US1044885A

US1044885A - Connector.

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Publication number: US1044885A
Application number: US65855711A
Authority: US
Inventors: William P Hammond
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-11-04
Filing date: 1911-11-04
Publication date: 1912-11-19
Anticipated expiration: 1929-11-19

Description

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CONNECTOR.

APPLIOATIOH FILED NOV. 4, 1911.

1,044,885. Patnted Nov. 19, 1912.

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CONNECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed November 4, 1911.

Patented Nov. 19, 1912. Serial No. 658,557.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. HAM- MOND, citizen of the United States, residing at Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Connectors, of which the following is a specification. The present invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of connectors or clips such as are frequently employed for securing wires or conductors to the binding post of a battery or spark plug, or some similar member.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a connector which is comparatively simple and inexpensive in its construction, which can be quickly applied to a binding post or detached therefrom, and which e1nbbdies novel features of construction whereb a good electrical connection is established ith the binding post or other similar memer to which the connector is applied.

l/Vith these and other objects in view, the

i vention conslsts 1n certain novel combina- I ore fully appear as the description pro- -eeds, the novel features thereof being ointed out in the appended claims. 1

1 invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the connector, the two gripping rings or washers being shown as forced inwardly by the fingers so as to bring the openings thereof into registry with each other. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the connector as applied to a binding post. Fig. 4. is a transverse sectional view through the connector, and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view A on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Specifically describing the embodiment of the invention illustrated by the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 designates the stock or body portion of the connector, one end thereof being formed with a notch 2 adapted to bear against the binding post or like member to which the applied, while the opposite end of the stock connector is ed is formed with lateral ears which are bent lnwardly to provide a sleeve 3 adapted to engage a wire or conductor 4. The notched end of the stock 1 is formed with laterally extending spring arms 5 which are returned upon themselves and terminate in perforated plates or washers 6 which are adapted to slide over each other. The openings or perforations 7 of the said plates are normally out of alinement with each other, as indicated by Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawing, although by pressing inwardly upon the returned portions of the arms 5, the openings 7 of the two plates may be brought into registry with each other, as indicated by Fig. 2. The connector may then be applied to a binding post 8 or similar member in the usual manner and the spring arms 5 released so as to cause the perforated plates 6 to grip the binding post. The notch or seat 2 is also adapted to engage one side of the binding post, and it will be observed that this notch is arranged out of alinement with the openings 7 so as to hold the connector in an inclined position with respect to the axis of the binding post. The binding post is thus engaged at two separate and distinct points, and any outward pull by the wire or conductor 4 will tend to throw the seat 2 more securely against the binding post and also to draw the perforated plates 6 into a better engagement therewith. This connector or clip can be readily formed from a single piece of sheet material and can be very quickly applied to a binding post or detached therefrom. It will also be obvious that owing to the provision of the seat 2 and the peculiar arrangement thereof with respect to the perforated plates or jaws 6, a good electrical connection between the members will always be assured.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is g 1. A connector including a stock provided with a seat adapted to bear against the binding post, and post gripping members carried by the stock and offset from the plane thereof.

A connector including a stock formed with a seat adapted to bear against a post, and a pair of cooperating spring actuated jaws carried by the stock and offset from the plane thereof, the said jaws being adapt to positively engage the post. 3. A connector including a stock formed nate in overlapping plates with a seat adapted to engage one side of a post, and spring arms projecting from the stock and terminating in post engaging members adapted to cooperate with each other to grip the post.

4:- A connector including a stock provided with a seat adapted to engage a post, the said stock being provided with laterally projecting spring arms which are returned and terminate in perforated plates adapted to cooperate with each other to grip the post.

5. A connector including a stock provided with a notched seat adapted to bear loosely against one side of a post, the said stock being formed with laterally projecting spring arms which are returned and termihaving cutaway portions adapted to cooperate with each other to positively grip the post.

6. A connector including a stock provided with a notched seat adapted to bear loosely against one side of a post, the said stock being formed with laterally projecting spring arms which are returned and terminate 1n overlapping plates arranged in a spaced relation to the stock and having cut away portions adapted to grip the post, the

Copies of this patent said cut away portions of the overlapping plates and the notched seat having such a relationto each other .as to hold the connector at an inclination to the axis of the post.

7. A connector including a stock formed with a notched seat adapted to bear loosely against one side of a post, the said stock being also provided with means for engaging a conductor, spring arms projecting laterally from the stock and having the ends thereof returned and terminating in overlapping perforated plates havlng a spaced relation to the stock, the spring action of the arms causing the perforated plates to grip the post when the connector is applied thereto andthe perforations of the plates and the notched seats being out of alinement with each other so as to hold the connector at an inclination to the axis of the post.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM P. HAMMOND.

WVitnesses M. W. GREAR, LEONARD L. GREAR, 2

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents