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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Ming-Hsiung Chen, Taipei, TW;
Other;
Abstract
A lamp socket including a rubber top water seal member and a rubber bottom water seal member respectively fastened to two opposite ends of the socket body thereof to stop rain water from passing to the inside of the body, the rubber top water seal member having a bottom mounting groove engaged with the top edge of the socket body, two plug portions fitted into two opposite ends of a transverse wire groove of the socket body to support an electrical wire in the transverse wire groove, and two pairs of wedge blocks forced into close contact with the periphery of the electrical wire at the top by a pressure block of a socket cap, which is fastened to the socket body to hold down the electrical wire, the rubber bottom water seal having an upright annular flange fitted into an annular bottom groove at the bottom end of the socket body, a plurality of upright hooks raised from the upright annular flange and hooked in respective hook hole in the socket body, and an inward annular flap forced into close contact with the periphery of the bulb installed.