Electrical connectors – With insulation other than conductor sheath – Insulating body having plural mutually insulated terminals...
Patent
1997-06-03
1998-12-01
Paumen, Gary F.
Electrical connectors
With insulation other than conductor sheath
Insulating body having plural mutually insulated terminals...
439813, H01R 922
Patent
active
058428909
ABSTRACT:
A terminal connecting device which is mounted between the head of a screw and a washer and acting as a gasket for such screw. The screw is to be threaded onto a stationary terminal to hold a connecting terminal for an electrical accessory (contactor, switch, thermal relay, etc.). When the terminal connecting device is lifted up, the screw is raised to a position above the stationary terminal, allowing a ring terminal to be placed between the end of the screw and the stationary terminal to make the connection of the ring terminal. The terminal connection can be made without the need to extract the screw from or to disassemble the subject accessory. The terminal connecting device has sliding means, which in combination with other means of the cover of the electrical apparatus, to guide and align the screw in the raising or lifting/ insertion movements thereof.
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General Electric Company
Horton Carl B.
Paumen Gary F.
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