(19)
(11) EP 0 933 839 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
17.05.2000 Bulletin 2000/20

(43) Date of publication A2:
04.08.1999 Bulletin 1999/31

(21) Application number: 99300125.4

(22) Date of filing: 07.01.1999
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: H01R 33/965
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 28.01.1998 GB 9801682

(71) Applicant: Light Years Ahead IPR Limited
Stapleford, Cambridge CB2 5DZ (GB)

(72) Inventor:
  • Burn, Michael Rollin
    Woodbridge, Suffolk IP13 6LT (GB)

(74) Representative: McNeight, David Leslie et al
McNeight & Lawrence Regent House Heaton Lane
Stockport Cheshire SK4 1BS
Stockport Cheshire SK4 1BS (GB)

   


(54) Safety bulb holder


(57) There is disclosed a bayonet-fitting bulb holder having a socket and a cover plate therein for the contact pins which has apertures for the pins and which is moved by the action of inserting a bulb so as to align the apertures with the pins and by the action of removing a bulb so as to cover the pins and comprising a locking arrangement preventing movement of the cover plate from the pin-covering position except by inserting a bulb or like member filling the socket.






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