Electrical connectors – Metallic clamp-type connector for storage battery terminal – Clamping lever – cam – or wedge
Reexamination Certificate
2000-09-01
2001-09-11
Sircus, Brian (Department: 2839)
Electrical connectors
Metallic clamp-type connector for storage battery terminal
Clamping lever, cam, or wedge
C439S754000, C439S773000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06287155
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a battery terminal fastener and more particularly pertains to a new battery terminal connector for providing a better and more secure manner of connecting battery cables to batteries.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a battery terminal fastener is known in the prior art. More specifically, a battery terminal fastener heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 4,256,361; U.S. Pat. No. 3,568,139; U.S. Pat. No. 3,944,318; U.S. Pat. No. 2,602,105; U.S. Pat. No. 5,556,309; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 286,767.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new battery terminal connector. The inventive device includes a support member having a main portion and a jaw portion integrally attached to the main portion; and also includes a jaw member being pivotally attached to the support member and being opposed to the jaw portion of the support member; and further includes cable fastening members attached to the support member for clamping the battery terminal connector to a battery cable; and also includes a locking assembly for locking the jaw member to the jaw portion of the support member.
In these respects, the battery terminal connector according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a better and more secure manner of connecting battery cables to batteries.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of battery terminal fastener now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new battery terminal connector construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a better and more secure manner of connecting battery cables to batteries.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new battery terminal connector which has many of the advantages of the battery terminal fastener mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new battery terminal connector which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art battery terminal fastener, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a support member having a main portion and a jaw portion integrally attached to the main portion; and also includes a jaw member being pivotally attached to the support member and being opposed to the jaw portion of the support member; and further includes cable fastening members attached to the support member for clamping the battery terminal connector to a battery cable; and also includes a locking assembly for locking the jaw member to the jaw portion of the support member.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new battery terminal connector which has many of the advantages of the battery terminal fastener mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new battery terminal connector which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art battery terminal fastener, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new battery terminal connector which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new battery terminal connector which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new battery terminal connector which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such battery terminal connector economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new battery terminal connector which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new battery terminal connector for providing a better and more secure manner of connecting battery cables to batteries.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new battery terminal connector which includes a support member having a main portion and a jaw portion integrally attached to the main portion; and also includes a jaw member being pivotally attached to the support member and being opposed to the jaw portion of the support member; and further includes cable fastening members attached to the support member for clamping the battery terminal connector to a battery cable; and also includes a locking assembly for locking the jaw member to the jaw portion of the support member.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new battery terminal connector that eliminates having to use a wrench to tighten a battery terminal connector to the battery terminal.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new battery terminal connector that eliminates the problems associated with the bolts of conventional battery terminal connectors from becoming corroded and hard to remove.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific o
Nguyen Son V.
Sircus Brian
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