Battery supported light with circuit maker and breaker having terminals and mounting plate directly mounted to battery coil spring electrodes

• US 4,086,454 A
• Filed: 06/22/1976
• Issued: 04/25/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Otto J. Bluhm
• Original Assignee: Otto J. Bluhm
• Inventors: Bluhm, Otto J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Scott, James R.
• Application Number:
  US05/698,687
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• Field of Search: 200/6 R, 200/11 R, 200/60, 200/276, 240/10.61, 240/10.65, 362/183, 362/184, 362/194, 339/17 R, 339/17 C, 339/64 M, 339/252 R, 339/254 R, 339/152, 339/153, 429/121
• US Class Current: 200/60
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 7/00 Arrangement or adaptation of portable emergency signal devices on vehicles

Abstract

A mount is provided defining a downwardly opening socket and including a dependingly supported lower marginally extending clamp structure telescopable downwardly over the upper end of an associated upright storage battery and clampably engageable therewith. The downwardly opening socket defined by the mount includes portions thereof through which light rays may be transmitted and a dielectric horizontally disposed panel is received within the socket and has a pair of vertical contact terminals secured therethrough in horizontally spaced relation. The lower portions of the contact terminals project below the dielectric panel and electrically contact and are supported from the upper ends of a pair of horizontally spaced upwardly projecting contact terminal defined coil springs of the associated storage battery, whereby the panel is supported from the terminal defining springs. An open ended conductive material socket for receiving the base of a light bulb is supported from the panel and removably supports the base of a light bulb with the center terminal at the free end of the base of the bulb in contact with the upper end of one of the terminals secured through the dielectric panel and the socket is electrically engaged with the other terminal through a selectively operable switch member supported from the panel.

Claims

1. In combination with a storage battery of the type including a pair of generally parallel, spaced and outwardly projecting contact terminal defining resilient coil springs, a terminal mount assembly comprising a body of dielectric material for disposition outwardly of and supported from the outer ends of said springs, a pair of spaced terminal ends supported from and projecting outwardly from said body, the spacing between said terminal ends being slightly different than the spacing between the free ends of said springs with said free ends being slightly displaced relative to each other to match the spacing between said terminal ends and the latter removably telescoped into the free ends of said springs to thus support said terminal ends and the body, from which said terminal ends are supported, solely from said springs and thus from said battery.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said terminal ends are at least slightly oppositely inclined relative to each other with each inclined terminal and inclined outwardly in generally the same direction the corresponding coil spring free end is displaced from its static position.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein said body comprises a panel member disposed generally normal to said coil springs, said terminal ends comprising end extensions of terminal members secured through said panel member.

4. The combination of claim 3 including an elongated conductive tubular bulb socket supported from said body in endwise alignment with and spaced from one of said terminal members on the side of said body remote from which said terminal ends project for engagement of the center contact of a bulb seated in said socket with said one terminal member, and conductive circuit make and break means shiftably supported from said body for movement into and out of position electrically connecting said socket and the other terminal member.

5. The combination of claim 4 wherein said terminal ends are at least slightly oppositely inclined relative to each other with each inclined terminal end inclined outwardly in generally the same direction the corresponding coil spring free end is displaced from its static position.

6. The combination of claim 1 wherein said coil springs taper in diameter outwardly from said battery.

7. The combination of claim 1 wherein said terminal ends diverge outwardly from said body.