Gte Products Corporation

Gte Sylvania Incorporated

Bernard J Warren

Peter R Gagnon

John A Bergin

Laurens S Beyland

A lamp unit (10) for being removably positioned within the rear opening (11) of an automobile headlight reflector (13). The unit (10) includes a plastic holder (19), an electric (e.g., tungsten halogen) lamp (30) having a filament structure (42) contained within the envelope (33) thereof, a clamp member (46) secured to the lamp's press-sealed end portion (47), and an insert member (48) located within a cavity (21) of the holder (19). The clamp member (46) includes a pair of curved flange portions (56,58) which engage and are secured (e.g., welded) to the outer, curved surface (59) of the insert member (48), thus facilitating alignment and positioning of the lamp (30) relative to the holder (19).

Replaceable lamp unit and automobile headlight utilizing same

A wedge base lamp assembly that includes a lamp socket having a base with opposed side walls and back walls extending integrally therefrom with a lamp-receiving aperture defined between the side walls and an incandescent lamp having a lower press seal and a pair of lead wires extending from the seal and adapted to be inserted into the lamp-receiving aperture in the socket. The front and back walls each have a respective slot for receiving respective ones of the pair of lead wires. Moreover, the front and back walls have a support post on each wall disposed adjacent the wall slot whereby the lead wires are adapted to extend through the wall slot and be wrapped about the support post.

Wedge base lamp socket

An electric lamp comprises a reflector envelope having a sealed tungsten-halogen lamp disposed therein. The lead-in conductor supports for the lamp extend through, and are connected to, metal eyelets which extend through holes in the reflector and are fastened to the reflector.

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Hillsboro, NH, United States of America

Bernard J Warren