Abstract: A hot line clamp for temporarily or permanently connecting a branch conductor to a main conductor. The clamp includes a rigid generally U-shaped body with a cylindrical boss for receiving the branch conductor. The branch line is secured in place on the ground by the lineman. The clamp also includes a flap member which is rockably mounted about one leg of the U-shaped body between an open position for enabling the clamp to be received on the main conductor and a closed position for maintaining the clamp in place on the main conductor. A torsion spring is disposed around the pivot for the flap member and biases the latter toward the open position. The edges of flanges on flap member cooperate with the main conductor when the clamp is received thereon for rocking the flap member to the closed position.

Abstract: A band clamp of plastics material comprises a strap, with transversely extending teeth, integral with a toothed flap extending perpendicularly to the strap and connected thereto by a hinge portion of reduced cross-section. When the strap has been formed into a band with its remote end superimposed on the end to which the flap is attached, the flap is turned back to bring its teeth into engagement with those of the strap and is held in this position by co-operating coupling means on the strap and flap.