Clamp mounted and portable extension lamp

Claim 1

A lamp comprising in combination: a flexible neck having an upper outboard extremity and a lower inboard extremity, the neck normally extending in a generally vertical direction, but adapted to be flexed in all directions throughout a 360 degree circle, a socket housing mounted on the upper outboard extremity of the neck and having a bulb receiving socket, a bulb threadedly receivable in the socket, a bulb shield fitted to the socket housing, a hook on the topmost extremity of the bulb shield whereby the lamp may be suspended from a support such as a pin or post or hook, means for supplying an electric current to the socket, a base associated with the lower inboard extremity of the neck in the form of a C clamp including a base bar to which the neck is secured, the neck and base bar extending coaxially as to each other, an upper leg and a lower leg extendable outwardly from and in spaced parallel planes normal to the axis of the base bar, a screw threadedly receivable through the upper leg, a manually engageable knob at the upper end of the screw and a clamp at the lower end of the screw for bringing the C clamp into tight damping relationship with a vertically or horizontally disposed surface, and a permanent magnet connected fixedly to a surface of the lower leg of the C clamp for providing an effective area of magnetic force on the clamp to support same against tilting and accidental removal of the lamp from a steel or ironcontaining supporting surface when attached thereto.