PORTABLE FLASHLIGHT

• US 3,731,084 A
• Filed: 03/20/1972
• Issued: 05/01/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Blanche P. Trevorrow
• Original Assignee: Blanche P. Trevorrow
• Inventors: Trevorrow, Blanche P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Matthews, Samuel S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sheer, Richard M.
• Application Number:
  US05/236,066
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 240/2R,2.14,6.4R,6.4B,6.4W,41.5,59,81 224/5,5E,5H,5P,5MA,5S,5V,5BC,25 24/3M,3B
• US Class Current: 362/108
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/40 by means of coilable or bendable legs or spiral shaped legs
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/04 for supporting on, or holding steady relative to, a person, e.g. by chains , e.g. rifle butt or pistol grip supports, supports attached to the chest or head apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them G03B
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/32 Flexible tubes
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/3005 for books, i.e. reading lights attachable to books
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/802 Position or condition responsive switch

Abstract

A flashlight integral with a harness so it can be supported from the shoulders of a person and child so that their hands are free for other tasks. The device consists of a flashlight unit equipped with an electric lamp and dry cell battery which is attached to a pair of flexible hollow stems each of which is secured to an adjustable shoulderband and a mercury actuated switch pivotally attached to one of the shoulder bands.

Claims

1. A portable light comprising in combination a flashlight unit, said flashlight unit comprising a case, a dry cell battery and an electric lamp electrically connected to said battery, said case enclosing said battery and lamp;

a harness comprising a pair of flexible hollow stems having first and second ends, each of said first ends of said hollow stems being attached to said casing, and a pair of shoulder bands, one of said shoulder bands being attached to each of said hollow stems at said second end, said shoulder bands being self-adjustable to the contour of a wearer'"'"''"'"'s shoulder;

a mercury accuated switch electrically connected to said battery and lamp for opening and closing a circuit between said battery and said lamp; and

support means pivotably mounting said switch on one of said shoulder bands so that a wearer can assume a position at a predetermined angle and adjust said switch for closing a circuit to said lamp and said switch will automatically open a circuit to said lamp when a wearer assumes a position at an angle other than the predetermined angle.