Etco Incorporated

Victor Electric Wire & Cable Corporation

Stephen A Blanche

Thomas R Varatta

Lee Portrais

Range plug blades with integral conductor-accepting cups bisected by planes parallel with the blades are inserted into plug die slots, following which conductors are crimped into the cups, after which plastic is introduced into the die and hardened into a range plug holding the blades, cups, and conductors in predetermined positions.

Range plug

An electrical connector to post-type batteries in which the electrical cable or the like is selectively settably gripped using jaw elements movable toward or away from each other.

Battery terminal connector

An electrical receptacle for a plurality of plugs includes insulatively spaced conductive contact elements each including one of a pair of plug receptive forks, different forks extending in different and non-parallel directions.

Plural socket receptacle

A bridged electrical plug in which blade elements have integral cup-like and blade contact portions and an intermediate neck twisted to bring openings of the cup-like portions into transversely spaced parallel directions.

Bridged electrical plug

An electrical plug with power blades in a power bridge portion and a ground pin in a ground bridge portion, the portions being non-integrally joined.

An electrical conductor of the molded plug type having a protective enclosure in which portions of a contact element are housed. The contact element in one embodiment of the invention includes a pair of spaced apart legs forming a split terminal portion adapted to receive a bayonet-type male contact element adapted to project through the open end of the enclosure. The legs are generally spaced from upper and lower enclosure walls except at the forward terminal ends thereof which contact the walls thus accomplishing a spring action along generally the full extent of the spaced leg portions. Another feature of the invention is the use of a low profile conductor tongue formed by the rear portions of the legs in face to face contact with each other such that the tongue may project through an opening provided in a rear wall of the enclosure. In this regard, a novel clamping assembly whereby a conductor may be attached to such low profile tongue is provided. Accordingly, one of the leg portions is provided with an opening or slot in which the terminal portions of a tongue encircling clamp may be secured while the conductor itself is secured between the inside of the clamp and the outside face of that leg portion distal from such slot.

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Warwick, RI, United States of America

Stephen A Blanche