Multicolor indicators

Claim 1

A color light indicator system comprising at least two lamps providing light of different colors, a reflector block of transparent material, said block being shaped to have a number of facets forming internal reflecting surfaces, said facets including at least first and second sets of reflecting facets, two transparent lamp housing blocks, each lamp housing block having a recess in which one of said lamps is housed, said lamp housing blocks being secured on opposite sides of said reflector block and each having a surface abutting a surface of said reflector block so that light from said lamps is transmitted into said reflector block, the two lamps and lamp housing blocks being arranged to provide light of different colors, each lamp housing block, further including a metallic reflector reflecting light from the lamp into the reflector block said reflectors extending outwardly of the lamp housing block to form two parallel pins constituting heat sinks, electrical connector pins for the two lamps extending outwardly of the lamp housing blocks parallel to said heat sinks, said reflector blocks further having a viewing face normal to the direction of said pins, each facet of said reflector block having its boundary defining a flat plane and its reflecting surface lying in or behind the flat plane, the facets of said first set having the planes defined by their boundaries lying each in a different radial plane extending from one of said lamps, and the facets of the second set having the planes defined by their boundaries lying each in a different radial plane extending from another of said lamps, the planes of the facets of the first set being angularly disposed to reflect light from said another of said lamps through said viewing face and the planes of the facets of the second set being angularly disposed to reflect light from said one of said lamps through said viewing face.