US1568666A - Connecter sleeve - Google Patents

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Jan. 5", 1926.1 6 1,568,666

C. E. GODLEY CONNEGTER SLEEVE Filed August 5, 1922 jnbenfm I%MMW Patented 5, 1926.

"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. GODLIY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOB TO IDIUIDS & Ions COB- POBATIOH', OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Application filed Auguat 8, 1088. Serial No. 578,887.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES E. Gonnar, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne andState 5 0f- Michi an, have invented a new and Imroved nnecter Sleeve, of which the folowing is a specification.

My invention relates to means for mounting completely assembled electric connecters on sup rting walls, such as the sides of automo ile head lamps, and particularly for supporting such a connecter so that it will operatively extend through the supporting wall.

Connecters for such use commonly comprise cylindrical shells having spring- 'pressed lungers mounted within and msulated electrically connectedat its mner ends to a wire leading to the lamp of the head light. Owing to the confined space between the casing or body of the lamp and the reflector mounted within this lamp body, it is desirable that such a connecter should pass obliquely through the wall of the casing or.

body so as to bring the wire within the lam closer to this casing. At its outer end, eac such connecter is commonly equipped for interlocking with a detachable wire carrying plug. Since the plug when attached extends axially of the s ell of the connecter, it is likewise desirable to .have the axis of the shell oblique to the wall through which it extends, thereby avoiding an unsightly 86 projecting of the plug and wire from the F rthermore, since the assembling of electric connectors involves the delicate manipulating of rather small parts, it is desirable 40 that this should be done before any part of the connecter proper is attached to the lamp. My present invention aims to meet all of these requirements by providing a cheaply manufactured mounting which can readily 4 be attached to the lamp during the regular course of manufacture of the lamp, by providing this mounting so that it will be oblique with respect to the wall through which it extends, and by providing it with parts which can easily be bent into interom the shells, each plunger being at its ends so that the sleeve may be seoured to a lamp body or other structure and with; lips which may be turned in to secure the connecter'within the sleeve. .It further consist of a sleeve which is so formed that the cars will bein the same central plane of the sleeve but diagonally opposite each other so that the sleeve may be secured in an opening in the wall of a lamp body or other structure with its ends on opposite sides of said wall. It also consists of the details of \constructibn illustrated in the accompanying drawing and particularly pointed out in the claims:

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a plan of a blank for this improved connecter sleeve. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the sleeve in position in the wall of a lamp body on a central plane of the lamp body. Fig. 3 is an elevation thereof at right angles to Fig. 2. Fig.4 is

a section in the line 4-4 ofFig. 3. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a connecter. Similar ref erence letters refer to like parts throughout the several views. 7

Many of the reflecting lamps used as headlights and spotlights for motor vehicles and search lights for launches are provided with reflectors separate from the bodies. A sleeve or other holder is mounted in the wall of the body and into it extends a connecter at one end of the wire leading to the lamp bulb in the reflector. This connecter in the holder has an end open to the outside of the lamp to receive a removable connecter lug at the end of a conductor extending om a current source. The connecter is usually permanently secured in the .wall of the lamp body.

In the resent case the connecter sleeve 11 is forme of a, blank 1 shown in Fig. 1,

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having perforated ears 2 and 3 and a small lip 4. This blank is bent to cylindrical form and the ears 2 and 3 are then attached to the wall 5 of the lamp body by means of rivets 6. v

The connecter forms no part of the resent invention but consists of a tubular 'od 7 havin a perforated end 8 through whic the con uctor 9 extends. A spring 10 within the connecter presses out a ainst the washer 12 of insulatin -materia and 'this washer presses against t e contact 13 at the end of the conductor. The body 7 has bayonet slots 14 to receive the usual retainins on the cylindrical plug which is usua 1y attached to the end of the supply conductor, which plug is inserted in the connecter body 7. This body 7 is also formed with a notch 15 to receive the tongue 16 formed on the sleeve to prevent movement of the connecter in one direction, movement in the other direction being prevented by the lip 4 when bent down as shown in Fig. 2.

The connecter sleeve is preferably attached to the lamp body while that is being produced by punching an elongated opening and a pair of rivet holes at opposite endsthereof, inserting the connecter sleeve with both of its ears bearing against the same face of the wall, and then riveting, the ears to the wall. Later on, as the lamp is being wired, the connecter is inserted and the lip 4 is bent down against it and I prefer to secure the ears 2 and 3 to the same side of the wall 5 of the body. The size of the sleeve 11 will depend upon the size. of the con necter 7 to be mounted therein.

I claim: 1. A cylindrical connecter sleeve having perforated ears at. its ends and inwardly turned lips and a connecter within the sleeve 3. In combination, a c lmdrical connecter sleeve and a tubular bo y mounted therein, the connecter sleeve bein formed with tongues at its ends projecting inwardly to secure the tubular bodin position, the sleeve being also forme witlf'a rforated ear at each end, said ears being iagonally opposite each other and adapted to lie flat against a cup-shaped body to support the sleeve thereon with its open ends on opposite sides of the support.

4. A mounting sleeve as er claim 1, having a pair of lips formed tlierefrom and adapted to be bent respectively into engagement with forward and rearward portions of the inserted connect-er, one of they lips being adapted to prevent the connecter from rotating.

CHARLES E. GODLEY.

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