Portable battery operated continuity tester with buzzer and detachable test leads

Claim 1

A PORTABLE CONTINUITY TESTER COMPRISING A PAIR OF FLASHLIGHT BATTERIES, A RESILIENT U-SHAPED METAL PLATE COMPRISING A FLAT PLATE BASE PORTION WITH A PAIR OF PLATE LEGS PROJECTING LATERALLY FROM SAID BASE PORTION ADN INTERGRALLY CONNECTED THERETO TO FORM A U-SHAPED CROSS-SECTION, SAID PLATE LEGS RESILIENTLY RETAINING SID PAIR OF FLASHLIGHT CELLS THEREBETWEEN IN SIDE BY SIDE RELATION A SECOND U-PLATE DISPOSED TRANSVERSELY TO THE FIRST MENTIONED U-PLATE AND ENGAGING SAID BATTERIES, SAID FIRST AND SECOND U-PLATES BEING OPEN ACROSS THE OUTER ENDS OF ITS LEGS, A PAIR OF CYLINDRICAL SOCKETS MOUNTED TO THE EXTERIOR OF ONE OF SAID PLATE LEGS WITH SAID SOCKETS DISPOSED IN SPACED RELATION OT ONE ANOTHER, SAID SOCKETS PROJECTING OUTWARDLY IN LENGTH FROM SAID ONE PLATE LEG WITH THEIR LONGITUDINAL AXIS PARALLEL TO AND EXTENDING IN THE SAME GENERAL DIRECTION AS THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID FLASHLIGHT CELLS, ONE OF SAID SOCKETS BEING IN DIRECT ELECTRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE END OF ONE OF SAID FLASHLIGHT CELLS AND THE OTHER OF SAID SOCKETS BEING ADJACENT AND IN DIRECT ELECTRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE END OF THE OTHER OF SAID FLASHLIGHT CELLS, A PAIR OF WIRE TEST LEADS HAVING PRONGS AT ONE END SLIDABLY INSERTED INTO SAID SOCKETS AND PROBES AT THE OTHER END, SAID PAIR OF SOCKETS EACH COMPRISING AN OUTER INSULATING SLEEVE AND AN INNER METAL SLEEVE WITH SAID INNER METAL SLEEVES IN ELECTRICAL CONTACT WITH SAID PRONGS WHEN INSERTED, SAID METAL SLEEVE HAVING AN END PROJECTING TOWARD SAID OTHER PLATE LEG AND THROUGH SAID ONE PLATE LEG, INSULATING WASHER MEANS SURROUNDING SAID END OF SAID METAL SLEEVE ALONG THE ITERIOR FACE OF SAID ONE LEG, SAID METAL SLEEVE HAVING AN OUTURNED FLANGE AT ITS INTERIOR END TO SECURE SAID WASHER AND SOCKETS TO SAID ONE LEG, SAID OUTURNED FLANGE BEING ADAPTED TO DIRECTLY ENGAGE SAID BATTERIES AT THEIR SAID ONE ENDS AND PROVIDE SAID DIRECT ELECTRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID BATTERIES, AND BUZZER MOUNTED TO THE EXTERIOR OF SAID BASE OF SAID FIRST MENTIONED U-PLATE, A COVER FOR SAID BUZZER ALONG THE BASE PORTION OF SAID FIRST U-PLATE, SAID COVER BEING SUBSTANTIALLY CO-EXTENSIVE IN LENGTH AND WIDTH WITH SAID BASE PORTION, CORD MEANS FORMING A LOOP AND ATTACHED TO SAID BASE PORTION ADJACENT SAID ONE PLATE LEG WHEREBY SAID TESTER MAY BE HUNG FROM THE BELT OF AN OPERATOR WITH THE COVER RESTING ADJACENT THE OPERATOR, SAID OTHER PLATE LEG OF SAID PLATE HAVING ELECTRICAL CONTACTS ENGAGING SAID BATTERIES AT THEIR OTHER END WITH CONNECTING WIRES CONNECTING SAID BUZZER IN SERIES BETWEEN SAID OTHER ENDS OF SAID BATTERIES VIA SAID CONTACTS WHEREBY WHEN SAID PROBES ARE PLACED ON SURFACES HAVING ELECTRICAL CONTINUITY THEREBETWEEN, SAID CONTINUITY WILL COMPLETE THE CIRCUIT AND THE BUZZER WILL SOUND.