Improvements in or relating to the Connecting or Jointing of Electrical Conductors and to Means therefor.

Abstract

Abstract 7593. Handcock, H. W., Dykes, A. H., and Rawlings, J. J. March 30. Couplings. - I n connecting electric conductors,particularly such as have a sheathing of brass or the like, a pair of grooved blocks of porcelain &c. are used in combination with a longitudinally-divided outer casing, consisting of two halves b, b<1> adapted to be soldered together and to the sheathing. Thecasing may be provided with a vent hole d adapted to be closed by means of a pin d' after the casing is soldered up. One of the parts b<1>, Figs. 1 and 2<a>, may be formed with a rim b<4> to form a soldering-seam and is provided with necks having clips b<3>, which embrace the upper part of the casing and hold it in place on the cables until it is soldered up. The ends of the cables bared of insulation are inserted in the porcelain blocks c when they are jointed. The cables may be connected by means of the clip shown in Fig. 8 and afterwards soldered. A three-way junctionpiece may be similarly formed. Figs. 9 and 10 show a three-way casing for connecting twin cables ; in this case the neck parts are made double. The cables are led into the porcelain casing, one cable and its branch being laid in the lower part where they are united. Tne other cable and its branch are passed up ioto the upper part of the porcelain casing, contact between the two cables being prevented by means of a sheet of mica.

Inventors

• 👤 Henry William Handcock
• 👤 Alfred Herbert Dykes
• 👤 John Joseph Rawlings

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