Battery cable clip and cable connection

• US 4,929,199 A
• Filed: 07/13/1988
• Issued: 05/29/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ferret Instruments Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Ferret
• Inventors: McKinnon, Donald C.
• Primary Examiner(s): BRADLEY, PAULA A
• Application Number:
  US07/218,135
• Time in Patent Office: 685 Days
• Field of Search: 439/754, 439/757, 439/759, 439/760, 439/504, 439/452, 439/457, 439/456, 439/467, 439/472, 439/828, 439/829, 439/437, 174/65 G
• US Class Current: 439/759
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/24 with gripping jaws, e.g. crocodile clip
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/28 End pieces consisting of a ferrule or sleeve

Abstract

A cable clip includes a strain relief bushing positioned between the jaws of the clip and the handle end for anchoring a cable to the clip in orthogonal relationship to the clip with the bend in the cable confined to the inside of the clip.

Claims

1. An automobile battery clip comprising:

a pair of substantially identical legs;

a pivot member joining said pair of legs;

a spring positioned about said pivot member and extending away from the pivot member toward the end of each of said pair of legs, which form a handle, to force the two opposite ends of said pair of legs into tight contact;

a pair of co-acting jaws fastened on the inner surface of the contacting ends of said legs with one jaw being connected to each of said legs so that said pair of jaws is normally biased in a tightly closed condition;

a cable clamp on one jaw of said pair of jaws; and

a heavy electrical conductor having one end held by said cable clamp and extending away from said clamp along the inside of one of said legs to an aperture formed in said leg approximately midway between the ends of said leg where said heavy electrical conductor is bent at approximately a 90°

angle to pass through the aperture in a direction substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of said leg.

2. An automobile battery clip as set forth in claim 1, wherein a strain relief is mounted in the aperture formed in said leg and about said heavy electrical conductor.

3. An automobile battery clip as set forth in claim 1, wherein said heavy electrical conductor exits through the aperture formed in one leg below the handle of said battery clip.

4. An automobile battery clip as set forth in claim 1, wherein said heavy electrical conductor is bent within the handle and exits through the aperture formed in said leg above the pivot member and below the handle.