Test clip

• US 4,057,313 A
• Filed: 07/19/1976
• Issued: 11/08/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ida Polizzano
• Original Assignee: Ida Polizzano
• Inventors: Polizzano, Ida
• Primary Examiner(s): Lake, Roy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Abrams, Neil
• Application Number:
  US05/706,171
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 339/31-33, 339/97 T, 339/108 TP, 339/200 P, 339/255 P, 339/260, 339/261
• US Class Current: 439/219
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/18 End pieces terminating in a probe
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/24 with gripping jaws, e.g. crocodile clip

Abstract

An alligator clip for testing electrical circuits is provided with a spring clip on one conductive leg of the alligator clip for slidably receiving a termination on a terminal board for testing the same.

Claims

1. An electrical test connecting device comprising:

an alligator clip including

a pair of conductive gripping jaws attached to each other and a conductive leg connected to each jaw, an inner surface of one leg being opposed to an inner surface of the other leg,

spring means for biasing said jaws towards each other,

an electrical conductor connected to one of said legs adapted to be connected to a desting device; and

a conductive clip attached to the inner surface of said other leg, said clip being resilient, elongated, and providing oppositely longitudinally extending arcuate end portions, one of said arcuate end portions being fixedly secured on the transverse edge thereof to said inner surface, said other arcuate end portion being biased toward said other leg, said clip adapted to frictionally retain and conductively engage an electrical terminal disposed between said clip and the inner surface of said other leg.

2. An electrical test connecting device in accordance with claim 1, wherein one of said jaws includes a spike in the interior thereof and the other of said jaws includes an interior jaw opposite to said spike.