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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1976
Sidney Berger, Great Neck, NY (US);
Salvatore Buda, East Hills, NY (US);
Berger Industries, Inc., Maspeth, NY (US);
Abstract
A lamp harp includes a stiff bracket and a resilient bail. The bracket has a base and diametrically opposed bracket arms extending upwardly from the base. Each arm has a hollow interior and includes a channel portion which is formed by a pair of opposed parallel side walls and a base wall. At the point of transition from the channel portion to a U-shaped portion which joins the channel to the base is retaining means in the form of tabs which may be integrally formed with the side walls of the U-shaped portions to enclose the hollow interiors of the arms. Lateral slots are provided in the side walls of the channels immediately above the tabs to form abutment surfaces. The bail includes two downwardly extending free end portions which terminate in end faces and which have spaced above the end faces flats having a substantially rectangular transverse cross-sectional configuration. Each flat forms a foot at the end of the free end portion and is defined by two pairs of shoulders which cooperate with the abutment surfaces and the channels to limit lateral and longitudinal movement of the bail in the bracket.