Patent ID: 8532284

Claim:
A telephone comprising: a housing base; a base plate fixed in the housing base and formed with a throughgoing hole; a handset; a cradle fork formed separately from the housing base and base plate, constructed to transmit and emit light, and formed of transparent plastic with a pair of arms that can embrace and fit with the handset in an on-hook position thereof; means for fastening the fork to the base to one side of the base plate; a light source in the housing to the other side of the base plate at the hole; a light conductor fitted to the hole, juxtaposed with the cradle fork, and oriented to receive light from the light source and transmit the received light through the base plate into the cradle fork for emission by the arms thereof; and means to the other side of the base plate in the housing base connected to the light source to energize same and feed light therefrom into the cradle fork for emission by the arms thereof.