Grooved coaxial cable connector

Claim 1

AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH AN EXTERNALLY GROOVED COAXIAL CABLE, SAID CONNECTOR INCLUDING A HOUSING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A TUBULAR SHELL, A TUBULAR BODY PORTION, A SEPARATE CLAMP NUT AND A COLLET CLAMP, MEANS ENGAGING SAID BODY PORTION WITH SAID SHELL WHICH PERMITS SAID SHELL TO ROTATE RELATIVE TO SAID BODY PORTION, SAID BODY PORTION HAVING AN INTERNALLY THREADED PORTION, SAID COLLET CLAMP COMPRISING A HEAD PORTION, A SERIES OF LEGS EXTENDING FROM SAID HEAD PORTION AND APERTURE MEANS THROUGH WHICH THE COAXIAL CABLE EXTENDS, SAID LEGS BEING SPACED FROM EACH OTHER AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF SAID APERTURE MEANS AND HAVING INTERNALLY THREADED MEANS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH FOR THREADING ONTO THE EXTERNAL GROOVES OF THE COAXIAL CABLE, SAID CLAMP NUT HAVING AN EXTERNALLY THREADED PORTION AND HAVING A TAPERED APERTURE FORMED THERETHROUGH, A PORTION OF SAID COLLET CLAMP LYING WITHIN SAID BODY PORTION AND SAID EXTERNALLY THREADED PORTION OF SAID CLAMP NUT CIRCUMSCRIBING A PORTION OF SAID LEGS OF SAID COLLET CLAMP AND THREADED INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID INTERNALLY THREADED PORTION OF SAID BODY PORTION, WHEREBY WHEN SAID CLAMP NUT IS SCREWED INTO SAID BODY PORTION, SAID LEGS CAUSE SAID THREADED MEANS TO PRESS AGAINST THE COAXIAL CABLE TO MAKE AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTION THEREWITH.