Super rare 1962 Honeywell patent model with wired on tag, pilots flashlight red for Sale

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Super rare 1962 Honeywell patent model with wired on tag, pilots flashlight red:
$700.00

Super rare 1962 Honeywell patent model with wired on tag, pilots flashlight red.

The following is from the patent that was applied for on this flashlight

Minn., a corporation of Delaware

spring wire 22. Side 13 of housing 10 is apertured to

Filed Jume 1, 1960, Ser. No. 33,219

1 Claim. (CI. 240--10.65)

provide access to a knurled cam 23 rotatable about an axis and having abutments to engage a stop column 24

This invention relates to the field of portable lamps moulded into the housing. The other end of wire 22 and comprises a flashlight particularly designed for the 10 presses against the shell of lamp 15, and the wire passes use of pilots of air and other craft. The retention of through support columns 27 and engages member 23. suitable dark adaptation is important in piloting aircraft

Tangential pressure causing rotation of member 23 in a

or marine vessels at night, and referring particularly counter-clockwise direction displaces the upwardly ex-to aircraft, the light in the cockpit is conventionally se.

tending portion of member 22 into engagement with a

lected to be of a wave length which exercises minimum 15 portion of bracket 20, thus completing the electrical cir-disturbance of the pilot's night vision while still allowing cuit between batteries 16 and 17 and lamp 15: when him to read the indications of the various meters which he pressure on member 23 is released the circuit is inter-must observe. The general level of light in the cockpit rupted. however is not sufficient to permit ready reading of

As shown in FIGURE 5, rotation of member 23 in a

charts, and so forth, and heretofore it has been necessary 20 clockwise direction produces sufficient distortion in the for the pilot to use some form of extra light such as a outwardly extending portion of member 22 so that it flashlight for chart reading purposes. However, the bears upon member 23 in such a fashion as to maintain conventional flashlight is ill adapted for cockpit use: its the member in its rotated position, rather than returning shape makes it unstable so that it does not remain in a it to normal position; thus continuous operation of mem-position, the light can not be readily contained within a 25 ber 15 takes place when the knob is thus rotated. limited area, and the white light destroys or diminishes

As shown in FIGURE 1, the bottom 11 of housing 10

the pilot's dark adaptation, so that when he looks up is perforated at 25, the perforation being aligned with from his chart reading his observation of the area sur- the position of lamp 15, so that light from the lamp may rounding the airplane is reduced. See photo