GB161546A - Improvements in electrical connecting and supporting devices - Google Patents

Abstract

161,546. Electric Outlet Co., Inc., (Assignees of White, E. C.). April 9, 1920, [Convention date]. Supporting ; brackets, electriclamp.-An electric appliance is supported by the members by which it is connected to the source of supply. Curved conducting and supporting blades are used and the weight of the appliance keeps the blades in place. A receptacle a has within it a metal strip i secured by screws k. Insulating-members b<3>, b<4>, b<5> clamped together by transverse bolts f are secured to the strip i and grip between them terminals g. These terminals each comprise a plate, formed with a curved recess g<1>, and a spring mounted clipcontact g<3> disposed at right - angles to the plane of the recess and at a sufficient distance from it so that one edge may co-operate with the recess in engaging a blade contact. An ornamental wall-plate m. is secured by screws l over the face of the receptacle. Curved conducting and supporting blades c are secured between insulating members in a metal casing p which has an upwardly projecting hook p<1>. When the blades c have been inserted into the upright slots b<1> in the wall fixture, and so engaged with the curved recesses g<1>, the bracket fitting o' is engaged with the lip p' by means of a bridge-piece o<2> fixed within the base of the fitting, Thus the weight of the fitting is transmitted to the blades c, holding them in place and supporting- the fitting.