Patent ID: 6817733
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: F21S,F21V,F21W

Abstract:
For use in a stringlight assembly including an electrical cord including a plurality of wires each having a conductor and a sheath of insulating material, an improved light assembly comprising:a cap having a top wall and an integral depending sidewall, said cap defining at least two wire channels within said sidewall and beneath said top wall, each channel elongated in the direction of and receiving an associated wire of said cord; a screw shell defining a threaded socket for receiving a lamp; at least first and second contact elements assembled to said screw shell and located to contact a lamp base received in said socket, each contact element defining an insulation-piercing portion aligned with an associated one of said channels when said cap is assembled to said shell, one of said shell and cap including a coupling element to couple firmly to the other of said cap and shell and secure said cap to said shell; whereby when said wires are placed in respective channels and said cap and shell are assembled said channels secure said associated wires in alignment with an insulation-piercing portions of an associated one of said contact elements to establish electrical continuity with their associated conductors and said cap and shell are mechanically secured together, thereby maintaining electrical continuity between associated contact elements and conductors of said cord while maintaining said wires under securing force between said cap and said screw shell.