Combination battery booster cable connector

• US 4,620,767 A
• Filed: 02/21/1985
• Issued: 11/04/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: East PENN Manufacturing Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: East PENN Manufacturing Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Woolf, Harold L.
• Primary Examiner(s): MCGLYNN, JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US06/703,727
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 339/29 B, 339/224, 339/255 P, 339/261, 339/32, 339/33
• US Class Current: 439/217
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/24 with gripping jaws, e.g. crocodile clip

Abstract

A combination battery booster cable connector for both top and side terminal batteries for connecting battery cables, which includes a pair of hinged clamp halves, which are resiliently urged together, and have jaws formed adjacent each end, to engage a top battery terminal when in closed engaged position. The connector has portions extending forwardly from the jaws on one side for engaging the side terminal bolt of a side terminal battery.

Claims

1. A combination battery booster cable connector for connection to a top terminal battery and a side terminal battery which comprises

a pair of clamp halves hingedly secured together,

said clamp halves having front and rear ends,

resilient means carried by said halves urging said front ends of said clamp halves together,

gripping means carried on said front ends of said clamp halves for gripping a side terminal bolt of a side terminal battery,

said gripping means including a side terminal gripping plate carried by and extending forwardly from the front end of each of said clamp halves in opposing relation,

said side terminal plates each having notches to engage a groove of said side terminal bolt in cooperating gripping engagement therebetween,

means for gripping a battery cable terminal of a top terminal battery carried by said halves,

said top terminal gripping means including a pair of opposed jaws extending from the front ends of said halves, for gripping engagement with said battery cable terminal.

2. A combustion battery booster cable connector as defined in claim 1 in which

said clamp halves are hinged together by a rivet, and

said resilient means is a coiled spring.

3. A combination battery booster cable connector as defined in claim 1 in which

said top terminal gripping means and said side terminal gripping means are integral.

4. A combination battery booster cable connector as defined in claim 1 in which

said clamp halves are provided with indentations at the rear ends for gripping by the hand and fingers of a user.