Series flash device and method of manufacture thereof

Claim 1

A FLASH DEVICE COMPRISING A STRIP CONSTITUTING A COMMON BASE WITH LONGITUDINAL EDGES AND A FACE INTERVENING BETWEEN SAID EDGES FOR RECEIVING A PLURALITY OF FLASH LAMPS, AND A PLURALITY OF AXIALLY ELONGATED BASELESS PHOTOFLASH LAMPS WITH THE LAMP AXES IN PARALLELISM TO EACH OTHER AND TO SAID FACE AND AXIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF SAID COMMON, BASE, SAID LAMPS EACH HAVING A LENGTH LESS THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID EDGES OF THE BASE WITH BOTH ENDS OF EACH LAMP SPACED INWARDLY FROM SAID EDGES THEREBY PROVIDING LONGITUDINAL FLAT MARGINS AT BOTH EDGES OF THE COMMON BASE BEYOND THE ENDS OF THE LAMPS BY WHICH THE BASE MAY BE GUIDED AND HELD IN USE, SAID LAMPS HAVING CURRENT-IN LEADS DIRECTED TOWARD ONE OF SAID LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF THE COMMON BASE, SAID BASE HAVING CONTCT MEMBERS THEREON ADJACENT SAID ONE EDGE, AND SAID CURRENT-IN LEADS HAVING ELECTRICAL CONTINUITY WITH SAID CONTACT MEMBERS.