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Lampholders for miniature light sets

  • US 4,807,098 A
  • Filed: 12/10/1987
  • Issued: 02/21/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A lampholder comprising:

  • a housing having a socket at one end to receive a lamp unit, and having a wireway at the opposite end to receive three side-by-side insulated wires occupying a central portion and first and second opposite side portions of the wireway;

    said socket having two recessed portions at opposite sides thereof, one of said recessed portions intersecting said central portion and said first opposite side portion of the wireway and the other of said recessed portions intersecting said central portion and said second opposite side portion of the wireway; and

    a pair of like contact members lodged in respective of said recessed portions to be engaged by wire leads from said lamp unit, said contact members each having an insulation-severing contact element projecting into said wireway, each of said contact members being reversible before being lodged in said recessed portions to have its said contact element projecting either into said central portion of the wireway or into one of said opposite side portions of the wireway.

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