Automatic electrical connection device

Claim 1

AN AUTOMATIC ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION AN ELONGATED CYLINDRICAL PLUG MOUNTED ON A FIXED BODY, A RECIPROCAL COVER KEYED TO SAID PLUG, CAM MEANS ON THE FORWARD END OF SAID COVER, A POSITIONING CONE RECIPROCALLY MOUNTED ON THE COVER, A PLURALITY OF FIRST ELECTRICAL CONTACTS CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED ABOUT THE OUTER PERIPHERY OF SAID PLUG AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY ALONG THE AXIS OF THE PLUG, SAID PLURALITY OF FIRST ELECTRICAL CONTACTS BEING OF THIN RESILIENT MATERIAL AND HAVING A SLIGHTLY ARCUATE CONFIGURATION EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE PLUG, A SOCKET HAVING A BELL-SHAPED MOUTH MOUNTED ON A SECOND BODY, SAID SECOND BODY BEING MOVABLE IN A FIXED PATH RELATIVE TO SAID FIXED BODY, AN ALIGNMENT GUIDE CUT IN ONE SIDE OF THE BELL-MOUTH, A PLURALITY OF SECOND ELECTRICAL CONTACTS CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED ABOUT THE INNER PERIPHERY OF SAID SOCKET AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY ALONG THE AXIS OF THE SOCKET, SAID PLURALITY OF SECOND ELECTRICAL CONTACTS BEING RIGIDLY MOUNTED FLUSH WITH THE INNER PERIPHERY OF SAID SOCKET, AND WATERPROOFING MEANS BETWEEN SAID PLUG AND SAID COVER WHEREBY WHEN CONNECTION IS MADE BETWEEN THE PLUG AND THE SOCKET THE CAM MEANS ENTERS THE ALIGNMENT GUIDE AND ROTATES THE PLUG UNTIL THE FIRST ELECTRICAL CONTACTS ARE ALIGNED WITH THE SECOND ELECTRICAL CONTACTS.