Patent · US Expired

Flashlight carrier sleeve and handle

US5921657A · kind A · utility

21Cited by
29References
14Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 4, 1997
Grant dateJul 13, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 4, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF21V21/0816
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A flashlight carrier sleeve device for carrying a flashlight which has a main body and an illumination end. The sleeve device has an open, tubular, flexible sleeve member which is expandable for receiving at least a portion of the main body of a flashlight, and for being releasably retained on the flashlight. The flexible sleeve member has a first open end and an opposed second open end. The carrier device also has a strap member having a first end and a second end with the first end of the strap member secured adjacent to the first open end of the flexible sleeve member and the second end of the strap member secured adjacent to the second open end of the flexible sleeve member. At least a portion of a hand of a person is receivable between the strap member and the flexible sleeve member releasably securing the sleeve device to the hand.

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