Terminal for cross connect apparatus

An electrical terminal comprised of a single blank of tubular sleeve form having a wire receiving, longitudinal open seam intersected by at least one slot transversely of said sleeve form and defining tandem pairs of wiring gripping jaws on opposite sides of said seam,

• said seam further including tandem seam sections each of narrower width than the previous section,
• a first said section having a progressively converging width initially greater than the width of an insulated wire inserted in said first section,
• a second said section having a width equal to the midrange diameter of a conductor portion of said insulated wire selected from a range of insulated wire diameters,
• a third said section having a width less than the width of said second section,
• a fourth said section having a width less than the width of said conductor portion of said insulated wire, said terminal having a first pair of resilient wire engaging jaws at said fourth section,
• said seam providing a second pair of resilient wire engaging jaws, spaced apart across a width of said seam which is less than the width of said conductor portion of said insulated wire, said second pair of said jaws being separated from said fourth section by said slot, and
• metal edge surfaces at each of said first, second and third sections on opposite sides of said seam, and selectively oriented at an angle with respect to the axis of said slot to provide slicing of an insulated portion of said insulated wire and indentation flattening of said conductor portion without cutting the same.