Illumination – With implement or hand held holder therefor
Patent
1980-01-14
1982-09-07
Lechert, Jr., Stephen J.
Illumination
With implement or hand held holder therefor
362119, 362120, 362202, 362203, 362205, F21V 3300
Patent
active
043487157
ABSTRACT:
A lighted tool holder for releasably holding a variety of tools, such as screw drivers, including an elongated hand-held hollow body having a centrally mounted light bulb therein with plural batteries axially shiftable into electrical contact with the bulb. The batteries and light bulb are held in position by a single spring wire spiraled around the base of the light bulb and surrounding the batteries and engaging one of the battery grounds to provide the ground wire circuit for battery actuation.
The releasable tool is rigidly held in position by a cylindrical adapter mounted in the working end of the tool holder body. This adapter has integral frusto-conical segmented base members, fixed within the hollow body to support the adapter and also permit light to pass through the adapter where it is diffused by reflectors and passed through a cup-like lens on the end of the tool holder body which provides edge lighting.
In another embodiment dual light bulbs are provided supported partly on a U-shaped bracket extending through the tool adapter into the battery compartment of the body where it is selectively engaged by the axially shiftable batteries to provide electrical contact between the batteries and the light bulbs.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2773974 (1956-12-01), Markett
patent: 3603782 (1971-09-01), Wortmann
Christensen Leonard R.
Horibata Hiroshi
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