Electrical power line insulator with end clamp

• US 7,432,449 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2006
• Issued: 10/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bong Joo Kim
• Original Assignee: Bong Joo Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Bong Joo
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, DHIRUBHAI R
• Application Number:
  US11/543,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20080083555A1
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 174/169, 174/186, 174/191, 174/138.F, 174/137.R, 174/40.R, 174/170, 174/168, 174/146, 174/174, 174/172, 174/154, 174/82, 174/74.A, 174/196, 174/77.R, 248/74.4, 248/231.4, 248/316.4, 245/25
• US Class Current: 174/138.00F
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 17/16 Fastening of insulators to support, to conductor, or to adjoining insulator
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44598 Threaded cylindrical rod and mating cavity

Abstract

An electrical power line insulator has an end clamp with a saddle for supporting an electrical wire, a track provided on a front surface of the saddle, a keeper for compressing and supporting an electrical wire seated in the saddle, a bolt and a nut for fastening the keeper to the saddle and operable to horizontally move the keeper along the track, and an insulator housing secured to the end clamp and mounted on a support structure. The end clamp and the insulator housing are detachably assembled with each other by means of a cylindrical clamp base integrally provided on a lower portion of the saddle and the track of the clamp and an upper fitting part. The upper fitting part has an assembly cylinder provided on an upper portion of the fitting part to be connected to the cylindrical clamp base, a compression cylinder provided on a lower portion of the fitting part and pressed against a post of the insulator housing, and a bolt and a nut fastening the cylindrical clamp base of the clamp to the assembly cylinder of the upper fitting part.

Claims

1. An electrical power line insulator having an end clamp with a saddle for supporting an electrical wire, and a track provided on a front surface of the saddle, a keeper for compressing and supporting an electrical wire seated in the saddle, and a bolt and a nut for fastening the keeper to the saddle and operable to horizontally move the keeper along the track, and an insulator housing secured to the end clamp and mounted on a support structure,

the end clamp and the insulator housing being detachably assembled with each other by means of:

a cylindrical clamp base integrally provided on a lower portion of the saddle and the track of the clamp; and

an upper fitting part comprising;

an assembly cylinder provided on an upper portion of the fitting part to be connected to the cylindrical clamp base;

a compression cylinder provided on a lower portion of the fitting part and pressed against a post of the insulator housing; and

a bolt and a nut fastening the cylindrical clamp base of the clamp to the assembly cylinder of the upper fitting part.

2. An electrical power line insulator according to claim 1, wherein an end of the bolt for fastening the clamp base to the assembly cylinder protrudes a predetermined distance, and an eyenut for holding a tool or an auxiliary tool for holding electrical wires is secured to the end of the bolt.

3. An electrical power line insulator according to claim 2, wherein the bolt to which the eyenut for holding a tool is secured and the bolt for moving the keeper forwards and backwards are separately installed.

4. An electrical power line insulator according to claim 1, wherein a drain hole is formed in each of the track of the clamp and the clamp base, thus preventing rainwater from collecting therein.

5. An electrical power line insulator according to claim 1, wherein the saddle of the clamp has reinforcing ribs, the reinforcing ribs being provided on an outer portion of a seat in which the electrical wire is seated.

6. An electrical power line insulator according to claim 1, wherein the keeper has:

a compression surface formed such that a surface thereof contacting the electrical wire is concave to correspond to the shape of the electrical wire;

an internally threaded hole formed in a lower portion behind the compression surface such that the keeper itself moves forwards and backwards; and

guide surfaces protruding backwards in a longitudinal direction and contacting an upper surface of the track to stably guide the track when the keeper moves forwards and backwards.

7. An electrical power line insulator, comprising:

an end clamp comprising;

a saddle for supporting an electrical wire;

a keeper for compressing and supporting the electrical wire seated in the saddle;

a track integrated with the saddle to move the keeper toward the saddle; and

a cylindrical clamp base integrated with the saddle to support and connect the saddle and the keeper; and

an upper fitting part of an insulator housing, having;

an assembly cylinder provided on an upper portion of the upper fitting part and connected to the cylindrical clamp base of the end clamp;

a compression cylinder provided on a lower portion of the upper fitting part and connected to a post of the insulator housing;

a bolt protruding from the clamp base; and

bolts and nuts fastening the keeper to the saddle so as to horizontally move the keeper received in the track, and fastening the clamp base to the assembly cylinder, respectively.