US1569041A - Trouble light - Google Patents

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Jan. 12 ,1926. y 1,569,041

W. C. SHAY TROUBLE LIGHT Filedl March 2, 1925 f ATTORNEY WITNESS:

Patented Jan. 12, 1926.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM C. BRAY, 0F JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK.

TROUBLE LIGHT.

Application led March 2, 1925. Serial No. 12,787.

l'o all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. SHAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jamestown, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented new and useful lmprovements in Trouble Lights, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in trouble lights for use upon automobiles and the like and contem vlates the provision of a' novel form of holding means whereby the light may be readily and easily attached to any part of the vehicle in order that the light may be positioned at the desired point.

Another object of the invention is the provision of means included upon the outer side of thel lamp casing whereby the same may be readily and easily attached to reflectors.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a multiple reflector which may ave either one of its reflectors positioned upon the front of the lamp casing through the novel association with the holding means included upon the forward end portion of the lamp casing.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention further includes the :following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

1n the drawing Figure 1 is ya side elevation of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary lon 'tudinal section showing the invention applied to an inclined surface.

Referring to the drawing in detail, wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a tubular casing member including a dielectric knurled knob 11 which is threadedly secured to the inner end of the tubular casing 10 and includes an opening centrally thereof which receives suitable conducting wire 12 therethrough and into the lamp casing 10. The forward end portion of the lamp casing 10 is substantially enlarged as at 13 and includes at diametrically opposed points upon the outer sides thereof a pair of trunnion members 14. This enlarged portion 13 of the lamp casing 10 further includes a ba onet slot or the like, not shown, which is a apted to receive the socket portion 15 of a lamp of the usual automobile incandescent typeV 16.

1n order to provide reflecting means upon the forward end portion of the lamp casing 10 and whichreecting means may include the fiared circumferential trouble light reflector or be reversed upon the forward end portion of the lamp casing 10 in order to provide a drop light and in order to accomplish this desired result and the peculiar construction of the above entitled invention, l provide a circumferential band 17 which includes outwardly4 extending longitudinal and transverse depressions 18 and 19, the reflecting means includes an outwardly extending flared reflector 20 and a substantially elliptical-shaped drop light reflector 21 thereon.

The-special type of securing or holding means for the lamp casing as mentioned in the foregoing, includes a substantially Z- shaped supporting bracket 22 which has its upper end portion channeled or arcuateshaped in order to snugly associate with the under side of the lamp casing 10v and has its lower end portion apertured and receiving a rivet or the like 23 therein which in turn is associated therewith a suction cup 24 which is preferably rubber and which when moistened and depressed upon a surface as shown in Figure 2 of the drawing, the same will stick owing to the vacuum formed by forcing all of the air of the space defined'between the suction cup 21 and the surface to which it is applied and upon releasing the pressure exercised thereupon it will be noted, as is commonly known in the use of these suction cu s, that the same will spring upwardly and rmly grip or adhere to the surface to which it is applied, and owing to the simplicity and lightness of the above entitled invention which is applied to this suction cup 2/1, it will be noted that the said suction cup will adhere or stick to a surface longer or at a longer period than would an article having more avoirdu ois.

dielectric plug member 25 is secured within the lamp caslng 10 by suitable fastening elements 26; this plug 25 includes spaced contact members 27 therein which are connected with the conducting wires 12 and have their opposite ends contacting with the con tacts upon the end of the lamp socket 15.

In the use and o eration of the present invention it will be c early apparent that upon the insertion of the flange member 17 on the outwardly flared portion 13 provided upon the forward .end ortion of the lamp casing 10, that the longitudinally extending grooves 18 provided upon opposite sides of the flange member 17 may be readily and easily received y on the trunnion members 14 provided at diametrically opposite sides upon the outer side of the outwardly flared ortion 13 on the outer end portion of the amp casing 10 and upon a partial rotation of the flange 17 thereon, it will be noted that the trunnion member 14 will move transversely within the transversely extending grooves 19 and be held against accidental displacement thereon. It will also be noted that upon reversing the flange member 17 on the outwardly flared portion 13 that the other reflector may be positioned. over the lam 16. T e invention is susceptible of vario-us chan es in its form, proportions andgminor K detai s of construction, and the right -is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention what is claimed is:

1. A trouble light, an incandescent lamp included in the forward end ortion, electric conducting means included 1n the opposite end portion thereof, attachin means included upon the lower side of t e lamp casing, and a reversible reflecting means included upon the forward end portion of the lamp caslng.

2. A trouble light of the character described comprising a substantially cylindrical longitudinally extending lamp casing, the forward end ortion of the lamp casing being substantial y enlarged and including a pair of diametrically opposed outwardly extendin trunnion members upon the outer si es thereof, an incandescent lamp bulb received in the outer end portion within the enlarged portion of the lamp casing, a suction cup secured to the lowerv side of the lamp casing, and a reversible reflector arranged upon the outer side of the forward end portion of the lamp casing.

3. A trouble light of the character described comprising a substantially cylindrical lamp casing, the forward end portion of the lamp casing being substantiall enlarged and including a pair of diametrlcally opposed trunnion members upon the outer sides thereof, bracket means included upon the lower side of the lamp casing, a suction cup secured to the lower end portion of the bracket means, and a multiple reflector having detachable connection with the outwardly flared portion of the lamp casing whereby the same may be readily and easily reversed upon the forward end portion of the lamp casmg.

4.-. A trouble light'of the .character described comprising a lamp casing having a substantially enlarged forward end portion, said enlarged forward end portion including a pair of diametrically opposed outwardl extending trunnion members thereon, a d1- electric cup member secured to the opposite end portion of the lam casing and receiving suitable electric con ucting means therethrough, a substantially Z-shaped bracket secured tothe lower side of the lamp casing, a suction cup secured to the lower end portion of the Z-shaped bracket, a flange member including longitudinal and transverse depressed portions pressed outwardly therefrom and adapted for selective engagement. and locking association upon the outwardly flared portions with the trunnions thereon, and a pair of oppositely converging reflectors arranged upon opposite sides of the flange member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM C. SHAY.

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