Multi-beam light switch

• US 4,105,898 A
• Filed: 09/19/1975
• Issued: 08/08/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Billy F. Vanderpool, Buist A. Farler
• Original Assignee: Billy F. Vanderpool, Buist A. Farler
• Inventors: Farler, Buist A., Vanderpool, Billy F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jr., David
• Application Number:
  US05/614,970
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 307/10 LS, 315/82, 315/83, 339/19, 339/32 R, 339/32 M, 339/33, 339/153, 339/154 R, 339/154 A, 339/155, 339/156
• US Class Current: 315/82
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/1415 Dimming circuits

Abstract

An electrical adaptor to be installed in a motor vehicle headlight system between the standard headlight connector and the standard two position dimmer switch, having a body of insulating material, means for engaging the headlight connector, means for receiving the dimmer switch, and energizing circuit means, whereby the low beam filaments of the headlights are illuminated in the low beam position of the dimmer switch and the low and high beam filaments of the headlights are simultaneously illuminated in the high beam position of the dimmer switch.

Claims

1. An improved headlight system for motor vehicles having at least two sealed beam headlamps providing high and low beam illumination, a floor dimmer switch having at least two operable positions, energizing circuit means connected to said high beam in one position of said switch or said low beam in another position of said switch, wherein the improvement comprises:

(a) an adaptor having a body of insulating material;

(b) means on said body connecting said floor dimmer switch thereto;

(c) means on said body connecting said energizing circuit means thereto; and

(d) means in said body connecting said floor dimmer switch and said energizing circuit means to illuminate the low beam in one position of said floor dimmer switch and to illuminate both the high and low beams simultaneously in another position of said floor dimmer switch.

2. The headlight system according to claim 1 wherein the means on said body for connecting energizing circuit means thereto comprises three prongs spatially disposed from each other and from the edges of the said body.

3. The headlight system according to claim 1 wherein the means on said body for connecting the floor dimmer switch thereto comprises three receptacles spatially disposed from each other and from the edges of said body.

4. The headlight system according to claim 1 wherein the means within said body for connecting the floor dimmer switch and the energizing circuit means comprises three elongated metal conductors extending through the length of said body.

5. The headlight system according to claim 1 further including an insulated support plate within the adaptor body, spatially disposed from the ends of said body, and parallel to said ends, for receiving and supporting thereon the means within said body for connecting the energizing circuit means on said body to the means for connecting the floor dimmer switch on said body.