sealed-beam

adjective

1. (esp of a car headlight) having a lens and prefocused reflector sealed in the lamp vacuum

Example Sentences

“Sealed-beam” headlights were used from the 1950s through the 1980s, and generally offered poor light output.

From New York Times

Using his police A-powered sealed-beam light, he illuminated the hall and once again glanced over the onionskin carbon.

From Literature

Inside the net, under water, he hangs a sealed-beam headlight bulb fed with current from a storage battery, the beam pointing out of the net.

From Time Magazine Archive

After four years of joint research, a group of auto headlamp manufacturers has produced a brighter, sealed-beam lamp, with redesigned lens and hooded filament that throw the beam more to the right side of the road and screen out stray lights above the beam pattern.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new sealed-beam unit fits current models.

From Time Magazine Archive