Electrical connector with means for maintaining a connected condition
CA 1067170 A · Owner: Akzona Incorporated · Inventors: Paoli, Alfred
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An electrical connector has a coupling nut provided with ratchet teeth on one end thereof for cooperating with a spring, so that the coupling nut is harder to rotate in one direction than the other. The spring is formed as a leaf spring having an elongate arm which cooperates with the forward and rearward faces of the ratchet teeth extending from the coupling nut. The relation between the leaf spring and the ratchet teeth is such that any compressive force acting on the spring during turning of the coupling nut is relatively light and so the spring, does not buckle as the coupling nut is turned. In one embodiment the spring is in tension during rotation of the coupling nut in its uncoupling …
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- Granted November 27, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 27, 1996.
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