Abstract: A light bulb is held by a base having an outer base member surrounding an inner member holding the bulb and which is secured to the outer base member after being adjusted longitudinally, laterally, and rotationally with respect thereto, as needed, to accurately position the bulb's filament with respect to the outer base member. No cement or adhesive is in contact with the light bulb.

Abstract: A light bulb is held by a base to which the bulb is secured after being adjusted longitudinally, laterally, and rotationally, as needed, to accurately position the bulb's filament with respect to the base. No cement or adhesive is in contact with the light bulb.

Abstract: An incandescent electric lamp having a filament which incandesces and produces a vapor of the metal of the filament which normally deposits on the wall. A coating is placed on the filament wall where the majority of the vapor would normally deposit to act as a reflecting coating so that the visible energy reflected from the coating will be transmitted through a portion of the wall which is not blackened by the vapor. The coating thickness is adjusted so that the deposit from the filament builds up on a nodal surface so that light absorption is small.

Abstract: An incandescent illuminating device having an antifragility coating covering at least a substantial portion of the glass envelope, the antifragility coating comprising a mixture of a relatively clear, resilient heat-stable polymer capable of adhering to glass and a plurality of light-transmitting, impact-absorbing particles, which are preferably small, hollow, heat-stable, frangible microspheres. The particles, preferably hollow microspheres, constitute from about 20% to about 60% by volume of the cured antifragility coating and are essentially colorless, have a high degree of light transmissivity, and have a low density and a diameter less than about the thickness of the antifragility coating. The particles act as a sacrificial material to absorb an impact giving the coating antifragility properties.

Abstract: A lamp comprising a tubular quartz envelope having a mounting base compression fitted to one end thereof.

Abstract: A lamp seal glass is described suitable for direct hermetic sealing to molybdenum which consists essentially of oxides in approximate percent by weight 52-60 SiO.sub.2, 11-17 Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, 11-16 BaO, 8-12 CaO, and 3-7 B.sub.2 O.sub.3, along with minor amounts of incidental impurities, residual fluxes and refining agents, said glass having a liquidus temperature no greater than about 1170.degree. C., a softening point in the approximate range 900.degree.-930.degree. C., a strain point in the approximate range 650.degree.-680.degree. C., a working point in the approximate range 1180.degree.-1240.degree. C., and an average coefficient of linear thermal expansion in the 0.degree.-300.degree. C. temperature range between about 45-50.times.10.sup.-7 cm/cm/.degree.C. The glass composition enables improved manufacture of incandescent lamps operating in the moderately elevated temperature range 500.degree.-650.degree. C., especially regenerative cycle halogen lamps.

Abstract: In an electric incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament with a number of light-emissive sections (5, 7) connected by a non-light-emissive conductor, complicated constructions are often used so that said non-light-emissive conductor dissipates little energy.In such an incandescent lamp according to the invention the non-light-emissive conductor consists of a piece (9) of the tungsten wire (1) from which the light-emissive sections (5, 7) have been wound helically and around which a wire (2) of a less noble metal than tungsten is wound.The lamp may be used as a copying lamp. FIG. 1e.

Abstract: An incandescent lamp of the tungsten halogen type is disclosed which includes the tipped-off residue of an exhaust tube formed with a high temperature aluminosilicate glass comprising in approximate weight percent 56-63 SiO.sub.2, 13-17 Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, 19-24 BaO, 1-4.5 CaO, and 0-3 R.sub.2 O wherein R is an alkali metal ion, along with minor amounts of incidental impurities, residual fluxes and refining agents such that the aggregate BaO and CaO content lies within the approximate range 21-26 weight percent in order to eliminate need for the refractory metal spiral being contained within said exhaust tube in order to keep said exhaust tube open while the lamp lead-in wires are being hermetically sealed in the lamp envelope. The same glass composition can also be employed to form the entire lamp glass envelope along with the exhaust tube portion thereof with comparable results.

Abstract: In an electric lamp with a sleeve-shaped cap and an inner sleeve carrying the bulb, the cap has at least two lugs protruding inwards and the inner sleeve is provided with at least two slots on its cylindrical sheath, which engage the lugs.

Abstract: A lamp unit having a housing containing a ballast and provided with a screw base. The base fits over an end of the housing and is attached thereto by a low-cost resin material which, in cooperation with shaped contours on the housing and the base, mechanically locks these parts together.

Abstract: The invention relates to a base for a cartridge lamp of the type having at least one filament mounted on filament support legs extending through a seal of the bulb. According to the invention, a plug member has terminals affixed thereto for mounting the filament support legs. The plug member is adapted for keyed insertion into an opening. The terminals extend beyond the plug surface to form tangs which act as clamping fingers. The tangs also serve for contacting the connecting leads after the plug member has been rotated into a locking position.

Abstract: In an electric lamp with a sleeve-shaped cap 12, in which an inner part 8, fitted to accommodate the lamp bulb 1, consists of a cover plate 9 with at least two spring clips 10 attached to the inside wall of the cap 2 and provided with openings 11, the sleeve-shaped cap 12 is provided with at least two projections 13 protruding inwards, over which, when the inner part 8 is inserted into the cap 12, the spring clips 10 fit and lock into position, by means of the openings 11 which correspond to the cross-section of the projections.

Abstract: An incandescent electric lamp having an envelope in the shape of an ellipse rotated about a center line and defining a circle of focal points, said envelope having thereon a coating which reflects infrared energy produced by the filament and at least a part of the coating transmitting all or a selected portion of the visible range light energy produced by a filament which is shaped and located so that at least a part of the filament lies on or adjacent to the focal circle so that infrared energy produced by the filament at one focal point on the circle will be reflected by the coating back to another focal point on the circle.

Abstract: To attach the base to a lamp without using base cement, adhesive or the l, the base is made as a two-part element, one being an outer base sleeve and the other an inner insert snugly matching the inner diameter of the base sleeve or shell. The insert has an annular bottom and longitudinally extending flaps with inwardly bent wings which resiliently press and engage the press seal of the lamp, thereby holding the socket in position.

Abstract: The inner ends of the lead-in wires of an electric incandescent lamp are serrated and welded to uncoiled leg portions of the tungsten filament so that the members are fused to one another at a plurality of spaced points or locations and provide strong reliable electrical junctures. The filament leg portions are in bridging relationship with the serrations on the ends of the lead wires and form high-resistance areas of contact during the welding operation that permits high-quality welds to be made efficiently without the use of a flux material, even in halogen-cycle type lamps that require the welding of molybdenum lead wires to a tungsten filament.

Abstract: The envelope of a compact halogen-cycle incandescent lamp is made from hard glass and the uncoiled legs of the tungsten filament are used as filament connector-support members by fastening them directly to flattened ends of a pair of single lead wires and embedding the resulting electrical junctures in the hermetic seal of fused glass which is formed on the end of the envelope. The lead wires originally comprise the legs of a hairpin-shaped wire member which permits the filament-mount to be made and handled as a separate subassembly. The U-bent part of the hairpin-shaped wire member is severed and removed after the mount has been sealed into the envelope to provide the required pair of separate lead wires.

Abstract: An improved operation shunt for series connected incandescent-type lamps is disclosed utilizing a novel shunt material composition comprising an admixture of conductive metal particulates, an inorganic binder, and conductive non-metallic particulates and which is adhesively bonded to an insulative bead member interconnecting the spaced apart lamp inleads.

Abstract: In the electric incandescent lamps having an infrared radiation-reflecting filter which is pervious to visible light, the efficiency can be increased by adapting the geometry of the filter and the geometry of the filament to each other. According to the invention, the filter comprises a major portion of a prolate ellipsoid of revolution and a cylindrical filament extends between the foci thereof, the distance between focal points being from 1-2 times the length of the filament.

Abstract: A lamp body is internally provided with an electromagnet and an electric circuit for exciting the electromagnet intermittently at given time intervals. A movable member having a wick type bulb mounted above the electromagnet is supported by means of a relatively weak spring, the movable member being provided with a magnetic piece attracted by the electromagnet. When the electromagnet is intermittently excited by the electric circuit, the movable member provided with the wick type bulb may be attracted and released whereby the wick type bulb moves and appear to flare.

Abstract: Bowl mirrored lamps according to the invention have a filament which is arranged asymmetrically with respect to the axis of the lamp envelope and surrounds the axis over an angle greater than 180.degree. in such a manner that it does not coincide at any point with the image of the filament formed by the mirrored bowl portion of the lamp envelope.As a result of this filament positioning the lamp can in combination with a reflector provide a light beam having a very high central intensity.

Abstract: A miniature lamp having a vitreous envelope with a generally tubular shaped bulb section and a press seal section with flattened parallel side portions. The bulb section encloses an elongated incandescent filament coil having a predetermined barrel length and a predetermined barrel radius. The filament coil has mounting leg members projecting from each end thereof and from opposite sides thereof. The lamp is so designed that the axis of the filament coil lies in a reference plane passing parallel to and intermediate the parallel planes defined by the flattened parallel side portions of the press seal section.

Abstract: An article, illustratively a lamp bulb envelope, for creating a moire effect has a plurality of transparent and nontransparent regions on its surface. When viewed from a point external to the envelope, the individual nontransparent regions on the surface of the envelope which is nearest to the point appear as superimposed upon and intersecting with nontransparent regions on the surface furtherest from the point. The apparent intersections produce a moire effect which is enhanced by varying the line of sight to the bulb. The family of moire curves appear as transversely running curves which pass through the points of apparent intersection of individual nontransparent regions along the near and far faces. The nontransparent regions may be either light diffusive (translucent) or light nontransmissive (opaque) in nature and may be created by abrading the surface of the envelope or by application of opaque or diffusive coatings onto the surface of the envelope.

Abstract: An improved incandescent lamp filament is described having an inner core of doped tungsten crystals with a surface layer of chemically vapor deposited undoped tungsten crystals. The inner core material exhibits the sag-resistant grain structure obtained with dispersion alloy products of tungsten whereas the unalloyed tungsten crystals in the surface layer are of a finer size and can further exhibit a preferred crystallographic orientation. Incandescent lamps utilizing said improved tungsten filaments exhibit increased vibration resistance and greater notch resistance when operated on direct current.

Abstract: Precise placement of one or more coiled filaments within the envelope of a miniature type incandescent lamp is achieved by positioning the coil legs in end-to-end abutting relationship with the respective lead wires and locking them in such junctured relationship with metal tubes that enclose and are fastened to the abutted end portions of the mated lead wires and coil legs and thus couple the members together. The coupling tubes are first secured to the lead wires so that their open ends provide tubular pockets which receive the coil legs and guide them into the proper mounting position on the lead wires. The open ends of the tubes are then hot-clamped around the associated coil legs, thereby mechanically and electrically joining the members together in operative relationship. The invention is particularly useful in the production of miniature halogen-cycle type incandescent lamps that are employed as compact light sources in sealed-beam automotive lamps which require one or more precisely-mounted filaments.

Abstract: An incandescent lamp having a coating thereon which returns infrared energy to the filament to decrease the amount of power consumed by the lamp in order to maintain the filament at a predetermined operating temperature has a predetermined fractional spacing between turns which results in an emissivity greater than 0.5 at 2,000.degree. K. The filament also has a predetermined length to diameter ratio to make it compact and thereby improve its emissivity and the capture of the reflected infrared radiation and to reduce aberration losses. The filament can be a coiled coil or triple coiled coil and can be stabilized by secondary recrystallization.

Abstract: An incandescent electric having a filament which incandesces and produces a vapor of the metal of the filament which normally deposits on the envelope wall. Structures are provided adjacent the filament on which vaporized filament material will deposit rather than deposit on the envelope wall where it would reduce the light output of the lamp.

Abstract: An incandescent electric lamp having an envelope with a portion through which a pair of lead-in studs are brought out, the filament leads being connected to the studs. The lamp is sealed off in the area where the studs are located and an adaptor is provided to make contact with the portions of the studs extending through the envelope so that the lamp can be mounted in a socket.

Abstract: An incandescent lamp includes a bulb formed of a light-transmissible material, a stem portion for supporting lead-in wires having a filament, and a connector positioned between the bulb and the stem portion to connect them in a hermetically sealed fashion at opposite ends thereof. Since the stem portion is preformed after which the stem is connected integral with the bulb by the connector, it is possible to position the filament as a light source with high accuracy.

Abstract: An incandescent electric lamp having an envelope and means for reflecting infrared energy back to the filament to increase its operating temperature while transmitting visible energy. The envelope is shaped to reflect the infrared energy back to the filament and the filament is purposely misaligned with respect to the optical center of the envelope so that the infrared energy impinges on the filament after two reflections from the envelope wall.

Abstract: A tungsten-halogen lamp having a tubular envelope of quartz or high silica glass has a press-seal at one end which is reduced in width by the removal of right-angled sections from opposite lower corners of the press. The lamp further includes a ceramic base having a slot with closed ends for accommodating the reduced width portion of the press-seal.

Abstract: An improved shunt for series connected lamps is disclosed in which two strips of anodized aluminum foil are fastened together around the inner lead wires of the lamp.

Abstract: In electric lamps according to the invention the alkali-alumino-borosilicate glass of the pinch seal of the lamp envelope is directly fused to the molybdenum current supply wire of diameter D. A vacuum-tight seal is obtained in that the glass inside the lamp envelope extends over the current supply wire in a layer which is thinner than D/2 at least over a length of D/2. For use in both incandescent and discharge lamps.

Abstract: An improved electric lamp of the type wherein a transparent bulb is sealed to a terminal socket cap and contains a foamed cap cement which substantially fills the interior of said terminal cap. The foamed cap cement contains a small amount of a halogen-containing material and functions to extinguish electric arcs generated in the cap.

Abstract: Low wattage incandescent lamp filaments have improved squirm resistance when wound with low mandrel ratios and high pitch ratios. Squirm resistant is further enhanced when the filament is mounted under tension.

Abstract: Incandescent light bulb efficiency is improved by: (1) modifying the surface micro-structure of a lamp filament in such a way as to increase the emissivity in the visible region of the spectrum without significantly increasing this quantity outside this spectral region, or suppressing the emission of energy outside the visible portion of the spectrum by modifying the surface structure; (2) application of refractory coatings on the lamp filament that are highly emissive in the visible region of the spectrum; and (3) coating the filament with an "optically thin" refractory material to suppress filament evaporation, permitting higher operating temperature.

Abstract: A tungsten-halogen lamp capsule is disposed within a curved reflector, the lead-in support wires for the capsule protruding through the rear portion of the reflector. After a front lens is sealed to the reflector, the lamp is energized and the beam pattern is adjusted by moving the support wires relative to the reflector. When the desired pattern is obtained, the wires are secured to the reflector.

Abstract: Bodies which are formed compositions of Versalon.RTM. type polyamide resin containing from about 35% up to about 70% by weight of highly volatile materials such as perfumes, odorants, insecticides, bactericides, and animal repellents which are able to act in a very diluted vapor state in the air for relatively long periods of time, are described. The highly volatile substances are released in a controlled manner over a long period of time. The molecular weight of the resin is between 9,000 and 12,000, and its softening point varies from 120.degree. C. up to 400.degree. C. In addition, articles are described incorporating said composition and, as part of the instant invention, a light bulb coated with a toroidal article which consists essentially of said composition, is included.The method of our invention comprises heating Versalon.RTM. polyamide resin (Note 1) having a molecular weight of from 9,000 up to 12,000 until it is pourable and stirrable, e.g., to a temperature of between 120.degree. C. and 400.

Abstract: An electric lamp comprises a reflector envelope having a sealed tungsten-halogen lamp disposed therein. The lead-in conductor supports for the lamp extend through, and are connected to, metal eyelets which extend through holes in the reflector and are fastened to the reflector.

Abstract: An incandescent lamp has a coiled filament with an improved life when it is mounted substantially in the same direction in which a mechanical shock occurs. In a particular embodiment of a miniature lamp known as a switchboard lamp, the filament is mounted, without further support, between two posts. This results in a greater light effectiveness that permits a current reduction through the filament while maintaining desired light output levels in its operational environment. The filament is protected from harmful shock levels by being mounted between twisted posts which orient the filament in the general direction of a mechanical shock imparted to the lamp through key telephone button releases.

Abstract: The improvement in a filament system in a lamp for use in a drum lens of a navigational light in which a plurality of vertically positioned similar filaments are spaced about but away from a vertical axis adapted to be placed at the focal point of the lens. The filaments are positioned in a horizontal plane relative to each other whereby no more than two filaments are aligned in any horizontal direction. In using four filaments, three of the filaments are positioned at the corners of a horizontal square and the fourth filament is positioned outside of tne unoccupied corner of the square and in line with the diagonal of the square through the unoccupied corner thereby minimizing shadowing of one filament by other filaments in any horizontal direction.

Abstract: Halides of Mn, Ba, Ca, Sr, Ce and La are used as a binder for getters in electric lamps. They have the advantage over organic binders of producing no oxygen-containing decomposition products when the lamps are put in operation.

Abstract: An incandescent lamp having a transparent heat mirror placed on the lamp envelope which transmits a substantial portion of the energy in the visible range produced by the lamp filament and which reflects back to the filament at least about 80%-85% of the infrared energy that the filament produces. In the preferred embodiment the transparent heat mirror is formed by a layered coating of TiO.sub.2 /Ag/TiO.sub.2 optimized for the operating temperature range of the filament. The filament is constructed to optically conform to the shape of the lamp envelope.

Abstract: A baseless light bulb is locked into a one-piece molded base and the base provides mechanical and electrical connection of the light bulb to a circuit board.

Abstract: In a press-sealed single-ended tubular incandescent lamp, the support means thereof is embedded in the press seal and protrudes from the edge thereof, substantially orthogonal to the axis of the lamp.

Abstract: A lamp capping cement for electric lamps comprises a resin component consisting essentially of a condensation product of an aralkyl ether and a phenol mixed with a cross-linkable polymer or resin, a heat-resistant filler component, and a liquid diluent. The preferred cross-linkable polymer is a carboxylated acrylic polymer which may constitute 1 to 15% of the cement. This cement is capable of withstanding higher operating temperatures in incandescent filament lamps without breakdown.

Abstract: An improved incandescent lamp includes a bulb, a stem, a metal ring body, a filament and lead wires penetrating the stem. The metal ring body is air-tightly welded to the stem and the bulb respectively with the use of oxidation layers on the inner and outer surface thereof to thereby provide hermetic seals therebetween.

Abstract: An incandescent lamp has a hollow cylindrical filament which is constructed from transversal strips each traversing at least for the greater part the circumference of the cylinder at a distance from each other with longitudinal strips connecting the transversal strips together. The strips constitute electrically parallel current paths.Such filaments have improved resistance to deformation a low sensitivity for evolving hot spots, a low weight and compactness.

Abstract: Protection against potentially destructive arcs which may occur within a gas-filled incandescent lamp when the energized filament fails is achieved by partly embedding separate inner and outer lead-in conductors in an hermetic seal that is formed on one end of the lamp envelope and electrically connecting the conductors by a short uncoiled fuse element that is located within the confines of the envelope and has both of its ends embedded in the seal. In the case of halogen-cycle type lamps that have long useful design lives (in the order of 2000 hours) and press-sealed envelopes, the fuse element comprises a tungsten wire that has a diameter which is more than 10% (and up to about 20%) larger than the diameter of the filament wire and has its ends welded to a pair of molybdenum foil conductors that are embedded in the press seal and connect the fuse wire to the inner and outer lead-in conductors.

Abstract: A ceramic base is added to a glass halogen lamp to improve the electrical performance and ease of use of the lamp.

Abstract: An electric heating element for igniting gas fuel comprises a hermetically sealed envelope made of at least 99% pure alumina and filled with a non-oxidizing gas such as hydrogen or one of the inert gases. A self-supporting coiled coil of tungsten or other refractory metal conductor dimensioned to carry a linear power loading of at least one hundred watts per inch is disposed in the envelope with coiling of the coiled coil pressing the peripheral surfaces of the coiled conductor into thermal and mechanical contact with the interior wall of the envelope. Terminals are provided for supplying current to the conductor at said power loading to heat the exterior of the envelope wall to a temperature above 900.degree. centigrade.