Electrical wiring device

• US 3,121,599 A
• Filed: 03/06/1961
• Issued: 02/18/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Henry J. Modrey
• Original Assignee: Henry J. Modrey
• Inventors: Modrey, Henry J.
• Application Number:
  US04/093,479
• Time in Patent Office: 1,079 Days
• US Class Current: 439/346
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/005 requiring successive relative motions to complete the coupling, e.g. bayonet type

Claims

1. ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR COMPRISING A CAP WITH SEVERAL ROUND CONTACT PINS, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID PINS HAVING IN ITS CYLINDRICAL WALL AN UPPER AND A LOWER GROOVE;

AND A RECEPTACLE INCLUDING A HOUSING HAVING A WALL INCLUDING ARCUATE ACCESS SLOTS FOR THE CAP PINS, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID SLOTS HAVING A PROFILE DEFINING AN ENTRY PART FITTING THE FULL PERIPHERAL OUTLINE OF THE GROOVED PIN AND A NARROWED LOCKING PART FITTING THE PERIPHERAL OUTLINE OF SAID PIN AT ITS LOWER GROOVE, AND A CORRESPONDING NUMBER OF CONTACT ELEMENTS MOUNTED IN SAID HOUSING, THE ONE OF THE CONTACT ELEMENTS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH SAID PROFILED SLOT HAVING A PROTRUSION ENGAGING THE UPPER GROOVE OF THE GROOVED PIN WHEN THE LATTER OCCUPIES A POSITION IN WHICH THE LOWER GROOVE THEREOF IS LOCATED IN SAID LOCKING PART WHEREBY UPON INSERTION OF THE PINS IN A POSITION SUCH THAT THE GROOVED PIN ENTERS SAID ENTRY PART AND SUBSEQUENT TWISTING OF THE CAP IN REFERENCE TO THE RECEPTACLE INTO A POSITION IN WHICH THE GROOVED PIN OCCUPIES THE LOCKING PART OF THE PROFILED SLOT THE CAP IS LOCKED TO THE RECEPTACLE BY THE GROOVED PIN AT THE CONTACT ELEMENT HAVING THE PROTRUSION AND ALSO AT THE SLOTTED WALL OF THE HOUSING.