Patent ID: 11920750
Assignee: ZYDEX PTY LTD
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  C  H | IPC F  H

Claim 0:
1. A tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly, comprising:
a power plug for connecting to an external source of power;
a first power wire and a second power wire, the first and second power wires connected to the power plug;
a first plurality of internally-reinforced intermediate wires in electrical connection with a first plurality of lamp assemblies, each internally-reinforced intermediate wire of the first plurality of internally-reinforced intermediate wires including a central conductor, a plurality of internal reinforcing strands, and an insulating layer over the central conductor and the plurality of internal reinforcing strands, the first plurality of internally-reinforced intermediate wires, including each central conductor of each of the internally-reinforced intermediate wires of the first plurality of internally-reinforced wires, in electrical connection with the first and second power wires and forming a first electrical circuit with the first plurality of lamp assemblies;
a second plurality of internally-reinforced intermediate wires in electrical connection with a second plurality of lamp assemblies, each internally-reinforced intermediate wire of the second plurality of internally-reinforced intermediate wires including a central conductor, a plurality of internal reinforcing strands, and an insulating layer over the central conductor and the plurality of internal reinforcing strands, the second plurality of internally-reinforced intermediate wires, including each central conductor of each of the internally-reinforced intermediate wires of the second plurality of internally-reinforced wires, in electrical connection with the first and second power wires and forming a second electrical circuit with the second plurality of lamp assemblies; and
one or more first mechanical support cords connected to the first plurality of lamp assemblies, none of the one or more first mechanical support cords in electrical connection with any of the lamp assemblies of the first plurality of lamp assemblies; and
wherein the first plurality of lamp assemblies connected to the one or more first mechanical support cords and the first plurality of intermediate wires forms a plurality of first lamp-assembly columns.