Securement device for a cable connector
OwnerWilliam Kauzlarichinventor
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Abstract
A securement device for engagement with a cable connector held in a mating socket by a release lever. The device features at least one socket formed into a body which is configured to engage with a cable connector which requires a release lever to maintain the cable connector in the socket. A locking pin engageable through opening on a sidewall is positionable to contact against a shoulder of the cable connector from which the release lever extends to hold the cable connector in the socket until the locking pin is removed. Defective cable connectors lacking an operative release lever can also be held in operative engagement in the socket by the locking pin.
Claims13
A securement apparatus for engagement with a cable connector held in a mating socket by a release lever, comprising:
- a cable junction having a body;
- said body having a first endwall positioned between a first sidewall and a second sidewall;
- an opening in said first endwall communicating with a first socket positioned within said body, said first socket adapted for a removable engagement with a cable connector employing a release lever extending from a shoulder for holding said connector in said removable engagement;
- a first aperture communicating through said first sidewall adjacent said first endwall;
- a first locking pin having a central portion extending between a first end of said first locking pin and a distal end thereof;
- said first locking pin insertable through said first aperture to an inserted position;
- said central portion of said first locking pin while in said inserted position forming a contact against said shoulder of said first cable connector while in said removable engagement with said first socket, whereby said first locking pin in said inserted position prevents removal of said first cable connector from said first socket and maintains a said first cable connector lacking an operative said release lever in said removable engagement with said first socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.