Patent ID: 8115102
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: H01B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A wildlife guard assembly for use with an electrical insulator body, the wildlife guard assembly comprising: first and second guard members defining a seat to receive the insulator body, the first and second guard members being connected to one another to permit relative movement between an open position, wherein the first and second guard members define a sideward opening to laterally receive the insulator body into the seat, and a closed position, wherein the first and second guard members at least partially encircle the insulator body to capture the insulator body in the seat; and an actuator member mounted on at least one of the first and second guard members and between the first and second guard members in the open position, and configured to force the first and second guard members to move from the open position to the closed position when forcibly displaced radially to an installed position.