Electrical connector with wiregripping means

Claim 1

IN AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR, IN COMBINATION: A PAIR OF CONNECTOR PARTS EACH COMPRISING A CYLINDRICAL JAW MEMBER HAVING DIAMETRALLY OPPOSED JAW APERTURES, A GENERALLY TANGENTIAL ATTACHMENT TAIL HAVING A FASTENER APERTURE, AND AN INTERMEDIATE OFFSET NECK FORMED AS A TANGENTIAL CONTINUATION OF THE RESPECTIVE CYLINDRICAL JAW MEMBER AND JOINED TO A RESPECTIVE TAIL BY AN INTEGRAL BEND, ONE OF SAID JAW MEMBERS BEING ROTATABLY RECEIVED WITHIN THE OTHER SO AS TO PROVIDE A HINGED CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID CONNECTOR PARTS FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN AN OPEN CONDITION OF THE CONNECTOR IN WHICH SAID TAILS ARE SPREAD APART IN DIVERGING RELATION AND A CLOSED CONDITION OF SAID CONNECTOR IN WHICH ONE OF SAID TAILS IS SEATED UPON THE OTHER AND THEIR FASTENER APERTURES ARE IN REGISTERING RELATION SO THAT A FASTENER MAY BE EXTENDED THERETHROUGH AND INTO A BODY TO WHICH AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTIOIN IS TO BE MADE; SAID JAW APERTURES BEING SO POSITIONED THAT THE ALIGNMENT OF ALL FOUR OF THEM WILL EFFECT THE DISPOSITION OF SAID TAILS IN SAID OPENED, DIVERGING RELATION; AND A RETAINER SLEEVE OF DEFORMABLE METAL EXTENDING THROUGH SAID FOUR JAW APERTURES, RETAINING SAID CONNECTOR PARTS AGAINST RELATIVE LATERAL DISPLACEMENT, INITIALLY RETAINING SAID CONNECTOR PARTS IN THE OPENED CONDITION OF THE CONNECTOR, AND FUNCTIONING AS A GUIDE FOR THE INSERTION OF THE END OF A CONDUCTOR THROUGH SAID JAW APERTURES AND AS A LINER FOR SAID APERTURES TO TRANSMIT CRIMPING ACTION FROM SAID JAWS TO SAID CONDUCTOR TO CLAMP THE SAME BETWEEN THE JAWS WHEN THE CONNECTOR PARTS ARE RELATIVELY MOVED TO THE CLOSED CONDITION OF THE CONNECTOR IN WHICH SAID TAILS ARE SEATED ONE UPON THE OTHER, SAID FASTENER APERTURES REGISTERING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN SAID CLOSED CONDITION AND FUNCTIONING TO RECEIVE A FASTENER EXTENDED THERETHROUGH, ANCHORED IN SAID BODY, AND DRAWING SAID TAILS TIGHTLY INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WITH SAID BODY.