Battery booster cable storage system

• US 5,316,498 A
• Filed: 06/14/1993
• Issued: 05/31/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Joseph Hooper
• Original Assignee: Joseph Hooper
• Inventors: Hooper, Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US08/075,377
• Time in Patent Office: 351 Days
• Field of Search: 439/501, 439/504, 206/328, 206/388, 206/805
• US Class Current: 439/501
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/24 with gripping jaws, e.g. crocodile clip
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/805 Rubber band

Abstract

A battery booster cable storage system that takes two elongated battery booster cables each having a predetermined length L and folds them back and forth upon themselves into a predetermined shape that is substantially linear and having a folded length no greater than L/3. A closed loop elastic member is secured to one of the alligator clamp assemblies at each end of the substantially linear folded shape. A gripping member may be secured to the closed loop elastic member and there is provided a cable support member that removably receives the gripping member.

Claims

1. A battery booster cable storage system comprising:

two elongated battery booster cables each having a predetermined length L;

each of said battery booster cables having a stranded wire electrical conductor that extends its length and they are each surrounded by a layer of insulation, said stranded wire electrical conductors having a first end and a second end;

four alligator clamp assemblies each formed from a pair of elongated handles having a jaw with teeth formed on one of their ends, a pivot pin connects said pair of handles intermediate their length, said pivot pin passes through a coiled spring that functions to keep said jaws clamped together, an insulator hand grip is removably received on each handle;

the respective first and second ends of said stranded wire electrical conductors being connected to only one of the handles of an alligator clamp assembly;

said battery booster cables being folded back and forth into a predetermined shape that is substantially linear and having a folded length no greater than L/3; and

means for holding said folded booster cables in said substantially linear configuration comprising a closed loop elastic member directly secured to one of the alligator clamp assemblies at each end of said substantially linear folded shape.

2. A battery booster cable storage system as recited in claim 1 wherein the jaws of two of said alligator clamp assemblies are located adjacent the respective ends of said predetermined substantially linear folded shape.

3. A battery booster cable storage system as recited in claim 2 wherein said means for holding said folded booster cables in said substantially linear configuration comprises a closed loop elastic member that passes through the coiled spring of one of the alligator clamp assemblies at each end of said substantially linear folded shape.

4. A battery booster cable storage system as recited in claim 2 wherein said means for holding said folded booster cables in said substantially linear configuration comprises an aperture in the handle of one of the alligator clamp assemblies at each end of said substantially linear folded shape and a closed loop elastic member passing through said aperture.

5. A battery booster cable storage system as recited in claim 2 wherein said means for holding said folded booster cables in said substantially linear configuration comprises a flange formed on the insulator hand grip of one of the alligator clamp assemblies at each end of said substantially linear folded shape, an aperture is formed in each of said flanges and a closed loop elastic member passing through said aperture.

6. A battery booster cable storage system as recited in claim 1 wherein a substantially triangularly shaped gripping member is secured to said closed loop elastic member.

7. A battery booster cable storage system as recited in claim 6 further comprising a cable support member having a substantially triangularly shaped aperture that removably receives said substantially triangularly shaped gripping member.