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US 4,646,006 AGranted
Clamp mechanism for power line mounted monitoring device
OwnerEdmund O. Schweitzer, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A clamping mechanism for mounting a monitoring device to a electrical cable includes a pair of clamp members biased for engaging movement toward one another. A compression member between the clamp members ordinarily prevents engaging movement of the members. When pressed against a cable, the compression member deforms to allow the clamp members to move toward one another and encircle the cable and clamp the device thereon.
Claims9
An automatic clamping mechanism for mounting a circuit condition monitoring device to an electrical cable, comprising:
- a housing for the monitoring device;
- a pair of clamp members projecting in generally parallel-spaced relationship from spaced locations on said housing;
- at least a portion of the projecting end of each of said clamp members being pivotal toward the other of said clamp members, so that each of said members encircle at least a portion of the cable when the cable is positioned between said inwardly pivoted members;
- biasing means associated with each of said clamp members for biasing said projecting portions toward each other;
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- trigger means including an elongated laterally deformable trigger member extending between said projecting portions for maintaining a spacing between said projecting portions greater than the diameter of the conductor, said trigger member being longitudinally non-compressible in the absence of a lateral deformation to prevent said projecting portions from pivoting toward each other, but longitudinally compressible upon lateral deformation resulting from lateral engagement with the conductor to allow said clamp members to encircle the conductor.
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