Grounding clamping lever

Claim 1

A grounding clamp of the class described comprising a pair of identical handle members, each handle member having a jaw member on one end and a pair of laterally and inwardly extending ears, the distance between each pair of ears being identical, one pair of said ears arranged to overlap the other pair Of ears, said pairs of ears having aligned apertures, means pivotally securing said ears together, each of said handles having an elongated cutout, a helical compression spring wound around said means interiorally of said ears and having the ends of said spring extending rearwardly in said cut-outs, the ends of said spring being bent substantially at right angles laterally outwardly with the terminal ends of said spring abutting against the inner surface of said handle, said jaw bored and threaded downwardly and inwardly toward said pairs of ears receiving an elongated case-hardened set screw, the inward ends of said set screws being pointed and the points abutting each other when in place in said jaws, the individual centerlines of said set screws intersecting at an acute angle, whereby when said handles are compressed towards each other the set screws will tend to approach a common center line.