Pin and Sleeve Trade Name

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This has been haunting me for a few days and I haven't had luck googling.

Isn't there a common trade name/slang for these switch rated pin and sleeve connectors? I thought there was a term almost like 'twist-lock' or 'cam-lock' but obviously not those, and I don't know if my memory is bad because I can't remember the name or if it's bad because there actually isn't a name other than pin and sleeve.


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Years ago, when the housings were only available in aluminum with malleable iron boxes, the trade name from Crouse-Hinds, called “ArkTite”, became the defacto name regardless of whether they came from Crouse-Hinds, Appleton (Powertite) or Killark (Versamate) because they were all interchangeable with one another.

When the European (IEC) style with plastic bodies were introduced by Hubbel here in North America in the 80s, they and those that followed were all just referred to as “pin and sleeve” devices because that’s what Hubbel called them. I don’t know of any other trade slang name that has come up for them.

Not all of them are switch rated by the way. For a long time the only one that had UL listing as a load rated disconnect was Melteic and for a long time, that name was used to differentiate that difference. But Meltric are no longer the only ones rated as disconnects.
 
Thank you. Maybe it was the ArkTite that I was thinking of. Thanks for the other info as well. Good stuff.
 
I have used a lot of the Meltric brand of connectors. They make a very useful connector that you can order with a self-ejecting release operation.
Also switch rated.
 
b1miller said:
I have used a lot of the Meltric brand of connectors. They make a very useful connector that you can order with a self-ejecting release operation.
Also switch rated.
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Yeah, I did a lot of portable rock crusher systems for a while, we used the Meltric system for those because the gorillas that ran those plants would disconnect power leads under load a lot. We could tell them the right way to do it, over and over and over, it meant nothing to them once we were off site.
 
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