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US 4,057,878 AGranted
Wire connector
AssigneeTree Island Steel Co. Ltd.
InventorSidney P. Kaye
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Abstract
A wire connector wherein wires to be connected are threaded into a sleeve from opposite ends thereof. A jamming cam is mounted on a resilient pin inside the sleeve which, when tension is applied to the wires to withdraw them from the sleeve, rotates into jamming engagement with the wires.
Claims4
A wire connector for connecting a pair of wires comprising:
- a. an elongated sleeve open at each end for slidably receiving wires to be connected, said sleeve having substantially parallel opposite edge walls for seating the wires to be connected,
- b. an elastic pin disposed transversely within the sleeve intermediately between said side edges and being non-rotatably secured at least at one end to the sleeve,
- c. a double-ended jamming cam non-rotatably mounted on the pin yieldably maintained by the pin in frictional engagement with the wires so as to, automatically, rotate into jamming engagement with the wires when tension is applied to the wires to withdraw them from the sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.