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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald J Smith, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Communications Technology Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
24279 ; 24 2 / ; 174 47 ; 248 / ; 248 / ;
Abstract
A ground clamp for making an electrical connection between a wire and a metal pipe. A metal saddle having a central plate, opposed down turned sides defining a pipe engaging channel, and opposed up turned ends with openings for receiving a wire, with the ends having fingers projecting toward each other defining a band space between the fingers and the plate, with a ground wire passing through the band space and the openings and with a pipe band passing through the space between the fingers and the wire, with means for drawing the ends of the band together to clamp the wire in the saddle and clamp the wire and saddle onto the pipe.