Louis E Lehmann

US Patent:

39683982, Jul 6, 1976

Filed:

Jan 3, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/538402

Inventors:

Louis E. Lehmann - Geneva OH
Ralph J. Luft - Aurora OH

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

International Classification:

H05B 3703

US Classification:

315185S

Abstract:

A string set, of the type used on Christmas trees, of series-connected incandescent lamps where two lamps nearest the string set plug are unshunted and are connected to the plug through a wire of a gauge larger than the wire connecting the remaining lamps in the set. The unshunted lamps and the larger wire serve as a fuse for the entire set.