US2272520A - Electric incandescent lamp - Google Patents

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US2272520A
US2272520A US367803A US36780340A US2272520A US 2272520 A US2272520 A US 2272520A US 367803 A US367803 A US 367803A US 36780340 A US36780340 A US 36780340A US 2272520 A US2272520 A US 2272520A
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Henry H Helmbright
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    • H01K1/68—One or more circuit elements structurally associated with the lamp with built-in spark gap

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  • Patentecl Feb. 10, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,272,520 ELECTRIC INCANDESCENT LAMP Henry H. Helmbright, Cleveland Heights, Ohio,
  • My invention relates in general to electric incandescent lamps and similar devices comprising a sealed bulb or envelope containing an electric energy translation element or filament. More particularly, my invention relates to a by-pass arrangement for protecting the filament of such devices against rupture by high voltage electrical discharges.
  • the electric incandescent lamps employed therein are frequently subjected to external electrical discharges of high voltage, such as lightning and static electricity. Such excessive electrical discharges are very apt to rupture the lamp filament, thereby rendering the signal inoperative and creating a dangerous trafiic condition.
  • One object of my invention is to provide an electric incandescent lamp with a protective arrangement for the filament thereof to prevent its disrupture when the lamp is subjected to external high voltage electrical discharges.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide an electric incandescent lamp the leading-in wires of which are formed with closely arranged portions which will by-pass any high voltage discharge to which the lamp may be subjected, and which will not become fused together by such discharges.
  • a feature of the invention is the arrangement of the outer leads of the lamp in close proximity to one another at a given point and separated by a mesh-like insulating medium having a multiplicity of fine openings therethrough.
  • Fig. 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of an electric incandescent lamp comprising my invention
  • Fig. 2 is an elevation, on an enlarged scale, showing the protective arrangement of the outer lead wires.
  • the lamp there shown comprises a hermetically sealed glass bulb or envelope l having a neck portion l I provided with a reentrant stem l2. Secured to the neck ll, preferably by cement I3, is a base I4 comprising a metal shell I! and a bottom center contact eyelet l6 held together by suitable insulation l1. Mounted within the bulb in is an elec tric energy translation element or filament 18, preferably a coiled wire of a suitable refractory metal, such as tungsten. The opposite ends of the filament 18 are connected to a pair of leading-in wires I9, 20 which extend through the seal portion 2
  • the outer lead portions of the leading-in wires I9, 20 are arranged, at a given point, in close proximity to one another and separated by a layer of meshlike insulating material.
  • this construction is preferably attained by providing the outer lead 22 of one of the leadingin wires 20 with a sheath or sleeve 23 of the insulating material and by twisting the so insulated portion of the said leading-in wire 20 together with the other uninsulated wire I9, preferably by a single twist.
  • the insulating material preferably employed is a sleeve of woven or braided glass having a great number of fine openings therein, such as the woven glass tubing commercially obtainable at present.
  • insulating material such as a woven sleeve of asbestos or other similar material of a non-combustible nature, may be used if desired.
  • the high voltage discharge can pass through the said openings and so jump across the small gap between the closely arranged portions of the leading-in wires without causing a fusing together of said wires.
  • the sleeve 23 of insulating material is continued a considerable distance beyond such points of separation.
  • the particular form and arrangement of the insulating material employed in the lamp according to the invention prevents the fusing together of the juxtapositioned portions of the leading-in wires, and therefore insures the continued connection of the lamp filament in the circuit, whenever the lamp is subjected to a high I voltage dischargetion element, a pair of spaced leading-in wires connected to said translation element and extending through said envelope, said leading-in wires having portions arranged in close proximity to one another, and a layer oi mesh-like insulating material interposed between and extending along the entire length 01' said closely arranged portions of said leading-in wires, said insulating material having a multiplicity of relatively minute openings therethrough.
  • An electric device comprising a sealed envelope containing an electrical energy translation element, a pair 01' spaced leading-in wires connected to said translation element and ex-- tending through said envelope, said leading-in wires having portions arranged in close proximity to one another, and a layer 01' mesh-like insulating material interposed between said closely arranged portions of said leading-in wires and extending along the entire length of said portions and for a considerable distance therebeyond, said insulating material having a multiplicity of relatively minute openings therethrough.
  • An electric device comprising a sealed envelope containing an electrical energy translation element, a pair of spaced leading-in wires connected to said translation element and extending through said envelope, a sleeve of insulating material on a portion of one of said leading-in wires, said insulating material having a multiplicity of minute openings therethrough, the said insulated portion of said one oi! said wires being twisted together with the other of said wires.
  • An electric device comprising a sealed envelope containing an electrical energy translation element, a pair of spaced leading-in wires connected to said translation element and extending through said envelope, a covering of insulating material on the outer lead portion or one of said leading-in wires, said insulating material comprising a woven glass sleeve having a multiplicity of minute openings therethrough. the said insulated portion of said one of said wires being twisted together with the outer lead portion of the other of said wires.

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NL61607D NL61607C (de) 1940-11-29
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FR878381D FR878381A (fr) 1940-11-29 1942-01-10 Perfectionnements aux lampes électriques à incandescence et analogues

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