Lighted clipboard device

A lighted clipboard device comprising:

• a board member having a top side and a bottom side, said board member including a battery compartment being disposed therein, and also including an opening through said bottom side and into said battery compartment;
• a clip member being attached to said top side of said board member;
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• a light-emitting assembly being attached to said clip member, said light-emitting assembly including an elongate tubular housing having a transparent side wall and openings through ends thereof, and also including a light socket being securely disposed in said elongate tubular housing near one of said ends thereof, and further including a light-emitting member being removably received in said light socket, and also including a switch member being attached to said elongate tubular housing and being disposed through one of said openings thereof and being electrically connected to said light-emitting member, and further including an adjustable shade member being disposed between said side wall of said elongate tubular housing and said light-emitting member, and also including a light reflector member being disposed in said elongate tubular housing for reflecting light through said transparent side wall of said elongate tubular housing, and further including a battery pack being removably disposed in said battery compartment and being electrically connected to said switch member for energizing said light-emitting member, said light socket including a body having a plurality of terminal-receiving slots disposed in a side thereof, said light-emitting member including a plurality of terminals extending from an end thereof and being removably received in said terminal-receiving slots, said switch member having a knob extending outwardly from one of said openings of said elongate tubular housing, said adjustable shade member being a semi-cylindrical member having a darkened side wall and having an adjustment knob extending outwardly from an end thereof and through one of said openings of said elongate tubular housing, said semi-cylindrical member being rotatably disposed in said elongate tubular housing, said light reflector member being a laterally-curved sheet of rigid material and being disposed upon a back side of said elongate tubular housing which is securely attached upon said clip member.

A lighted clipboard device comprising:

• a board member having a top side and a bottom side;
• a clip member being attached to said top side of said board member;
• and
• a light-emitting assembly being attached to said clip member;
• wherein said light-emitting assembly includes an elongate tubular housing having a transparent side wall, a light-emitting member being removably received in said tubular housing, an adjustable shade member being disposed between said side wall of said elongate tubular housing and said light-emitting member, and a light reflector member being disposed in said elongate tubular housing for reflecting light through said transparent side wall of said elongate tubular housing.