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  • US 4,685,760 A
  • Filed: 02/24/1986
  • Issued: 08/11/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/24/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A battery contact clamp for use in charging batteries within an automobile comprisinga lower member having a pair of lower parallel ears with aligned lower apertures and having one end terminating into a lower jaw portion having a structure defining a plurality of teeth;

  • an upper member having a pair of upper parallel ears with aligned upper apertures that register with the lower apertures of said lower parallel ears of said lower member when said upper parallel ears and said lower parallel ears mate, said upper member additionally having an end terminating into an upper jaw portion having a structure defining a plurality of teeth;

    a rivet means passing through said lower and upper apertures pivotally securing said lower member to said upper member such that the jaw portions of the lower and upper member cooperate with each other respectively;

    torsion spring means for urging said jaw portions together in a touching relationship about said rivet means and maintaining said jaw portions in a touching relationship when said clamp is in a closed posture, said torsion spring means having convolutions that are postioned around the rivet means and an upper end and a lower end that respectively engage the upper and lower members, said upper end and said lower end of said torsion spring means extend away from said rivet means in the same direction and in an opposed relationship with respect to each other.a lug terminal means pivotally secured to said lower member, said lug terminal means being contacted biasing by said lower end of said torsion spring means to retain and urge said lug terminal engaged to the lug terminal means against the lower member.

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