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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1997
Fritz Josef Kourimsky, Bensheim, DE;
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for making contact with a conical contact, in particular a battery terminal, is specified, which apparatus is manufactured from sheet metal by punching and shaping and has two rings of different diameters which each have an opening on one side and are connected to one another by means of two bent clips, one to the left and one to the right of the openings and the apparatus has means for reducing the width of the openings which means engage on the clips at least one further contact making area and has strips arranged on the external side of the rings, respectively at positions lying one opposite the other, the free ends of which strips have a shape which is complementary to the free end of the respective opposite strip, and the free ends, which are shaped in a complementary fashion, of opposite strips bear one against the other.