Patent ID: 6149282
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: F21S,F21V,F21W,H01R

Abstract:
An attachable Christmas light comprising:a receptacle including a tubular body, an upper opening, a pair of contact plates in a bottom of the receptacle respectively connected with a pair of electrical wires, a pair of positioning arms laterally extending from an outer periphery lower than said upper opening to define a receiving space therebetween and each having a rectangular body of L-shape section, a sloped inner edge, a vertical slot in a downward portion of the L-shaped section of the arm abutting the retaining hole and a transverse slit in upper surface adjacent the retaining hole, and a first wire clamp of W-shaped section projected outward from the outer periphery abutting the upper opening and between the positioning arms;a lamp including a bulb embedded into a base which is inserted into the upper opening of the receptacle, a pair of contact plates exposed to outside a portion of the base and engage with a pair of electrical wires respectively in the bottom of the receptacle;said base having a sloped flange on a top thereof and a pair of binding rods laterally extending from an outer peripheral wall of the flange and made in alignment with the pair of positioning arms of the receptacle and each having a rigid portion, a flexible portion connected with the end of the rigid portion and a flat portion in a top of the flexible portion;a retaining plate including a flat rectangular body, a pair of thru holes spacedly formed adjacent upper edge of the body made engageable with binding rods of said lamp, a second wire clamp of W-shaped section centrally projected outward from an inner surface of the body abutting lower edge thereof and engageable with the first wire clamp of the receptacle and a pair of triangular projections spacedly extending downward from the lower edge thereof insertible into the transverse slits of said positioning arms;when the pair of electrical wires are disposed in place into the first wire clamp, the retaining plate is sleeved on the binding rods and its triangular projections inserted into the transverse slits to firmly clamp the electrical wires within the first and second wire clamps, after that the binding rods are bent downward about