Patent ID: 8274060

Claim:
An ultraviolet (UV) water purification system, comprising: a flow control structure comprising a first end, a second, opposite end and an elongated axis that passes between the first and second ends, the flow control structure including a UV water purification chamber that receives a fluid during a purification operation; a lamp mounting assembly configured to mount a UV lamp at least partially within the flow control structure, the lamp mounting assembly comprising: a mount assembly mounted at the first end of the flow control structure, the mount assembly comprising a conductor housing receiving opening extending therethrough; a socket base structure including a socket base and a conductor housing extending outwardly from the socket base, the conductor housing received by the conductor housing receiving opening of the mount assembly; a lamp socket connected to the conductor housing to allow an electrical connection between the lamp socket and a power source, wherein the lamp socket has a mitered lamp engaging surface; alignment structure to align the socket base structure and the lamp engaging surface at a predetermined rotational orientation about the elongated axis of the flow control structure; and a UV lamp comprising a socket connector having a mitered socket engaging surface, wherein (i) the mitered lamp engaging surface defines a mitered leading edge of the lamp socket, (ii) the mitered socket engaging surface defines a mitered leading edge of the UV lamp, and (iii) the mitered lamp engaging surface and the mitered socket engaging surface define opposite, congruent angles θ 1 and θ 2 to the elongated axis of the flow control structure when the UV lamp is mounted within the flow control structure and force a mounted UV lamp to adopt a fixed rotational orientation about the elongated axis of the flow control structure.