Patent ID: 7264393

Claim:
A half sockets to form complete sockets for Christmas lights comprising: a V-shaped combined socket which is formed by a X-shaped main body including two upper V-shaped half sockets and two lower corresponding half socket in opposing symmetrical arrangement, and connected by a pair of thin membranes on two lateral sides and a void positioned therebetween, said sockets each having a pair of longitudinal slits in opposing inner peripheries, a single contact plate from a first and second electric wires engaged in an inner periphery perpendicular to the slits, said electric wires eventually extruded to outside of said sockets through a pair of indentations in a periphery above bottom of said sockets, a V-shaped groove formed in a conjunction between said sockets in neighboring inner periphery respectively facing the single contact plate for engaging a V-shaped common contact plate; a pair of sleeves wrapped on the sockets respectively and each having a large oblique indentation in inner periphery and a through hole in the outer periphery above bottom thereof engaged with the indentations of the sockets; a pair of identical lamps respectively inserted into upper rim of the two sockets each having a base, a bulb in top of the base, a flat longitudinal plate projected downward from center of the base, engaged with said pair of longitudinal slits of each of the sockets and a pair of lead-in wires attached to lateral cuter side of the base, respectively engaged with the common contact plate and the single contact plates respectively; whereby, an electric circuit is therefore established in the sockets.