US 5,848,916 AGranted

Christmas lamp socket

OwnerShun-Feng Huanginventor

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Abstract

A Christmas lamp socket includes a housing, a lamp base with a lamp fitted therein and inserted in the housing completely. The housing has two aligned grooves in a bottom end for a power wire to be fitted and positioned therein with a proper tenseness so as to enable the sockets kept upright to the wire and thus to prevent rain from flowing in the housing and the lamp base and from consequent short circuit.

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A Christmas light socket assembly, comprising:

a plurality of substantially identical light sockets, each of said plurality of light sockets including:
(a) a lamp, said lamp including a pair of lead wires, said lead wires having contact portions thereof;
(b) a lamp base having an upper end and an opposing connector end thereof, said lamp base supporting said lamp within an opening formed in said upper end thereof and enveloping said pair of lead wires, said contact portions of said lead wires being externally exposed at said connector end of said lamp base;
(c) a longitudinally extended housing, said housing having a distal end and a proximal end, said housing having a central bore extending longitudinally from an opening formed in said proximal end, said connector end of said lamp base being received within said central bore, said housing having a pair of opposing side walls being at said distal end thereof, and a groove being formed in each of said opposing side walls in open communication with said distal end, said grooves being disposed in aligned relationship to thereby identify a single passage;
(d) a pair of first power wires extending within said housing of a first of said plurality of light sockets, each said first power wire having an end, electrically coupled to said contact portion of a respective one of said lead wires, said pair of first wires extending outwardly from said distal end of said housing of said first light socket;
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(e) a pair of second power wires extending within said housing of a second of said plurality of light sockets and electrically coupled to said contact portion of a respective one of said lead wires of said second light socket, one of said pair of second power wires being inserted into said grooves formed in said side walls of said first light socket to extend through said single passage substantially orthogonal to said first power wires thereof, thereby interconnecting said first and said second light sockets.

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Abstract

A Christmas light socket assembly, comprising:

a plurality of substantially identical light sockets, each of said plurality of light sockets including:
(a) a lamp, said lamp including a pair of lead wires, said lead wires having contact portions thereof;
(b) a lamp base having an upper end and an opposing connector end thereof, said lamp base supporting said lamp within an opening formed in said upper end thereof and enveloping said pair of lead wires, said contact portions of said lead wires being externally exposed at said connector end of said lamp base;
(c) a longitudinally extended housing, said housing having a distal end and a proximal end, said housing having a central bore extending longitudinally from an opening formed in said proximal end, said connector end of said lamp base being received within said central bore, said housing having a pair of opposing side walls being at said distal end thereof, and a groove being formed in each of said opposing side walls in open communication with said distal end, said grooves being disposed in aligned relationship to thereby identify a single passage;
(d) a pair of first power wires extending within said housing of a first of said plurality of light sockets, each said first power wire having an end, electrically coupled to said contact portion of a respective one of said lead wires, said pair of first wires extending outwardly from said distal end of said housing of said first light socket;
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(e) a pair of second power wires extending within said housing of a second of said plurality of light sockets and electrically coupled to said contact portion of a respective one of said lead wires of said second light socket, one of said pair of second power wires being inserted into said grooves formed in said side walls of said first light socket to extend through said single passage substantially orthogonal to said first power wires thereof, thereby interconnecting said first and said second light sockets.

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