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US 2011/0030210 A1Published application
Inline push-in wire connectors
AssigneeThe Patent Store LLC
InventorsLloyd Herbert King, JR., John Lloyd King, William Hiner
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Abstract
A inline push-in wire connector for forming an inline electrical connection or a side-by-side branch connection with either or all of the electrical connections formed therein may be waterproofed through a sealant that retains itself therein but yields to allow insertion of a wire into engagement with a bus strip in the presence of the sealant while the sealant is self healing to form an inline or branch wire connection.
Claims9
1-10. (canceled)
The method of making an inline electrical connection comprising:
- axially inserting a first wire into a wire socket on one side of an inline push-in wire connector having a chamber containing a bus strip and a resilient member until a first blade on the resilient member brings the first wire into contact with the bus strip;
- and
- axially inserting a second wire into a wire socket on an opposite side of the inline push-in wire connector until a second blade on the resilient member brings a further wire into electrical contact with the bus strip to thereby complete an end-to-end electrical connection between the wire and the further wire where the wire and the further wire are in an end-to-end condition.
-20. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.