Connector for an air filter assembly

Claim 1

A connector and air filter assembly for attachment to a carburetor, the filter assembly including a housing having a bottom wall and at least one sleeve projecting upwardly from the bottom wall and a cap having a wall, said sleeve being closed at its free end by a cross wall provided with a slot; said connector including an insert having a seat on its inner surface adapted to receive and be substantially fixed to the headed end of a pin permanently fixed to and projecting from said carburetor, said insert provided on its outer surface with two diametrically opposite ribs, two diametrically opposite legs having walls facing each other with teeth disposed to engage said ribs on the insert when said insert is moved axially between said legs with respect to said ribs, means for connecting said legs together and adapted to engage said cross wall of said sleeve, a head having an elongated shape connected to said means by a shank and arranged to pass through said slot of said cross wall and another slot in said wall of said cap, means in said cap wall adjacent said another slot for positioning said head when said head is out of alignment with said another slot, whereby when said head is passed through said slot in said cross wall and said slot in said cap wall and located in said positioning means and said headed end of said pin is received in said seat and fixed relative to said insert said filter assembly is thereby attached to said carburetor.