the recess;
- a mounting clip on the body for attaching the mount to a support;
- wherein the mounting clip includes at least one yieldable clip arm forming a support receiving opening;
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- a wire retainer channel formed in the body separate from and adjacent the mounting clip and substantially parallel to the elongated recess of the bulb socket, adapted to releasably receive a portion of a conductor wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.