Vehicle lamp

• US 3,226,537 A
• Filed: 04/17/1963
• Issued: 12/28/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John R. Hanson, Kenneth L. Johnson
• Original Assignee: John R. Hanson, Kenneth L. Johnson
• Inventors: Hanson, John R., Johnson, Kenneth L.
• Application Number:
  US04/273,758
• Time in Patent Office: 986 Days
• US Class Current: 362/540
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2615 mounted on the vehicle body, e.g. with magnets

Claims

1. A LAMP COMPRISING A LENS;

A PAIR OF SPACED APART BODY MEANS RIGID WITH SAID LENS AND PROJECTING FROM AN INNER SURFACE OF SAID LENS;

A FIRST SHEET METAL CONTACT HAVING AN INTEGRALLY FORMED SOCKET ADJACENT TO ONE END THEREOF AND A TUBULAR RECEPTACLE FORMED AT THE OTHER END THEREOF;

A SECOND SHEET METAL CONTACT HAVING A RESILIENT ARM PORTION AT ONE END THEREOF AND A TUBULAR RECEPTACLE FORMED AT THE OTHER END THEREOF;

SAID BODY MEANS BEING SLOTTED IN A DIRECTION GENERALLY AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE PLANE OF SAID LENS TO RECEIVE THE TUBULAR END PORTIONS OF SAID CONTACTS RESPECTIVELY;

SAID CONTACTS SEATED WITHIN SAID SLOTS WITH SAID SOCKET AND SAID ARM DISPOSED IN SAID SPACE BETWEEN SAID BODY MEANS WHEREBY A BASE OF AN ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB DISPOSED IN SAID SOCKET IS CONTACTED BY SAID ARM AT THE DISTAL END OF SAID BASE.