Patent ID: 7064272

Claim:
An electric connector assembly for securing an electrical conductor to an electric box comprising: a connector body having an inlet end portion, and an outlet end portion, said outlet portion terminating in an outlet opening, said outlet end portion having an outer surface that slopes downward toward said outlet opening, a radially outward extending stop flange formed about an intermediate portion of said connector body, and a snap fit retaining ring having a face portion and an integrally connected circumscribing frustro-conical configuration wherein the diameter of the trailing end of said frustro-conical configuration is greater than the diameter of the leading end thereof whereby said frustro-conical configuration of said retainer ring complements said sloping outer surface of said outlet end portion, said circumscribing frustro-conical configuration includes a holding tang formed out of the surface of said ring and a grounding tang, and means for securing said retaining ring onto said outlet end portion of said connector body.