CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT AND DECORATION DEVICE

• US 3,752,407 A
• Filed: 10/06/1971
• Issued: 08/14/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James E. Beeler, Ronald K. Baugh
• Original Assignee: James E. Beeler, Ronald K. Baugh
• Inventors: Baugh, Ronald K., Beeler, James E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
• Application Number:
  US05/186,917
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• Field of Search: 240/1R,1T,1P,DIG.2
• US Class Current: 362/123
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 4/10 with light sources attached to loose electric cables, e.g. Christmas tree lights
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/04 for Christmas trees

Abstract

An electric light ornament and decoration device for Christmas trees, in which a plurality of electric light bulbs are provided in a cluster or group on a body member, which is adapted to be installed interiorly of the tree, and with retractable cords for energizing the individual bulbs from the body member which itself is energized from an associated electric source.

Claims

1. An electric light ornament and/or decorative device for Christmas trees, having a body member means and a plurality of individual light means, the several individual light means being electrically connected to a common electric power source associated with the said body member by flexible connecting wires of respective individual flexible cable means, in a combination in which there are provided retractabilityproviding means associated with the body member means and the said flexible cable means, whereby said individual light means may be individually withdrawn to any selected position spaced from said body member means still being electrically energized from said common electric power source, and in said selected position no substantial tension will exist between the body member means and the said individual light means so positioned, but, upon a certain retraction-actuating movement being applied to said so-positioned individual light means, the said retraction-providing means will cause sufficient tension to exist between the body member means and the said individual light means as to cause it to be retracted to said body member means;

and in which the said retractability-providing means is operatively associated with the flexible cable means of the individual light means so that its causing of tension in the said retraction operation is tension existing in the said cable means associated with said light means being retracted.