Heat-recoverable article

Electrical connecting means comprising a heat-recoverable sleeve open at one end to receive an electrically-conductive member, a quantity of solder disposed within the sleeve around an inner surface thereof adjacent said one end, and a solder-wettable member secured against said inner surface of the sleeve by said solder, said solder-wettable member, when said sleeve and said solder are heated to cause recovery of the sleeve and fusion of the solder, being adapted to direct the flow of solder to said electrically-conductive member thereby to assist in the formation of an electrical connection.

Electrical connecting means comprising a heat-recoverable sleeve having two open ends and containing within it a solder ring coaxial with the sleeve, an elongate rectangular-sectioned solder-wettable strip lying parallel to the axis of the sleeve along an inner surface thereof, and an elongate electrical conductor having an insulated portion which projects from an open end of the sleeve and an uninsulated end which is within the sleeve in proximity to the solder ring, said ring, the uninsulated end of said conductor and said solder-wettable strip being positioned in a fixed relationship to each other and to the sleeve and arranged to be connected to an electrically-conductive member introducible into an open end of said sleeve, said solder-wettable strip, when said sleeve and said solder are heated to cause recovery of the sleeve and fusion of the solder, being adapted to direct the flow of solder to said electrically-conductive member thereby to assist in the formation of an electrical connection.