Abstract:
Apparatus for effecting a drop wire splice comprises an enclosure having a pair of channels with each channel extending from an entrance end to an exit end. A partition is located between the channels and a ramped surface is located on a wall of each channel opposite the partition with the ramped surface widening each channel as it extends from its entrance to exit end. Embedded in the partition are a pair of electrically conductive terminals each of which comprises tangs extending into each channel at an angle inclined toward the exit end. The apparatus further comprises a pair of wedges for insertion into the exit end of each channel. After a drop wire is fully inserted into each channel through the entrance end with the wire overlapping the tangs of the terminals, a wedge is forced into the exit end of each channel between the ramped surface and the wire to force the drop wire down onto the tangs of the terminal thereby making an electrical contact with the tangs and locking the drop wire in each channel between the partition and the forcibly inserted wedge.
Abstract:
A transition block connector for use in interconnecting flat conductors and round conductors which provides a minimum connection profile. The connector employs formed contacts which pierce the flat conductor insulation to establish electrical contact without conductor damage, and standard round wire screw type termination.
Abstract:
An electrical wire connection in which an electrically conductive connector element in an insulating body makes electrical connection to the conductor of an insulated wire. The connector element has an open-ended hollow cylindrical wire connecting end formed with a pair of opposed V-shaped wire entrance areas leading into straight sided wire connecting slots and the wire is more deeply inserted into one slot than the other.
Abstract:
Method of electrically interconnecting terminals on a terminal board includes:(a) providing multiple metallic terminals on the board, the terminals having slots with open mouths between terminal edges,(b) providing wiring with or without insulation thereon, and(c) forcibly displacing the wiring sidewardly into the slots via their mouths in such manner that insulation, if present, is sheared off the wiring by the terminal edges, and the wiring is locally deformed and stabilized in position as it enters the slots thereby to produce stabilized metal-to-metal contact between the wiring and terminal metal at the inner sides of the slots.
Abstract:
A connector for insulated electrical wires in which a body of insulating material has a wire connection well formed into one surface and receives a slotted, flat plate, electrical contact element. A wire retention well is formed adjacent the wire connection well and is joined to the wire connection well by a passageway aligned with the slot in the contact element. The passageway is constricted to engage the insulation of a wire forced into the slot of the contact element in the wire connection well through the passageway and out of the wire retention well to electrically connect the wire to the contact element while providing strain relief for the wire in the passageway.