Patent ID: 8040032

Claim:
A safety lamp connector apparatus for use with at least one or more lamps comprising: an end cap for the lamp, the end cap comprising: a hollow tubular section for receiving the lamp; a plurality of outer end cap terminals extending radially outwards from the hollow tubular section; and a plurality of inner end cap terminals electrically connected to the plurality of outer end cap terminals; and a smooth action twist socket for receiving the end cap, the twist socket comprising: an interior socket wall; a plurality of straight and axially oriented terminal grooves cut into the interior socket wall; a plurality of straight horizontal grooves each connected to the axially oriented terminal grooves at a predetermined and individually set depth inside the socket and orientated substantially perpendicular to the axially orientated grooves; a plurality of smooth action and resiliently biased metal interior curved socket contacts having a base end located towards the bottom of the straight and axially orientated grooves and also having a top end which is resiliently biased towards the top of a respective straight horizontal groove so as to structural form a curved resilient member which can be depressed towards the bottom of the twist socket by insertion of, and then the twisting of, a respective outer cap terminal on the end cap; and locking cut out sections located at the end of the straight horizontal grooves in which the respective outer cap terminal on the end cap click locks with an axial motion, and comes to rest in the locking cut out section, by being pressed axially by a respective resiliently biased metal interior curved socket contact upon being fully twisted into final position after sliding tangentially along the respective resiliently biased metal interior curved socket contact; an exterior access contact electrically connected to the interior socket contact for connecting wires or any desired electrical power source; and wherein the end cap is structured to be inserted into the socket such that each outer end cap terminal is inserted into a matching sized terminal groove, and each outer end cap terminal contacts a respective resiliently biased metal interior curved socket contact, and subsequently has a smooth action when twisted.