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Title: Electrical connector
Abstract:
An electrical connector adapted to provide a common junction and electrical coupling device for a plurality of conductors, preferably at least four conductors; said electrical connector comprising a box like body of deflectable plastic material, said body having a cover integrally connected therewith by a "living hinge"; and a resilient metallic electrical contact member having a plurality of contact portions all integral with each other; the contact portions having conductor engaging and wedging edges at opposite ends thereof; said edges operable adjacent wall portions of said body which is provided with conductor receiving openings adjacent to said wedging edges whereby electrical conductors may be inserted through said openings and between said wedging edges of said contact portions and respective wall portions of said body; said contact member in its prefered form being substantially H-shaped and having a conductor cross bar portion interconnecting a pair of contact portions, each of which has a pair of opposite ends provided with said wedging edges; the cross bar portion being restrained between projections on said cover and the closed side of said box like body respectively to hold said wedging edges of said contact portions in engagement with conductors to maintain said conductors entrapped in said box like body.
Other info: Inventors: Miller, Gregory H. (West Bend, WI, US) Application Number: 422617 Filing Date: 1973-12-07 Publication_date: 1976-02-03 Assignee: Dart Industries Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) Primary Class(es): 439/441 Other Classes: US Patent Ref:
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