Lamp support apparatus

Claim 1

A lamp support apparatus for holding and positioning a lamp which has a light enclosed in a cage, an elongated handle depending from the light and a switch and socket associated with the handle, and an electric supply cord fixedly attached a the end of the handle, comprising: a base member adapted to rest on an essentially horizontal structure, said base member having a hub, a top surface and a bottom surface which bottom surface is engaged with the horizontal structure; an upward extending support comprising an assemblage, the assemblage comprising a series of arms, each arm having a first end and a second end, wherein the second end of each of said arms is attached to the first end of a next arm of said series of arms with a pivot which may be adjusted through an angle, said attached arms being a consecutive pair of arms of said series of arms; a leg fixedly secured to the hub of said base member for telescopically accepting the first end of an arm at a first end of the assemblage such that the arm is accepted in the leg and the consecutive arms of the assemblage can be pivoted from their respective second and first ends for configuring said upward extending support, to form a conjoined, contours shape for holding and positioned the lamp; means for releasably securing the first end of the arm at said first end of said assemblage in said leg such that the secured arm can be rotated within said leg; means for securely positioning the second end to the first end of said consecutive arms of said series at each said pivot for securing the arms in fixed relative position, one to the other; a rigid, unyielding, elongated sleeve fixedly secured to a second end of the assemblage, said sleeve having a first end, a second end and a slit therebetween, the first end of said sleeve having a substantially cylindrical shape and the second end of said sleeve being flared such that the elongated handle of the lamp is securely accepted in the flared end of said sleeve such that the electric supply cord is accepted in registry with the sleeve by passing through the slit for securely engaging the handle by axial insertion in said sleeve, maintaining the electric supply cord in registry with the sleeve and providing ready access to the switch and socket on the handle of the lamp.