Wire connector
AssigneeLloyd A. Heneveld
InventorWilliam C. Dauser, Jr.
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Abstract
A solderless connector for insulation coated wire conductors includes an elongated nonconductive body member having a plurality of conductor receiving channels formed along its length. A support member including an annular conductive member is adapted for positioning over the elongated body and the channels. When the support member is pressed on the elongated body with wire conductors positioned in the channels, the annular conductive member engages a portion of the insulation on the conductor, removing the insulation therefrom, engages the wire to provide an electrical connection therewith.
Claims11
A self-stripping solderless electrical connector comprising:
- an elongated body of insulating material having wire receiving channels formed along at least a portion of its length for receiving electrical wire covered with insulation;
- support means of insulating material having a conductive member fixed thereto, said support means and said conductive member being adapted for linear movement along a portion of said elongated body and said channels in response to a linear force directed along the elongated axis of said body, said conductive member adapted to engage a plurality of insulated wire conductors positioned in said channels, cut through the insulation thereof, and engage wire conductors to provide an electrical connection therebetween upon said movement of said support means and conductive member along said elongated body;
- and means including releasable fixing means for attaching one end of said support means in a predetermined position on said body, in which position the channels each can receive a separate insulation covered, electrical wire before said movement of said support means and conductive member relative to said body;
- said fixing means being releasable in response to said linear force moving said support means and said conductive member.
A solderless self-stripping electrical connector comprising:
- an elongated body portion forming a column having a first and second end and a plurality of channels along the exterior length thereof with surface areas between said channels, said channels each being adapted to separately receive an insulated wire conductor constructed of a conductor wire covered with insulation;
- a cap member of insulating material having a conductive member with a first end fixed therein, said conductive member having a second end adapted to fit over the first end of said column;
- said conductive member being a tube-like member having an inner wall defining an opening extending therethrough of the same configuration and size as said column except for said channels, thereby providing a snug interfit between said inner wall and said surface areas;
- said channels being increasingly greater in depth at said first end of said column than at said second end thereof whereby when said insulated wire conductors are inserted in said channels with an end extending beyond said first end of said column said tube-like member can be forced over the said first end of said column in a linear direction along the axis of said column while said insulated wire conductors are positioned in said channels;
- said second end of said conductive member having a cutting edge whereby when a force is applied to said cap in said linear direction to force said conductive member over the said column, by reason of said snug interfit the said inner wall of said conductive member is guided by said surface areas causing said cutting edge to cut through the said insulation and causing said inner wall to physically contact the said conductor wires positioned within said channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.