U.S. Philips Corporation

Strapex Ag

Volker Kuhnert

Dieter Wilhelm

Franklin F Niedrig

Manfred Kiesling

An electric incandescent lamp having a bead mount and a filament which extends transversely to the lamp axis. Current supply wires in the pinch seal lie in a plane which encloses an angle of at least 45.degree. with the axis of the filament.

Electric incandescent lamp

The light bulb of a lamp/reflector unit is mounted in spaced relation to the reflecting surface of the reflector member by means of mounting clips which engage in a clamping manner around a respective narrow side face of the pinch seal of the light bulb. Support wires are secured to the mounting clips, with which wires the light bulb is suspended in the reflector member.

Lamp/reflector unit

The wound body or package comprises a band or tape or the like which is wound thereon in the form of parallel windings or layers. At the central region of the wound package there is arranged a continuous or through-passing axial opening which is bounded by an inner winding layer of the wound band or tape. This inner winding layer together with the neighboring winding layers form a support body for the wound package. In this way there can be precluded the need to use any extraneous support body formed of a separate material.

Wound body or package

A light bulb is mounted in a reflector member, by means of mounting members, elongate intermediate members and support pins. The mounting members each engage, opposite to each other, around a narrow side face of the pinch seal of the light bulb in a clamping manner. An intermediate member is connected to each of the mounting members and extends at least over a part of its length along an imaginary circle around the axis of the light bulb. Metal support pins are connected at one end to a respective intermediate member and at the other end to a contact member of the reflector member.

The invention relates to a construction of a lamp/reflector unit which is simple and which permits of connecting the light bulb in an aligned position very rapidly. For that purpose the light bulb has a metal support plate to which are fixed metal support pins by means of respective metal flanges. After the light bulb has been adjusted to a defined position with respect to the metal support pins, the metal support plate is secured to the metal flanges by soldering or welding.

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Volker Kuhnert