Cutting connector
AssigneeC. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
InventorManfred Wilmes
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Abstract
A cutting connector with two contact knives on its contact part that cut through the insulation on an electric conductor grasped between them to establish electric contact. A U-shaped bent piece pivots on one contact knife surrounding the contact knives above and below to a greater or lesser extent in accordance with how far it is pivoted and having two take-along openings through which the insulated conductor is inserted. The activating member and its motion require very little space. One of the contact knives itself is employed as a pivot for the activating member.
Claims7
In a cutting connector having two spaced apart contact knives for cutting through wire insulation to receive a conductor therebetween and an activating member displaceable relative to the knives and with openings receptive of the insulated conductor to dispose the conductor between the knives upon displacement of the activating member, the improvement wherein:
- the activating member comprises a U-shaped element having opposing legs with said openings therein and means mounting the U-shaped element with one contact knife disposed between the opposing legs for pivoting movement on said one contact knife between an open position wherein said openings are outside the contact knives and a closed position wherein the openings are above and below the contact knives, and wherein the U-shaped element is configured to surround the contact knives, during the pivoting movement thereof, to a variable extent which is a function of the position of the U-shaped element and the U-shaped element includes means thereon for effecting pivotal movement thereof in response to a manually applied force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.