Tube light hand lamp

Claim 1

A hand lamp for a tube lamp with contact pins on opposite ends thereof comprising (a) an elongated molded polymer base having as integrally molded parts thereof an elongated light tube cradle formed by circular wall means at opposite ends of a transversely arcuate bar, said circular wall means respectively having lamp tube pin socket means; said base further having a lamp starter cradle axially aligned with said light tube cradle and formed by transversely arcuate wall means adapted to nest approximately one half of a cylindrical starter to be mounted therein with one of said circular wall means at one end and semicircular wall means at the opposite end of said transversely arcuate wall means, said one of said wall means including a slotted circular wall with starter contact pin-receiving slots therein; (b) a single, light-transmitting, cylindrical, envelope tube having a length slightly longer than the length of said base and slidably, frictionally fitted around said base in encasing relationship about said base, an elongated light tube mounted in said light tube cradle, and a cylindrical starter mounted in said starter cradle; (c) a cap closing each end of said envelope tube, the cap adjacent said semi-circular wall means having an axial hole for passage therethrough on an electrical cable for said lamp, and (d) said semi-circular wall means having a semicircular passage receiving said electrical cable, and a bar held by screws across said semi-circular passage and holding said cable in said passage.