ILLUMINATED EARRING

• US 3,624,384 A
• Filed: 11/29/1968
• Issued: 11/30/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gordon R. Ledingham, Norman L. Ledingham
• Original Assignee: Gordon R. Ledingham, Norman L. Ledingham
• Inventors: Ledingham, Gordon R., Ledingham, Norman L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Matthews, Samuel S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Moses, Richard L.
• Application Number:
  US04/779,739
• Time in Patent Office: 1,096 Days
• Field of Search: 240/6.4,6.4W,59
• US Class Current: 362/104
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 15/0015 Illuminated or sound-producing jewellery
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 7/00 Ear-rings; Devices for piercing the ear-lobes
• CPC Class Codes: F21L 2/00 Systems of electric lighting devices systems employing both electric and non-electric light sources or exchangeable light sources F21L27/00

Abstract

An illuminated earring having a housing secured to an earring support, which housing encloses and electrically connects a battery and light bulb and supports a removable light transmissive enclosure having selective configurations that encloses and is illuminated by the light bulb.

Claims

1. An illuminated earring comprising, a source of electrical power, an electrical light bulb that is energized by said source of electrical power, an earring housing to be supported from the ear of a person, a light-transmitting enclosure for enclosing said light bulb and that is illuminated by said light bulb, means for securing said light-transmitting enclosure to said housing in a manner that said enclosure is easily and quickly removed, said source of electrical power and said light bulb are supported by said housing, said housing is a tubular shell with an opening in the bottom wall for receiving and holding said light bulb, said enclosure is substantially larger than said light bulb, said source of electrical power is a battery that is positionable in said housing and whose lower end is resiliently biased into electrical engagement with said light bulb by a spring electrical contact that bears against the upper end of said battery, and said housing includes an electrical conductor means for electrically connecting said electrical contact to said bulb, said enclosure has an opening in the upper end that is aligned against said opening in the bottom wall of said housing, said enclosure has an inwardly projecting circumferential shoulder adjacent said opening in said enclosure, and a disk having an electrical socket for receiving said light bulb is held between said circumferential shoulder and the lower end of said battery.

2. An illuminated earing as claimed in claim 1 in which, said housing comprises a frame that holds said light bulb in an electrical circuit across said battery, a second housing comprising a tubular shell that is open at one end and has earring connecting means at the other end, said second housing has an inwardly projecting shoulder adjacent said opening, and said housing has outwardly projecting fingers at its upper end that fit over said shoulder holding said housing in said second housing.

3. An illuminated earring as claimed in claim 1 in which, said light-transmitting enclosure is substantially larger than said light bulb and has an open end that is removably secured to said open end of said second housing.

4. An illuminated earring comprising, a source of electrical power, an electrical light bulb that is energized by said source of electrical power, an earring housing to be supported from the ear of a person, a light-transmitting enclosure for enclosing said light bulb and that is illuminated by said light bulb, means for securing said light-transmitting enclosure to said housing in a manner that said enclosure is easily and quickly removed, said source of electrical power and said light bulb are supported by said housing, said housing is a tubular shell with an opening in the bottom wall for receiving and holding said light bulb, said enclosure is substantially larger than said light bulb, said source of electrical power is a battery that is positionable in said housing and whose lower end is resiliently biased into electrical engagement with said light bulb by a spring electrical contact that bears against the upper end of said battery, said housing includes an electrical conductor means for electrical connecting said electrical contact to said bulb.