BATTERY POWERED ILLUMINATED ORNAMENT

• US 3,740,543 A
• Filed: 08/10/1971
• Issued: 06/19/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles Franc
• Original Assignee: Charles Franc
• Inventors: Franc, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Queisser, Richard C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Corr, Denis E.
• Application Number:
  US05/170,425
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• Field of Search: 240/6.4R,10.61,10.65,1.6R,10.68,10.6,1R
• US Class Current: 446/147
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/022 combined with permanently fastened sound-producing or light-emitting means or carrying sound records
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/00 Structural combinations of lighting devices with other articles, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/81 Imitation candle

Abstract

A portable, illuminated ornament for illuminating a greeting card, gift package or the like, consisting of a flat, substantially rectangular bettery having a horizontally disposed, rectangular-shaped positive terminal affixed to one side thereof. A negative battery terminal, consisting of the battery casing and a rectangular member affixed to the same side of the battery as the positive terminal, is disposed parallel to the positive terminal. Either the positive or negative terminal may be provided with an aperture for receiving the base of a flameshaped lamp. The ornament may be mounted in a greeting card which has an aperture in one surface thereof behind which the flameshaped lamp is disposed, and an elongated slot which receives a flat tab disposed between the lamp base and the battery terminal to control illumination of the lamp.

Claims

1. A portable, illuminated ornament, comprising:

a lamp for providing illumination;

a flat battery, having a first flat output terminal affixed to a side surface thereof, said terminal extending outwardly from the side of said battery and having an aperture for receiving the base of said lamp, and a second output terminal, formed by the casing of said battery and a flat conductive member affixed to the same side of said battery as said first output terminal and disposed parallel thereto, for engaging said lamp and electrically coupling said battery thereto;

a greeting card, having an aperture in an inside surface thereof behind which said battery is mounted so that said lamp is visible therethrough, and including an elongated slot on the inside sufrace of said greeting card adjacent said first terminal of said battery; and

a planar tab, affixed to the inside surface of said greeting card, and disposed opposite said battery so that said slot receives said tab when said greeting card is closed for electrically insulating said battery from said lamp until said greeting card is opened.

2. The illuminated ornament as recited in claim 1, wherein said first and second battery terminals are disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said battery aNd said lamp.

3. The illuminated ornament as recited in claim 2, wherein said second output terminal further comprises a curved extension, affixed to the end thereof, extending upwardly from said second terminal for engaging said lamp disposed in said first output terminal and thereby electrically coupling said lamp to said battery.

4. A portable, illuminated ornament, comprising:

a lamp for providing illumination;

a flat battery, having a flat first output terminal affixed to a side surface thereof, said terminal extending outwardly from the side of said battery and having an aperture for receiving said lamp, and a second output terminal, formed by the casing of said battery and a flat conductive member affixed to the same side of said battery as said first output terminal, and disposed parallel thereto, for engaging said lamp and thereby electrically coupling said lamp to said battery;

a greeting card, having an aperture provided in the front surface thereof behind which said battery is mounted so that said lamp is visible therethrough, and including an elongated slot provided in the front surface of said greeting card adjacent said first battery terminal and said lamp; and

a planar tab, disposed through said elongated slot between said first battery terminal and the base of said lamp, for electrically insulating said lamp from said battery until said tab is removed.

5. The illuminated ornament as recited in claim 4, wherein said first and second battery terminals are disposed outwardly parallel to the longitudinal axis of said battery.

6. The illuminated ornament as recited in claim 5, wherein said first output terminal comprises an annular-shaped conductive member.

7. The illuminated ornament as recited in claim 6, wherein said lamp is flame-shaped, and has an annular base, having first and second elongated contact terminals affixed thereto, which is slidably received by said aperture in said first terminal.

8. The illuminated ornament as recited in claim 4, wherein said first output terminal is a flat, electrically-conductive member.