US1660060A

US1660060A - Lamp-socket holder

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Publication number: US1660060A
Application number: US156051A
Authority: US
Inventors: Harry E Adams
Original assignee: W G NAGEL ELECTRIC Co
Current assignee: W G NAGEL ELECTRIC Co; Wg Nagel Electric Co
Priority date: 1926-12-20
Filing date: 1926-12-20
Publication date: 1928-02-21
Anticipated expiration: 1945-02-21

Description

Feb. 21, 1928.

H. E. ADAMS LAMP SOCKET HOLDER Filed Dec. 20. 1926 Patented Feb. 21, 1928.

UNITED 'STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'HARRY n. ADAMS, or rotnno, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE w. G. nnenn-nrno'raiccon- PANY} OF TOLEDO,

onto, A CORPORATION or onto.

LAMP- SOCKET HOLDER.

Application-filedDecember 1926. Serial No. 156,051.. 7

This invention ,relates particularly to lamp socket holders for; use in connection with the instrument panels of automohlles, and has for its object the provision of a socket holder of this type which is simple, rapid and inexpensive to manufacture and adapted to be easily and quickly secured to an instrument board in a rigid and secure manner without soldering or welding.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and one embodiment thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure 1 is an instrument panel showing an inner end view of a lamp socket holder embodying the invention attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Figs. 3 and i are plan views of the blank from which the socket holder is formed in different operation stages, Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the blank 1n socket holder form preparatory to being attached to a panel, and Fig. 6 is a slightly modified sectional view of the socket holder with a lamp socket and lamp mounted in one permissible position therein. r

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an instrument panel which. is usually of stamped sheet metal andis provided with instrument receiving openings 2. The socket holder 3 embodying the invention, in the present instance, is intended to be attached to the panel 1 by inserting the inner end portion of the socket holder through an opening 4 provided in the panel, and the socket holder is provided with bendable spurs at its inner end for opposed engage ment with opposite sides of the marginal edge portion of the wall of the opening 4: to securely retain the member to the panel.

In the formation of the socket holder 8 a,

sheet metal blank 5 is first formed, such blank having an elongated body portion 6 with alternating short and

long spurs

7 and 8, respectively,

thereof and with fingers 9 projecting in spaced relation from the opposite side edge thereof. After the blank 5, shown in Fig. 3, has been cut, it is subjected to a second operation which bends the short spurs 7 laterally in the same direction from the blank body 6 and effects a crimping of the outer end portions of the fingers 9 so as to provide the transverse recesses 10 and the outwardly flaring end portions 11, such recesses projecting from one side edge i being atthe opposite side of theblank to that from which the spurs 7 project, as shown in Fig. 4:. i

When the blank has been given'the formation shown in Fig. vel, its body 6 is rolledinto cylindrical form with the ends thereof substantially meeting, thereby. forming a socket holder with the

spurs

7 and 8 projecting from one end and the fingers 9 projecting from the other end. Thishaving been done, the spurs .8 are inserted through the panel 1. in the present instance through, an opening 4 provided therein, the movement of the spurs 8 through the panel being stopped or limited by the engagement with the adjacent side of the panel of the turnedout spurs 7. The spurs8 are now turned out to have engagement with the panel or marginal edge wall of the opening 4 in 0pp0sition to the spurs 7 so that the socket holder is rigidly and securely held in assembled relation to the panel.

The size of the socket holder 3 corresponds to the size'of the lamp socket that is to be mounted therein, and the fingers 9 of the socket holder are intended to have yielding holding engagement with the socket. The

recesses 10 in the fingers 9 are intended to receive a projecting rib or protuberance on the socket and to yieldingly hold the socket (iii against withdrawal. The ends of the fingers are preferably turned out to facilitate an insertion of the socket.

It is apparent that Ihave provided a simple and eflicient form of lamp socket holder which maybe easily and quickly secured to a panel member and which is adapted to receive and have releasable yielding engagement with a lamp socket.

It is also apparent that a lamp socket may be disposed in the holder with its lamp projecting withoutthe free end of the holder, or the socket may be disposed in reverse position therein, so that its lamp rays are directed either through the inner open end of the holder orthrough side windows 12 that may be provided in the body portion of the holder, or both, as shown in Fig 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A lamp mounting for use with a panel having an opening extending therethrough, including a lamp socket holder composed of an annular metal body having one edge thereof formed with a series of spaced fingers to engage a lamp socket and having lts opposite edge formed with a series of radial spurs and with a series of longitudinal spurs,

said body being split whereby to enable of spaced fingers to engage a lamp socket and having its opposite edge formed with an upper series of radial spurs, and with a lower series of spurs, said spurs of the lower series being bendable so asto lie in the/plane of the body; thereby to allow the lower spursupon contraction of the body to he slid into and out of the panel openingand in sliding into the opening to cause sliding movement of the body to-be arrested by theupper spurs, the-lower spurs being bendable about the lower side of the body to engage the panel so as to clamp thelatter between the two series of spurs.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to this specification. 7

' HARRY E. ADAMS.