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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas A Garber, Hudson, OH (US);
George J Uhler, Wadsworth, OH (US);
Assignee:
The L.D. Kichler Co., Cleveland, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439611 ; 4396992 ;
Abstract
An electrical socket for a landscape lighting fixture includes a body having two side walls and two end walls extending between the side walls. The side and end walls cooperate to form a hollow interior for receiving a lamp. Each of the end walls is outwardly movable to permit one or more protrusions on the lamp to be received by the socket and includes one or more abutment surfaces each adapted to be engaged one of the protrusions to resist removal of the lamp from the socket.