Automatic interlocking electrical connector

• US 3,233,204 A
• Filed: 09/17/1963
• Issued: 02/01/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1963
• 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:
  US04/309,488
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• US Class Current: 439/333
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/4532 Rotating shutter

Claims

1. AN INTERLOCKING ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR COMPRISING;

A BODY OF ELECTRICAL INSULATING MATERIAL;

A FRONT WALL ON SAID BODY DEFINING A PLURALITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY ALIGNED SPACED ARCUATE OPENINGS THERETHROUGH;

A RAISED CENTRAL BOSS SUPPORTED BY SAID FRONT WALL WITHIN SAID BODY AND EXTENDING ON AN AXIS FALLING SUBSTANTIALLY INTERMEDIATE SAID OPENINGS;

A RETAINING SHAFT SUPPORTED AT A FIRST END BY SAID BOSS AND EXTENDING ON AN AXIS NORMAL TO SAID FRONT WALL FROM THE COMMON CENTER OF A CIRCLE ON WHICH SAID OPENINGS ARE DISPOSED, THE SECOND END OF SAID SHAFT SPACED FROM THE INNER END OF SAID BOSS AND INCLUDING AN ENLARGED HEAD;

A FIRST BLADE POSITIONING MEANS ADJACENT THE INNER END OF SAID BOSS, MOUNTED FOR CONTROLLED PARTIAL ROTATION ABOUT SAID SHAFT;

A SECOND BLADE POSITIONING MEANS ADJACENT SAID HEAD, MOUNTED FOR CONTROLLED PARTIAL ROTATION ABOUT SAID SHAFT INDEPENDENT OF SAID FIRST POSITIONING MEANS;

EACH OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND BLADE POSITIONING MEANS INCLUDING AN INCLINED CAM SURFACE POSITIONED TO IN TERCEPT AN INTERLOCKING MALE CONTACT BLADE INSERTED IN AN ASSOCIATED ONE OF SAID OPENINGS AND INITIALLY BE ROTATED THEREBY BUT THEREAFTER TO ROTATE SAID BLADE, EACH OF SAID CAM SURFACES BEING OF A LENGTH SUCH THAT SAID BLADE LEAVES THE INCLINED PORTION OF SAID CAM SURFACE PRIOR TO REACHING ITS POSITION OF MAXIMUM INSERTION INTO SAID BODY;

A FIRST COILED TORSION SPRING INTERMEDIATE SAID FIRST BLADE POSITIONING MEANS AND SAID SHAFT AND HAVING A FIRST END SECURED TO SAID FIRST BLADE POSITIONING MEANS;

A SECOND COILED TORSION SPRING INTERMEDIATE SAID SECOND BLADE POSITIONING MEANS AND SAID SHAFT AND HAVING A FIRST END SECURED TO SAID SECOND BLADE POSITIONING MEANS;

AND SECURING MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID SHAFT AND THE SECOND ENDS OF EACH OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND SPRINGS;

SAID SPRING ARRANGED TO BIAS THE INSERTED BLADES ROTATIONALLY INTO AN INTERLOCKING POSITION RELATIVE TO SAID FRONT WALL ON THE BLADES REACHING A PREDETERMINED AMOUNT OF INSERTION.