Electrical cable splice with explosive charge

• US 3,364,304 A
• Filed: 11/27/1963
• Issued: 01/16/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Henry J. Modrey
• Original Assignee: Henry J. Modrey
• Inventors: Modrey, Henry J.
• Application Number:
  US04/329,620
• Time in Patent Office: 1,511 Days
• US Class Current: 174/94.00R
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/08 effected by an explosion

Claims

1. AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTION FORMING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A FIRST SLEEVE OF CONDUCTIVE DUCTILE MATERIAL, AN EXPLOSIVE CHARGE IN A CONTINUOUS LAYER EXTENDING AXIALLY ALONG THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE FIRST SLEEVE AND SUBSTANTIALLY ENVELOPING THE OUTSIDE SURFACE OF SAID SLEEVE, A SECOND SLEEVE COAXIALLY DISPOSED OVER SAID FIRST SLEEVE AND EXTENDING OVER SAID EXPLOSIVE CHARGE ALONG ITS LENGTH, THE SAID SECOND SLEEVE HAVING EACH END FORMED INWARDLY AGAINST THE OUTER SURFACE OF AN END OF SAID FIRST SLEEVE WITH SAID CHARGE BEING THEREBY SUBSTANTIALLY SEALED BETWEEN SAID SLEEVES TO DIRECT THE PRESSURE DEVELOPED BY DETONATION OF SAID CHARGE INWARDLY AGAINST SAID FIRST SLEEVE, THE SAID FIRST SLEEVE FURTHER INCLUDING AT EACH END THEREOF AN ANNULAR FLANGE MEMBER FORMED RADIALLY OUTWARD AND THEN RADIALLY INWARD AGAINST THE OUTER ANNULAR SURFACE OF EACH END OF SAID SECOND SLEEVE TO POSITION AND SECURE SAID SECOND SLEEVE AND PERFECT THE SEAL OF SAID CHARGE, TWO ELONGATED MEMBERS OF CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL INSERTED IN SAID FIRST SLEEVE EXTENDING AXIALLY THEREIN IN ALIGNED END-TO-END RELATIONSHIP AND APPROXIMATELY ABUTMENT, THE DETONATION OF SAID CHARGE EFFECTING A RADIAL CONSTRICTION OF SAID FIRST SLEEVE INWARDLY ALONG THE ENTIRE ENVELOPED PERIPHERY THEREOF TO SEIZE THE TWO MEMBERS AND PROVIDE AN ELECTRIC CONNECTION THEREBETWEEN THROUGH SAID FIRST SLEEVE.