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- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
- H01R11/00—Individual connecting elements providing two or more spaced connecting locations for conductive members which are, or may be, thereby interconnected, e.g. end pieces for wires or cables supported by the wire or cable and having means for facilitating electrical connection to some other wire, terminal, or conductive member, blocks of binding posts
- H01R11/11—End pieces or tapping pieces for wires, supported by the wire and for facilitating electrical connection to some other wire, terminal or conductive member
- H01R11/22—End pieces terminating in a spring clip
- H01R11/24—End pieces terminating in a spring clip with gripping jaws, e.g. crocodile clip
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- My invention relates to improvements in connectors for batteries.
- the objects of my improvements are, first, to provide a connector which can be easily and quickly put together and taken apart; second, to provide a connector whose joints shall be rigid and tight when it is put together and shall so remain until it is taken apart; third, to provide a connector which shall not be attacked by acids or other substances used in the batteries, and, fourth,to provide a connector which is cheap and economical in construction.
- a common fault with connectors for bat teries as ordinarily made is that no matter how tightly they may be put together they sooner or later loosen and make bad electrical joints. This is almost always due to the fact that they are composed of soft metals or alloys, which readily flow or change their shape when subjected to pressure. This I propose to overcome by making all their parts of a hard, elastic metal, which when subjected to pressure retains its shape and by its elastic properties maintains the pressure put upon it.
- I attach in any suitable manner to each electrode of the battery a screw-threaded and shouldered pro jection formed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy.
- I take a strip or wire of some soft flexible non-oxidizable metal or alloy, provided with enlarged ends or lugs of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy. These lugs are each perforated with a hole through which the screw-threaded projection is passed, and are tightly and rigidly held in place against the shoulders upon the screw-threaded projection by nuts, also composed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy.
- Figure 1 represents one of the electrodes of a battery with the screw-threaded projection attached.
- Fig. 2 represents the screwthreaded projection.
- Fig. 3 represents the flexible connecting-strip.
- Fig. 4 represents a nut, and
- Fig. 5 shows the parts as they appear when put together.
- Fig. 6 is a modified form of the screw-threaded projection.
- A is a bar or strip of metal, forming the terminal of the electrode B B of a battery.
- 0 is a screw-threaded projection provided with a shoulder D, consisting of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal, such as aluminium bronze.
- This screw-threaded piece is shown in detail in Fig. 2 and consists of the screw 0, shoulder D, and conical-shaped part E. It may be united to the barA by drilling a hole in A, putting the conical part E into the hole so formed, and uniting the whole together by soldering the parts together, or it may be attached'to the bar A by casting in any suitable manner the metal of which A is formed around the conical part E, thereby firmly holding it in place.
- the screw-threaded piece may also be of the form shown in Fig. 6 and may be attached by soldering it onto the surface of the bar A.
- H is a strip of a soft flexible non-oxidizable metal-such as an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony-to which is attached at each end in any suitable manner enlarged heads or lugs F F, of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metalsuch as aluminium bronzeand perforated with holes at G G, while a satisfactory alloy for the construction of strip H may be formed of eighty-two per cent. lead, sixteen per cent. tin, and two per cent. antimony.
- a nut J, Fig. 4 is provided, which is also composed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal, such as aluminium bronze. The parts are united together, as shown in Fig. 5.
- the lugF is first passed over the screw-threaded projection O and against the shoulder D.
- the nut J is then screwed onto 0, binding the Whole tightly and rigidly together.
- a connecting-piece for electric batteries consisting of a strip or bar composed of a soft non-oxidizable metal, provided at each end with a head or lug composed of a hard nonoxidizable metal 01' alloy, substantially as described.
- a connector for electric batteries consisting of a screw-threaded projection 0, provided with a shoulder D, in combination with a connecting-piece H, provided with lugs F and nut J, substantially as described.
- a connector for electric batteries con sisting of a screw-threaded projection 0, provided with a shoulder D, composed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy, in combination with a connecting-piece H, composed of a soft flexible non-oxidizable metal or alloy, said strip being provided with lugs F, composed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy, substantially as described.
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Sm Hm B W N 0 NC KY .R Rm n EB A d 0 M 0 W Patented Sept. 6, 1892.
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EDlVARD R. KNOWVLES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
BATTERY-CONNECTOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,012, dated September 6, 1892.
Application filed October 15, 1891- Serial No. 408,821. (No model.
To all whom it may concern.-
Beit known that I, EDWARD R. KNOWLEs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn,in the county'of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Battery-Connectors, of which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to improvements in connectors for batteries.
The objects of my improvements are, first, to provide a connector which can be easily and quickly put together and taken apart; second, to provide a connector whose joints shall be rigid and tight when it is put together and shall so remain until it is taken apart; third, to provide a connector which shall not be attacked by acids or other substances used in the batteries, and, fourth,to provide a connector which is cheap and economical in construction.
A common fault with connectors for bat teries as ordinarily made is that no matter how tightly they may be put together they sooner or later loosen and make bad electrical joints. This is almost always due to the fact that they are composed of soft metals or alloys, which readily flow or change their shape when subjected to pressure. This I propose to overcome by making all their parts of a hard, elastic metal, which when subjected to pressure retains its shape and by its elastic properties maintains the pressure put upon it.
Another common fault with connectors for batteries, as ordinarily made, is their liability to be quickly destroyed by the action upon them of acids or other substances used in the batteries. This I propose to overcome by making them of a metal or alloy which is nonoxidizable in character and not attacked by acids or other substances used in batteries.
In carrying out my invention, I attach in any suitable manner to each electrode of the battery a screw-threaded and shouldered pro jection formed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy. To connect one battery to the other, I take a strip or wire of some soft flexible non-oxidizable metal or alloy, provided with enlarged ends or lugs of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy. These lugs are each perforated with a hole through which the screw-threaded projection is passed, and are tightly and rigidly held in place against the shoulders upon the screw-threaded projection by nuts, also composed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy.
In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, in which like parts are designated by similar letters of reference, Figure 1 represents one of the electrodes of a battery with the screw-threaded projection attached. Fig. 2 represents the screwthreaded projection. Fig. 3 represents the flexible connecting-strip. Fig. 4 represents a nut, and Fig. 5 shows the parts as they appear when put together. Fig. 6 is a modified form of the screw-threaded projection.
A is a bar or strip of metal, forming the terminal of the electrode B B of a battery.
0 is a screw-threaded projection provided with a shoulder D, consisting of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal, such as aluminium bronze. This screw-threaded piece is shown in detail in Fig. 2 and consists of the screw 0, shoulder D, and conical-shaped part E. It may be united to the barA by drilling a hole in A, putting the conical part E into the hole so formed, and uniting the whole together by soldering the parts together, or it may be attached'to the bar A by casting in any suitable manner the metal of which A is formed around the conical part E, thereby firmly holding it in place. The screw-threaded piece may also be of the form shown in Fig. 6 and may be attached by soldering it onto the surface of the bar A.
H is a strip of a soft flexible non-oxidizable metal-such as an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony-to which is attached at each end in any suitable manner enlarged heads or lugs F F, of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metalsuch as aluminium bronzeand perforated with holes at G G, while a satisfactory alloy for the construction of strip H may be formed of eighty-two per cent. lead, sixteen per cent. tin, and two per cent. antimony. A nut J, Fig. 4, is provided, which is also composed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal, such as aluminium bronze. The parts are united together, as shown in Fig. 5. The lugF is first passed over the screw-threaded projection O and against the shoulder D. The nut J is then screwed onto 0, binding the Whole tightly and rigidly together.
hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
1. The combination, with the electrode of an electric battery, of a screw-threaded projection 0, provided with a shoulder D, and a conical-shaped projection E, substantially as described.
2. The combination, With the electrode of an electric battery, of a screw-threaded projection 0, provided with a shoulder D, and conical-shaped projection E, all composed of a hard non-oxidizable metal or alloy, substantially as described.
3. A connecting-piece for electric batteries, consisting of a strip or bar composed of a soft non-oxidizable metal, provided at each end with a head or lug composed of a hard nonoxidizable metal 01' alloy, substantially as described.
4. A connector for electric batteries, consisting of a screw-threaded projection 0, provided with a shoulder D, in combination with a connecting-piece H, provided with lugs F and nut J, substantially as described.
5. A connector for electric batteries, con sisting of a screw-threaded projection 0, provided with a shoulder D, composed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy, in combination with a connecting-piece H, composed of a soft flexible non-oxidizable metal or alloy, said strip being provided with lugs F, composed of a hard elastic non-oxidizable metal or alloy, substantially as described.
Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 10th day of May, A. D. 1891.
EDXVARD R. KNOWLES. YVitnesses:
E. V. MYERS, J. B. SABINE.
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