Patent ID: 8646603

Claim:
A mounting pad for receiving a plurality of elongated cylindrical light bulbs each having a preselected longitudinal bulb length, a longitudinal axis and a latitudinal bulb diameter, the mounting pad comprising: a tray comprised of a foamed polymer material, the tray comprising a plurality of bulb mounting cells formed in an open top end of the tray, the cells having a longitude of selected cell length and a latitude of selected cell width, each cell adapted to receive a bulb with the bulb diameter extending across the selected width of a cell and with the longitudinal axis of the bulb aligned with the longitude of a cell; the tray having a bottom end and a top to bottom axis generally normal to a bottom surface defined by a plurality of feet each having an undersurface extending downwardly to an axially bottom-most position lying in a generally common plane on the bottom end to define the bottom surface of the tray; the bottom end having a generally flat lip disposed along a bottom latitudinal peripheral edge of the tray at about normal to the top to bottom axis, the flat lip projecting in a longitudinal direction away from the cells and having an undersurface disposed in the generally common plane; the bottom end having another generally flat lip disposed along a bottom longitudinal peripheral edge of the tray, extending in a latitudinal direction away from the cells and having an undersurface disposed in the generally common plane; and the bottom end of the tray is formed into a plurality of bottom facing recesses aligned with the longitude and latitudinal width of the cells formed in the open top end, the bottom facing recesses being arranged to be stacked on top of, receive and being complimentary contoured to mate with upper surfaces of the latitudinal bulb diameter of a plurality of bulbs that are mounted within the cells formed in the open top end of another tray.