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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 1979
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1978
Rudolph A Koehler, Willowdale, CA;
Noma Lites Canada Limited, Scarborough, CA;
Abstract
Disclosed is a socket for an electric lamp including a receptacle for such lamp and terminals within the receptacle for making contact therewith; said socket being molded onto a power cord by clamping a zone of the power cord within a closed socket mold with the component wires of the cord separated and extending centrally across the socket cavity of the mold and being respectively impaled upon spikes protruding from the respective terminals to make electrical contact therewith; said terminals being disposed to extend across the socket cavity in a direction transverse to that of the power cord; the socket being molded with an integral partition extending between the separated wires and encapsulating them together with the spikes and parts of the terminals; pins being disposed between the separated wires at each side of the socket during the molding thereof, creating drain holes extending through the partition between the receptacle and the exterior.