Electrical connector

An electrical connector including an insulator, said insulator being adapted for housing a plurality of right angle contacts, press fitting said contacts into contact receiving apertures in a mounting substrate, and subsequent removal of one part of the insulator from the press fitted contacts, said connector comprising:

• a first block of dielectric material having a plurality of linear sleeves comprising first passages formed therethrough with upper inside walls in spaced parallel relationship to the plane of said mounting substrate for receiving in slip-fit engagement a first linear portion of said right angle contacts, each of said linear sleeves also including second orthogonal passages having an inside face bounded on each side by upwardly projecting ribs which passages receive a second linear portion of said right angle contacts and which ribs support the second linear contact portions from transverse or twisting movement during subsequent contact press fitting;
• a plurality of contact terminals having first and second linear portions formed into a generally right angle configuration with one another, said first linear terminal portions being received through said first passages and said second linear terminal portions lying upon the inside faces of said second passages and between adjacent ones of said upwardly projecting ribs;
• a second block of dielectric material in mating engagement with said first block of dielectric material and having a plurality of linear passages formed therein and having second linear terminal portions protruding therethrough;
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• said first and second blocks further adapted to hold said contacts in said passages and between said abutting blocks to effect press fitting said second linear terminal portions into the apertures in said substrate when a downward force from said insulator to said contacts through the engagement of abutting surfaces between said first linear passages and said first linear terminal portions.