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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1977
Peter Andrews, Penfield, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
An improved electric energy saving incandescent lamp socket combination having in one embodiment a two-position electric 'off-on' switching means, and in another embodiment having a four-position electric 'off', low, medium and high switching means for a 1-way and a 3-way incandescent lamp respectively. The lamp socket houses therein a subcombination means that comprises a conventional two-position switching means having at least one single throw 'off-on' electrical switching position and a half-wave, electric rectifying, diode which is electrically short-circuitingly connected to any two of generally three electrical terminals which project from at least one surface portion of the conventional two-position switching means. Thereby a person can actuate the lamp socket's two-position and/or four-position switching means and at substantially the same time, as desired, actuate the subcombination two-position half-wave rectified 'dim' and full-wave 'on' subcombination means for providing a one-way incandescent lamp with an electrical switched positions of 'off-dim', 'off-bright', 'off-dim-bright', 'off-bright-dim' and the like combinations. The four-position 3-way lamp socket switching means and two-position subcombination will provide eight separate combination of three illuminations, as desired, accordingly.