Patent ID: 7694918

Claim:
A wire clamp for protecting a wire in a reciprocating machine, comprising: an upper clamping member and a lower clamping member fixed together and configured for slidably sandwiching the wire therebetween, one of the upper clamping member and the lower clamping member capable of being pivotably mounted to the reciprocating machine; wherein a first planar wire contact surface is defined on a bottom of the upper clamping member for directly touching with the wire, and a second planar wire contact surface is defined on a top of the lower clamping member for directly touching with the wire; wherein two first curved surfaces extend up from opposite sides of the first wire contact surface of the upper clamping member, and two second curved surfaces extend down from opposite sides of the second wire contact surface of the lower clamping member; wherein each of the upper clamping member and the lower clamping member has a flattened cylindrical shape, the upper clamping member further comprises a first side surface opposite to and parallel to the first wire contact surface of the upper clamping member, and the lower clamping member further comprises a second side surface opposite to and parallel to the second wire contact surface of the lower clamping member.