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Overhead console assembly

  • US 4,867,498 A
  • Filed: 12/02/1988
  • Issued: 09/19/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An overhead console assembly, for installation within a motor vehicle, the assembly comprising:

  • an assembly housing for mounting against the interior roof of the motor vehicle, the assembly housing defining a first compartment; and

    a retractable and aimable lamp assembly, houseable in the first compartment in the assembly housing, the lamp assembly including;

    a lamp head;

    a lamp socket disposed within the lamp head and adapted to receive electricity; and

    a collapsible flexible bellows having a first end attached to the first compartment, a second end attached to the lamp head, and an length therebetween, for disposing the lamp head a variable distance from the first compartment as the bellows is extended or contracted by a user;

    the bellows, when collapsed, permitting the lamp assembly to be stowed within the first compartment, and permitting, when extended, the lamp head to be aimed over a substantially 360°

    range.

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