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US 5,853,242 AGranted
Portable torch with a clip-on support plate
AssigneeZedel
InventorsBoris Bouffay, Paul Petzl
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Abstract
A torch light comprises an elongate case and fixing means to enable it to be used as a head-mounted lamp. The fixing means comprise a fixing plate designed to cooperate by clipping with locking means provided in a blind orifice of the case and arranged to constitute positive locking of the fixing plate in the active position, switching of said locking means from the active position to the inactive position requiring a manual unlocking operation to uncouple the case from the fixing plate. A head-mounted lamp can thus be quickly transformed into a torch light.
Claims6
An electric torch light comprising:
- an elongate case containing a current source to supply a bulb, said case comprising a base, and a bottom,
- a reflector and screen assembly securedly affixed to a rotating ring screwed onto a threaded end of the case opposite the base,
- and fixing means arranged on the bottom of the case to enable the torch light to be used as a head-mounted lamp, wherein:
- the fixing means comprise a fixing plate designed to cooperate by clipping with locking means provided in a blind orifice of the case and arranged to constitute positive locking of the fixing plate in the active position, moving said locking means from the active position to the inactive position requiring a manual unlocking operation to uncouple the case from the plate,
- and the locking means comprise a pair of securing buttons located on the two opposite sides of the orifice and designed in said active position to block two latching studs securedly affixed to the fixing plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.