Single wedge-type grid wire connector
AssigneeUTM Power Products, Inc.
InventorMario Polidori
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Abstract
A connector for joining two grounding grid-wire at their node point includes a C-shaped body member, a nesting member shaped like a cross, and a wedge member mounted for movement within the body member. The body member has two spaced apart fingers that straddle one conductor and hook onto the other conductor. The fingers are joined together by a yoke section. The nesting member has crossing depressions on opposite sides and is inserted between the conductors so that they seat on the depressions. The wedge member is mounted beneath the yoke section and screw driven between the yoke section and the straddled conductor to securely join the conductors together within the connector in nested relation.
Claims12
A connector for joining two conductors extending transversely one another, comprising:
- (a) a body member including a pair of fingers openly spaced apart at one end for straddling a first conductor extending in a given direction between said fingers and having seating surfaces at said one end suitably shaped for grasping a second conductor at spaced locations therealong extending transversely of said first conductor, and a yoke section joining said fingers at the other end thereof;
- (b) a nesting member formed with at least two opposing seating surfaces extending transversely of one another and adapted to be positioned between said conductors so that a lower one of said seating surfaces cooperates with said fingers to grip said second conductor therebetween and the upper one of said seating surfaces forms a seat for said first conductor;
- (c) an elongated wedge member adapted to be positioned beneath said yoke section between said fingers, and over a portion of the length of said first conductor, and provided with a suitably shaped undersurface which cooperates with the upper seating of said nesting member to grip said first conductor therebetween;
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- (d) means for coupling said wedge member to said yoke section for relative movement therebetween, such that when said first conductor is positioned between the upper seating surface of said nesting member and the undersurface of said wedge member, and said second conductor is positioned between the fingers of said body member and the lower seating surface of said nesting member, said wedge member can be driven in the space between said yoke section and said first conductor so as to secure both said conductors in nested relation.
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