Flashlight for ladies' handbag

• US 3,330,949 A
• Filed: 03/04/1965
• Issued: 07/11/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cecil H. Bush
• Original Assignee: Cecil H. Bush
• Inventors: Bush, Cecil H.
• Application Number:
  US04/437,013
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• US Class Current: 362/189
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 15/06 with illuminating devices

Claims

1. A FLASHLIGHT, AS FOR ATTACHMENT WITHIN A LADIES'"'"''"'"' HANDBAG, COMPRISING:

A BACKING PLATE HAVING AN OUTER PERIPHERAL EDGE;

A HOLLOW CASING OF RUBBER-LIKE ELASTIC MATERIAL HAVING A PERIPHERAL MARGINAL PORTION IN INTERFITTING CONNECTION WITH SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE OF THE PLATE, YIELDINGLY RELEASABLY TO SUPPORT THE CASING TO THE PLATE AGAINST THE ELASTICITY OF THE CASING MATERIAL;

AND AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUITRY CONTAINED BY THE CASING, INCLUDING LIGHT BULB MEANS, A SOURCE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY, AND A SWITCH SELECTIVELY OPERABLE TO CONNECT SAID SOURCE WITH SAID LIGHT BULB MEANS TO LIGHT THE SAME;

SAID SWITCH INCLUDING RELATIVELY FIXED AND MOVABLE CONTACT MEANS IN A PORTION OF SAID CIRCUITRY BETWEEN SAID ELECTRICAL SOURCE AND SAID LIGHT BULB MEANS;

SAID CASING HAVING A DEPRESSIBLE ELASTIC PORTION CARRYING SAID MOVABLE CONTACT AND BEING YIELDINGLY DEPRESSIBLE AGAINST THE INHERENT ELASTICITY OF THE CASING MATERIAL TO ENGAGE THE MOVABLE CONTACT WITH THE FIXED CONTACT;

SAID