Patent ID: 6158875
Filing Date: 2000-12-12
Classification: F21L,G09F

Abstract:
A method for assembling a bi-sided flashlight to include a personalized billboard in which said flashlight has a top, said top having a holder laterally disposed from a bulb aperture, a bulb having a bulb base proportioned for insertion in said bulb aperture, a bottom, a tubular housing member between said top and said bottom, means for removably securing the top to the bottom to sandwichingly engage the tubular housing member, means provided for supporting a pair of batteries, an electrical bridge on the bottom member for electrically connecting and physically removably securing the two lower portions of the two batteries, means for supporting a lens light bulb interiorly of the top beneath the bulb aperture, a contact switch having a base and extending switch arms at the top of one battery end and with the switch arms which extend in flanking relationship to the bulb base, and means extending from the bottom to snap-actingly engage the top thereby removably securing the tubular housing member therebetween, comprising the steps of:providing a billboard with a personalized message proportioned to fit interiorly of the housing,assembling the bulb into the top, and the two batteries into the bottom, said bulb being above one battery and the holder being above the adjacent battery,orienting the contact switch atop one battery and offset from the bulb and beneath the holder,thereafter positioning the tubular housing member with the billboard message inside, the indicia of which faces the outside, andsnap-actingly securing the top to the connecting means extending upwardly from the bottom to thereby complete the configuration of the bi-sided flashlight with the billboard means interiorly positioned therein to permit squeezing either side to force the contact switch into electrical engagement with the bulb,whereby illuminating the bulb sends light to an area adjacent the holder to illuminate a target area near items held by the holder.