Patent ID: 6232784
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
Apparatus for attachment to a conventional flashlight to adapt said flashlight for use as a device for testing electrical circuit continuity between first and second points, said flashlight comprising:I) an electrically conducting body portion having a hollow interior accessible through an opening;ii) battery means having positive and negative terminals mounted within said hollow interior;iii) a bulb having first and second contacts for connection across said terminals for illumination of said bulb;iv) a selectively operable switch; andv) means connecting said first contact to said positive terminal, said second contact to one side of said switch, and the other side of said switch to said body portion; said apparatus comprising:a) an electrically conducting cap member having a first portion engageable with said body portion to retain said cap member in a position closing said body portion opening;b) a passageway extending through said cap member between the interior and exterior of said body portion;c) a flexible, electrically insulated wire extending through said passageway and having opposite, bare end portions;d) a bushing of electrically insulating material positioned between said cap member and said battery negative terminal;e) an electrically conducting member positioned between said bushing and said negative terminal and conductively contacting said negative terminal;f) an electrically conducting clip selectively engageable with said body portion to provide means for releasably attaching said flashlight to an article of clothing; andg) means electrically attaching one of said wire end portions to said electrically conducting member and the other to said clip, whereby said clip may be removed from engagement with said body portion and placed in contact with said first point and either of said body portion or said cap member in contact with said second point to test for electrical continuity between said first and second points.