Switch adapter and connector for automobile electrical system testers

• US 3,166,650 A
• Filed: 11/20/1961
• Issued: 01/19/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert C. Heidrich
• Original Assignee: Robert C. Heidrich
• Inventors: Heidrich, Robert C.
• Application Number:
  US04/153,640
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• US Class Current: 200/52.00R
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/006 on road vehicles, e.g. automobiles or trucks testing of ignition installations peculiar to internal combustion engines F02P17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/287 Intermediate parts between battery post and cable end piece
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/28 Terminal boards

Claims

1. IN AN AUTOMOBILE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM TESTER INCLUDING A TEST INSTRUMENT HAVING LEADS FOR CONNECTION IN SERIES WITH AN AUTOMOBILE BATTERY AND AN AUTOMOBILE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM INCLUDING A BATTERY HAVING CONNECTOR POSTS THEREON AND CABLES TERMINATING IN CONNECTOR SOCKETS TO FIT ONTO SAID POSTS, A SWITCH ADAPTER AND CONNECTOR COMPRISING AN INSULATING SUPPORTING MEMBER, A TAPERED METAL SOCKET TO FIT ONTO A BATTERY CONNECTOR POST, MEANS SECURING THE SOCKET TO THE SUPPORTING MEMBER, A CONNECTOR POST ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A CONNECTOR SOCKET SECURED TO THE SUPPORTING MEMBER SPACED FROM AND INSULATED BY THE SUPPORTING MEMBER FROM THE TAPERED METAL SOCKET, ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS CONNECTED TO THE TAPERED METAL SOCKET AND THE CONNECTOR POST RESPECTIVELY TO RECEIVE THE TEST INSTRUMENT LEADS, SWITCH PARTS CONNECTED TO THE TAPERED METAL SOCKET AND THE CONNECTOR POST RESPECTIVELY, ONE OF THE SWITCH PARTS BEING MOVABLE INTO AND OUT OF CONTACT WITH THE OTHER, THE SWITCH PARTS WHEN IN CONTACT BEING CAPABLE OF TRANSMITTING RELATIVELY HEAVY CURRENT FOR STARTING AN AUTOMOBILE ENGINE IN SHUNT WITH THE TEST INSTRUMENT AND WHEN OUT OF CONTACT CAUSING ALL OF THE BATTERY CURRENT TO FLOW THROUGH A TEST INSTRUMENT CONNECTED TO THE ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS.