Electrical connector

Claim 1

AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR COMPRISING INTERENGAGEABLE MALE AND FEMALE SECTIONS, SAID MALE SECTION HAVING AN ELONGATED PROBE, SAID FEMALE SECTION HAVING A BODY WITH A FLARED END SECTION, MEANS FORMING A RECESS IN SAID FEMALE SECTION EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY FROM THE END OF SAID FLARED END SECTION WITH SAID RECESS ADAPTED TO RECEIVE SAID PROBE, MEANS FORMING AT LEAST ONE SLOT EXTENDING FROM SAID RECESS THROUGH SAID FLARED END SECTION WHEREBY SAID FLARED END SECTION MAY BE RADIALLY EXPANDED AND COMPRESSED TO VARY THE DIAMETER OF SAID RECESS, A STATIC BASE HAVING AN OPENING WITHIN WHICH SAID FEMALE SECTION IS POSITIONED FOR MOVEMENT IN THE DIRECTION OF SAID RECESS BETWEEN A LOCKING AND A RELEASE POSITION, SAID STATIC BASE HAVING MEANS IN SAID OPENING FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID FLARED END SECTION TO COMPRESS SAID FLARED END SECTION WHEN MOVED TO SAID LOCKING POSITION WHEREBY SAID PROBE MAY BE INSERTED IN SAID RECESS WHEN IN SAID RELEASE POSITION AND MOVED WITH SAID FEMALE SECTION TO SAID LOCKING POSITION WHEREBY SAID SECTIONS WILL BE SECURELY INTERENGAGED, MEANS FORMING A FIRST ANNULAR GROOVE IN SAID OPENING ENCIRCLING SAID FEMALE SECTION, A SECOND ANNULAR GROOVE ON SAID FEMALE SECTION LYING IN A PLANE PARALLEL TO THE PLANE IN WHICH SAID FIRST ANNULAR GROOVE LIES AND ADAPTED TO BE POSITIONED IN THE SAME PLANE AS SAID FIRST ANNULAR GROOVE WHEN SAID FEMALE SECTION IS IN ITS LOCKING POSITION, A C-SHAPED SPRING POSITIONED TO BE PARTIALLY WITHIN EACH OF SAID ANNULAR GROOVES WHEN SAID FEMALE SECTION IS IN ITS LOCKING POSITION AND ENTIRELY WITHIN SAID FIRST MENTIONED GROOVE WHEN SAID FEMALE SECTION IS IN ITS RELEASED POSITION, AND MEANS LIMITING THE LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT OF SAID FEMALE SECTION BETWEEN SAID LOCKING AND RELEASE POSITIONS.