SUPPORT DE LAMPE DE NOEL

CHRISTMAS LAMP SOCKET

Abrégé français

Un support de lampe de Noël comprend un logement, une base de lampe avec une lampe qui y est posée et qui est introduite complètement dans le logement. Le logement comporte deux rainures alignées dans le fond permettant de poser un fil d'alimentation avec la tension appropriée pour que le support soit maintenu debout au-dessus du fil et qu'ainsi la pluie soit empêchée d'entrer dans le logement et la base de la lampe de manière à prévenir les courts-circuits.

Abrégé anglais

A Christmas lamp socket includes a housing, a lamp
base with a lamp fitted therein and inserted in the
housing completely. The housing has two aligned grooves
in a bottom end for a power wire to be fitted and
positioned therein with a proper tenseness so as to enable
the sockets kept upright to the wire and thus to prevent
rain from flowing in the housing and the lamp base and
from consequent short circuit.

Revendications

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:
1. A Christmas lamp socket comprising a housing, a
conventional lamp, a lamp base for combining said lamp
thereon and a power wire, and characterized by said
housing having two aligned grooves in a bottom end for
said power wire to be fitted therein with a proper
tenseness in forming a net of Christmas lamps using said
sockets.
2. The Christmas lamp socket as claimed in claim
1, wherein two vertical holes are further provided in
the bottom end of said housing for said power wires to
fit therein, permitting said lamp base sealed in said
housing after inserted in said housing so as to prevent
rain from flowing in said housing and in said lamp base.
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Description

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CHRISTMAS LAMP SOCKET
BACKGROUND OF THB INVENTION
This invention concerns a Christmas lamp socket,
particularly having a two aligned grooves and two holes
in a bottom portion for fitting electric power wires 60
as to save time and cost in assembling.
A known conventional Christmas lamp socket shown
in Figs. 4 and 5 includes a housing 11, a lamp 12, a
lamp base 13 and a power wire 14. The housing 11 has two
opposite vertical tubular hooks 111, 111 for holding
holding power wires 14, 14 in place.
However, the conventional Christmas lamp socket
has drawbacks a6 listed below.
1. The vertical tubular hooks are definite in
length, and it is not easy to insert the power wire
therein. Besides, the tubular hooks may break if force
used in inserting the power wire is too large, in addi-
tion to the time needed in assembling being long to re-
sult in high cost.
2. To form a mold for the housing with the tubu-
lar hooks is rather difficult, resulting in a high cost.
3. If a net of Christmas lamps using the conven-
tional sockets is hung outdoors, rain may flow in the
housing and the lamp base to cause short circuit, which
has latent danger for a possible fire.

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SUMMARY OF TH~ INVENTION
A main purpose of the invention is to offer a
Christmas lamp socket having a housing provided with two
aligned grooves in a bottom portion for positioning a
power wire, simplifying assembling a power wire with the
housing.
Another purpose of the invention is to offer a
Christmas lamp socket provided with two vertical holes
in the bottom portion, ju~t for power wires to fit
therein, so a lamp base may be completely inserted in a
sealed condition so that rain may be prevented from
flowing in the housing and the lamp base, without possi-
bility of happening short circuit by rain.
The main feature of the invention is positioning
grooves provided in a bottom end of the housing for fit-
ting a power wire therein with a proper tenseness and
two vertical holes also in the bottom end of the housing
for just inserting respectively a power wire.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
This invention will be better understood by refer-
ring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
Figure 1 is an exploded perspective view of a
first embodiment of a Christmas lamp socket in the pre-
sent invention;
Figure 2 is a perspective view of a net of Christ-
mas lamps using the sockets in the present invention;
Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view of a se-

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cond embodiment of a Christmas lamp socket in the pre-
sent invention;
Figure 4 iD an exploded perspective view of a
known conventional Christmas lamp socket; and,
Figure ~ is a perspective view of a net of a
Christmas lamps using the conventional Christmas soc-
kets.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
A first embodiment of a Christmas lamp socket in
the present invention, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in-
cludes a housing 21, a conventional lamp 12, a lamp base
13 and a power wire 14.
The housing 21 has a center hole opening to an up-
per side (a lower side in Fig. 1) and two aligned
grooves 22, 22 in two opposite walls in a bottom end for
a power wire to be fitted therein with a proper tense-
ness for forming a net of Christ~mas lamps with the so-
ckets.
The lamp 12 is fitted in the lamp base 13, and the
lamp base 13 together with the lamp 12 is inserted com-
pletely in the center hole of the housing 21.
Fig. 3 shows a second embodiment of a Christmas
lamp socket in the present invention, which also in-
cludes a housing 21, a conventional lamp 12, a lamp base
13 and a power wire 14.
The housing 21 of the second embodiment has a cen-
ter hole opening to an upper side (a lower side in ~ig.

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3) for the lamp base 13 together with the lamp 12 to in-
sert completely therein, a straight groove 22 for fit-
ting a power wire 14 therein with a proper tenseness,
and two vertical holes 23, 23 in the two opposite sides
of the straight ~roove 22. The two hole8 23, 23 have a
diameter a little larger than the diameter of the power
wire 14 for the power wire 14 to pass through. Then the
lamp base 13 may be said to be ~ealed in the housing 21
after the lamp base 13 is inserted in the housing 21,
preventing rain from flowing in the housing to cause
short circuit:.
Compared with the conventional Christmas lamp so-
cket, that of the present invention has the following
advantages.
1. A power wire is easily fitted in the aligned
8rooves of the housing, saving time for assembling and
cost as well.
2. The aligned grooves need a comparatively simp-
ler structured mold for reducing the cost for it.
3. The aligned grooves of the housing enable a
power wire to be pulled in an upright direction to the
lamp sockets, so the lamp sockets are kept in the up-
right position to the surface of a roof or a wall, pre-
senting 3D appearance, and in addition, also preventing
short circuit from happening in rainy days.
4. As the two aligned grooves in the bottom end of
the housing only serves a power wire to fit and pass
through, the lamp base can be said to be sealed in the

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housing after inserted in the housing, preventing rain
from flowing in the housing to the lamp base to cause
short circuit if a net of Christmas lamps using the
sockets of the present invention is hung outdoors.
While the preferred embodiments of the invention
have been described above, it will be recognized and un-
derstood that various modifications may be made therein
and the appended claims are intended to cover all such
modifications which may fall within the spirit and scope
of the invention.

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