Patent ID: 6994463
Filing Date: 2006-02-07
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. Vertically combined double sockets for Christmas lights comprising: an upper tubular socket with a lower bottom and a lower tubular sockets with an up bottom where said tubular sockets are connected at said upper and lower bottoms and each has an upper and lower rim, said upper tubular socket having a pair of retaining grooves, a first contact plate groove and a concaved groove in predetermined positions of inner peripheries perpendicular to each other, a first combination slot abutting a first protrusion which includes an introverted free end at the bottom thereof and a pair of hooks on opposing outer peripheries abutting the bottom, said lower tubular socket having a pair of insertion plates projected upward from opposing upper bottom engaged within the retaining grooves of said upper tubular socket, an elongate copper plate in an inner periphery perpendicular to the insertion plates and projected upward above the upper bottom engaged within the concaved groove of said upper tubular socket and having a longitudinal guide in inner side for disposing a common contact plate therein, a second combination slot abutting a second protrusion which includes an introverted free end positioned at the upper bottom opposite to the elongate copper plate and respectively engaged with the first protrusion and the first combination slot of said upper tubular socket and a second contact plate groove in an inner periphery opposite to the elongate copper plate, a first single contact plate from a first electric wire engaged with the contact plate groove of said upper tubular socket and a second single contact plate from a second electric wire engaged within the second contact plate groove of said lower tubular socket, wherein said first and second electric wires are respectively extended out of said combination slots and held by said hooks; a first lamp pressed into the upper rim of said upper tubular socket having base, a bulb in the base and pair of lead-in wires attached to opposing lateral outer surfaces of the base respectively engaged with said common contact plate and said first single contact plate; a second lamp pressed into the lower rim of said lower tubular socket having a base, a bulb in the base and a pair of lead-in wires attached to opposing lateral outer surfaces of the base respectively engaged with said common contact plate and said second single contact plate.