Patent ID: 7794132

Claim:
A lamp holder for festoon style lamps of the type having end contacts on opposite ends of a glass tubular lamp body, comprising: a power distribution cable having parallel braided conductors in an insulating jacket; and a lamp socket having a thermoplastic unitary socket top and a unitary socket bottom adapted to make interlocking engagement with each other for capturing said cable therebetween, said socket top and said socket bottom being of approximately equal length along said cable; a pair of contact holders on said unitary socket top, a lamp contact supported in each of said contact holders for holding therebetween a said festoon style lamp with a lamp axis generally parallel to said cable, said lamp contacts having piercing prongs projecting beneath said socket top for penetrating said insulating jacket thereby to electrically interconnect said lamp contacts with said braided conductors; and a generally planar metal heat shield plate covering said socket top between said contact holders under said festoon lamp for shielding said thermoplastic socket top against excessive heating by said lamp, and a curved light reflector interchangeable with said heat shield plate on said socket top.