Industry Patents

Patent: 7866856

Lamp Housing, Particularly Spotlight Housing

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Patent Number: 7866856 
Title: Lamp Housing, Particularly Spotlight Housing 
Abstract: A lamp housing which contains an accommodating apparatus for a burner or a lamp with a glass vessel, a lamp base and contact pins for supplying current, and a lampholder with sockets for connection to the contact pins, is provided. The accommodating apparatus containing clamping jaws, which can be connected to the lamp base in a force-fitting and/or interlocking manner, engage at least partially around the lamp base, are articulated, via lever arms, on the lamp housing or a lampholder mount, which is fixed to the housing and is connected to the lamp housing, and can be adjusted by means of an adjusting device, which has at least one adjusting element, which is arranged between the lever arms and pushes the lever arms apart from one another for opening the clamping jaws into an opening position, in which the lamp base is released, and brings the lever arms together for closing the clamping jaws into a locking position, in which the lamp base is fixed.  
Country of Issue: US 
First Named Inventor: Hundhammer, Stegmaier 
Assignee: Arnold and Richter (Arri) 
Continuation or Divisional of:  
International Classification: B60Q 1/06 
US Classification: 362/371 
Issue Date: 01-11-2011 
Filing Date: 07-13-2006 
Application : 11/988635 
Notes:  
Link to Patent at freepatentsonline.com: 7866856 at Freepatentsonline 
Link to World Patent Family1: World Patent Family at European Patent Office 
Link to Google Patents1: 7866856 at Google Patents 

 

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