Patent ID: 7322716
Filing Date: 2008-01-29
Classification: B25H,F21L,F21V

Abstract:
1. An apparatus than is an extendable articulated flashlight, said apparatus comprising: an electric power source; a housing for the electric power source, said housing having a base; a light generating device; and an adjustable extended collapsible arm connected to the housing and to the light generating device, said collapsible arm and light generating device having a combined weight that is less than a total weight of the housing and the electric power source, wherein the combined weight of the housing and electric power source is a ballast that stabilizes the light generating device when the adjustable expendable collapsible arm is fully expended in any direction, where said adjustable expandable collapsible arm comprises a series of foldable articulating elements linked end-to-end via rotating joints having substantially equal or incrementally higher resistance to rotation as measured from the light generating device to the housing, where the resistance to rotation of a specified joint is higher than an extension weight, where the extension weight is the combined weight of the light generating device and the sum of articulating elements extending beyond the specified joint; wherein any given articulating element comprises: