Twist-on wire connector with peelable covering
AssigneeThe Patent Store LLC
InventorsLloyd King, Michael Belgeri, James Keeven, William Hiner
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Abstract
A twist-on wire connector containing a mass of a cohering gel in a gel state therein for forming a protective covering over a wire connection in the twist-on wire connector with the gel thereon removal from the twist-on wire connector and peelable from the wire connection to enable one to quickly form a further wire connection without having to wipe off the wire connection.
Claims25
A twist-on wire connector comprising:
- an electrically insulated housing having a chamber therein and an open end to said chamber;
- a spiral thread located in the chamber in the insulated housing;
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- a mass of cohering gel with the gel retainable in a gel state located in said chamber, said mass of cohering gel securable to the spiral thread to help maintain the mass of cohering gel in said chamber when a set of wire ends are rupturably inserted into the mass of cohering gel and twisted therein as the wire ends engage the spiral thread to thereby be brought into a low resistance electrical connection with each other in the presence of the mass of cohering gel with the mass of cohering gel characterized by being self healing after the wire ends have been twisted into the low resistance electrical connection to thereby form a protective covering thereon with the protective covering normally retainable in the chamber through the adhesion of the mass of cohering gel to the spiral thread and to the adhesion of the mass of the cohering gel to the wire ends but removable therefrom by quickly pulling the mass of cohering away from the wire ends to provide for immediate reconnection.
The method of making a twist-on wire connector carrying a mass of cohering gel comprising;
- forming an electrically insulated housing having an end wall and a sidewall defining a chamber having an open end and a closed end;
- securing a spiral thread having a wire cavity in the electrically insulated housing;
- pouring an uncured gel in liquid form onto the wire cavity while the wire cavity is in an upright condition to retain the uncured gel in the wire cavity;
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- insitu curing of the uncured gel in the wire cavity to form a mass of a cohering gel in a gel state in the wire cavity.
The method of making a twist-on wire connector carrying a mass of cohering gel comprising;
- forming an electrically insulated housing having an end wall and a sidewall defining a chamber having an open end and a closed end;
- securing a spiral thread having a wire cavity in the electrically insulated housing;
- placing an uncured gel in liquid form onto the wire cavity;
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- insitu curing of the uncured gel in the wire cavity to form a mass of a cohering gel in a gel state in the wire cavity before engaging a wire end with the spiral thread.
The method of claim 19 wherein an electrically insulating gel is placed in the wire cavity.
A twist-on wire connector Comprising:
- a housing having a chamber therein;
- a spiral wire engaging thread therein;
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- a free standing mass of cured wire penetrable gel in a gel state that self heals to form a protective wire cover when left undisturbed but ruptueable when subject to a shear force allowing the gel to be peeled free of a wire end to permit reconnecting the wire end without the necessity of wiping the wire end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.