Patent ID: 6116760
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: F21V,F21W

Abstract:
A light stake for holding at least one light socket comprising:an elongated shank; anda head connected to said shank and extending substantially perpendicular thereto wherein said head lies in a substantially horizontal plane when said shank is vertical, said head and said shank being interconnected by a turn whereby said shank and said head are unitary and formed of a substantially continuous length of resilient wire, said head presenting a first relatively large socket-receiving loop including a substantially stem oriented substantially 90.degree. to said shank by a turn, a large arcuate bend connected to said stem to present a first throat sized to receive a socket therein, and a substantially linear return arm defining a neck between said stem and said return arm of a narrower transverse dimension than said first throat, and a second, relatively smaller socket-receiving loop oriented generally opposite to said first loop and defined by said return arm, a small arcuate bend defining a second throat sized to receive a socket therein and having a transverse dimension narrower than said first throat, and a substantially linear nose wherein said bend is greater than 180.degree. to cause said nose and said return arm to converge to define a gap therebetween which has a narrower transverse dimension than said second throat, and further including a guide extending at an oblique angle relative to said nose, said gap being oriented in a substantially opposite direction to said neck.