Interlocking electrical connectors

• US 3,206,709 A
• Filed: 08/12/1963
• Issued: 09/14/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Vore Jr William W De
• Original Assignee: Vore Jr William W De
• Inventors: VORE JR WILLIAM W DE
• Application Number:
  US04/301,314
• Time in Patent Office: 764 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

4. AN INSERT FOR THE CONNECTOR BODY OF AN INTERLOCKING ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WHICH COMPRISES:

A GENERALLY ELONGATED BASE MEMBER HAVING A FIRST END AND A SECOND END;

BRACKET MEANS ON THE FIRST END OF SAID BASE MEMBER, SAID BRACKET MEANS AND BASE MEMBER DEFINING THEREIN FIRST AND SECOND SPACED APART ALIGNED OVAL OPENINGS, THE LONGER DIMENSIONS OF SAID OPENINGS BEING PARALLEL TO THE MAJOR DIMENSION OF SAID BASE MEMBER;

A PIVOT PIN SUPPORTED BY AND EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID OVAL OPENINGS;

ELONGATED PAWL MEANS HAVING A FIRST END SUPPORTED BY SAID PIVOT PIN AND POSITIONED BETWEEN SAID OPENINGS, SAID PAWL MEANS EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL TO SAID BASE MEMBER;

INCLINED PLANE MEANS SUPPORTED AT THE SECOND END OF SAID BASE MEMBER TO ENGAGE THE SECOND END OF SAID PAWL MEANS UPON PIVOTING ABOUT SAID PILOT PIN, THE INNERMOST END OF SAID INCLINED PLANE MEANS DEFINING A LATCHING PEAK;

FIRST RESILIENT MEANS URGING SAID PAWL MEANS TOWARD THE SECOND END OF SAID BASE MEMBER TO SELECTIVELY LATCH SAID PAWL MEMBER IN A LATCHING RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID LATCHING PEAK;

SECOND RESILIENT MEANS RESILIENTLY URGING THE SECOND END OF SAID PAWL MEANS PIVOTALLY OUTWARDLY FROM SAID INCLINED PLANE MEANS UPON RELEASE FROM SAID LATCHING PEAK;

AND LATCH RELEASE MEANS ON SAID PAWL MEANS ARRANGED TO INTERCEPT A MALE CONTACT BLADE TO FORCE SAID PAWL MEMBER AGAINST SAID FIRST RESILIENT MEANS TO RELEASE ITS SECOND END FROM SAID LATCHING PEAK.