Decorative lamp strip
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InventorTayeh Lin
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An improved decorative lamp strip comprising a three-strand flat electric wire, some main sets, some fixing plates, some sets of series connected conductive piece, some sets of a first parallel connected conductive piece, some sets of a second parallel connected conductive piece, some lamp seats and some bulbs with tungsten filament in general or some LED bulbs, wherein the falt electric wire comprises a middle strand series connected conductor and an upper and a lower strand parallel connected conductors, a plurality of holes are punched on the electric wire body, and each punched hole breaks the middle strand conductor, each main seat is installed in the position of each punched hole on the flat electric wire to engage with a fixing plate, and to let any one set of conductive piece installed on the main seat thrust into the middle, upper or lower strand conductor of the flat electric wire so as to combine a decorative lamp strip.
A decorative lamp strip, comprising:
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Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands: the contact members having teeth, prongs, pins or needles…
Lighting devices or systems using a string or strip of light sources: with light sources attached to loose electric cables, e.g. Christmas tree lights
With light sources held by or within elongate supports: rigid, e.g. LED bars
Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices ; Hand grips: making direct electrical contact, e.g. by piercing
Term ended 30 Sep 2014 (estimated)
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Nowadays the decorative lamp strip includes two types: a decorative lamp strip with tungsten filament bulb in general and a decorative lamp strip with LED (light emitting diode) bulb, but these two-type decorative lamp strips can not be jointly used and thus tend to cause inconvenience of the consumers and users for their use or choice. Next, most of the present available decorative lamp strips in general have no reflecting cover or can not be attached with the reflecting cover, so they can not meet with the demand of consumers and users for a brighter or farther illuminating distance. In addition, so far as the decorative lamp strips made by some manufacturers are concerned, the bulbs together with the 3-strand electric wires are wrapped in a solid plastic strip, their manufacture and assembly are quite troublesome, and once the bulbs are burnt or damaged, they can not be replaced with new once and will have to be scrapped; this is their largest drawback.
The object of the present invention is to offer an improved decorative lamp strip which is suitable to install tungsten filament bulb in general or LED bulb and convenient to replace the burst or damaged bulbs with new ones.
Another object of the present invention is to offer an improved decorative lamp strip which can be conveniently attached with the reflecting cover so as to enhance the bulb brightness and the illuminating distance.
FIG. 1 is an elevational view of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a top view of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 3-3' of FIG. 1.
As shown in FIG. 1, 3 and 5, an improved decorative lamp strip of the present invention consists of a flat electric wire 1, some main seats 2, some fixing plates 3, some sets of series connected conductive piece 4a, some sets of a first parallel connected conductive piece 4b, some sets of a second parallel connected conductive piece 4c, some lamp seats 5 and some bulbs 6, or a reflecting cover 7 on each main seat 2 (as shown in FIG. 7 and 8) whereon a lamp seat 5 and a bulb 6 are installed.
The structures of various members of the present invention and the installation manner thereof are described in detail hereinafter in conjunction with FIG. 5.
The flat electric wire 1 comprises a three-strand electric wire, i.e. a middle strand series connected conductor 11 and an upper strand and a lower strand parallel connected conductors 12, 13, and a square hole 14 is punched in the position on the electric wire body 10 for installing a bulb 6. When puncing the hole 14, the middle strand series connected conductor 11 is punched broken.