Patents Assigned to Walter Electrical Manufacturing Company
  • Patent number: 5004437
    Abstract: An electrical connector block is provided having a housing with a pair of generally parallel sidewalls extending from a base member and separated by a trough open on the side opposite the base member, a groove on each sidewall opposite the trough and spaced from the open side of the trough, a cap member having depending arms adapted to slide along the sides of the parallel sidewalls over the open trough, said arms having inturned flanges engaged in the grooves of the sidewall, at least one screw member threadingly engaged in said cap member and carrying a clamp member pivoted on the end thereof between the sidewalls for clamping a wire between the clamp member and base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: Walter Electrical Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Gerard S. Walter, John Hagan
  • Patent number: 4778412
    Abstract: An electrical buss bar assembly is provided in which an elongate conductor member having at least one generally flat surface with two spaced generally parallel channels having an opening through the flat surface narrower than a major section of the channel parallel to the flat surface and separated by a riser member extending above said surface are provided with at least one connector module made up of a top member with two depending legs bent inwardly at the end remote from the top member and terminating adjacent the riser member and having a foot member on each slidably engaged in the parallel channels through said opening, and clamp means in the top member acting to exert pressure on a wire inserted between the legs and on the riser to fix the wire in the connector module and the connector module in tight conductive relation on the conductor member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Walter Electrical Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Gerard S. Walter, John Hagen
  • Patent number: 4640571
    Abstract: An electrical connector block is provided having a housing with a pair of generally parallel sidewalls extending from a base member and separated by a trough open on the side opposite the base member, a groove on each sidewall opposite the trough and spaced from the open side of the trough, a cap member having depending arms adapted to slide along the sides of the parallel sidewalls over the open trough, said arms having inturned flanges engaged in the grooves of the sidewall, at least one screw member threadingly engaged in said cap member and carry a clamp member pivoted on the end thereof between the sidewalls for clamping a wire between the clamp member and base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Walter Electrical Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Gerard S. Walter, John Hagan