Abstract: An improved testing structure is provided in a flashlight (or lantern) provided with an electrical continuity tester. The flashlight or lantern has an insulated body and a flashlight (or lantern) bulb and batteries in primary series circuit. The testing structure, which is formed in the flashlight (or lantern) body, includes a testing series circuit, which is electrically-coupled to the primary series circuit, and a testing site. The testing site includes a pair of converging, sloping, facing walls, separated by a floor, the floor being provided with a pair of spaced-apart channels. Two electrically-conductive strips of specifically-defined structure and orientation are provided within the testing site to repose within the pair of spaced-apart channels. The strips may be resiliently urged into coincident relationship with the walls of the channels.

Abstract: An improvement is provided in a combination flashlight (or lantern)/continuity tester having an insulated body and a (flashlight) bulb and batteries in series circuit. The improved tester, which is formed in the flashlight (or lantern) body, includes an entry site of a particular configuration into the interior of the body. The testing means includes a pair of electrically-conductive strips, each strip having a contact portion, adjacent to the body entry site and penetrating into the interior of the body. Each strip is also in electrical contact with the series circuit. The shape of the entry site is such as to guide terminals of the circuit element being tested into contact with respective ones of the strips. The electrical continuity of a fuse or light bulb is determined by the lighting of the bulb being tested and/or by the lighting of the lamp bulb of the flashlight.