MILLE LUCI - TAG WITH U.S. PATENT NUMBER

Mille Luci = 'a thousand lights'.

Here is some info from the U.S. patent on them:


United States Patent 4,072,855
Marchese February 7, 1978
Lamp with changing luminous effects

Abstract

A lamp having a moving luminous aesthetic effect made up of a luminous incandescent source directed through a transparent container above the luminous source and being filled with a liquid mixture of trichloroethylene and dichloroethylene having dispersed therein a plurality of platelets adapted to float in the liquid, each of the platelets having at least one reflecting surface thereon.
Inventors: Marchese; Ludovico (Casale Monferrato (Alessandria), IT)
Appl. No.: 05/652,811
Filed: January 27, 1976
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ADDITIONAL PATENT INFO ON MILLE LUCI GLITTER LAMPS CAN BE FOUND HERE:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=27&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PALL&s1=4,072,855&OS=4,072,855&RS=4,072,855