Improved Means for Effecting the Connection of Electrical Conductors.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Effecting the Connection of Electrical
Conductors.
I, CLEMENT JOHNSON BARLEY of 25 Trevor Square, Knightsbridge in the
County of London Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
:-
My invention has for its object to provide means whereby an efficient and
durable connection of electrical conductors is obtained, my said invention being
more especially intended for use in connecting branch conductors to electric
maine.
According to my invention I provide a socket which may be made of any
suitable material such as for instance copper. It has a pair of jaws of such size
that they will receive between them the one conductor (say the main) and can then
be hammered or pressed round or partly round the conductor. The said socket
has also in it a hole or holes or tubular piece or pieces for receiving the second
conductor or several such conductors (say the branch or branches). After the
conductors have been received in the said socket a suitable metal to make
connection between the conductors and secure them together and in place in the
socket is introduced through an opening or openings provided for the purpose in
the socket.
Dated this 10th day of Fahmua 1800
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Effecting the Connection of Electrical
Conductors.
I CLEMENT JOHNSON BARLEY of 25 Trevor Square, Knightsbridge in the
County of London Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My invention has for its object to provide means whereby an efficient and
durable connection of electrical conductors is obtained, my said invention being
more especially intended for use in connecting branch conductors to electric
mains.
According to my invention I provide what may be termed a socket (which is
marked A in the several figures of the accompanying drawings). It is made of
any suitable material such as for instance copper and has a pair of jaws (marked B
in the several figures of the accompanying drawings) of such size that they will
receive between them the one conductor (say the main marked C in the several
figures of the accompanying drawings) and can then be hammered or pressed round
or partly round the conductor the other conductor being received by the other
portion of the device.
In Figures 1. 2 and 3 I have shewn in plan, end view and section respectively
the said device which has in it at A a hole (or holes) or equivalent means for
receiving or having secured in or to it the second conductor or several such
conductors (say the branch or branches marked D in the several figures of the
accompanying drawings).
Figures 4. 5 and 6 are respectively a plan, end view and section shewing the

page_text: application of the simple form of the device shewn in Figures 1. 2 and 3 to the
joining of two conductors the main conductor C being embraced by the jaws B
which are hammered or pressed so as to embrace the said conductor the branch D
being inserted into the hole in the socket A. The conductors will have the
insulation removed from the parts to be in contact with the device and should be
well cleaned and if desired also tinned before the device is applied. After the
conductors have been received in the said device a suitable metal to make
connection between the conductors and secure them together and in place in the
socket is made molten and introduced through an opening (or several such openings)
provided for the purpose as at a. The solder may also be applied over the device
and the parts where the conductors protrude therefrom and thereafter insulating
material can be applied over all.
Figures 7. 8 and 9 are respectively plan, end view, and section of a device with
two sockets A and one pair of jaws B each socket receiving a branch conductor D.
a a are the holes for the introduction of molten metal as aforesaid.
Figures 10, 11 and 12 are respectively plan and end views at right angles to
each other of a device wherein the socket is provided with jaws B as before but the
socket piece, which receives the branch D is made with a transverse hole the end
of the branch being flattened and secured thereto by the bolt and nut a².
In these and the following figures a is the hole for introducing molten metal as
aforesaid.
Figures 13, 14 and 15 are similar views but in this the socket part which
receives the branch D is affixed to the jaw part by bolts and nuts a³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
For connecting electric conductors a device consisting of jaws such as B for
application to one conductor and a "socket" (or sockets) such as A for receiving
another conductor (or other conductors) substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the several figures of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of November 1892.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.