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A socket for a compact fluorescent lamp which includes two or more parallel tubes that share a common base, said base including at least two terminal pins and retaining means for engagement with the socket, has a housing including a back wall, a front wall, with top and bottom walls and two side wal

A socket for a compact fluorescent lamp which includes two or more parallel tubes that share a common base, said base including at least two terminal pins and retaining means for engagement with the socket, has a housing including a back wall, a front wall, with top and bottom walls and two side walls extending from said back wall and forward of said front wall, thereby defining a front opening for receiving said lamp base. Channels are formed in said housing enclosing conductive terminals for receiving each of said terminal pins in electrically conductive engagement. Said front wall defines openings through which the terminal pins project for engagement with said conductive terminals. An inward facing nonresilient hook is formed on the forward edge of one of said top and bottom walls for engagement with said retaining means of the lamp base, and an inward facing resilient hook is formed on the forward edge of the other of said top and bottom walls for establishing reversible locking engagement with said retaining means of said lamp base. When said lamp base is inserted in said socket, the combination of the grasping engagement of said inward facing hooks and said retaining means and the grasping engagement of said terminal pins and said conductive terminals is sufficient that said socket and said lamp can be mounted in any orientation without the need for additional support apart from said socket itself. All electrically active parts are inaccessible and totally protected against accidental contact with external objects.

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A socket for a compact fluorescent lamp which includes two or more parallel tubes that share a common base, said base including at least two terminal pins and two retaining means for engagement with the socket, comprising: a housing including a back wall, a front wall, with top and bottom walls and

A socket for a compact fluorescent lamp which includes two or more parallel tubes that share a common base, said base including at least two terminal pins and two retaining means for engagement with the socket, comprising: a housing including a back wall, a front wall, with top and bottom walls and two side walls extending from said back wall and forward of said front wall each terminating in a forward edge, thereby defining a front opening for receiving said lamp base, channel means formed in said housing enclosing conductive terminal means for receiving each of said terminal pins in electrically conductive engagement, said front wall defining openings through which said terminal pins project for engagement with said conductive terminal means, an inward facing rigid nonresilient latch fulcrum ledge formed on the forward edge of one of said top and bottom walls for engagement with a first one of said retaining means of said lamp base, and an inward facing resilient latch formed on the forward edge of the other of said top and bottom walls whereby engagement of said first one of said lamp base retaining means for pivoting movement about said rigid nonresilient latch fulcrum ledge, followed by angular pivoting movement of the lamp, advances the terminal pins angularly into the channel means until the second socket base retaining means latches with said resilient latch, thereby establishing reversible locking engagement of said socket with said retaining means of said lamp base.