Tree lighting apparatus

Claim 1

A POWER LINE SECTION AND PLUG FOR ATTACHMENT THERETO, SAID POWER LINE SECTION COMPRISING AN ELONGATE MEMBER OF FLEXIBLE INSULATING MATERIAL, SAID MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED PARALLEL SLOTS THEREON OPENING SUBSTANTIALLY ALONG THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF SAID POWER LINE SECTION AND FACING GENERALLY IN A COMMON DIRECTION, A PAIR OF ELONGATE CONDUCTORS, ONE OF SAID CONDUCTORS BEING DISPOSED IN EACH SAID OF SAID SLOTS FOR SUPPLYING POWER TO A PLUG, SAID POWER LINE SECTION INCLUDING MEANS FOR RETAINING AND SUPPORTING EACH OF SAID CONDUCTORS WITHIN ITS RESPECTIVE SLOT, AND A PLUG INCLUDING A PAIR OF CONDUCTIVE PRONGS, A BODY FOR SECURING AND RETAINING THE PRONGS IN INSULATED SPACED RELATIONSHIP SO THAT THE PRONGS CAN BE SIMULTANEOUSLY INSERTED INTO THE SLOTS OF SAID ELONGATE MEMBER, AND SAID POWER LINE SECTION AND PLUG BEING SO CONSTRUCTED THAT WHEN THE PLUG IS ROTATED ABOUT A LINE TRANSVERSE TO THE SECTION AND INTERSECTING POINTS OF CONTACT THEREBETWEEN, THE PLUG AND SECTION ARE SEPARATED BY BODY FORCES EXERTED BETWEEN THEM, SAID PRONGS AND SAID ELONGATE CONDUCTORS BEING SO CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED THAT THEY MAKE ESSENTIALLY FRICTIONLESS, WIPING CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER AS THE PLUG IS INSERTED AND WITHDRAWN, ONE PORTION OF A MAGNETIC RETAINING MEANS BEING DISPOSED ON SAID BODY OF SAID PLUG AND BETWEEN THE PRONGS, ANOTHER PORTION OF MAGNETIC RETAINING MEANS BEING DISPOSED ON SAID ELONGATE MEMBER BETWEEN THE SLOTS THEREON AND ADAPTED FOR REGISTRY WITH THE FIRST PORTION OF SAID MAGNETIC RETAINING MEANS ON SAID PLUG WHEN THE PLUG IS CONNECTED TO THE POWER LINE SECTION, SAID MAGNETIC MEANS CONSTITUTING THE SOLE MEANS FOR RETAINING THE POWER LINE SECTION TO THE PLUG SO THAT WHEN SAID PLUG IS ROTATED ABOUT A LINE TRANSVERSE TO THE POWER LINE SECTION AND INTERSECTING POINTS OF CONTACT BETWEEN THE PLUG AND THE POWER LINE SECTION SAID MAGNETIC RETAINING MEANS IS BROKEN OPEN AND SAID PLUG IS FREELY MOVABLE TO THEREBY PERMIT EASY WITHDRAWAL OF SAID PLUG FROM SAID POWER LINE SECTION WITHOUT REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT EXTERNAL SUPPORT OF THE POWER LINE SECTION.