Battery Clip (Patent No: 358599)

Inventor: Foss, Richard Cornelius (Dick, co-inventor)

Location: Round Hill

Comments: see Round Hill & District Salute the Pioneers; biographical information; b South Dakota; moved to Wetaskiwin 1901; 1902 homesteaded; 1914 m Nina Berg, 4 children; 1910 blacksmith shop; 1917 breaking land; 1920 garage; 1925 moved to town; 1930 construction & well drilling; 1936 Henry Quail (see below) installed a hammer-mill feed grinder in the garage; operated feed mill and garage until 1939, d age 87

Description:
WHAT WE CLAIM IS:-

1. In a battery clip, a tubular split fitting extending into the walls of an eye and communicating therewith and a set screw through, the end wall of the eye and swivelly attached to a post engaging member movable within the eye.

2. In a battery clip, a frame containing an oval eye and fastening device therewithin and terminating in a split sleeve forming a fitting for the wires and having a soldering hole thereinto and at the inner end communicating with the interior of the eye thereby forming a passage for the wires to the post of the battery.

3. A battery clip comprising a clip frame having a longitudinal orifice throughout its length and a transverse orifice and a transverse recess intermediate of its length, the transverse recess forming the termination of a longitudinal split in one end of the frame, and a transverse orifice forming an oval eye in the other portion of the frame, a boss shaped from the end of the frame adjacent to the oval eye, and a set screw extending through said boss into the oval eye and terminating in an arcuate dog therewithin.

4. A battery clip comprising a frame having a battery post binding clamp at one end and an extension sleeve projecting therefrom at the other end, a transverse recess in said sleeve adjacent to the frame forming the termination of a longitudinal split extending from the outer end of the sleeve and adapted to receive and secure a cable therein.