Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

Rudolf Andraschko

Hans Kieninger

A connection arrangement enables rapid connection and disconnection of a cable wire ( ) to a post-shaped automobile battery terminal ( ). A battery terminal connector ( ), has a platform ( ) with a front end forming a post-receiving hole ( ) that receives the battery terminal, the platform having a rear end with a pair of stationary shoulders ( ) and a pin contact ( ) lying between the shoulders. A cable connector ( ) includes a socket contact ( ) that can connect to the battery connector, and a locking device. The locking device has a pair of clamp arms ( ) that are resiliently biased together but that are deflected apart by a separator ( ) until the arm shoulders ( ) snap behind the stationary shoulders.

Vehicle battery plug-in connection arrangement

A connector is described, with a receiver ( ) at the rear end that receives and terminates to a cable conductor ( ), with a contact ( ) at the front end, and with an electrical fuse ( ) between the receiver and contact. The fuse has front and rear fuse terminals ( ). A threaded connection between a contact threaded stud part ( ) and a threaded coupling ( ) in the receiver can draw the contact and receiver together and clamp the fuse terminals between contact and receiver. An insulator ( ) surrounds the threaded tube to mechanically fix the threaded coupling to the receiver while electrically isolating one from the other. The receiver has a rear end crimped around the cable conductor and a front end crimped around the insulator.

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Pluederhausen, Germany

Rudolf Andraschko