US843310A - Incandescent-lamp socket. - Google Patents

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No. 8%,310l PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

G. B. THOMAS L G, -W.,*GOODRIDGE.

INCANDESCENT LAMP SOCKET. APPMGATION FILED JULY, 190s.

E SHEETS- v'HEBT 2.

ATTORN EYS "onrrnio sfr.

GEORGE B. THOMAS AND Gll'iBEltT W. GO

THE BRYANT ELECTRIC COMPANY, OF BRIDGE- Neo'rn'infr,itssio-Nonsro f rirrnnr orrion.

onninon, oir BBIDGEPORT, ooN- PORT, CONNEUMGT, A CORPCHtATION Oli CONNECTICUT.

ieioAnnsisolEnr-Lems sooner.

Noi 843,310.

Speei'iesttion of Letters Ibotent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.` Y'

Application filed linly 5.1905. Serial No. 324.920.

5 city of Bridgeporgin the count)Y ot .li`nirlield,

in the State oi (.Yonneotieut, here invented g' certain new and useful Iinpro veinents in l`ncondeseent-Lfnn Sockets, ot whichk the foilowing is a speei` icntion.

Our invention relates to incandescentlsrnp sockets and the like, and particulorhv to the Ineens of fastening together the shell :ind the cap, the object of our invention heilig to provide o ready and secure ineens whereby 5 the ports inafv he attached or loosedY in the aoco npzinying dronvings, Figure 1 o side view of the shell ond enp detached. Figs. 2 end 3 are perspective views of the cop and shell, respeetively. Figs. :ind 5 ore lanviews of the cop and shell, respeelivelv. llig. (i is e. cross-section on the line (3 o, Fig. 7 but on ov smaller seele than Fig. T. Fig, 7 is :t cross-section on the line 7 7. Fig. (l, drawn to n larger seele. Fig. S is :i side view of n. inediiie-etion. Figs. 9 und .l0 nre perspective views of the modified carp end shell, respeetively, and Fig. l1-1 is en enlarged eross-section of the parts on the line l1, Fig. S, when the parts united.

Referring to the drawings, the @up A :ind the shell B are inode ol any 'suitable ninterinl, preiernblv the usuel drown sheet nieto-l.. The :innulnr flnng'e forming the lmsnl rini ol,` the cop, isstninped inwordlv 'et tivo or inore :ipproprihte points to 'torni strnps 'l2 troni the. nieto-l of ,the rim. At correspond 'ingl points oil'liho shell eireu nilerentiel tongues i3 suituhletnlil these straps ore foiined v hitvonot ents l-l. Y throne ol" the tongues is io lornied :i projeetipn l5 to enter :nul engage.

v l the hole ll, lorniod. in the shell h v the punching ot' the st'. 'op

vi hen theshell'is put into the een nud then turned, the prhjopting (fetch 't5 will snep into i pince in the, holo l-Tond become locked with the opposite end-s ol" the lutter und prevent the shell l'roin beingV rotnted in either direc-- tien. tongues lf3 into their respective straps in the 50 esp will prevent endwiso witlulrnwzil of the shell troni the cop. Upon pressing down h v .At the swine time the entrance of the troni the stritps and the shell then teken troni the cop.

A inodii'ied forni of cop illustrated in Figs. S to il, respectively, may he employed. A further spring-tongue i8 is eut in the shell, :ind on angled projeetionlt), 'facing in en opposite direction to that in which the tongues 13 point, is punched outwardly therefrom nezn itsl tree end. At a Corresponding point en v suitnhle ineens on the projection I5 miri ried hv the s]iringtongue vthe shell may he turned in the cop and the ornis withdrawn in the riin ot the cop is cut a spring-.tongue 20, the free end ot which is arched to :ifl'ord e. convenient ineens by which the tip 21 of the tongue nur v he pressed down upon the angled projection llt) and the letter pushed out of eugogeinent with the side of the hole 22 formed in the cup by the cutting of the tongue 2t). The shell is thus Inside free to rotule in the direction necessary to with* drow the nrins 1.3 trom the strnps l2 and pen init the .separation of the shell ond cop.

We eliiiin ns our invention- .1. ln inenndeseent-lninpy sockets, a. cap nud shell and ineens Afor vfastening the sinne together, ond ineens consisting of straps punehed troni one port, corresponding tongues cut troni the other port, ond ineens carried by seid tongue to prevent the rotation of' the ports hitter the tongues have entered the i stro-ps.

2. .ln ineendeseont-lemp sockets, e oep ond shell and ineens for fastening the sinne together, and Ineens consisting of interlocking'strzips and tongues borne on. the respectivepnrts, :i projection on one tongue to act :is o. eoieh, ond n corresponding hole in the part hearing the strop. v

E. ln ineondeseent-lmnp sockets, o cap nud shell und ineens for fastening the seme together, sind means consisting of straps punched troni one part, tongues punched `liroin the other port :1nd interlocking with the stro-ps on rotnl ion ot the ports when together, :ind n projection horno hy one of the tongues to :iet ns u enteh in eonneetion with one of the f holes termed h v the punching of the straps.

lu testimony whereoie we have signed our naines to th* "peeilicf-ition in the presence of two snhserii.. ng witnesses.

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