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ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS

  • US 3,665,371 A
  • Filed: 05/19/1970
  • Issued: 05/23/1972
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1969
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An electrical connector adapted for uniting with and locking to a mating connector, comprising:

  • a retaining outer sleeve member adapted to engage a mating connector to secure both said connectors together, an inner member located within said sleeve member, said sleeve member surrounding and being movable relative to said inner member, two spaced abutments on said sleeve member, two spaced abutments on said inner member, said sleeve member having at least a portion of resilient plastics material containing said two abutments of said sleeve member, said portion of resilient plastics material being radially outwardly yieldable, whereby during assembly said sleeve member can be pushed over said inner member and said portion of resilient plastics material yields radially outwardly to permit the two abutments of one of said members to snap into a trapped position between the two abutments of the other of said members thereby locking the two members together, said two abutments which snap into said trapped position being opposite faces of a washer which embraces and is retained by said inner member, said two abutments of said sleeve member being the opposite faces of an internal circumferential groove provided in said plastics portion to accommodate the peripheral part of said washer.

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