Trunk light switch and housing

Claim 1

A unitary combination automatic on-off position switch and lamp-housing mountable on an automobile trunk defining interior space equipped with a door providing closure for and access to the interior of the trunk to provide illumination in the trunk interior with the opening of the door and to terminate illumination in the trunk interior with the closing of the door, comprising: a combined mounting and actuator spring having a base securable to and electrically groundable on the body, an actuator arm depressibly engageable by the door, and a span between said base and said arm; an electrically nonconductive housing attached to said span having a lamp receiving socket, an electrical ground contact strip leading from said socket toward said spring, and an electrical current supply contact terminal leading to said socket for connection to current supply; said socket, ground strip, and current terminal being adapted to receive a lamp in an electrical circuit between said ground strip and said current terminal; said spring being normally biased to displaceably urge said ground strip into electrical contact with said spring to close the circuit through and energize the lamp to illuminate the interior of the body when the door is open out of depressing engagement with said spring actuator arm; said spring actuator arm when the door is depressibly engaged therewith as when closed overcoming the normal bias of said spring to displace said ground strip out of electrical contact with said spring to open the circuit through and deenergize the lamp to terminate illumination of the interior of the body.